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Cold War Arms Race Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Maybe I'm a pessimist but this is going to really resonate with the people who are "looking forward to AI" because they read headlines, but haven't actually used any LLMs yet because nobody has told them how.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And being marketed as "our first upgrade to PC keyboards in 30 years". I want to be in the marketing teams conference room when this got pitched.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Good point, though I would counter that there's a lot of blustering about taking our country back but I haven't seen many serious attempts or people capable of actually planning and executing such a thing, and I've had a good bit of contact with what y'all would consider to be American far right rebels.

For all I know, the far righties talking about their revolution is about as productive as the tankies talking about theirs. Nobody sees a future in this country where the workers seize the means of production and we actually eat the rich, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've enjoyed my time on the fediverse but have been disappointed with the leveling off of growth and lack of participation in niche communities. I still visit Kbin several times weekly, but it isn't like the old days when I would spend tons of time on Reddit. I have left my old Reddit account redacted and haven't started using it again, as that time is over. There are some communities and niche interests that unfortunately, it looks like Reddit will always be the main home for since we didn't hit the critical mass for people to move those communities over here. Because of that, I've started a new reddit account (with my real name attached, and started actively participating in those communities). For me, Reddit is no longer a place to anonymously participate in community discussions (because those discussions were becoming increasingly worthless alot of the time), but a place to participate with my IRL identity in communities related to topics or hobbies I care about. The anonymous community stuff is fulfilled by Kbin/Fediverse which I prefer now.

 

In September 2023, office badge swipes in the 10 biggest U.S. cities are at about 50% what they were prior to the pandemic.

 

It’s the end of an era! I still have a few that I never returned and just paid for, I bet one day they’ll be a novelty nostalgia item.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh man that’s terrible all around. Sorry to hear/read you are going through that Izzgo! A friend of mine had some kind of nerve searing procedure that helped with that kind of pain, any options in that space?

 

Rite Aid is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy as opioid litigation hangs over the pharmacy chain.

And the era of punishing pharmacies and distributors instead of prescribers continues…

 

The plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, crashed as the result of an assassination plot but doesn’t appear to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

$24.99/month for 300 mbps up and down, Verizon Fiber. Northeast US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very disappointed to see my employer on here with a D rating. Internal comms said we were out!

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are “inviting” mods to do even more free work in furtherance of Reddits profitability

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This isn’t a problem. This is knowing how to reference community knowledge and technology instead of reinventing various shapes and sizes of wheels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bigger instances and communities may end up being more PC over the years but I think smaller ones will retain this vibe.

 

archived 12 Jul 2023 11:39:18 UTC

I like the distinction between grief and anxiety. Never thought about it that way. I don’t have any answers just wanted to talk about this article and peoples thoughts on the feelings many of us have about the effects of CC and economic instability over the next 50-100 years.

 

Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy.

I suppose there was some discussion on whether to conceal or reveal the tech and that’s why we’ve only heard of this now.

 

All Tomb Raider games are on sale on Steam. If you like action/exploration games and you know what else, some of the best ones are on sale for less than a dollar!

 

Starting 2 or 3 days ago I started getting daily summary emails from Reddit of activities in my subscribed subreddits. Did anybody else start getting these all of a sudden? Did I trigger something with inactivity re-engagement or something?

#RedditMigration

 

So this morning I overwrote 11 years of comments on Reddit with this message:

In preparation for the discontinuation of Ah pall O (read it fast) I have decided to edit my posts/comments and then delete my account. Looking forward to seeing you on whatever comes next 🍻! – mass edited with https://redact.dev/

And I just had a thought. LLM / Generative AI devs and trainers are considering how to consume the massive amount of useful conversation and perspectives on Reddit, and now they will have to contend with random comments in the middle of conversations being completely unrelated to the conversation. Somebody is probably writing code to isolate and ignore these types of comments already 🤣

Happy fediversationing, everyone!

#RedditMigration

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