Sl00k
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- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 days ago:
Bluesky is apart of the Fediverse and the quicker ActivityPub sites accommodate that fact the quicker we’ll have an open internet.
This pissing fight between ActivityPub sites and Bluesky is dumb and doesn’t further an open internet.
Not directed at you but to a lot, go put time into making Mastodon compatible with atProto instead of bitching.
- Comment on Live Long and Prosper... with aliens 6 days ago:
It’s been an incredibly slow churn to progress.
The most noteworthy thing at yesterday’s hearing was a report on a Unclassified secret access program - Immaculate constellations which outlines types of UAPs and their behavior. The problem is it’s brought in via an unverified source, either current or former member of the DoD. Also it’s improperly formatted for a DoD doc. But that can possibly be explained via them editing it for public use.
The most interesting and ironclad to come from everything so far has been Schumer’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2024 (UAPDA) which is attempting to get passed with the NDAA (Annual defense act). In the act it lays out the groundwork for UAPs existence and that the government is in charge of both reconnaissance and recovery of them, and most of the secrets are held behind the Department of Energy.
A lot of Chuck Schumer’s comments and amendments play relatively safe though saying “if this exists” then here’s a law. But there was also a lot of work put into a 2023 UAPDA with that NDAA and actually got shot down by Republican military industrial complex lackeys so take from that as you will.
The 2023 amendment was fought over heavily because it required a return of all classified uap biological materials and non biologics to be returned to the US government from private contractors. Which is another big bullet point.
I think the most news we’ll get soon is whether the 2024 version of the UAPDA is included in the NDAA this year.
- Comment on Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
I truthfully don’t think this bridge will work long-term just because it’s rather clunky. I think mastodon needs an integration built into their platform so instances can have the choice to turn on a two way atProto connection that creates accounts under the instance identity and writes and reads post to atProto.
Bluesky doesn’t need to adjust anything as they’ll pick up anything written to atProto.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Instances aren’t necessarily a thing in atProto because an instance usually refers to a single server. But you can see people’s posts from selfhosted PDS/relays yes.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
If you can build or selfhost your own of the following to read and push back to all of the atProto protocol:
- App
- Backend Relay
- Moderation
- Algorithm
And you still say that’s not decentralized I’m not sure what you’re looking for nor what your definition of decentralization is.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
Open protocols and APIs seem pretty meaningless to me if there’s a single point of control for the brand.
You’d need to expand on this more for me to understand you. Yes there’s a single point of control from a moderation standpoint (labeler), as there is on Lemmy instances. But anyone can host their own ATProto relays and the Bluesky relay will federate with each other automatically federate.
If everyone migrates to bluesky and then bluesky says “of we’re not doing that open thing anymore because of this new embiggened thing we’re doing” everyone will still be on bluesky.
Not necessarily because the accounts are atProto accounts and you can migrate to another platform(albeit another doesn’t exist yet) As far as the Bluesky app goes it really just shows you atProto posts and hosts your data (similar to Lemmy instances) they as an entity just also maintain the OSS backend firehouse crawler and more.
I really think a lot of people have this perspective that it’s not decentralized just because it truly is a lot more complicated due to there being like 5 different moving pieces of decentralization (PDS, Relay, Appview, tbd labeler, algorithm) and they do a great job at obscuring it for regular users which is a great thing. And nobody has really tinkered around and set-up any sites or integration with it yet. I’m personally trying to get a mastodon two way mastodon integration setup as it’s possible but nobody has done a solid implementation (just somewhat gnarly bridges between protocols)
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t necessarily true. Just because their architecture is harder and not a simple server host does not strip away its decentralization.
They have decentralized the following:
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App access (can build your own or show openProto posts in your platform
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Algorithms
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Firehouse (backend albeit rumored to be expensive)
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More if you consider the domain name hosting stuff and media storage control. Also moderation is planned to be decentralized.
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- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 1 month ago:
Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.
This assumes I’m going to dedicate my increased productivity to my employer. I’m still at the same level of productivity but personally my effort needed for specific tasks has dropped a lot meaning more free time for me.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Like a apple TV / Roku which then… Reports everything you’re watching and or viewing. We truly live in the day and age where nothing you do digitally is private, and it’s almost turned into privacy via aggregation imo now since the PBs of raw data isn’t really worth it for major corporations.
Obvs if you’re the .0001% I’m sure the NSA can tap into it and you’re still gonna be fucked that way, but that can be said for pretty much any digital device.
- Comment on Recent plant order arrived! 1 month ago:
Where’d you order from?
