Why, a hexvex of course!
So Lemmy and Mastodon are mirrors of two popular forms of social media; what I think might be the next real step is innovation.
No, not a fediverse AI, something more human and “old web”. A federated forum system paired with a solid fedi-search engine could do slot of good - especially with the walled gardens and AI slopfest that the surface net is becoming.
Alas, this isn’t a post about Linux - the bar can go nae higher.
That carries more self-awareness than one can reasonably imply from vulture-capitalist shareholders.
Honestly, Microsoft may be full of arseholes, but moves like this at least one sane human works for the company.
It takes balls to admit you fucked up , and this is one employee showing some balls.
The argument in the paper is a bit more nuanced - it’s mostly arguing that we over-anthropomorphise AI, and this taints out results on AI sentience by pre-biasing towards some human like qualities already. Part of this comes from the AI attempting to emulated a human notion of identity.
Using a contrived goat powered AoE II AI would likely yield less assumed human-like quality bias. It would also be hilarious.
“If it continues long enough, even a reign of terror may become a fondly remembered period. People believe they want justice and wise government but, in fact, what they really want is an assurance that tomorrow will be very much like today.” - Terry Pratchett
It’s a good quote, and it tells you a lot about the idea of organising to forcefully change things. Change comes through education, patience, kindness, and self-sacrifice; it comes from teaching people that tomorrow can really be better. It’s never quick, it’s rarely (if ever) a great leader who brings it about, and it’s never such leaders who pay the price.
Already a member of the EFF, and I teach privacy to my students and coworkers already.
It’s more a rearguard than a fight at this point - most Brits are too distracted to care.
I’m not entirely sure how that’s panning out in Aus (a quick search suggests it’s a flop, but the sources aren’t great). I think the general consensus is that it’s not as enforceable as they hoped.
We are moving towards an era of a more locked down web in the UK. The main flag here is “robust age verification” - i.e. we’re moving from “you must provide ID to view adult material on social media” to “you must provide ID to use social media”.
One can quickly see “your id must be retained and linked to your account to reduce crime” and “any officer of the law may view this ID to better support crime reduction” slipping in over the next 20 years or so.
Overall, this feels like another Trojan horse to move towards a China-style de-anonymised web. Bad move all around really.
That’s actually a really good summary of the issue. It’s the tacitly implied authenticity and “goodness of match” that being the top result implies that shifts the balance.
If they’d put a “generate AI summary of search” button to display the AI result, I the they’d be on firmer ground.
Lack of desktop shortcuts by default: pretty much why I always switch to cinnamon.
That said, it’s not inherently bad, it’s just not inherently good.
“My job is giving me cancer” is still a universal issue I see.
I just had a pint of stout and a burger for breakfast (beer festival!).
Am I gonna make it?
I mean, I had plans (wanted to invest in a 4tb SSD to run Linux on, push up to a later i7 supported by my board, and upgrade from ddr4 to ddr5), but I no longer have plans due to the madness unleashed by the rampocalypse.
So instead I purchased a pico-calc and am looking at a luckfox-lyra upgrade so I can just enjoy old school games.
Honestly, luck of the draw sometimes. It works 99 times, then goes “fwoom” the 100th.
Rule 1 of automation: check the code before you run the code.
Rule 2 of automation: watch the code run.
Rule 3 of automation: repeat step 2 until anxiety fades.
Agreed - no cell phones in school, for anyone. If someone needs to contact me while I’m teaching they can go through our admin team!
The soundtrack is also really good, and the sheer range of options to create parties is just outstanding.
#3 is the one I sunk the most hours into, it’s a good one to start with as they’d iterated on ideas, cut some grind, and the multi-class system let’s you design some beautifully overpowered parties for the endgame.
Gaming is one of those weird spaces; it mainstreamed in the smartphone era, with a lot of folks who previously mocked it embracing it.
It’s picked up the toxic manosphere infection as it transitioned (“casual gamers” Vs “real gamers” facilitated that boxing off). The onlyfans “egirl” revolution painted a skewed picture of girls as gamers in the worst possible way (doing it for attention to make money), and the manosphere has amplified this to the detriment of gamers everywhere.
Gaming also focuses a lot of moral outrage, and that hasn’t helped matters. It’s given some men a ghost to fight against (“the big bad feminist trying to ban waifus”), whereas the reality is far from that!
The reality is gaming is for everyone who wants to game; the best question to ask another gamer is what they’ve enjoyed playing (for the Ds, the Etrian Odyssey games are amazing!). Not every game is for every person, except for Super Smash on the GameCube, because that game was high art.
They missed out by not calling this site “nudi-dex”
AHH, so that’s how the rich get ultra-tech while everyone scraps old machines for parts!
I wondered how we’d take that step to cyberpunk dystopia.