Hi @buhtz @Karlitschek
#BitKom, #OMG. Modern Talking der IT.

Some of mine:

Violet Evergarden Eps 7-10

Aria the Origination Eps 8-13

Takopi’s Original Sin Eps 1-4 and 6

Clannad After Story Ep 18

A Place Further Than the Universe Ep 12

BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! Ep 10

a ver si la verdadera batasha cooltural es hablar más de los huelguistas detenidos y encarcelados y menos de las entrevistas de Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz

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.

So... someone leaked a Russian propagandist's data on Twitter (Dougan leaks), and Twitter removed it within 24h... but women have to sue until they reach the Supreme Court to have nudes removed?

What?

@jk we all had our mingebag phase

@m_berberich
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/work_items/3171#note_3037618386
@fdroidorg

Given what happened with Microsoft this week and flights afterwards—the fact #Linux is using an LLM to essentially vibe their way through without quality of care should concern you a great deal because more technology infrastructure runs Linux than you think. I just don't believe, for one second, that progress is halted to review output, to check output. I've seen tech fail and fail again due to negligence and this will continue to happen, even when we enter the quantum computing bubble. Tech doesn’t have to work anymore—it just has to make money.

@qualia 14-year-old me was so annoying

who’s this blue haired chick? she seems familiar, but I just can’t place her…

Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I have mixed feelings about the social/community implications of shared block lists.

It's essentially social blacklisting, and while it gives people more options for controlling what they see, I'm not entirely convinced it's healthy compared to manual blocking of users and servers on an individual level.

Wait. Is this fucking play about us?

https://youtube.com/shorts/a46VJ3XxBRk

Her children are in college and they tell her that their instructors are witnessing a marked decrease in critical thinking skills in students across the board due to their reliance on AI and their willingness to accept what it presents as “fact”.

These two data points had her very worried. I told her how generative AI had weakened my business’ design services and she lamented how everything is starting to “look the same” in design.

You don’t say?

AI’s net effect is… distressing.

2/2

Over 115,000 people have signed a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO, including nearly 6,000 claiming to be Nvidia employees.

CEOs like Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games), Garry Tan (Y Combinator) and Amjad Masad (Replit) are among the supporters.

Many seek his triumphant return.

I visited my old oncologist this week for a check up (I’m fine) it was great seeing her but we got to speaking about the state of the world and talk turned to AI.

This woman saved my life back in 2005 when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and she is brilliant but she’s distressed about where AI is taking us especially her field.

She explained it’s becoming more and more difficult for her to research proper courses of treatment because of the flood of inaccurate AI “results”. 1/

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117619845921957650

I get it.

When it seems like the general public agrees with you it's easy not to question it. It's easy to imagine that more and more people are coming around to "sense" ... only "sense" means something else here.

Can't even imagine seeing 3 in a row 😂

Auto ban sounds terrifying and definitely won’t be abused

If you think Mao is a centrist, everyone to the right of Mao will look right wing.