southsamurai

Nah, it isn’t. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.

It doesn’t have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I’m aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure

Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the “bubble” shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.

This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it’s the same concept.

This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that’s vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.

But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.

I really think your last line says it.

I’m not being a smartass, just framing the concept in the same language you used.

When shit like that goes down, taking a step back and a break is exactly what most people would benefit most from. Since you believe in a higher power that actively guides your life, you have to assume that is exactly what that higher power is arranging.

Take the time you’d normally spend scrolling in prayer. The time you’d spend commenting studying your religion of choice.

If after a few days to a week-ish you feel it’s right, then go looking for places where you can both find interaction and enrich yourself according to your faith. Truth is though, I suspect you’ll find greater fulfillment out in the real world with the people in your life than you ever could online.

Look, no bullshit, that’s true no matter what religion or philosophy you follow. This shit? Reddit? It’s for the time when more direct human interaction isn’t available. It’s for the toilet and insomnia and waiting rooms.

The religion side of it, you’re better off with some church group than an online space. I would hope you have the good fortune to be in a church that’s low on toxicity (not a guarantee at all lol) that also teaches love, compassion, and the principle of the Golden Rule.

So, yeah, take this as a sign and a chance to reengage with important things.

Yeah, yeah, they can still go fuck themselves

The point is mostly to contain the inevitable griping to some degree.

If there’s a c/ where complaining about reddit is the default, then it’s easier to channel such things to that c/ rather than dealing with it constantly in other communities. Can’t say how effective it actually is, but that would be the point imo

Lack of core function, and no sign of future updates in this case.

I’d also apply the term to other situations, such as a github page being taken down without any word from development about it, or similar.

Or, if an app is otherwise functional, but can’t be installed/accessed via apk/app store (like the keyboard app swype that works fine, but you have to jump through hoops to install on newer android versions and is no longer listed in any store)

As others have said, it isn’t dead, but don’t expect any future support or updates.

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

That sub was always prone to lengthy back and forths with mods because their standards are set essentially barely below what a masters or PhD student could be expected to produce.

It’s worth it, because it was/is the single best sub for finding both bredth and depth of information. Them insisting on high standards is what made it worth going to.

But holy Hannah, it does make it difficult to contribute with niche interests if you don’t already have some degree of knowledge about how historiography is done. My background was nothing near that, and I had no interest in spending a week or more doing edits until I got everything up to snuff the one time I ran across a question I could answer.

I did try a couple of times, but the kind of research and reporting I’d done was always more casual, with next to zero need to cite much of anything beyond a quick note.

My steam ran out after maybe the third attempt to get things up to standard. Never actually made the comment, because I respected their standards and didn’t want to give them extra work removing unacceptable comments when it was easier to just message a draft.

Which, I kinda think they might be better off implementing that as their default, if there’s a way to make it manageable. It would be way less hassle for users too.

Since there are other subs with less stringent requirements for history questions, I’m glad there’s a place online that average folks can interact with experts at a high standard.

But dayum, I can imagine the chaos and annoyance on your end lol.

Afaik, nobody has heard from him, even via the play store

But that is a habit of his. He’ll be active right around an update and then vanish for a year or more.

Nice guy, friendly, just not reliable in terms of communications

That is such a great book.

And yeah, fuck them. I would absolutely never let them in.

Bruh

I think you’re locked into the idea that a single place should be an alternative. That’s part of what allowed reddit to go full asshole the way it did. A one stop shop is convenient, but only so long as it doesn’t become malignant.

Switching over to a multi platform media model is just better. You’ve got multiple threaded options that duplicate the mid length discussion format. There’s two or three options for shorter form/microblogging level discussions. Your supplement that with some corporate options for broader options, and you’re both having the same degree of information, and having it impossible for any single source to shut you out entirely.

Hell, once you get used to the lower user base, the fact that lemmy has advantages just by itself becomes a very nice thing. When you mix in mastodon, piefed and mbin being crosstalk compatible, you don’t even have to have accounts on those platforms to gain extended reach.

I mean, it is what it is, if you need to be able to post and comment on reddit, jumping through ever narrowed hoops is your only option. I’m just not of the opinion that there’s really much of value in gaming at all that can’t be gained passively. Tech wise, yeah, you’ll get a wider range of answers faster on reddit. Not necessarily better answers, depending on the exact tech branch, though.

I’d also argue that people in the fediverse are more likely to put in effort into advice they give than on reddit. Shit, on reddit, you type more than three paragraphs, somebody is going to whine about a wall of text and tl;dr. So there’s no point in putting effort in. Here, you get thanked for going the extra mile, so people are more willing to do it.

But reddit is dying for human users. It just is, because they don’t want people using it the way people need a service like reddit. I’m not personally willing to bang my head against the wall when I can end up with the same information in roughly the same amount of time by chilling and waiting.

I don’t know why you were banned, but they’ve been throwing bans around left and right, and damn near all of them have been bullshit. No real reasons given, no appeal responses, etc.

So, yeah, they seriously expect people to fuck off and never post or comment again. That’s their goal, and they’re leveraging every tool at their disposal to do so.

They want numbers, but numbers they can control. Anyone that’s the tiniest bit off of the kind of user they want posting and commenting is a detriment to their actual goals. But, since there’s plenty of them that will keep coming back anyway, they still get their ad revenue from whatever percentage of those that aren’t using methods that bypass ads entirely.

You can keep trying, and maybe you’ll find the right combination of things to bypass their fingerprinting methods. But you’ll eventually get banned again and have to start over, while having refined their fingerprinting of you. Each time, it gets harder and harder to bypass.

Now, if that’s how you roll, have at it! Fuck reddit. Anyone willing to jump through those hoops does cost them a teeny tiny amount of resources to maintain their bans. Added up over enough users, maybe they’d give up. But, it’s all automated now, so the amount it costs doesn’t go up far per user trying. So I don’t believe they’ll ever give up; I just don’t want to say never ever.

Me? I use stealth for the very few things I can’t find elsewhere. It’s supposedly archived now, so there’s no telling how long it’ll keep working, but it is currently working. I have no need to post or comment there though.

But they want people trying. Because every new account artificially inflates user numbers. Oh, look at how many people are signing up! We’re doing great!.

I swear, I wish the room that was disclosed in had been archived.

Anyway, my advise is to not log in at all, just use the revanced reddit app, stealth, oldreddit or whatever passively, and use lemmy/piefed/mbin for any discussions. A lot less hassle.

You aren’t supposed to use it again. That’s the point they’re making

My problem with boost is it’s double column layout sucks for readability. It’s great for images, but text based posts are too cramped up.

I err to eternity over boost because of that.

You’re wrong! And you should feel bad!

Only when you stick your tongue in their mouth.

Which is fun, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes things are busy and you don’t have time.

And then there’s fuckers like me that just write like that sometimes lol

Yeah, if they hadn’t broken all of the apps, I would have too. I was using sync as a backup anyway, and was thinking about just switching.