This is very weird. These are exactly the sort of stories I made this thread for. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing

Thats a crazy story. Are there any articles online or anything I can read about it?

Who’s The All Thing?

That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate?

That seems to be consistent with the Pareto principle though

Got all my posts, but the comments on other users posts - well you only get access to what you put up in the prior year - a change that dropped with the IPO.

I didn’t realize they did that, that’s super shady. They also made it so you can choose to make it so that other users can’t see your post history. Makes it difficult to find out who the bots are

Technically, they are predicting the next token. To do that properly they may need to predict the next idea, but thats just a means to an end (the end being the next token).

Your comments about the bot training reminded me of this article. There’s definitely some shady stuff going on behind the scenes

and anyone who even so much as questions the reports is called a Russian bot or a Russian troll or a MAGA fascist.

That doesn’t really match my experience

So I’m fucking sick of people saying that Trump is a Russian asset and that he’s doing the Iran thing so that America becomes weak so that Russia can finally take over the world

I agree that this seems implausible

Why does it have to be one of these two extremes? The reality is likely somewhere in the middle

What did you say?

Very similar culturally.

This is true for big anglo cities like Vancouver and Toronto but Quebec, Newfoundland, and the North all have very distinct local cultures. Even Manitoba is relatively distinct imo

I know you mean well but generally Canadians find it annoying when Americans propose we annex them. This is a common joke we get. But just like we don’t like it when Trump jokes about Canada being the 51st state, we also don’t like it when Americans joke about joining Canada. We like the boundaries between our two countries to be respected. Because we are different cultures, and have very different values/attitudes, and very different legal systems, we don’t always speak the same language (French has equal status to English here, and despite what most Americans think not all French Canadians live in Quebec). And generally we don’t like it when these differences are downplayed. Also, with all due respect, we don’t want to inherit your baggage. We still want to be friends with you guys though! But as different countries.

This is why they’re infiltrating open source projects

Are they infiltrating open source projects too now?

Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain

It also lacks the sugar content characteristic of juice

Well there you go. Hopefully they get around to overthrowing the mobile webkit overlords soon enough

Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed

Is it a design flaw? Or is it just false advertising? If I sell you a vacuum by telling you it can mop your floor, is the problem with the vacuum or the way I’m selling the product?

I like learning new tech too, but if we’re being realistic then we have to admit that the fediverse will not grow unless we spoon feed it to people. Maybe we don’t want it to grow that much. That’s a conversation we could have. But we should acknowledge that there are tradeoffs here