If you're here, there's still hope for the internet
Don't let it fall
Of course they are. What of it?
It's better, but in practice seems to have ended up entirely controlled by Google
It's insecure, can only handle small files, no features like read receipts or reactions. I can go on.
Just a reminder that it is in the interest of the ruling establishment in both countries to keep their citizens mad at each other
yeah.. it should
It's honestly terrifying how much of a grip whatsapp has. People like to make fun of the US for being stuck on sms and imessage, but at least we're not beholden to Zucc for our main communication
Well, my experience is the with the US market, it may be worse here idk, but here you go https://www.statista.com/chart/34197/share-of-us-respondents-use-email-providers/
Also I forgot apple
How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?
That's exactly what I'm talking about though. Google, microsoft, and kinda yahoo basically control the entire market. A few providers like fastmail fight over fractions of percent. Email today feel much worse than lemmy
Anyone experienced insta-crashing?
Was working fine this morning for me. No updates.
But now it keeps crashing and my phone shows popups saying "something went wrong with summit". Clearing the cache and force killing the app didn't help
Discord was just an example, I'm not attached to it. It could be signal or WhatsApp or matrix or whatever
I don't know if this is a joke, but I do have a blog that I've been very demotivated to post on for similar reasons
They're invite only places. Though discord does have public servers too now I think, generally you can't just access them through the open web.
I'm tempted to use Discord-esque "black hole" platforms due to AI scraping
discord is a black hole for information
Traditional reasoning says you should prefer open forums like lemmy that are available and searchable to the open web. After all, you're posting to help people, and that helps people the most. The platform (like reddit) may profit off of it, but that's fine, they're providing the platform for you to post. Fair deal.
Plus people coming for high quality information helps the community and topic back. You attract other high quality contributors, the more people use/partake in the topic you are discussing, the platform often improves with the revenue etc. It's not perfect, but it worked
AI scrapers break all that. The company profiting is the AI company, and they give nothing back. They model just holds all the information in its weights. It doesn't drive people to the source. Even the platform doesn't benefit from bot scraping. The addition of high quality data may improve the model on that topic and thus p
The fact that email is at the top here is clear evidence this is not a good metric dude. Email is not decentralized these days
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO
Good point. A sort of community service I guess
They do, it's part of the tuition
I know a lot of people who bought teslas before musk became a full blown oligarch and feel uncomfortable about it
More accurately, "what's his @?"
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Gpt4-o has a style
Republicans are cancelling town halls in their districts. I’m a Democrat and I went to find out what those voters would like to say to their elected officials.
Lemmy Users are willfully ignorant of AI's capabilities
Other platforms too, but I'm on lemmy. I'm mainly talking about LLMs in this post
First, let me acknowledge that AI is not perfect, it has limitations e.g
- tendency to hallucinate responses instead of refusing/saying it doesn't know
- different models/models sizes with varying capabilities
- lack of knowledge of recent topics without explicitly searching it
- tendency to be patternistic/repetitive
- inability to hold on to too much context at a time etc.
The following are also true:
- People often overhype LLMs without understanding their limitations
- Many of those people are those with money
- The term "AI" has been used to label everything under the sun that contains an algorithm of some sort
- Banana poopy banana (just to make sure ppl are reading this)
- There have been a number companies that overpromised for AI, and often were using humans as a "temporary" solution until they figured out the AI, which they never did (hence the gag, "AI" stands for "An Indian")
But I really
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
ChatGPT released a new mode, called Deep Research. Tech writer Casey Newton asked Deep Research to write a report about the fediverse. But how good is the quality of the report that ChatGPT puts out? Fediverse Report does some deep research on Deep Research's fediverse report.
ChatGPT released a new mode, called Deep Research. Tech writer Casey Newton asked Deep Research to write a report about the fediverse. But how good is the quality of the report that ChatGPT puts out? Fediverse Report does some deep research on Deep Research's fediverse report.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) Turns Republicans' Words Against Them in 'Drain the Swamp' Act Against Lobbyist Gifts: 'Trump Can Fulfill His Promise'
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) put Republicans on the spot with the Drain the Swamp Act, aimed at banning White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) put Republicans on the spot with the introduction of his Drain the Swamp Act, a bill aimed at banning White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists and preventing them from becoming lobbyists.
The bill directly challenges Trump to uphold his long-standing campaign promise to "drain the swamp" by eliminating government corruption.
President Trump campaigned around the country to 'drain the swamp', yet one of the first things he did was reverse President Biden's executive order that banned White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists," Khanna said on the House floor. "I believe that this bill will have support, not just from progressives, not just from independents, but from the MAGA movement."
Khanna's move forces Trump-aligned Republicans to either support stricter ethics reforms—aligning with Trump's past rhetoric—or reject the bill, which could be seen as backtracking on promises to clean up Washington.
Last month, Sen.
U.S Aviation Fatalities by year
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26350717
U.S Aviation Fatalities by year
Data scraped from Aviation Safety Network
RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them
(I haven't submitted an official rfc yet, want to see what people think)
This is inspired by Ruqqus, a now defunct Reddit alternative.
The idea is simple:
- There is a "global" or "default" community with no topic or extra rules,
moderated only by admins - Community moderators, when they feel a post is inappropriate for their community can "kick" a post to the global community
The reasoning is as follows: a good amount, probably the majority of posts that are removed by mods, are not removed because they are inappropriate for the site as a whole, but because they are inappropriate for that specific community (off-topic, banned site, low effort, etc.). But currently the only option they have to deal with this is a full blown removal, which is quite frustrating for the poster.
This proposal would allow mods to keep curated communities without needing to do unnecessary removals.
As a bonus, this would create a default community where people can post when they're not su
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see th…
Someone just DM'd me to purchase a subreddit I mod
authentic content my hat