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AI slop is AI + slop.

Slop is low effort garbage with zero quality assurance put into it.

I know it already is but should it be?

In countries that care about their people, it isn’t. You do not have the freedom to intentionally hurt others, physically or verbally.

It’s a reality that not all niches have sufficient content here, so yes I’m in fact still using Reddit for select topics.

I still use Reddit for news, because the bigger userbase means a richer comment section. Which is the real advantage of this type of platform over RSS feeds from news sources.

I still use Reddit to participate in discussions in my native language.

I still use Reddit to follow leaks for the games I’m interested in.

I still use /r/redditalternatives and sometimes search the site for mentions of the fediverse in hopes I can help others come here. Also to represent and mention Mbin, since everyone on Reddit always forgets about it existing.

I also still use Discord instead of Fluxer because friends refuse to move despite me recreating our server 1:1 perfectly…

Other than that, I’m not using Reddit anymore, nor am I using other social media platforms.

I don’t think it makes any sense to keep investing in an old language, while writing code for today.

Then don’t go with Go either, shit is from 2009. That’s 16 years ago. If you care about age so much, go with something actually modern, not a slightly younger dinosaur.

But both of them keep getting updated, so this doesn’t really make sense as an argument anyway.

I came here when I wanted to show some solidarity for the API protests by not using Reddit until they’re over. Figured I’d take the chance to try out some alternatives, and stuck with /kbin, now Mbin.

The virus is rarely transmitted from human to human or via air.

If this is the case, then why was quarantine necessary to stop the spread in previous outbreaks? Referring to this:

The strain demonstrated a high capacity for sustained transmission among the human population requiring the implementation of quarantine measures, rigorous contact tracing, isolation of close contacts, and active clinical monitoring to prevent further spread.

I think much like CGI in anime, it is possible for people to warm up to AI. But it’ll need more than just time.

There needs to be prominent examples of good AI use in products. Good AI is not noticeable as such by its output, but by its capabilities. So for people to be aware, the use of AI would have to be disclosed explicitly, it can’t be left to users to infer, yet the product would still have to be compelling enough to make people give it a chance. So imo games are ideal here.

However, AI also has the additional issues of ethics and resource use. I think for people to really change their tune, mainstream AI needs to switch to being on-device models that are ethically trained. Not hosted in datacenters and trained on copyrighted or unlicensed works. But that’s definitely possible imo with the right changes.

How does zeebra not ryhme with debra already? I mean, I know english pronunciation is put through a random IPA generator before being finalized, but Wiktionary gives the same exact IPA (bɹə) for the -bra part in both words. So shouldn’t they be rhyming then?

When people talk about left vs right, they don’t always mean the same axis.

Strictly speaking it’s about the economic axis iirc, but people almost never use it that way in actual political discourse imo. They seem to conflate other axes into it.

The original axis wasn’t the economic one however, but rather the French one before it, where the aristocracy on the right were opposed by the commoners on the left. The right here stands for tradition and monarchy, while the left are the progressives and anti-monarchy.

I don’t know by what logic, which axis, people on the fediverse like to call Russia left-wing, but I can suggest a possibility.
According to what I’ve seen of Russian propaganda worldview, NATO is imperialist. I think you can map that onto the original French model, with NATO being right-wing because they’re imperialist and NATO’s enemies being left-wing because they oppose imperialism.

Again, not sure if that’s why, but that would be one way to come to the conclusion.

I don’t use Lemmy or Piefed, but I have Active set as my default. And don’t really ever change to a different sort.

Worth noting that while the rest of the world uses rectangles, it’s not always the same dimensions.

The Swiss flag, for example, is explicitly square. If it’s not square, it’s actually the maritime version specifically.

This bill requires the OS to ask you for your birth date, explicitly the birth date. That’s all the age verification it requires. So I’m not sure how that’s “not going to qualify as age verification”. Why would the very method specified in the bill not count? There’s no requirement to use other methods to verify the age you’re given. The user just selects their birth date freely and the OS accepts it and that’s it if they’re not underage.

I’m personally against this kind of thing, but I hate how much of a fantasy echo chamber this stuff is here. There’s so much misinformation and hyperbole in this thread alone.

In general I support the idea of device-level age verification. The narrative around it uses old school methods only (this one goes with just inputting your date of birth, which I’ve already done for years for stuff like Steam), rather than the ID or face scan by random third parties methods used in age verification discussions and requirements elsewhere. In my opinion software being able to use an API provided by the OS itself is much better, and with the right OS (linux) much more trustworthy than any web-based solution.

My only real problem is the lack of user choice. This comes in two forms:

1. Giving your birth date should be optional. I’m fine with them requiring that no birth date given means you default to being underage, but actually giving the birthdate should be up to the user.
2. The birthdate should not be given out to random software asking for it. Either the user should be asked for permission, or only a boolean of whether they are underage or not should be provided. This bill doesn’t require either of those, nor leaves it to later clarification.

Also to add to this, Reddit blocks used to work like they do on Lemmy now, and the decision to change it there got a lot of negative feedback.

Asking AI to help with formulating is an easy way to come across like an AI. And Lemmy is the wrong audience for that.

Can confirm that I see “©” on Mbin.

Edit: To explain, I think that’s because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you’ve written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy’s. So the © doesn’t get transformed, because Mbin doesn’t do that.

I assume it’s the same logic for Piefed.

I’m really bad at selling people on stuff, to the point where I usually turn them away from it instead. Usually I don’t even know what to write, I’m bad at putting my opinions into words, but even when I do know, I usually end up not writing anything because of that first point.

Well, the quote I replied to said they don’t seem to keep the releases up to date. Which means there are changes to the site not reflected in the released code. At least that’s how I interpret that, because how else would it be “not up to date”?

Although they of course half-arse it and don’t seem to really keep the releases up to date

Then they’re not technically fulfilling the licence.

I don’t think that’s how the license works. You’re thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.

To quote the license (from Mastodon’s repo):

The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.

Also, from the actual terms:

6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License