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- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 day ago:
I’m sure there were some forum software packages that offered voting and ranking and such. All of the ones that I was a part of were quiet enough that you didn’t need such a thing, though; you could keep up with every post, even if only to decide that you weren’t interested in it, if you read it every third day or so.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think “forumverse” isn’t bad. Though I have always felt like a Reddit-like interface and a forum interface are fundamentally different, in some way I can’t really put my finger on. I’ve been involved in bulletin board forums (fora?) in one aspect or another since the late 90s, so maybe it’s just nostalgia vs. recency bias; though it could also be the feeling that a “forum” seems like it should be hyper-specific, with different subforums on an already-niche bulletin board scoping down to even more niche and specific areas.
(Side note: Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the forum -> topic -> thread connection is why people like the name “threadiverse.” The word “thread” definitely seems like it arose from there.)
Anyway, I am fully ready to admit that I’m yelling at clouds here. Get off my lawn, dang kids and all that.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
Definitely agreed.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
I don’t think likes serve the same function as votes. The downvote, the ranking as a function of score and recency, and the surfacing and consensus-building that comes as a result are the main point of this sort of platform.
By contrast, the microblog “like” (at least on a platform without an algorithm, like Mastodon) doesn’t do anything other than express appreciation.
Threads are common in pretty much every form of social media now, from friend-aggregation sites like Facebook and Friendica to messaging services like Discord and Revolt. They’re hardly exclusive to a Reddit/Lemmy-type service. Mastodon even organizes posts into threads.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
I’ve been calling them “Redditlikes” or “Reddit replacements” in ordinary conversation. We won’t need terms like that forever, though.
- Comment on What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called? 1 week ago:
What about “Fedivotes” or “Votiverse?” Upvotes and downvotes are pretty key distinctives to this form of social network.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Samsung actually added Knox to their Android implementation a few months before iOS added Secure Enclave. I think Qualcomm had some sort of trusted execution environment around that time, too, if I recall correctly. And Google added Trusty to the AOSP two years ago. So it’s already running on Android, and has been for ages.
But I’m not convinced a TEE would be necessary for a device that doesn’t run any third-party native code. Browser tab sandboxing is already pretty robust; I haven’t heard of an escalation exploit being found in ages on any major JavaScript engine, meaning that the risk of data exfiltration or bootloader compromise are extremely remote, and would be much quicker (and less risky!) to patch via browser updates than firmware/OS updates.
The only other reason I know of that you’d need a TEE is for DRM, and I’d be willing to wager most people who would want a FirefoxOS phone would actively prefer not to have that on their device.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Honestly, I think the old FirefoxOS could do well these days. Literally everything an app can do can be done by a browser with a decent caching/local storage scheme. Slap a decent camera on that and it would be amazing.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
There’s also a complete rehash of the Wikipedia article about the game, its release and reception, and maybe even a slideshow of memes before you get to the “No confirmation” part. And then a list of all the times the developers have said, “yeah, if they want to do another one, we’d take their money.”
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
Looking through their portfolio, I honestly don’t know how XDA and Android Police maintain their quality levels. Everything else is Taboola-level click farming junk.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
Mass layoffs, though. That doesn’t usually presage a great time in a news site’s life.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
Aftermath is the only gaming site I really pay attention to anymore. I still have Kotaku and PCGamer in my RSS reader, but I don’t really read any of their articles.
- Comment on The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course 1 week ago:
Deepfakes predate the current AI craze, if I recall the timelines correctly.
- Comment on The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course 1 week ago:
The editor of The Verge tends to be fairly neutral-to-negative about AI, at least on his podcast.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 weeks ago:
It’s not thinking. It’s just spicy autocomplete; having ingested most of the web, it “knows” that what follows a question about the meaning of a phrase is usually the definition and etymology of that phrase; there aren’t many examples online of anyone asking for the definition of a phrase and being told “that doesn’t exist, it’s not a real thing.” So it does some frequency analysis (actually it’s probably more correct to say that it is frequency analysis) and decides what the most likely words to come after your question are, based on everything it’s been trained on.
But it doesn’t actually know or think anything. It just keeps giving you the next expected word until it meets its parameters.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the recommended oil checks on a famously electric vehicle. /s
I get what you’re saying, but more likely is that nobody would ever notice.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
Well that, uh
That certainly was a comment
Whew, yes sir
Definitely a collection of words there, yup
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but then you’d also expect to hear about Teslas with odometers that massively underreport the distance, too. Or that fail altogether. And while no one would be likely to report the former, the latter might be a bigger deal.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 4 weeks ago:
Not equally. It is cringe, but at least the cult surrounding it is an idea, not a person. Centering your entire movement around a person is definitely worse.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
I’m also an American. And I am frankly livid about this.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
Oh, to be clear, I don’t think the US has been dethroned on the world stage in terms of being the largest single elephant in the room. It’s just that the weight between the US elephant and all the other elephants (combined) has evened out quite a lot.
These tariffs might well do a lot to swing that even further.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
You’re very kind, thank you.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
They will if the conservative media machine falls apart and they start actually seeing reality.
It’s possible someday.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the US has a lot of economic weight to swing around, but the world has also spend the decade (!) since Trump was first elected finding other business outlets and generally needing the US less, meaning that the relative weight of the US and the rest of the world has normalized significantly. The EU is stronger, China is stronger, Canada is stronger. The US withdrawing from the world economy would hurt everyone, but it would hurt the US a whole lot more than everyone else.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
He failed to sell alcohol and beef to Americans
The only thing harder to do is to fail at selling sub-prime mortgages before the 2008 recession
which he also did
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 5 weeks ago:
Ok. The bottom line is, either it “won’t do all that much”-- meaning it won’t affect prices, it won’t affect the economy, it’ll be basically useless–or it will be disastrously expensive for ordinary people. There is no other option. The “disastrously expensive for ordinary people” is the only thing that will cause any amount of the change Trump promises: it’s the mechanism by which the plan operates.
There is no option where companies just eat the tariff costs, or countries pay them. Maybe a few scattered companies and countries do, but by and large, not a chance.
Every country in the world needs all the other countries more than all of the other countries need it. There’s just no real leverage, because we’re all interconnected; you can snip one country out, and it’ll slightly hurt everyone, but it’ll wreck the country that was snipped out.
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 1 month ago:
Ditto. If it’s not real right now, give it a week or so.
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 month ago:
Hmm. That doesn’t very neatly explain the ones that pop up in places where it’s impossible to die.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
I’ve been saying this for ages. Even as someone who’s more-or-less against the current implementation of AI, I think people who truly believe in AI should be fighting the hardest against bad uses of it. It gives AI a worse black eye every time something like this happens.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 months ago:
Yeah that outer edge is called the firmament.
I mean, it’s not the worst name for the CMB.