NaibofTabr

It’s crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.

API access to a web app is controlled entirely at the server. There’s no external workaround that anyone could implement that would do anything. Any action that would be effective would require breaking into the corporate servers, which would be blatantly illegal and would also be found fairly quickly and fixed, so the risk would not be worth the reward. Anyone with the necessary skills and experience already knows this.

…well… let’s not pretend that the internet mob is completely rational in all its brigading… the pitchforks come out and get pointed in various directions for no good reason quite often…

I can’t really blame anyone working in PR for feeling the need to tread carefully. That said, it’s probably time we had some fair trade/labor practice disclosure standards for video games and/or computer software in general.

That shouldn’t be too extreme an idea to be practical - we have such things in other industries already, like clothing and food production.

So is mental gymnast a bourgeois or proletariat form of labor?

Just the fax, man.

I can only assume that you didn’t fully read my comment, because it is specifically not talking about such prediction models. It is specifically talking about LLMs and the related corporations around which all of the current VC hype nonsense is centered.

Your comment above is being downvoted because this:

That’s because they do not know how to use AI correctly,

seems to imply that there is a correct way to use AI.

In the context of the current generation of labor theft algorithms and surveillance tools, the only correct way to interact with them is as a conscientious objector - which is to say, abject refusal on moral grounds.

Failure to abstain from the use of LLMs and their ilk indicates either:

1. Ignorance of the damage being done by these algorithms, their training, and the corporations that develop and operate them (have you somehow been living under a rock?)

-or-

2. Complete moral and good sense judgment failure of the individual.

This is part of why coin edges were milled or reeded:

The ridges made it harder to counterfeit the coins, and it also made clipping or filing of the edges to collect some of the gold or silver very obvious. In Britain this was implemented by everybody’s favorite scientist:

Some gold and silver coins were reeded to discourage clipping, i.e. scraping off the precious metals from the edge of the coin, to maintain its stated value in precious metal. This practice was made more difficult through the implementation of reeding by Isaac Newton in 1698, during his time as warden of the Royal Mint.

It’s less relevant today, as few coins are minted with precious metals, though the varied edges also help people with visual impairments to identify different denominations by feel.

If the search algorithm is any good, it will also index the community description. That’s where you put your keywords for search matching.

If the search algorithm isn’t any good, then it doesn’t matter what you name the community or what you put in the description because the search won’t match the community to people who are actually looking for it anyway.

I think it’s a good idea to only do alphanumeric characters in the name though, no special characters.

Read “SexualAssaultInformation” as if you didn’t already know anything about the community, but were just seeing the name for the first time. What is this, an instructional community? Do they have a how-to guide?

For critical systems, reliability, predictability, consistency, and long-term performance data are more important than modernization. It makes perfect sense that a system like this would lag the leading edge of technology significantly. It is ok if the technology has problems, even if it has high failure rates, as long as the failure rates are predictable - then you can write procedures around them. Floppy disks don’t exactly offer bulletproof reliability, but they are well understood - and also you can generally just toss them on a desk or in a drawer without worrying too much about incidental damage.

You want this kind of technology to be so simple and dependable that you don’t have to think about it, it just works as expected. It also massively simplifies staff training and procedure documentation if the relevant bits of technology don’t change very often - until of course those bits become so outdated that the procedures for getting them to interface with newer systems becomes its own mess.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

That name definitely requires more thought.

Buckle up folks, they’re going to do as much damage as they can over the next two years.

Even if we have the necessary resources, we’re talking about a complicated and dangerous engineering project being done in a warzone. I’m not sure there’s enough pay in the world that would get me to join that construction crew in the current conditions.

So, the world needs to get off its collective ass and end Russia’s aggression, so we can put a lid on the previous mess they made in Ukraine.

“Witch hunt!”

Oh, no, take it to court now and let him pardon the fall guys. Then call them up to testify against the big players. The pardon acknowledges their guilt, meaning they can no longer plead the fifth.

By the time that gets through the courts and we move on to trials for the ringleaders, it should be too late for Trump to parden any of the real responsible people.

I’ve been procrastinating on buying their full subscription too. Now I’m glad.

First rat off the sinking ship?

Especially on the pro-China servers.

It’s going to take a lot longer than that, unfortunately. This election is a start, not the finish. We need to keep voting for progress, continuously, for the next few decades.

Business as usual then.