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Kichae

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Kichae ,

"I trust these guys to not sell my data because they've only sold me data over there" is a hell of a take.

Someone has their identity tied up in this for some reason

Kichae ,

And you don't get the tax receipt for them

Kichae ,

I saw some engagement graphs a few weeks ago for a few niche subreddits. Not necessarily niche in the "small" way, but in the "focused interest" way.

Posts and comments per day completely collapsed during the 3rd party app-pocolypse, and never recovered. Community membership didn't even show a blip, but actual discussions fell off a cliff.

The Reddit app is really bad, and the website is worse. The mobile website is somehow the worst of the lot. Doing anything but voting and scrolling is painful. Reddit has successfully ended its usefulness as a community space. Most people there don't aeem to have noticed this sea change, yet.

Or at least, they've found no compelling reason to go elsewhere yet.

Kichae ,

Ugh. I feel dirty for defending economists, but...

Laws are just commonly observed relationships, and observed relationships always exist within a given set of boundaries and assumptions.

Change the boundaries or the context, and the law may no longer apply.

Consider Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation:

F ~ Mm/r^2

This observed relationship doesn't hold under very large M or very small r. In those contexts, a different relationship is required. That doesn't invalidate this one, though. It just maks it situationally useful.

Which all of these laws are.

Kichae ,

Credit where credit is due, if we define a generation as a 15 year period of time, and we decide that Gen Z started in 1995 (for easy math), you do, in fact, land on 1665.

I don't know why the author thinks that Gen D doesn't exist yet, when the pattern of X, Y (Millennials), and Z make a pattern that both implies that the Latin alphabet's use is coming to an end for this purpose (ignoring that Gen X was named not as part of a sequence of letters, but by Douglas Copeland's book, which was titled itself using an existing phrase), and that can easily be extrapolated backwards through time.

Kichae ,

People choose not to choose. They're not interested in engaging with the space or technology any deeper than the default.

Exploiting this fact to the point of defacto monopoly should still be considered wrong.

Kichae ,

I see someone is asking to be dumped in the middle of the atlantic alone to test whether they "cut it" or not.

Kichae ,

Damn, five figures. Nice! 912800 here.

I had the app on my phone, just to check in on my friendslist. None of them had logged on since about 2004 or so, at the latest.

Kichae ,

The people that use Google today did not move to Google back then. They came along after Google conquored the browser market.

Just like way back when, "The Internet" was Internet Explorer, today it's Chrome. And until we can convince people to abandon that, then it's an up-a-sheer-cliff battle.

The Internet today is propped up by the people who do not lament that it has turned into 5 websites in a trench coat, but who actively kick up a fit at the idea that it could or should be anything more varied or complicated than that.

Kichae ,

The political cycle is not 10 months long. Or 24. Or 48.

If you want change, you need to be involved in pushing over a large number of heavy objects over a long period of time. No one candidate, no one election, is going to change anything.

Because your damn country isn't "descending into fascism", it's been bathing in it for centuries, and every time there's someone trying to lift y'all kicking and screaming out of it just a little bit, the totalitarians crop up to try and self-destruct it all. Then, suddenly, a bunch of you come out of the woodwork to declare that it's better to blow it all up, actually, than to do literally anything to stop it, because you believe there should be a quick and easy solution, and everyone else around you is just an idiot for not seeing it.

But you only believe that because you're some kind of self-important, hubris-huffing sucker.

Kichae ,

Don't tell me you Lost it

Kichae ,

My 11 year old desktop's starting to go a little senile. I need to find it some new(ish) DDR3 sticks, I think.

Kichae ,

It'd feel better if I was paid the full value of my labour, and if the ownership didn't keep trying to hamstring the people trying to do good with products I help make by locking them behind weirder and weirder licenses.

Kichae ,

do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?

So, this is the fun part: AI tools don't auto-ingest material to process it. The developers choose the materials to feed into the models.

And while the tech bros can understand your licenses, they don't give a flying fuck, because they think they'll be billionaires beyond consequences by the time anyone discovers that their work in particular has been ripped off.

Kichae ,

You don't really need to freeze them. Just a snapshot of what their assets were at the time, and then promise to go after their family and friends assets, if theirs appear to be suddenly lacking. Finding themselves totally isolated and unemployable is a much bigger threat than just the fine, or even prison.

I like the passport and ankle bracelet thing, though.

Kichae ,

Hey, the execuitives already make believe they're taking risks. There's no harm in making their fantasy a little more real.

Kichae ,

So you better spend your time adapting.

They already ruined web search with SEO. Now it just won't be worth searching for websites at all. We can either accept whatever nonsense the syntax generator spits out, untethered from fact, or we can stop looking altogether.

That's what you mean by adapt, right? Accept not having access to real information ever again?

Kichae ,

Choosing to miss the forest for the trees here, I see. Being pedantic only brings something to the table if someine doesn't know the details you're being a pedant over.

Everybody here knows that legislative bodies pass laws.

Kichae ,

If the shareholders can't capture all of the value for themselves, it's not going to catch on.

Kichae , (edited )

Yes, but a long ass time ago. What's happening here is that he's not getting his way over something, or he's gone and done something that we haven't heard about that will stain the company and he was removed, or he was told his farts still smelled, and he threw a tantrum.

This has all of the hallmarks of a billionaire baby being told "no" over something for the first time in a while.

