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Greg Egan
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November of this year, 2026, is a good time to appreciate a prognostication paper published in the year 1960 https://improbable.com/2026/11/10/doomsday-friday-13-november-2026/
getting motorboated by bernie sanders would be insane
@jackie How could you say something so controversial yet so brave?
@Kantikainen Riippuu yhdistyksestä. Olen kuullut, että tarvetta olisi täysin suvereenille, riippumattomalle alustalle. Eivät kaikki yhdistykset ole pieniä tai varattomia. Mutta mietipäs esim. Teollisuusliitto, jossa 200 000 jäsentä, PAMissa on 190 000 jäsentä, JHL, TEHY, OAJ, kaikissa yli sata tuhatta jäsentä. Tai keskusjärjestöt, tai Ay-liikkeen ulkopuolelta Metsästäjäliitto, johon kuuluu 2500 metsästysseuraa ja 150k+ jäsentä. Suomen yrittäjät, jossa 362 yhdistystä jne. Tai vaikkapa asiakkaamme Eläkeläiset ry, johon kuuluu satoja paikallisyhdistyksiä. Ja tässäkin vain pintaraapaisu.
Olisi vähän outoa, että satojen työntekijöiden yhdistykset ryntäisivät joukolla mastodon.socialiin, jos haluavat oman viestintäkanavan? Lisäksi jotkut saattavat haluta sellaisen, joka on rajattu vain sisäiseen viestintään eikä federoi. Käyttötarkoituksia on paljon.
@rolle aivan, eli isolle järjestölle mm sisäiseen viestintään? Nyt ymmärrän mistä skaalasta puhutaan!
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kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
stand a little out of my sun🍉
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To whoever is the "VIP in a helicopter" that is currently causing all airplanes to halt takeoff thereby stranding hundreds of passengers across dozens of planes on the tarmac right now, I wish you a very crash
This also provides a working example of how infinite supply of mediocre works distorts the market for everybody in it, which software developers seem to have a hard time understanding. Or think that their industry is somehow exempt from basic microeconomics.
@baldur I think there is a non small amount that'd be very happy about a thinning of the industry. Of course, pulling up the ladder and staying as one of the "ai-native" ones.
So the register has previously reported that #FreeBSD was privately surveying developers on how they should proceed with the #genAI question.
We now have the results.
35% of those polled want AI-assisted code to be disclosed while 22% felt it should be treated just like any other code contribution and only 16% want AI generated code to be rejected outright.
@karolherbst@chaos.social @gfxstrand@treehouse.systems idk I last did any major GPU programming before Vulkan 1.0 and my most recent true GPU experience is. uh. about 12 years old and in Verilog 
@karolherbst@chaos.social @gfxstrand@treehouse.systems If a device is the thing you create to do graphics, yeah
Alex is Canadian now
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I can't help but laugh at the people who say "I don't care if the code is bad or slopped, so long as what I interact with looks & feels good" - my dude, you're obviously the kind of person who is to blame for almost all consumer products getting worse by the year; shiny outsides and fragile garbage inside. The bits you can't see *matter*, it's how the product works & how long it lasts! Personally I always try to buy things where people paid attention to the bits you don't see
Animacje ściągania portek w #squadron42 GOTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JHK6KPap-M
Pozdrawiam #giereczkowo
#starcitizen
Squadron 42 | Inside CIG: Community Gameplay Event
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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@itsmaya@treehouse.systems i also think it's good to ban advocacy or any positive talk on it 😁
mirlo.space
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So the register has previously reported that #FreeBSD was privately surveying developers on how they should proceed with the #genAI question.
We now have the results.
35% of those polled want AI-assisted code to be disclosed while 22% felt it should be treated just like any other code contribution and only 16% want AI generated code to be rejected outright.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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@lumi yes this is what I settled on after incessant demands to "clarify the contributing policy so we know what you mean" from a series of non-contributors.
I put "no use or advocacy" though I can see why people that think the first amendment is a religious issue might not be ok with that.
@erincandescent @gfxstrand That's a Vulkan device, no?
@karolherbst@chaos.social @gfxstrand@treehouse.systems idk I last did any major GPU programming before Vulkan 1.0 and my most recent true GPU experience is. uh. about 12 years old and in Verilog
Loved Big Walk so much that as a memento of 100%ing it I 3D printed all our friend's in-game characters to give them which was a fun surprise. The light ball even lights up with a coin battery!
(you should grab a group of friends and play it)
@christianselig Do you think it would be a good Switch 2 game?
@Eggfreckles boo Starlink... but sometimes it's essentially the only option unfortunately.
@bigzaphod @Eggfreckles I would do without rather than support that. Damage is being done to our atmosphere every time one of those satellites come down and it’s only a mayter of time before one hits a house or car or human out walking their dog.
I'm having a whole bunch of bot-accounts that look like indy writers in my timeline mentioning #FinishOrFrogAlong in a post with very similar wording. They post from several servers. Blocking them all. #Spam
@lisettedeboer is this about the Scribes and Makers thing?
