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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Press X to doubt.

  I really can’t understand the level of “history is over here” most of the West seems to be on. It has to break down eventually, but apparently we’re not there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, maybe. I’m calling it that at least one Democratic party figure will get gotten in a show trial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Good concept, but we need way less specifics in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’m aware of. AFAIK nobody collects hard data right now, and I’m actually working actively on a system to do it.

  Just based on me peaking at current federation stats every once in a while, .world has grown relative to the niche .m/heaxbear/lemmygrad sphere, which makes me think it’s growing overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boo!

  Whatever, this is far from the end of the story. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, they managed to get on techcrunch. Impressive. So many little fediverse projects just don’t.

  Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration with ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and other federated apps.

  Ah, it’s a startup that might federate, that’s why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BeReal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but some people are more willing to move onto a smaller platform. Like us. In practice, as long as one more person becomes willing per person who makes the change it works out to compounding percentage growth, which is good because the internet itself would never have taken off otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨federation issue to instance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have experience, but I can make a project out of it nonetheless!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨federation issue to instance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the attention to this! If I can help in any way just say so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys 'member agar.com?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what it would have to be, right? OP probably thinks it’s impossible because GAI is impossible. I think it’s likely impossible because there probably is no precise moral system we could all agree on, even roughly.

  Either way, it’s far off at the very least, and we’re going to have to advance the cause of good, whatever that may be, the old fashioned political way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but I feel there will never be a technology that can do that.

  That’s my best guess too, but you could plausibly argue otherwise. I just went with something undisputable that still supports the main point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shocking. /s

  No current technology can distinguish between good guys and bad guys. There’s like a pervasive ideological discomfort with that basic fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨federation issue to instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. As far as I know nobody else collects that information, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨federation issue to instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainly, I’m interested in how Lemmy is growing and changing as a whole. If there was a way to store activity just weekly or even monthly that would help for what I’m interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but sometimes you want to debunk it, or use it as a starting point for other research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As of last I checked, people are trying it out and seeing if they can get away with it under the way GDPR is enforced. Hopefully that gets hammered out in court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨federation issue to instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, sorry for the late reply, but I’m trying to figure out who runs this graph, because if it needs something like a bit of funding to store data for longer periods I’d like to help. Do you know, or know where you heard about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. At which point that becomes embezzlement is super vague, but presumably it would be at some point. If you’re just a little loose with self compensation as opposed to potentially sinking the organisation, though, you could get away with it.

  This goes for the feed-the-starving-kids type nonprofits, too. I’m aware of examples that pretty much spend everything on management and marketing IRL.

  IANAL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not just a thing you can call yourselves, there’s a legal definition. There’s no way to pay money out of a nonprofit into your pocket without committing embezzlement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof ouch my Lynx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.

  You overestimate how hard it is to get a conspiracy theorist to click on something.

  you need a level of “AI” that isn’t going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects’ conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros’ hype of the technology, I’m not convinced we’re anywhere close.

  They used a purpose-finetuned GPT-4 model for this study, and it didn’t go off script once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s outside Russia, sure. It’s probably going to be something in international space if it’s a retaliation for something in international space. At least, it should be, because I don’t really buy the “direct war with Russia would be fine” jerk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, we can’t both be right, unless it’s regional. Someone here is in the lucky 10,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada we don’t, but you still fill your own cup. Is that not typical?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon is just an impenetrable mess from a UX perspective.

  How does it compare to Lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, so the perverse incentives aren’t beatable then. Time to bug lawmakers, I guess?

  On the bright side, Lemmy feels just about like Reddit to use, so that bodes well for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so I’m going to tell you where the new Twitter is in the Blue swirly.

  I know, I know, easier said than done, but if they’re at that level it’s just a different setting on the magic box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But still yes, once NATO works out which Russian stuff to take out in response.