game developer spends afternoon getting their game to compile for linux
linux players submit bug reports en masse
99% of the bugs are platform agnostic (linux users are trained to report bugs)
dont think ill take bluesky seriously until alternative servers can exist on the same level as bsky.social completely independently from the bluesky company
right now, if bluesky disappeared, the whole network dies with it, and there are serious restrictions on what pdses can do which bsky.social doesnt have to deal with :/
basically im just asking for the bluesky network to have neutrality in the same way the internet and the fediverse do
because right now its just as bad as being centralised, to me. if bluesky ultimately has total control of the network and has the final say then i dont see the point really
i think when it comes to social networking and digital platforms housing peoples speech and personal expression there shouldn't be an all powerful governing body
im not just writing off the thing i dont like for the sake of it. competition in software is healthy and i want bluesky to be a reasonable alternative to fedi. its just that, i dont think it is, at least until bluesky relaxes their restrictions and releases more of their code to be self-hosted
dont think ill take bluesky seriously until alternative servers can exist on the same level as bsky.social completely independently from the bluesky company
right now, if bluesky disappeared, the whole network dies with it, and there are serious restrictions on what pdses can do which bsky.social doesnt have to deal with :/
basically im just asking for the bluesky network to have neutrality in the same way the internet and the fediverse do
because right now its just as bad as being centralised, to...
google photos has understood what a cat is since it launched, and it can even read text inside of my images. hell, it can even find something obscure like pictures of a video game just by typing the name of the game. so i can easily search through my 10s of thousands of photos. without having to remember dates or manually tag stuff myself. this kind of machine learning is sick and i want to see more of it, because it has genuine value and makes my life easier
having a computer understand what something is and be able to index and organise it is genuinely helpful and i've been taking advantage of it without even thinking since i was a pre-teen. i mean, we've been doing that kind of thing since like the early to mid 2010s, it's the backbone of optical character recognition, spellcheck, predictive text, and speech recognition, some extremely mature technologies that just seem normal to us now
...but i never asked for my phone to generate me a picture of a monkey eating a cheeseburger. why would i want that. what value does this bring to my life. how does this help me in any way other than make me exhale through my nose once or twice
google photos has understood what a cat is since it launched, and it can even read text inside of my images. hell, it can even find something obscure like pictures of a video game just by typing the name of the game. so i can easily search through my 10s of thousands of photos. without having to remember dates or manually tag stuff myself. this kind of machine learning is sick and i want to see more of it, because it has genuine value and makes my life easier
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