moormaan

@moormaan@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I love Mastodon’s calm columnar UI with lists and hashtags where I feel I’m in control of my experience, and that I can just stop whenever and come back in three days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academics on Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing, great list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a signed agreement with them on the original schedule? I don’t think it’s legal for them to unilaterally change that agreement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The title (click bait as it is) withholds the most important qualifier from the text of which AI we are talking about:

  "“Overall, our model shows that the job loss from AI computer vision, even just within the set of vision tasks, will be smaller than the existing job churn seen in the market […]”

  Sure, computer vision is important for some jobs, but it’s a much smaller subset of jobs that is really deemed protected as claimed by the study. If the knowledge has already been coded to text on the other hand, it’s a different story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes and yes (I contribute money).

• Another former Facebook employee will testify at Congress about safety issues at Instagramlemmy.ca ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨3⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I stick with DuckDuckGo, it stays as it is. Every time I go to Google I see they are messing with the experience, making it easier to end up on sponsored content and harder to just get what you need. Not so with DuckDuckGo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These Prisoners Are Training AI : In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not novel: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Federal_Prison_Industries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the size. Of the pics I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is referring to that Roblox developer conference. But yeah, somewhat click baity as people might be hoping to get one for cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, “Busy now, please check back later.” (To be fair, in this case “check back later” is a good summary of what happened.)” 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a long time Mastodon user, and I’ve observed multiple cycles of user influxes (usually caused by some unpopular decision at Twitter) followed by slow but steady decline as these new users got frustrated, disappointed, attacked or something similar. Each wave however did leave a portion that stuck around. I can’t tell you whether Mastodon or Lemmy will “succeed”, but it’s clear by now that both their respective user bases couldn’t even agree on the definition of success.

  This might sound like a negative, but if you look at corporate social media which has a pretty clear vision of what its own success looks like (is this fair?), it might also be partly positive. Also, while success might be hard to define and agree on in the Fediverse, I think that these networks are more resilient to total failure than traditional social media (though again, this statement hides some implicit assumptions).

  Ultimately, I’ve learned to stop worrying about this. People will talk about what they want to talk about, and this will continue to change and evolve. Lemmy needs better moderation tools (as demonstrated by the recent CSAM attack), but I believe it will get them in time. If you want to talk about something different on Lemmy: do! Just post it, or create a community. It might not explode over night, but it might catch on.

  Mastodon and now Lemmy are the only social media I actively use now (permanently deleted my Twitter account on the day the Tate interview was published “exclusively”, but was less active there for years) , and I feel the better for it. I’ve observed tremendous progress in the Fediverse during the past six years and it’s very encouraging in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think desperation of devs, admins and users is exactly the sentiment the trolls were trying to elicit. Lemmy is a young project, and this is one of many hurdles it’ll need to overcome on its path.

  I like the idea of removal flags propagating through the network, at least as an additional signal. Forcing removal everywhere on a single removal signal on a single instance would probably be too jumpy (e.g. a sfw instance might prevent any instance from hosting nsfw content), but some configurable rules and thresholds paired with removal reason context might significantly automate the process.

  The reason I especially like this suggestion is because smaller instances can benefit from any automation that is affordable by larger ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Firefox for years to access Google services, and have never ever had a single issue. I hope it stays this way, with all this Web Environment Integrity shenanigans they are pushing for at the moment.