Pamasich

@Pamasich@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A proposal to help the Lemmy devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just donate to them if you want to, why make it this complicated. If you don't want your money to go towards running the instance, then donate directly to those devs not involved with running the instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion's 2025 release goal is "pointless and unachievable" claims longtime dev, accuses two leads of rushing the mod out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Here's a random Skyblivion developer's response to when this got brought up on their subreddit:

  Going to chime in here as someone on the team in general and not necessarily as someone who leads our communications. We've made it clear our goal is to release this year; that being said, there is still work we need to finish. Ultimately, Skyblivion will be released when the team is confident with it—our goal has been to have it ready for release this year.

  Now, what is "ready"? That is an ongoing conversation we have been having because the nature of a fan-made passion project is that there has to eventually be a cut-off of adding cool new things. Right now, we all agree Skyblivion isn't ready (otherwise we would release it today). Our aim is that it will be by the end of the year, if we as a team decide that it isn't we will be sure to share that.

  If you're ever curious about the transparency of our work, many of our developers regularly stream, and I encourage you to check them out!

  Lastly, a reminder to be nice and support one another. It is entirely acceptable to have strong feelings one way or another, but trying to take others down in the comments isn't appreciated and won't be tolerated. What has always made our community great is our shared love for Oblivion and our support of one another.

  TL;DR Skyblivion isn't ready right now, but we still hope it will be by the end of the year. If it isn't going to be, we will let you all know. Passion projects are full of passionate people, and sometimes we don't always agree 100% on everything. Treat each other with love and respect <3

  Just figured to add the other side of claims here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? "Threadiverse" has been used before Threads became a thing, and "thread" is a generic term that has existed for ages and doesn't belong to Meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  in fact, I follow several Lemmy accounts, and I can directly follow your account as well, right from the web interface.

  Is there any point to following Lemmy users though? Like, unlike the rest of the fediverse, Lemmy doesn't send any posts to followers. They just exist, don't actually receive anything. Is there even any point to it then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because this isn't just Lemmy.

  Lemmy itself is more like a forum or old Reddit. A focus on discussion and link aggregation, not people. I personally still consider it social media, but there are enough people who draw the line there. Like others said, it depends on how YOU define social media.

  But this is the fediverse, not just Lemmy. I'm writing this from Mbin, which has a much bigger focus on people (you can follow users here). But you can also talk here from Mastodon. Then there's platforms like Friendica, afaik the Facebook of the fediverse, which theoretically also have access (though I have yet to see a user from there, so idk if they're functionally compatible with Lemmy).

  Lemmy itself might or might not fit in isolation, but if an instance is connected to the fediverse, it's definitely indirectly a social network. ActivityPub (the protocol used to connect the fediverse) is explicitly a social networking protocol as per its spec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm a bit confused by comments on this topic. Do sovereign countries not have the right anymore to decide their own laws and issue punishment when they're not followed?

  Like, they obviously can't enforce these fines. This article says as much. The fines can't be enforced, but if 4chan ignores them, that opens the door for other measures like delisting the site from search engines or blocking access to it from the UK (these two examples are taken from the article). Which are fair measures imo.

  Like, to the people saying UK can't do laws which apply to services which are merely accessible in the UK and have no physical presence there, do you also apply this logic to the GDPR, which works the same way? The US has these laws too, like COPPA iirc. It's not really something the UK came up with, it's a bit of a standard with laws like this as far as I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope a country like switzerland or something lets companies host servers there for europe without enforcing dumb laws from uk/european union.

  Not going to happen with Switzerland and EU laws. Being completely surrounded by the EU, we're really bad with leverage and are already struggling to not have worse and worse deals forced on us. Plus, we have our own Chat Control type law coming up (which is why Proton is leaving). There's no way we'll take a stance against EU law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This already exists, I have seen it used before, don't know any exact repositories though. The reason it's not really used is because it's pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won't look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.

  Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.

  Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn't a good defense in a federated world like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said, I love Windows 11. I actually prefer its features in general to what I've seen of Linux, I prefer its design a lot, and there's some stuff, like WSA and autohotkey, which simply doesn't exist on Linux with the same simplicity as far as I know. Can't use classic shell on linux either, and the start menus I have seen either looked ugly or were more launchers than start menus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Windows 11 (the non-copilot+ version) and am positive on AI, but if they pull through with this vision, I WILL switch to Linux once Win11 support ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest.

  You mean like how the french aren't protesting their country's support of Chat Control? At least I can't find any information on them doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Donating costs me money. Donating to every single website I like or rely on requires far more money than I have available or am willing to spend. I don't know your situation, but I'm not rich. I don't have that kind of disposable income to just throw around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus

  They've been A/B testing anti-adblock attempts for months or even years now, idk exactly with my sense of time. Sometimes adblocker A doesn't work, sometimes adblocker B doesn't work. Sometimes switching browser makes the same adblocker work, sometimes clearing cookies helps, sometimes its dependent on your account. Different users at the same time report different experiences with different adblockers. Sometimes watching a single non-blocked ad restores adblocker functionality magically for a few days.

  What I'm trying to say is, this didn't "just" happen, and it's specifically the author's current experience. I myself use Adblock Plus on Edge and Youtube works perfectly fine currently. This has been happening for a long time, and I'm sure there's uBlock Origin users currently who have the same experience while Adblock Plus works for them. Since that's how it's been the last times I've seen people talk about this, everyone talking about different experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm using Adblock Plus, because of their Acceptable Ads system. Imo it's far more ethical to regulate ads than to ban them entirely. Websites have to make money to sustain themselves, and ads are the least intrusive way this can be done besides donations (and let's be honest, most websites can't support themselves on donations alone). I'd rather have an ad or two at the end of an article than a paywall.

  I would love to switch to a different adblocker, ABP has quite enshittified over the years imo. But it would have to be one with Acceptable Ads support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Acceptable Ads is the very reason I'm still using Adblock Plus. What's the problem with it? It's an optional feature, just turn it off and you don't have to deal with it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for community git to somehow be federated like lemmy.

  Already being worked on for a while. It's called ForgeFed and being developed by Forgejo (the software powering codeberg). It's an extension to the ActivityPub protocol, which is also powering the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.”

  Interesting, because the checkbox is still there for me. Don't see things having changed at all, maybe they made the fine print more white? But nothing else.

  In general, this reminds me of the incognito drama. Iirc people were unhappy that incognito mode didn't prevent Google websites from fingerprinting you. Which... the mode never claimed to do, it explicitly told you it didn't do that.

  For chats to be discoverable through search engines, you not only have to explicitly and manually share them, you also have to then opt in to having them appear on search machines via a checkbox.

  The main criticism I've seen is that the checkbox's main label only says it makes the chat "discoverable", while the search engines clarification is in the fine print. But I don't really understand how that is unclear.
  Like, even if they made them discoverable through ChatGPT's website only (so no third party data sharing), Google would still get their hands on them via their crawler. This is just them skipping the middleman, the end result is the same. We'd still hear news about them appearing on Google.

  This just seems to me like people clicking a checkbox based on vibes rather than critical thought of what consequences it could have and whether they want them. I don't see what can really be done against people like that.

  I don't think OpenAI can be blamed for doing the data sharing, as it's opt-in, nor for the chats ending up on Google at all. If the latter was a valid complaint, it would also be valid to complain to the Lemmy devs about Lemmy posts appearing on Google. And again, I don't think the label complaint has much weight to it either, because if it's discoverable, it gets to Google one way or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, you explicitly have to opt into this, for each chat you share individually.

  I get that it says "discoverable" at first and the search engines are in the fine print, but search engine crawlers get it anyway if it's discoverable on ChatGPT's website instead. That term is plenty clear imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT chats are only public when turned into a shareable chat (which is a manually created snapshot of the chat with a link). And they only show up on search machines if you, after sharing, select the opt-in checkbox for having it show up there.

  I don't know how duck.ai works, but I assume it doesn't do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland announced a new LLM project which might be of interest here.

  Here's a German article on it. If you're okay with a Reddit link, here's a translation.

