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spaduf , 9 days ago

Ruined?

spaduf , 18 days ago

Let's be honest. They certainly plan to, but first they're gonna see if saying "Apple Intelligence" a bunch is going to convince people they actually did something innovative.

spaduf , 18 days ago

This isn't actually innovative it is just not OpenAIs business model. This recent trend is honestly a much smaller blip than most people recognize.

spaduf , 18 days ago

I mean the biggest innovation here isn't the "AI" (partially "on-device" or otherwise). It's exposing the apps action hooks to the model.

spaduf , 18 days ago

I dunno if 'Siri but functional' is good enough to get points from me. That said this is definitely good for the industry

spaduf , 17 days ago

Seems like an essential feature to me. Curious to see if it'll be in the beta.

spaduf , 1 month ago

If anybody's interested in signing up for the rolling beta, here's the link

spaduf , 3 months ago

Seems to me the most likely explanation is they got caught and fixed it.

spaduf , 3 months ago

This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for small wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.

spaduf , 3 months ago

I was having similar issues with the zigbee ones, and I believe it was a known issue with the way transitions were implemented. The solution ended up being to set short transition times across the board. Not sure if that's applicable here, but it may be worth a try.

spaduf , 3 months ago

You need this guy: https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant

spaduf , 3 months ago

Google's trash now

spaduf , 3 months ago

I think the big reason that nobody's mentioned yet is simply that they were earlier. Back when projects like Tox and Matrix were first starting to pop up, telegram was already fully formed. Signal didn't come until at least a year later and didn't have feature parity until several years later. Telegram by contrast was a much closer experience to WhatsApp and Messenger, making the transition much easier, particularly for low-tech knowledge users.

spaduf , 3 months ago

I don't think it's fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it's fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.

spaduf , 3 months ago

They’re an insane troll imo

Worse. They're a well known Mastodon admin.

spaduf , 3 months ago

Worth noting, they have since publicly apologized

spaduf , 4 months ago

They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active

spaduf , 4 months ago

I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

spaduf , 4 months ago

mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history

Only if they squander their lead. So long as they innovate in ways befitting the fediverse form, they will probably maintain their position. That said, it seems to me like modular systems like bonfire will probably leapfrog the existing platforms pretty quickly.

spaduf , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

So frustrated to see how this conversation is playing out. This is exactly what people have been asking for but all anybody can seem to see is "AI" in the headline.
This pivot is about refocusing on:

• The Browser
• Privacy
• Ethical AI

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This seems like a much better position for Mozilla to operate from, particularly because they've excelled at producing ethical SOTA ML for YEARS before ChatGPT. In all, this seems far more forward looking than the previous strategy of "make weird little web tools to make money maybe" and it's an absolutely massive untapped niche, that they already have the talent to tap into. If we punish the players best positioned to shift the industry standard away from extreme and exploitative data collection, we will end up in exactly the Orwellian AI hellscape that we're all so afraid of.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Though, it's tough to pull from the headline/discussion this pivot is explicitly meant to refocus on the browser.

As far as the AI stuff goes, Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space. All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility. It's really hard to see how this is a bad thing.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Tell me this is a good thing.

Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space (while still producing SOTA ML). All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility.

ALSO, the other half of this story is that Firefox is becoming the primary focus again. Everybody's freaking out about the AI stuff but that's because they're only reading the headlines. The programs they've shut down are things like Hubs (Mozilla's metaverse platform), the VPN, and the sensitive data scrubber (which was using a third party service anyway).

spaduf , 4 months ago

I don't think this is a money making move. The previous CEO was absolutely overly focused on monetization and this move is a step away from that. I should've addressed this more explicitly in the above comment but even for the players who actively monetize, AI is a money incinerator.

spaduf , 4 months ago

In this context or generally?

spaduf , 4 months ago

This has always been the killer feature of the fediverse. Open non-exploitative content algorithms. So weird to see people against it for no reason.

spaduf , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

This is a particularly silly opinion because Lemmy is an algorithmic social media platform. It's just an algorithm that you happen to have access to documentation for. Almost certainly, any fediverse algorithm would have to work on the same principles as Lemmy (open and based on public interactions). Likes and upvotes are king. User similarity ranking is wildly inefficient on the fediverse due to its distributed nature and keyword systems are easily gamed (although some hybrid is possible).

spaduf , 4 months ago

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

spaduf , 4 months ago

We don't need to use that word here

spaduf , 4 months ago

Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS

spaduf , 4 months ago

Does anybody have any recommendations for FOSS RSS readers with actual content surfacing features? So many RSS feeds are full of junk (this is particularly a problem with feeds with wildly disparate posting frequencies) and I've always felt they'd be a lot more useful if people were putting more effort into a modern way to sort through extremely dense feeds.

spaduf , 4 months ago

Yeah, doesn't seem like a ban was at all justified. This part stuck out to me:

I believe the best way to moderate a small community such as this in order to facilitate it’s growth is to be as hands-off as possible.

Except as it relates to meta-posts, huh? That's a strange choice for a supposedly community driven model.

All that said, I am very much in favor of some of the things you suggest (particularly dedicated threads for discussion on each new movie) and I think it would probably go a long way towards improving the real-world value of the community. I think this is particularly true as it seems unlikely that with 1.1k subscribers the community has properly filled their niche.

Do you think there is any way the mod of !moviesandtv would consider some sort of deal wherein you moderate and run this spinoff community with more structured discussion, while they link to and officially endorse the community (of course contingent on ongoing good relations)? Mentioning @Djinn

spaduf , 5 months ago

Some other groups from guppe:
!histodons
!nfl
!academicchatter
!knitting
!folklore

spaduf , 5 months ago

Don't they already package and sell your genetic data anyway?

spaduf , 5 months ago

This sentiment is so overplayed and seems especially out of place in the context of the fediverse.

spaduf , 5 months ago

Yeah pretty sure the only reason they "didn't sell out" was because they moved the release window to accommodate the extra demand. For all intents and purposes, this product sold out.

spaduf , 5 months ago

Pretty sure it's because the title is wildly misleading. They moved the release window to accommodate additional demand. They absolutely sold out of what they had originally intended on manufacturing.

spaduf , 5 months ago

From what I hear these are surprisingly close and some idiot is absolutely gonna try to drive in them. Given that I bet we'll be there in just a couple of iterations

spaduf , 5 months ago

I've used it daily and never had a problem. What did you experience?

spaduf , 5 months ago

I feel like your best bet is ESPHome and the ESP family of devices. Last time I checked you could get the parts for a project like this off Amazon (with spare parts) for under 20$.

https://esphome.io/

spaduf , 5 months ago

Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit

spaduf , 5 months ago

I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this

spaduf , 5 months ago

Sam Altman is a clown. Nobody should trust this guy.

spaduf , 5 months ago

Bonfire is one of the fediverse projects I'm most excited about right now. I hope they don't get too bogged down in organizational work right now. They're awfully close to version 1.0