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  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • Those two should not be counted in the same category.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • "If implemented correctly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."

  • Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about

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  • Can it hurry up and ruin the AI hype, too?

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • Waiting for the next headline where we find out the AI has been taking bribes.

  • Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans

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  • The raid drew criticism as footage showed the workers shackled at their wrists, ankles and waist.

    It has now emerged that Trump asked his officials to “encourage” the detained South Korean workers to extend their stay in the country and train American employees, foreign ministry officials in Seoul said at a briefing.

    WTF.

  • On discourse and decentralisation

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  • In a post where she signs the open letter, ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber summarises the changing world well:

    “This is actually a really important time for that message to come across, because our communities do both face major threats which I believe we are ideologically aligned in wanting to face:

    We are facing a large number of laws which appear well-intentioned and aimed to try to take on tech gatekeepers, but unintentionally build regulatory moats that allow only gatekeepers to participate, and which threaten user freedom at large.

    The rise of techno-fascism and omnisurveillance affects all users. Neither ATProto nor ActivityPub, at present, are built in such a way that they can provide the levels of protections necessary to respond to the needs of activists and community members against nation-state level threats.

    These are our existential threats, not each other. And we need to figure out how to work together.”

    I'm reading this as "be nice to the Bluesky guys, because we have a bigger problem to deal with."

    That's fine, I'm not inclined to be mentally ill at strangers on the internet.

    But I'm also not going to call it decentralized when it's meaningfully not, and I'm going to keep an eye on where their money comes from.

    We have a common enemy in government control.

    But if you're going to be my friend, I need you to not lie to my face.

  • Anyone running Sandstorm?

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  • Came looking for this comment and was not disappointed.

  • Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

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  • Leeds told Ars that the RSL standard doesn't just benefit publishers, though. It also solves a problem for AI companies, which have complained in litigation over AI scraping that there is no effective way to license content across the web.

    "If they're using it, they pay for it, and if they're not using it, they don't pay for it.

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    But AI companies know that they need a constant stream of fresh content to keep their tools relevant and to continually innovate, Leeds suggested. In that way, the RSL standard "supports what supports them," Leeds said, "and it creates the appropriate incentive system" to create sustainable royalty streams for creators and ensure that human creativity doesn't wane as AI evolves.

    This article tries to slip in the idea that creators will benefit from this arrangement. Just like with Spotify and Getty Images, it's the publisher that's getting paid.

    Then they decide how much they'll let trickle down to creators.

  • Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains

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  • Sincere question: Why was there a separate mobile domain in the first place?

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • "I pay for access to music I get access to music." And with ChatGPT, you pay for access to an LLM, and you get access to an LLM.

    Just because you personally don't value that as a service doesn't inherently invalidate it as a business model, now or in the future.

    Netflix lost subscribers in 2011 and 2022, that didn't kill the company. Uber stock tumbled during the pandemic and again in 2022. In 2023, Wired was writing about how "despite its popularity... [Spotify] has long struggled to turn consistent profits."

    This is a whole wave of companies where the survivors seem financially stable now, but had a long history of being propped up by venture capital and having an unclear path to profitability.

    The only thing you've successfully shown is different so far is that you don't think it's a real service.

    I generally agree, but I still don't see anything that differentiates its trajectory from the Spotifys, Ubers, and Netflixes of the world.

  • Fediverse Report – #133

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  • I don't understand the purpose of the letter.

    Bluesky is, in practice, not decentralized.

    It has the potential to decentralize, but if the community stops calling bullshit when Bluesky claims to already be decentralized, it would lose the one incentive it has to actually follow through.

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • What are you talking about? ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. all have "subscription fees generating recurring revenue" and are famously "exploiting a gap in regulations to undercut an existing market."

    Uber took 15 years to become profitable, and Spotify took 18 years.

    Again, I'm not defending any of them (they all exploit the people who make their service work), but so far AI seems to be going down the same road.

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • Isn't that the case with a lot of modern tech?

    I vaguely recall Spotify and Uber being criticized relying on the "get big first and figure out how to monetize later" model.

    (Not defending them, just wondering what's different about AI.)

  • Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month

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  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • 13.5%, slipping to about 12%

    I know that 1.5% could mean hundreds of businesses, but this still seems like such a nothing burger.

  • What is the current state of Matrix?

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  • Technically, nothing.

    In practice, who do you know that's using it and doesn't run Arch, by the way?

    My point isn't that IRC/XMPP aren't technically capable.

    It's that they're not designed for non-technical users.

    I want corporate social media to die. Mastodon and Piefed are far from killing the beast, but they've made the more progress than most projects have seen in a long time.

    I want corporate messaging to die. Matrix is far from killing the beast, but for a little while, at least it was trying.

  • What is the current state of Matrix?

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  • I wouldn't mind going back to IRC roots if it could be made more user friendly and integrate voice and video chat.

    Good UX/UI goes a long way to make it so non-technical people can join and strengthen the network.

  • Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

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  • Seems untenable.

    If I live in Europe and run a mastodon instance open to anyone, it's not like I or my server fall under a Mississippi law.

    What are they going to do, sue my Serbian ass? Serve a restraining order to my Norwegian server?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your country's version of the blue/green bubble?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

    tuta.com /blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    No?

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    you know what. I think the Olympics is pretty cool

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    me being a financially responsible adult

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    Senate: how should we spend the military budget? The ever loyal praetorian guards:

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    little executioner maid before and after getting a new sword

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    be careful of the healthcare in france

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    apparently not taking pictures is a "waste" and a "missed opportunity"

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    what happens when you don't level up intelligence

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    I am dowg

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    90% of videogame "choices" are like this. its actually infuriating

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    be wary of the mercenaryfication pipeline.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    Evocatus is my most experienced prankster.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    there's a 2nd stereotype I see when it comes to character creation.🤔

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    XMPP vs everything else

    discuss.privacyguides.net /t/why-not-xmpp/13792/3
  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    cheating scandals have gotten rampant ever since the premiere of ratatouille

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    wizards are nerds. warlocks have a phone in their sleeve. sorcerers are on the spectrum

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    Just some maids making doughnuts and eclairs. 🍩🍩🍩🥖🥖🥖

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