  Some points on it:

  • fully open source in its entirety — source code, model weights, and training data will all be publically released.
  • licensed under Apache 2.0
  • compliant with Swiss data protection laws, copyright law, and the EU AI act
  • respects crawler opt-outs on websites

  While nothing there explicitly says the data is ethically sourced, we'll be able to tell based on the opensource training data, and I assume copyright law takes care of stuff like books being used (though idk if the AI has a way to determine the license of web content, or if it fully relies on opt-outs there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also it's only for AI Windows which requires an AI chip. Considering how anti-AI the fediverse is, I doubt any of the people here would be getting AI Windows in the first place. It's a non-issue for the user's here already from the get-go at the requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You're delusional if you think Microsoft's preinstalled crap is at all comparable to what hackers will do with a vulnerable PC.

  Also this feature in particular is only for AI PCs which your Win10 PC won't upgrade to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except they're not fighting the fire here, they're taking away the arsonist's flamethrowser so he can't continue making the fire. Without that flamethrower, the arsonist can't do shit.

  Fighting the fire would be petitioning Steam, but the target is the payment processors that pressured Steam on request of Collective Shout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?

  No central oversight. Reddit can theoretically remove the worst of the worst, but the same doesn't apply on the fediverse. Not across instances at least. Theoretically that lack of control is why we have defederation, but no one is going to defederate over some mods being extra draconian.

  As for why it's even at a similar level to Reddit in the first place, it's because despite the fediverse's superiority complex, moderation on Reddit is organic, and so it is here. It's not like Reddit tells them to be the way they are, moderators choose to be that way. And there's no reason why they would choose to be different on the fediverse.

  I think it's worth remembering that people who seek the power of authority aren't usually the best people. I'm not saying this applies to all moderators, but those that become moderators for the power it gives them aren't going to be friends, no matter which platform they're on. It's not like the platform makes them bad, it just enables them by giving them the power.

  Why is it so hard to find a non left leaning place on the Internet?

  There ARE right wing Lemmy instances. They're just usually defederated by the ones leaning left. There's also /r/conservative on Reddit.

  "You know I kind of feel Israel has a right to defend itself ya know?"

  This one is definitely a big problem imo. Like, I'm not in the pro-Israel camp, but I think it's clear this side of the fediverse is currently an echo chamber that isn't welcoming to opposing voices, especially on that topic. But also in regards to others like AI.

  Reddit is a lot better in that regard. I think there is a point to fighting disinformation and bad faith actors, but that's not reasoning if you then allow one side's disinformation (like the whole "AI is completely useless" narrative which is just factually false, it's being abused for tasks it's wildly unsuited for, but that doesn't make it useless for what it's designed to do) or tolerate complete faith into your side's propaganda.

  Imo this is a big barrier to the fediverse currently. I can't in good faith recommend the fediverse to people whom I know to be right-leaning, because I know they're going to have a bad time here.

  Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed.....with a ban of course.

  I do think a ban is excessive unless you're a repeat offender, but... it makes sense to ban articles from a self-proclaimed entertainment source which only idiots would take as news (Fox News's official position as argued in court, not my opinion) from a News community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to agree with you based on the title, but the rest of your post makes that a downvote instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Symbol is better, as superscript isn't standard Markdown and isn't necessarily supported by other software than Lemmy. Mbin for example doesn't support it.

  Not a reason not to use it of course, but it makes the symbol the more preferable choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incredibly shortsighted.

  If you get Collective Shout to stop, another group might pick up where they left off.

  The problem needs to be fixed, what you're suggesting is just making the people currently abusing it stop doing so. That's not a long term solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But americans don't love Jesus, they shit all over his teachings and would deport him if he came to their doorstep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, anything that isn't AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.

  People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don't have to deal with this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here's a question regarding the informed consent part.

  The article gives the example of asking whether the recipient wants the AI's answer shared.

  "I had a helpful chat with ChatGPT about this topic some time ago and can share a log with you if you want."

  Do you (I mean generally people reading this thread, not OP specifically) think Lemmy's spoiler formatting would count as informed consent if properly labeled as containing AI text? I mean, the user has to put in the effort to open the spoiler manually.