Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.

Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.

Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:

• No face
• Indirect faces for a video game
• No face
• Face looking away, subject of video
• Not really faces
• Faces from video game subject
• Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
• No face
• Faces, but the main focus of the video

In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:

• Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
• Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
• Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation

Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:

• Earlybird
• Maangchi
• Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion “reaction face”
• CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much

Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?

All of her thumbnails are literally:

The fascists’ weakness is their extreme overconfidence in everything they do.

Yes, but how does this connect together? I don’t believe for a minute that it’s coincidence.

I’m curious to know the connections between this and Collective Shout.

Gee, I wonder why.

I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.

Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?

I prefer radiation therapy.

That is $375M to a single person.

Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.

ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.

Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)… with a fucking B

I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?

Many “centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to not pump their own religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Scientology has a bunch of these, too. And Mormons.

Meanwhile…

Dylan’s words in the PR:

After reading the bill text, this is the conclusion I came to - arch install is an OS installer, the law asks for users to provide birth date when installing an OS. Is that going to be hilariously pointless and ineffective? Yes.

I feel like he’s getting ahead of the work as a matter-of-fact. In other words, the law passed, Arch is used by Californians, they need measures to make sure they’re not breaking the law.

I don’t think protest even falls into it with these kind of people, even though a majority of us would jump on the chance to actively protest this law and these changes. I personally cannot wait to have this shit throw at me at the next Linux upgrade, just to pull something like what Ageless Linux does against it.

That’s why I was vehemently opposed to the hit piece that was attacking this guy personally, by a shit blogger who I will forever blacklist. Also, fuck the mod who submitted that hit piece to Lemmy.

LLMs for coding has improved dramatically over the past year or so. But, I find that its quality varies greatly, depending on the model. I find models like Gemini and GPT to be too overconfident, and it doesn’t communicate well enough. Claude knows when to stop and evaluate the situation for options. I’ve had mixed results with the local models, but I’m still adjusting quantization settings to make it work best with my VRAM.

You still need the skills to understand programming and design engineering, and you frankly need the personality to be meticulous with your reviews, but it’s really nice having something that can code 3-8x faster than what I was doing before.

PrimeTime had a good recent video about a senior programmer’s experience with fixing a very hard to find bug.

I was trying to get you to understand a POV by reminding you how things were 25 years ago, but clearly that idea was lost on you.

Removed by mod

why chase the latest hype that’s probably going to burst soon?

Back in the 2000s, there was an Internet bubble, and it burst. That did not make the Internet go away.

What makes you think LLMs are going to suddenly disappear?

I know what’s been going on.

However, the statement “legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow” requires proof because it’s currently not true.

DOB is different. It comes from a legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow.

[citation needed]