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- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 days ago:
I liked the old aibnb one.
Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 days ago:
Except eBay, that was always trash.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 days ago:
JaGUar
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 days ago:
The conversation here is about mastodon
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 days ago:
The vast majority of users are on general instances without demands like that. If you don’t want to join an exclusive club, just pick a sever that is not intended to be an exclusive club (I.e. nearly any of the big ones).
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 days ago:
If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you’d measure driving “goodness”, but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
This is hilarious
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Any instance that interacts with any other instance is federated. Which is the vast majority of instances with more than a handful of users.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Is the same not true of Lemmy?
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Mastodon federation is not opt-in. As soon as anyone on one server is following one person on the other server, the servers are fully federated. From there, it’s opt-out, via blocking.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
That’s nonsense. I’m on one of the main servers, and like 90% of my feed is from other servers, and it includes lots of small servers. And that’s been true for years.
It’s try the search function was bad prior to earlier this year, but it’s improved a bit. And if you are looking for someone specific, then presumably their account would be listed somewhere on their website?
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Everything you just said is also true of mastodon.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Mastodon is scaling fine though? I’ve been using it for years, and it’s great, and still growing. User base is a bit tech focused, could be more general, but I think it’ll get there eventually.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
Not really. Many of them are already heavily invested in life extension tech (not that I think it will work, but it means they’re optimistic). I think their general worldview is that technology will fix it, at least for them.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Pity, 'cause it’s a great question, and a great trope. I can think of a few good examples. Maybe it’s time to start a TVTropes account and get editing.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
It literally promises to generate content, but I think the implied promise is that it will replace parts of your workforce wholesale, with no drop in quality.
It’s that last bit that’s going to be where the drama happens
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
Better a moderation system that has a few false positives than a system that allows nazi and fascist accounts to flourish.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up. Their description is here:
blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/…/ppa-update/
It sounds interesting… It also sounds like it will fail, because Mozilla seems to think that trackers are primarily interested in collecting ad stats, and that targeted advertising is less critical, but I think in reality it’s the other way around, and advertisers won’t accept such a limited solution.
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 1 month ago:
Rueben Bolling’s comics are nearly always just as on-point as this. Well worth following.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
Maybe someone needs to start a science shitposts community
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
I’m middle aged and I’m still only half way through that saga
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
Those arc sides are parallel in polar coordinates.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
This is a square in polar coordinates
- Comment on Academic writing 2 months ago:
I think any scientist should able to convey at least the high level concepts that they’re working on at the level that a smart 12th-grader can follow. If you can’t do that, I think that’s a sign that you’re probably not thinking about your work very clearly. Being able to distill things and context-switch back to a birds-eye view of your work is critical for knowing what direction you’re heading in.
(I say this from the perspective of a climate scientist - our field has a pretty active public/lay conversation and lots of science comma, but I think the concept still applies to other sciences, and social sciences.)
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
SSH/SFTP?
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 4 months ago:
It depends a lot on your screen, and your lifting situation. Black on white is better in day light, white on black is much better on LED screens (as opposed to backlit LCD or CRT monitors).
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
That’s a hall mark of our civilisation/society, not our species. Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and the vast majority of cultures in that time have been relatively stable, with checks on excessive greed.
(see Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn Of Everything for some good examples.)
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
What problem would it solve?
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
What about choking them with plastic straws?