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"Chatbots" on company websites are basically useless and clueless, and that's nothing new. But don't you worry, soon they will all be integrated with ChatGPT. This will not make them less useless and clueless, but they will gain the ability to authoritatively gaslight you as well! This will take "you're holding it wrong" to a whole new automated level! Progress!
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 @rysiek @rysiek I think it's not a new feature, at least for ISP monopolies here. Stories of wizards using magic spells to bind daemons were cool, until I had to speak these so the chatbot would send humans to repair disconnected or burnt telephone wires while trying to convince me that it might magically fix itself and I should call them to cancel the repair, or that it might be my issue with my computer. (Human support worked similarly, but I was able to normally talk to them.) @rysiek I'm just waiting for a service to have the brilliant idea of giving it access to their billing and accounting systems so people find ways to get it to set their bills to $0.00
Every time you use the word "hacker" when you mean "cybercriminal", "attacker", "malicious actor", you *personally* support this kind of bullshit. Every time you use the word "hack" to mean "compromise", "break-in", "leak", you *personally* make it harder for a small community of creative people to focus on their projects, because now they have to go prove to Google they are not, in fact, attacking anyone. #OpenAI is not going to be able to prove that everything they slurped from Teh Intertubes for their model-training-needs was in fact put out there in a way that was *not* copyright infringement in the first place. In other words, if @internetarchive scans a book and puts it out there, that "infringing" scan could (if OpenAI has access to it) be used to train a model, and that would *not* be infringement. Totally reasonable, right? 🤡 This is abhorrent: We opened our doors to Ukrainian refugees, as we should have. We should just as well open our doors to refugees from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. People don't choose to be refugees. They are forced to. 🧵 And don't get me started on "economic migrants" BS! "Economic migrant" is the correct term for an "expat". I am an economic migrant, born in Poland, living in Iceland, and proud of it. I hate the term "expat" with a passion of a thousand suns. I find it racist, used to artificially differentiate between rich, predominantly white, Northern-born people moving freely and comfortably wherever they want; and destitute, predominantly BIPOC people forced to risk their lives to secure livelihood. 🧵 We blanked and did a double take. For most of the meeting so far it felt as if our arguments flew over the heads of people on the other side of the table, but now it was clear *why*. "Sir, nobody is saying you personally would abuse this data this way. But we simply do not know who will be sitting in this chair — and have access to all of this data — in 3 years." Annoyance gave way to sudden realization on vice-minister's face. "Ooh. Huh! I never thought of it this way!" :blobcateyes: 🧵… Consider how suddenly there is a spike of #TwitterMigration as soon as Elmo bans several journalists, and their media orgs complain publicly. Clear indication that if media orgs decided to move away from :birdsite:, others would follow. And sure, these media orgs are now between a rock and a hard place, having to potentially leave their presence there built over a decade. But they put themselves there, by promoting walled gardens for a decade. They have some reckoning and introspection to do. So about the NIF laser fusion thingy... > If gain meant producing more output energy than input electricity, however, NIF fell far short. Its lasers are inefficient, requiring hundreds of megajoules of electricity to produce the 2 MJ of laser light and 3 MJ of fusion energy. Moreover, a power plant based on NIF would need to raise the repetition rate from one shot per day to about 10 per second.
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@rysiek so an ‘instance’ is a server? … still not had a simple explanation on that term 🤣 Oh look, the car maker that consciously and purposefully programmed their cars 🚗 to lie to regulators about emissions 🚬 , while the planet is burning 🔥, is now on fedi. Hi, @VWGroup . 👋 You remember this? Well, we do. :blobcatthinksmart: *blocked*
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Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people. This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used. If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird". So #KeepFediWeird.
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 Ack. Deeply concerned that atproto is spreading misinformation about ActivityPub! Neither is webfinger part of the spec. nor the rest is right. Two possibilities: Apart from the consent issue (which I think is major), there is also added risk. More code means more bugs means more attack surface. #Signal is used by, and in fact it is *marketed at*, people at-risk: journalists, activists, and so on. Adding such a weirdly unrelated feature adds a bunch of potentially vulnerable code, and also adds a lot of complexity for the user. And, for #InfoSec people who might be responsible for helping that user stay safe using Signal. We're a few days into the current wave of #TwitterMigration, and we're all excited for all the #NewHere folks to have joined. But please be mindful you are joining a social network that was not a barren, desolate desert before. It was a blooming, cozy garden. It's not just about finding your old connections from :birdsite: , it's also about making new valuable connections with folks on here, who might have moved years ago, or who might have never had an account on hellbird. It's also important to recognize that like any large change to a social space, and like other such migrations before, this is making many of us old-timers here somewhat anxious. Plenty of fedi people had quit :birdsite: to find respite from the toxicity. So, a social contract of sorts emerged here. It includes things that might be unfamiliar to the new arrivals — like broad use of Content Warnings ("CW" under the edit box) and expectation that images have alt text for the visually impaired. Obviously #Fediverse is more than just Mastodon. I am not sure if #Pleroma and #Misskey offer RSS feeds of accounts and hashtags — would love input here! I know some other fedi instance software also does offer RSS feeds. For example, @Castopod does: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/feed.xml Anyone who knows about RSS support in other fedi instance software, please do jump in and share! @rysiek RSS feeds are awesome. Glad to see a platform embrace such a good, reliable tech!
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Updated the link to lead to Internet Archive's saved copy of the tweet. Edit function rocks!
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@rysiek Just noticed the nickname, Richard equivalent in Polish. I don't see. it often in my timelines. Dear #TwitterMigration #NewHere, we're all excited you're all joining! Remember that instances are usually run by volunteers, and often with little or no financial support. Nobody is making 💸 on mining your data. There will be some slowness, especially on the most popular instances, as fedi adjusts to sudden influx. Good strategy is to choose a less popular instance: smaller, more tightly-knit community, interesting local timeline, but also — *actually* decentralizing #Fediverse. :drake_like: Let's talk moderation tools, #TwitterMigration #NewHere. You can block and mute, specific accounts or whole instances. You can also mute specific threads/conversations. Muting means you will not see posts from account or instance, and that a thread/conversation will not show up in your notifications even if you're mentioned. Blocking does the same, plus the blocked person/instance doesn't get to see your posts either. Don't be shy, block/mute early and often. It's okay. It's self-care. 1/n This is important! Fedi is supposed to be a nice and fun place, and if you feel that someone is making it less nice and fun for you, slam that mute or block button like there is no tomorrow. If I am making you feel uncomfortable, sad, or in any way un-excellent, mute or block me. It's fine, really! Nobody will mind, and if they do, it's their problem. You can mute/block accounts and instances for specific time or indefinitely. I find muting for a few days very useful, for example. 2/n |
@rysiek Lol I thought Snap were trying to federate with Flathub and other Flatpak remotes haha
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i don't trust people with only 6 flags in their bio.
you're such a bad npc..you don't even have a rainbow flag !
@rysiek cool. haven't read the news on this yet, but this tracks with what I've seen of Discourse