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hydroptic

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  • Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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  • So just because someone else isn't running a relay now while they figure out how to make them less costly to run, it's pointless for the protocol to be partially federated already and support further federation?

  • Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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  • Right, but that doesn't mean the protocol isn't federated

  • Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

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  • This is where we are with capitalism. Instead of things getting more affordable and better, everything is getting more expensive and usually worse, because the parasite class has realized that they can make more money that way

  • Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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  • Weelll, depends on what you mean with "joining your own server." The model is definitely different from ActivityPub's, but lots of people on the network already have their own PDSs or "personal data servers". They do still go through Bluesky's relay, but nothing is really stopping people from running relays as such, it's just fairly costly (as in some hundreds of dollars per month) currently as they need to hold the full state and history of the network (but apparently that's being worked on.)

    But it's definitely a federated protocol even though it's different from AP

  • Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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  • Can't really have an open federated protocol if you want to be able to prevent scraping 🤷

  • Bluesky Says It Will Comply With EU Rules After Being Called Out

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  • Fines levied by the EU can be pretty damn stiff though, so I doubt Bluesky can afford to just ignore the DSA

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  • Oh it's the rule 30 sea snail! Didn't know they were super poisonous, huh

  • lemmy rn

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  • And I'm here for it

  • Bluesky says it won't train AI on your posts

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  • Yeah, they're venture-funded so it's likely only a matter of time before they enshittify

  • Boomers

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  • Why do people still think this is simply a boomer problem? After the recent election even the US is waking up to the fact that Gen Z (and younger) generations are much more conservative than Millennials.

    This is not a generational issue, the problem is not age. The problem is conservatism.

  • Ahh yes...wrong training data

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  • In the future, computers will do all our art and entertainment for us so we can concentrate on making rich people more money. Yay!

  • 'Litigation is a certainty': Trump's call to end birthright citizenship would face a mountain of opposition

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  • And how likely is it that a conservative majority SC will stand up to Trump?

  • my cat's big nut sack

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  • That's too many nuts. The recommended maximum amount of nuts is 2

  • Republican mega-donors asked their employees who they will vote for in survey

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  • I mean it's absolutely possible and pretty trivial to do in-house online surveys so that you know whether someone has answered but can't immediately connect answers to individuals, especially if the survey didn't use an in-house web service.

    Whether I'd trust a corporation that says some survey is anonymous is another matter entirely though, because I absolutely wouldn't

  • Republican mega-donors asked their employees who they will vote for in survey

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  • I mean sure, that may just be an "innocent" poll and Uihlein might just be genuinely curious about what the percentages are, there is no way I would trust a conservative to not connect those survey answers to people.

    Shit, they wouldn't even have to explicitly note down who answered what in the database where they count answers, since employees have to be logged in they can probably look at server & auth logs to deduce who voted for who

  • Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argument

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  • Oh yes no disagreement there, but by all appearances it's probably still going to be a fairly close shave – much closer to 50/50 ballpark than, say, 40 / 60 or let alone 30 / 70. So out of the people who do bother to vote, around half of them are still probably going to vote from Trump

  • Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argument

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  • Oh yes, liberals absolutely are way worse about this, but I do see it even with actual leftists. It feels like with "centrists," the deal seems to be what you described: a sort of "well, certainly the leopards won't eat my face, and I don't like messing with the status quo because it works well enough for me." However, with some leftists, it seems to be more about an optimistic view of "the human condition" and an assumption that people are, by and large, good and want to do good (even to folks they don't know).

    I'm a degrowth anarchist myself, and since I live in Finland, I get to enjoy proportional representation. I vote for a democratic socialist party that is at least reasonably close to my values and actually has a chance of landing parliament seats and governmental positions. Over the decades, I've noted that many "actual" leftist voters and politicians are maybe a bit... well, let's say a bit too upbeat about what sort of animal Homo sapiens actually is. These are folks who genuinely do care about "woke" stuff like intersectionality and put in the work towards really changing things, but who seem to think that deep down, everybody wants a just, more equal society and not a hierarchical hellhole where the "strong" dominate some "lesser" social classes (foreigners, poor people, whatever)

  • Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argument

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  • My question is, if it's sad and shameful, why is Trump still so popular in polls?

    Sure, they may say it's "sad and shameful", but it's clearly not bad enough for them to not want to vote for Trump anyhow.

  • Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argument

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  • If Trump was just a normal businessman, he never would have gotten elected. His base likes the horribleness. They think he will be horrible only to people they feel deserve it.

    So many on the left seem to think that deep down people are good, and that if they just knew all the horrible shit conservatives are saying and planning they wouldn't vote for them. There's just this near-total refusal to acknowledge that for a scarily large proportion of the population, that horrible shit is their reason for voting for conservatives, and not only will pointing it out not help, trying to educate them generally just won't work.