The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
This topic is not for me as it’s clearly focused on USA alone, but the mention of ambrosia salad reminded me a dessert with the same name:
Made with caramelised sugar, eggs, milk, citrus juice. Iberian in origin, still fairly popular here in southern Brazil.
On chicken Kiev: I know that the dish is supposed to be fancy and all of that, I’ve seen Marco Pierre preparing it, but frankly? The idea of a deed-fried dish filled with butter definitively does not please me.
We wear magnets in our shoes. They keep us bound to Earth.
Imagine what the original varieties looked like.
Likely similar to this:
I’m almost sure.
Your typical instance only defeds another as a last case scenario, due to deep divergences or because of blatantly shitty admin or user behaviour. But, past that, they’re still willing to let some shit to go through - because if you defederate too many other instances, with no good reason, you’re only hurting yourself.
That’s simply not enough to create those “corners”. Specially when all this “nerds vs. normies*” thing is all about depth - for example the normie wants some privacy, but the nerd goes all in, but they still care about the same resources.
*I hate this word but it’s convenient here.
They tolerate each other enough to get each into a corner and not interact much.
And yet that is not what we see in the Fediverse. Those “corners” don’t exist here.
The people here and their attitude towards people who don’t agree with them are the problem.
And that’s a structural problem. The ActivityPub was supposed to allow both the “average person” and the “nerd” to coexist in the same platform, without one getting too much in the way of the other; it doesn’t.
I’m not sure on a good solution for that.
It’s all fun and games until venture capital kicks in, and exploits that central user data store to further centralise the rest of the network. Even then yes, I think that Mastodon has a lot to learn with Bluesky, on how to make user experience smoother.
You’re right. And IMO they should be legally banned from doing so - because the people who signed up for this crap agreed with 23 and Me’s ToS, not with someone else’s.
But, well… as you said, capitalism going to capitalism. The “right thing to do” is often out of the table of options.
I have a relative who considered doing this test. I’m glad that the family talked him out of it. (Surprisingly enough, not just me.)
Anyway, my [hopefully not “hot”] take: for most part the data should be destroyed, as it involves private matters. If there’s data that cannot be reasonably associated with an individual or well-defined group of individuals, perhaps it could be released into the public domain, but I’m not sure on that.
That’s a better way, I agree.
2:10 “I assumed that, if I couldn’t beat the system, there was no point on whatever I was doing”: that’s the old nirvana fallacy. The rest of the video is about dismantling it for the individual, and boils down to identifying who you’re trying to protect yourself against (threat model), compromising, etc.
It’s relevant to note that each tiny bit of privacy that you can get against a certain threat helps - specially if it’s big tech, as the video maker focuses on. It gives big tech less room to manipulate you, and black hats less info to haunt you after you read that corporate apology saying “We are sorry. We take user safety seriously. Today we had a breach […]”.
And on a social level, every single small action towards privacy that you do:
and so goes on. Seeking your own privacy helps to build a slightly more private world for you and for the others, even if you don’t get the full package.
The fun part isn’t even what Apple said - that the emperor is naked - but why it’s doing it. It’s nice bullet against all four of its GAFAM competitors.
It’ll likely turn out that the more dispassionate people in the middle, who are neither strongly for nor against it, will be the ones who had the most accurate view on it.
I believe that some of the people in the middle will have more accurate views on the subject, indeed. However, note that there are multiple ways to be in the “middle ground”, and some are sillier than the extremes.
For example, consider the following views:
Both positions are middle grounds - and yet they can’t be accurate at the same time.
Here’s a simple test showing lack of logic skills of LLM-based chatbots.
I’ll exemplify it with ChatGPT-4o (as provided by DDG) and Katy Perry (parents: Mary Christine and Maurice Hudson).
Note that step #3 is not optional. You must start a new chat; plenty bots are able to retrieve tokens from their previous output within the same chat, and that would stain the test.
Failure to consistently output correct information shows that those bots are unable to perform simple logic operations like “if A is the parent of B, then B is the child of A”.
I’ll also pre-emptively address some ad hoc idiocy that I’ve seen sealions lacking basic reading comprehension (i.e. the sort of people who claims that those systems are able to reason) using against this test:
I still fail to see how people expect LLMs to reason. It’s like expecting a slice of pizza to reason. That’s just not what it does.
This text provides a rather good analogy between people who think that LLMs reason and people who believe in mentalists.
Then the kid installs Proton and your keikaku* fails miserably.
*TN: keikaku means plan.
“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua.
In other words it’s the result of mashing Finnish and Portuguese words together. (Lua language is the word for “Moon”. Cue to the logo.)
Intended pronunciation is probably around ['luɐ̯n.ti], although the diphthong doesn’t exist in Finnish. I think that you can get close enough of that in English by saying “Loo an tea”.
Now, if you can only convince some Lemmy users to not say “play minetest luanti lol” once others ask something about Minecraft, even contextually unrelated… some at least have the decency to point out a specific Minetest→Luanti modpack. Plenty don’t even.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Luanti, and I have quite a few things against Microsoft. My issue is exactly what the blog editors are highlighting - it is not a libre Minecraft clone dammit, it’s its own thing. And in certain aspects it might become an even bigger thing, as a platform for voxel games in general.
And overall I think that it’s a good sign that the project is getting its own name instead of being named after something else.
But are they competent enough for that?
Fuck - you’re right, they aren’t.
Nevermind my conjecture then, it’s probably as you said.
Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn’t the narrative people would prefer.
Maybe, in the short term. But as people feel like the vengeance was successful, the topic gets its emotional conclusion. Then the focus shifts from how that leak popped up to the contents of the leak:
Of course, I might be 100% wrong, and the leak might be actually the result of someone getting undue access to that content, or some insider getting pissed and leaking the info that they had at hand. I just think that Nintendo+GF+TPC are scummy enough to forge being leaked for their own benefit.
Bad connection, eh? Either Starlink is crap and prone to bad connections… or not even its owner uses it.