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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Ultimately, fewer defederations, more acceptance of differing opinions, and being welcoming of users who aren’t interested in politics

    The problem is those two are strongly tied to the idea that the people who come here have to be respectful enough. The people who first populated these places did it to escape from things like capitalism, right-wing nutjobs and the like; saying only “oh we have to be more accepting of difering opinions” basically puts the blame on the victim.

    As for the subjects that are not politics, we have cats and beans. That should suffice.


  • if user A circulates cat pictures, user B circulates dog pictures, and user C circulates both, can user A block dog pictures from B and C, but still see user C’s cat pictures?

    To do that, you need either a system of trust where you trust someone else to tell you which images from C are dogs and which ones are cats (as well as a policy for what to do when a picture contains both), or an automated system that will scan all the messages and perform that determination for you.




  • This is one of the problems with relying on AI… it can produce an overwhelming amount of content with errors and inaccuracies throughout. If you don’t review and know the content yourself, you won’t know what it got wrong.

    Yep, and this induces anyone who wants to review the resulting slop to need to turn to AI as well to even deal with the amount (or dismiss as a whole).

    AI is a viral infection on software development.


  • If the developer would not have disclosed, I would not have known, so whether I’m happy or not is not relevant. We can’t and don’t (currently) trace the bill of materials of everything we use at home, either. I don’t know how many previous owners does my toaster have.

    Like it or not, AI tools are here to stay

    Oh look it’s the accelerationism thought-terminating cliché!

    AI usage is viral. AI is only “here to stay” in that because the weight of the “”“content”“” generated by people who use it, it forces other people to turn to AI itself to deal with the sheer amount of the sloppage. But we don’t have to accept that, and the clearer our posture regarding that, the better. We can commit to process things at human speeds, on human schedules. After all, in Open Source and in Free Software we don’t owe anyone instantaneousness.