- Comment on 2real4me 1 month ago:
Yeah 3.5 was pretty ass w bugs but could write basic code. 4o helped me sometimes with bugs and was definitely better, but would get caught in loops sometimes. This new o1 preview model seems pretty cracked all around though lol
- Comment on Any “small-web” search engines? 2 months ago:
Personally really been enjoying Kagi for the past year.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Perhaps a bad example because most people undermine them, but China has still decided to move forward with 4 different nuclear facilities this year despite having an ABUNDANCE of solar manufacturing. If they found that decision worthwhile I would think the opposite, assuming most of the reasoning is current battery tech can’t sustain dark periods at a massive scale, but I’m not an expert.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
If you have to ask that question you definitely don’t use Tiktok it’s far far superior algorithmically than Reels and YT Shorts which are both absolute garbage.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
The article talks about why they’d prefer to shut down if you take their word it. Essentially the US is such a tiny portion of ByteDances it would be more optimal to shut down then to risk the sale of their algorithm, which is their primary revenue driver, as a whole. Assuming they’re using relatively similar algorithms on Douyin, and they don’t want this to turn around and be sold to their Chinese competition, which is where the real money is being made for ByteDance.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Are US kids’ already dwindling attention spans going to be saved from exposure to the TikTok algorithm? Yes.
You’re pinning the blame on tiktok when this also applies to YouTube (shorts and not), Instagram (Reels), Twitter. If we wanted an actual solution here we would implement actual children screen time laws, ironically similar to the under 18 gaming laws that have been implemented in China.
Tiktok is the only platform I’ve seen legitimate progressive forward on various issues and discussions centering on what that means and takes, in a way that actually fosters a great democratic progressive movement in the US.
From all I’ve read on this issue, not a single person has provided me with any insight into what or who this benefits that does not also apply to every other social media other than an entirely fabricated myth that they’re controlling the algorithms to spread anti US sentiment. Anti-US sentiment definitely exists, but it exists as a discussion around what the US is currently doing. I.e. funding Israel, and as a counterargument I am also fed state department interviews.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
In the same vein Bloomberg just did a great study on ChatGPT 3.5 ranking resumes and it had an extremely noticeable bias of ranking black names lower than the average and Asian/white names far higher despite similar qualifications.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
From the Brave PR account:
Also I believe it was legally required by the EU. List is randomized.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
The can very easily apply to every single social media.
- Comment on TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out 9 months ago:
Tiktok is getting worse… for users. Not for “itself”.
The article also makes some very large assumptions about longer length tiktoks being inherently worse for its audience.
I for one would love longer length tiktoks, and as for those who don’t the algorithm is extremely efficient and will filter out that style of content for those who don’t.
This is similar to the shop discussion, tiktoks gives full control over filtering this out via the #shop hashtag and disabling the shop tab.
The article really creates artificial problems with the app to justify its own existence when really these aren’t major issues that would lead to the downfall of a company or reduction in users.
Personally I’ll be the first to stop using a platform when they spam me with ads (Instagram). But tiktok is generally very manageable, much more than most other forms of social media.
- Comment on China raises its electric car game 10 months ago:
It also skirts around the fact that the main reason China is so prominent in the EV market, both locally and internationally, is because Tesla’s biggest factory is located in China.
Tesla’s aren’t really the go-to EV locally in China. BYD is mostly the go-to and they’re even starting to overtake Tesla internationally as well.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
I can see a social media implementation of a communities section and feeding off lemmy that way.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Realistically this graph wouldn’t include Snapchat, as it’s less of a “social media” than the others. Most people nowadays use it strictly as a messaging platform.
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 11 months ago:
Spam implies it’s useless but it seems I can read my content from Reddit on that instance? While also staying on a single app and getting my regular lemmy threads.
Not sure why it’s a problem other than resource intensity, if the users have the option to block an instance as a whole it’s fine.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
The app experience is much better than the browser experience imo
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 1 year ago:
TikTok has video controls you can move to any part of the video. It also has 2x play speed.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
Right now the US military and NASA is in agreement that UAPs exist, there’s thousands of citizens interested in UAPs/NHI, yet not a single scientist in the past 75 years wanted to find the answer to what these UAPs are?
Science in itself is debunking trivial bullshit until you find a rock solid solution and right now we don’t have a solution.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
Ofc they do but they’re compartmentalized as hell.
Why do you think Bill Nelson himself is a career politician, not a scientist? These are political figures in these politicians, not scientists.
- Comment on No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific 1 year ago:
Unfortunately NASA is not being transparent here. They created a UAP task force and would not reveal who was heading it and when it is released it turns out to be someone who’s spent his career with the DOD/Defense contractors. Not a scientist. Why are we not letting scientists handle this matter?
NASA also says they want to work to destigmatize UAPs and NHI, yet Bill Nelson slanders Grusch (highly decorated US military serviceman) and speaks down on anyone promoting more transparency here. The minimization of Grusch’s testimony all while the DOD is withholding Grusch’s security clearance and essentially stonewalling congress. Lots of reasons enough for us to be suspicious of foul play behind government figures here.
- Comment on Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood For Output Of “Garbage” Content 1 year ago:
Comments like this contribute nothing. Sure it’s true but it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand and is unnecessary.
Instead let’s have a discussion, do you think Hollywood has had a stream of Garbage content lately?
