wjs018

@wjs018@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have clearly never driven on 93 through Boston where the person you replied to said they are from (aka the Big Dig). It is basically an entire highway that is underneath the city. There are many on and off ramps, lanes suddenly become exit only, complex multi-lane exits that branch...it's intimidating. As somebody that has lived in the Boston area for 15 years now, I still mess things up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory [old specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Official response from Greg Bernhardt

  It's years since I last used PhysicsForums, but found it immensely useful in the old days while going through my undergrad physics degree (it was less useful for PhD courses). I am not morally opposed to providing AI *attempts* at an answer in threads where nobody else chimes in. However, using real accounts that belong to other users is wildly over the line. I was surprised to see this wasn't really called out in the official response thread by the existing users as that is the part of all this that is the most egregious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, piefed's private votes are disabled for "trusted" instances. You can see which instances are trusted here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Rules Page and Update⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, this is neither here nor there, but I have been trying out piefed lately and it's pretty cool. Thanks to the devs over there, the anime community should be a lot more compatible with piefed going forward thanks to squashing a couple bugs I found from our use cases.