Kichae ,

Sometimes that one brush stroke is really good, but I really do not give a shit about another still life painting.

Or always.

Yeah, always.

Kichae ,

Well, there's my daily panic attack taken care of early

Kichae ,

This isn't both concerning and also totally in line with every move Gargon's made along the way. Nope nope nope!

Kichae ,

There are any number of Mastodon forks out there. Misskey and its forks are really good. Pleroma and Akkoma are good, and so is Friendica.

Mastodon has always been an exercise in attention and influence seeking for Gargon. The rest of us don't need him or it. It's just a trademark.

Kichae ,

It “knows” as in it has access to the information and the ability to provide the right info for the right context.

It doesn't, though, any more than you have access to the information in a pile of 10 million shredded documents.

Kichae ,

Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.

Yes, exactly! It's ability to parse the input is incredible. It's the thing that has that "wow" factor, and it feels downright magical.

Unfortunately, that also makes people intuitively trust its output.

Kichae ,

Actually, you know what? With that bullshit attitude, yeah, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to use technology to get your "chores" done faster. If you're picking destructive and disturbing over leaves-on-the-ground, then you've proven yourself incapable of making good decisions at this time.

Kichae ,

Tge system moves people around at the cost of some dying. That may not be your intention, but it's what the system does.

Not shutting down the system as soon as you realize it operates on blood means you're ok with the amount of blood it's consuming.

Kichae ,

There are no platforms on the Fediverse that do that. There are servers that are refusing and will refuse to communicate with other servers, and that's their right. If you don't like their policies, you can pick a different server.

Your power as a user is to select your administrators, by selecting whose server you want to log in to. You don't get to decide whose content they mirror. If they don't want to host content from Meta, or from Mastodon.social, or from anywhere else, they don't have to, and you shouldn't be able to force them to.

This isn't a mainframe and client system. There's no "fediverse" server out there that the different instances are gating. There's just 10 thousand partial mirrors, each offering local access to that mirrored content.

If you want complete and total control over what content is being hosted where ever you're logged in, host your own server. That's your other option.

Kichae ,

No, I don't think they have. Socialists just disagree with liberals that liberalism is "left" or "progressive".

Kichae ,

Do you know who isn't thinking that way?

The millennial conservatives, right-libertarians, neoliberals, and fascists.

Kichae ,

Publicly traded companies are not compelled by law to maximize profits. That's a long standing myth.

Kichae ,

A lot of emotional focused and trauma focused therapy deals with unsuppressing your inner child. "Letting it out".

The potion did the psychological healing, and her inner child came out.

Kichae ,

"Owning things" is not a job, correct. Making a living owning property is not a service to society.

Doing the labour to repair property is a service. Doing the filing to keep records of usage and repair is a service. Taking a cut because your name is on a deed? That's just stealing from the people who did the work.

Kichae ,

The idea would be that you don't get to own somebody else's home. Why on earth do you equate that with not getting to exist somewhere on vacation?

Instead of looking for gotchas, why not imagine how that would work without someone at the top demanding a passive income?

Kichae ,

I don’t think the USA is at the point where we should all worry about arbitrary arrests.

"All" may not need to worry, but there are plenty of people who do experience them.

Kichae ,

The state doesn't keep you safe from thieves now. The police are a reactionary force that shows up after you've been robbed and then do nothing to help you. The most you get is a police report to refer your insurance company to, if your stolen belongings were insured.

Kichae ,

So is "Conservatives", but no one has a problem throwing that one around as a generic term, either.

Kichae ,

Host the project in a country where IP laws don't give Nintendo any teeth.

Kichae ,

Discord has no uses that isn't already covered by other options, though. Their biggest feature is publicity.

Kichae ,

Karma is a net negative for actual community creation and meaningful discussion.

Kichae ,

You've presented no argument in favour. Just an assertion and the expectation that others engage with you.

Kichae ,

They have a whiff of the possibility of AIG becoming a reality.

They also had a wiff of NFTs letting them sell and claim royalties on JPEGs. This isn't about some grand vision if humanity's future, it's about becoming the next Silicon Valley billionaire, or dethroning the richest man in the world. If the next big tech get-rich-quick scheme comes along, the novelty of their very expensive autocomplete and JPEG mashup projects will be dead, and they'll take their dollrs on to the next fad.

He's looking at this as an echo of past Silicone Valley bubbles. It so much more than that.

Citation-fucking-needed.

Kichae ,

No one owns ActivityPub

No, but they can become the biggest, most influential voice in how it contimues to develop.

The methods of regulatory capture work well beyond regulatory bodies.

Kichae ,

I think one should be rather dismissive of "it would be easier for me if others engaged in behaviours that have resulted in their being abused".

Your fucking convenience doesn't come before their sense of safety.

Kichae ,

My mom's employer calls the department "human capital".

Somehow, being more open about it makes it feel even worse.

Kichae ,

This is, on the whole, a good thing. One should be able to have access to their politicians via piblicly accessible means, and the fedi is exactly that.

It's a giant shame that it's still being moderated by a tech billionaire, though.

Kichae ,

Importantly, "vote with your wallet" is also straight up enabling discussion where those who have the most dollars have the most votes is taken for granted.

This is not how we want to run a society. We can already see the results of it, and they're incredibly not good.

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