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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence

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  • Did you get lost and forget that this is a Linux community? Where it's expected that people are pro-Linux?

    If you like Windows, that's fine, but I dunno what you expected from !linux@programming.dev

  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • The bubble popping doesn't have to do with its staying power, just that the days of, "Hey, I invented this brand new AI that's totally not just a wrapper for ChatGPT. Want to invest a billion dollars‽" are over. AGI is not "just out of reach."

  • How decentralized is Bluesky really?

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  • I'm not even sure it can, unless they want to pay server operators. Who would do that for free for a for-profit company? And if they're ultimately supported by the top, they're still centralized.

    Not that it's super expensive to run a server, but it ain't free; at least in a place like the Fediverse, every transaction is voluntary all the way down to the financial support, because any part may choose to participate or leave as they see fit.

    I don't see how BlueSky can replicate that and still chase profit.

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  • And I know people think it's mean to keep kicking a geriatric president when he's a lame duck.

    I'm okay with it when it's for legitimate reasons, and I think you have some legitimate ones. He did some real good on infrastructure and renewables, but he still fucked up in a lot of other ways. What's annoying is when people say he was either infallible or the very embodiment of evil.

    We should accept the good while condemning the bad, because most people are more complex and nuanced than the caricatures presented by the internet.

    But to your last point, I agree that we will continue to lose to the Donald Trumps of the world if we don't have someone willing to publicly promise to fight and hold the entire rotten establishment accountable.

  • AI can now create a replica of your personality

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  • Asking the important questions

  • AI can now create a replica of your personality

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  • Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your childhood, your formative memories, and your career to your thoughts on immigration policy. Not long after, a virtual replica of you is able to embody your values and preferences with stunning accuracy.

    Okay, but can it embody my traumas?

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    My mom always tells me it's my fault when I'm hurt by her because she "didn't know" her behavior was hurtful

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  • Some people are like that, unfortunately. It's never their fault, never their turn to grow and change. Most people expect their parents to be ultimate protectors and the ones to encourage their children's flourishing, but many are often unwilling or unable to change as their children change.

    Sounds like you've tried setting boundaries, and she just ignores them. The best thing to do might be going limited- or no-contact to protect yourself. Sucks that that's the case, but part of having healthy relationships is meeting somebody halfway, and if she can't do that, then you should feel justified changing the nature of that relationship.

  • Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system

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  • Yeah, still a net positive. Not complaining, just informing.

    I've just seen the "it's federated (eventually)" and "it's a public benefit corporation" tossed around on occasion like they're exonerating evidence, and I would hate to see people get tricked into a false sense of security.

  • Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system

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  • ...as a public benefit corporation.

    I would encourage everyone to read about what a Benefit Corporation is. It's still for-profit, but being public benefit gives the officers a little protection from shareholders suing them when stock performance goes down. In theory, this protects them from being driven solely by profit.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

    However, there's no real guidance or oversight on whether a company still qualifies for that designation. They can self-audit, they can vote to change to a normal corporation at any time, switch back again, etc. This is not a different tax classification, this is a corporate board promise, and I have no reason to think they'll stay a public benefit corporation, even if they have the best intentions right now.

  • Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow

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  • That's why some people just create their own instances.

  • Alex Jones is trying to halt the sale of Infowars. Elon Musk's X just got involved in the case

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  • This isn't going anywhere. I listened to the recent Knowledge Fight episode, and he's just being a whiny little baby about it, trying anything and everything to stop the sale of his company and assets.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • True! I forgot about that. Other accounts have used similar functionality.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • That's cool. Well, I wish them well. Hopefully they can make something that's good for people and not just chase profits.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • Mastodon devs didn't care to cease the moment

    And they never will. That's not their focus or goal. They don't care about "gaining momentum" and explosive growth, and I wouldn't want them to.

    That's up to us. Convincing people to join the Fediverse and showing them better alternatives to their favorite platforms (and teaching them how to use them) is our collective job, not some group of hobbyist devs.

    Plus I think explosive growth would change the vibe of the Fediverse in a negative way, since most people expect it to be free (i.e. "I am the product") and shitty (so always taking offense). I'm fine peeling people away over time.

    For groups, I don't know if Mastodon will ever get that or not. Friendica exists, it's more analogous to Facebook than Mastodon, and it already has groups and public/private forums. I'm not really sure if that would be a great addition to the microblog format of Mastodon, anyway, so I don't really care if it never comes.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him,

    Yeah, certainly, or some other billionaire. I think it goes without saying that most of us here understand the flaws with centralized services.

    I'm not saying it's the best choice ever, but I'm hopeful that the choice to leave Xitter might do positive things to people's mentality when BlueSky almost certainly repeats history. It's not likely to happen right away, as even an offer to buy would take time to approve, so for now, I'm taking it as a net positive.

    The Fediverse will continue to grow and change in the meantime, and we'll all still be here to help them migrate to better things in the future.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • People aren't going to be convinced of social/communism overnight.

    I celebrate the move to BlueSky as positive in that they are no longer propping up an apartheid tech bro who's now running a meme branch of US Government, and also because many of them are doing the thing they were scared to do before: leave. They now know how that feels and what it will be like rebuilding friend groups and such.

    It's not the anti-corpo step many are deluding themselves to believe it is, but getting out of the muck and learning how to take the step to change something are both things I see as positives that can be guided to better things in the future.

  • Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

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    1. That's lazy journalism. There's a functional search bar as well as trending hashtags.
    2. There will never be suggestions by design, but there's accounts like FediFollow and guides on how to get started with Mastodon. If you meet those people in the future, tell them to follow hashtags for topics they like, and encourage them to start using hashtags. They'll find people that way.
    3. This is also by design: there's no suggestions, because there's no algorithm. You decide what goes on in your feed (boosting is another important part of that). If you've looked at everything, explore a new hashtag, follow more people, check the Local or Global feeds, or Satan forbid anyone actually take that as a sign to take a break and go touch grass.

  • Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

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  • or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc...

    This cannot be overstated. That's exactly how Elon ended up with Twitter, and nobody should think for a second that there aren't richer, more tactful billionaires who could keep people credulously swimming in the propaganda in order to make their power plays.

    I give it four years before their first enshittifying changes are announced.

  • How Top X Rivals Fared Since Elon Musk Sparked Twitter Exodus

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  • It really depends what you're after. You'll find cool people by following hashtags, certainly, but if there's somebody in particular you like, follow the person, too. Do both.

    Also, some people bring their bad habits from Xitter and the rest, so it helps to have all the options.