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- Comment on California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading 1 year ago:
Not really - it isn’t prediction, it is early detection. Interpretive AI (finding and interpreting patterns) is way ahead of generative AI.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
You will find that very often the scams, advice, self-help, doctrine, etc that draw these populations have one thing in common: if whatever it is doesn’t work, it is because you are doing it wrong, not because the guidance is bad. That’s why conservatives will defend the tax rates of people who have 5 orders of magnitude more wealth than they do - they believe that it is their own fault they aren’t rich, and that anyone can become rich if they just try hard enough. It is why religious conservatives will still attack birth control in the face of their own kids having unwanted pregnancies. It is why natural medicine people will defend their practices even after it sends them to the hospital. They are more willing to believe that they themselves are at fault than the principles they believe in.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
The Protestant Work Ethic equated Christian values with material success.
- Comment on would would the average skin tone and facial features after 300 years? 1 year ago:
I think having a 300 year life span would tend to select for darker skin and possibly other traits that would better survive 300 years of exposure - enough to distinguish it from any existing ethnicity.
- Comment on all i simly have for this is KBIN IS NOT LEMMY IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE LEMMY IT IS SIMILAR TO LEMMY BUT ITS NOT THE SAME THE FACT THAT YOU CAN COMMENT ON LEMMY POST DOESN'T JUSTIFY IT BEING LEMMY 1 year ago:
Why would a Kbin user want to speak to you, a Lemmy user?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It is fairly common among Catholics. I’ve known some fairly progressive Catholics who are Republicans because abortion. Now, that isn’t to say that a good number haven’t bought into the divisive rhetoric and gone full maga, but that’s not where they started.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It is a wedge issue that has locked a portion of the population who are single issue voters into being Republicans despite literally all their other beliefs. That is basically what all the non-financial planks of the Republican platform have on common.
- Comment on We should have something like federated communities 1 year ago:
If the mods can agree on policy, there is absolutely no reason to have two communities. Shut one down and use the other.
- Comment on We should have something like federated communities 1 year ago:
No, and the difference between Beehw and Lemmy.world is why. Different people have different views about moderation and what is acceptable content.
There are two solutions to the real problem of duplicate content:
- Multireddit - like functionality for grouping similar content.
- Making crossposting a reference to the original post, not a copy. Mods would need to be able to block crossposts from specific communities, and remove crossposts to their sub.
- Comment on What is going on with the number of active users? 1 year ago:
Bots that don’t identify as such count towards active users. There have been a number of bot purges.
- Comment on Can anyone make a community like one would on reddit? 1 year ago:
Pro-tip: if you are trying to figure out if a websit has a feature, try the default web interface first.
- Comment on They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral 1 year ago:
I’ve reported pictures/gifs of accidental nudity that were posted on Reddit without any evidence of consent, and they blew me off. Not just ignored me - they said the content was fine.
Yeah, it was legal to post stuff like that - no reasonable expectation of privacy in public places and all that. But it isn’t ethical. Don’t do it. It isn’t funny.
- Comment on Why can't we have a unified API across the fediverse to use in mobile apps? 1 year ago:
No, because the model for ActivityPub is very different than how OAuth is used for authentication. What you describe is like wanting to log in to hotmail using your gmail account, and being able to send and receive e-mail from your gmail address.
It is a fundamental to ActivityPub that a user exists at a domain, and content coming from or going to that domain is sent from / to the relevant server at that domain.
- Comment on Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem 1 year ago:
The fediverse is the name for services that use ActivityPub - a communication protocol. What you are saying is like saying “tech companies, banks and regulators need to crack down on http because there is CSAM on the web”.
- Comment on 'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree 1 year ago:
In medicine, when a big breakthrough happens, we hear that wee could see practical applications of the technology in 5-10 years.
In computer technology, we reach the same level of proof of concept and ship it as a working product, and ignore the old adage “The first 90% of implementation takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90%”.
- Comment on How do I prevent hackers from stealing my debit card information? 1 year ago:
As noted elsewhere, do everything you can to avoid handing your card to anyone.
For online purchases, do everything you can to avoid giving your card number to anyone - use ApplePay / GooglePay / Amazon Pay / PayPal etc. wherever possible. These can be used to put charges on your card without giving your card # to the merchant. These are one-time authorizations (unless you explicitly identify it as a subscription / recurring charge), so they can’t reuse the transaction token they get.
- Comment on People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars 1 year ago:
The cost savings is a supply chain wet dream.
- Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" 1 year ago:
Interesting - TIL. I wonder how Lemmy resolves the post #, since it is different between instances, and if it re-syncs comments when you do that. The post # thing is annoying, btw, because it makes it impossible to use relative links in posts/comments.
- Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" 1 year ago:
A better analogy is how Lemmy and Mastodon are theoretically compatible. Yeah, you can get federated content, but it really isn’t usable.
Kbin is just a different implementation of Lemmy, intended to be compatible (not coincidentally compatible through the protocol).
- Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" 1 year ago:
Kind of. My observed behavior of Lemmy, combined with comments from some developers (I haven’t read the code):
Post goes up on community hosted on instance A, Message goes out to B and C: “here’s a new post”
User x@B comments on post. Message goes from B to A saying “here’s a new comment”. A adds the comment, then sends a message to C “here’s a new comment”
User y@C upvotes the comment. Message goes from C to A, then A sends a message to C.
Each of those messages are confirmed by the recipient, and there are timed retries. However, there have been plenty of cases where one of those messages get lost, and the communities get out of sync. As I understand it, the message traffic is only changes. They don’t talk to each other to see what the current state of the content is. So whenever a sync break happens, it is permanent. New content/changes are fine, but stuff that gets lost in transit is lost for good.
- Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora" 1 year ago:
I’m not sure ActivityPub is suitable for implementation of Lemmy/Kbin. ActivityPub seems to be a push (with retry) protocol, where if a message gets lost, the protocol doesn’t seem to have a means to recover synchronization. Theoretically, instances could verify synchronization on a periodic basis, but that would be a massive increase in traffic.
- Comment on [META] So... about the bots 1 year ago:
I can’t speak for the posting bots, but game day bots are pretty fundamental to sports communities - like, we have no shot at attracting any interest to our community if there aren’t game day bots. We’re literally running the same code as the reddit bots, just using the lemmy API. So that same traffic exists on Reddit, it is just that there is so much other traffic that they aren’t as prominent.
- Comment on Lemmy and Livejournal 1 year ago:
Lemmy isn’t really targeting that space, though Reddit had a feature that they could add here that would work hit some of your feature points: there was a user page that was like a sub owned by each user. In the meantime you could create a community and make it mod only posts, and that would be pretty much the same thing. Just no hashtags.
Mastodon does (by default) have a post length limit of 500 characters, but in all other ways it sounds like a better fit for what you want.
- Comment on [META] So... about the bots 1 year ago:
As a (hopefully good citizen) bot maintainer, the best advice I can give is to not follow active or new. Hot and top should not show bot posts unless they are being upvoted.