As was said elsewhere on the Internet:

Don’t get me wrong, I welcome this policy, I just wish the “one line zinger” was a little more detailed, because if you come away from the article without reading on (or, more realistically, if secondary sources pick up this quote without the surrounding context), one could easily get a wrong idea.

The policy summarizes itself this way: It’s fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.

Saying that “it’s fine” seems a little overly broad, because sometimes it isn’t, but I suppose that by “fine” they simply mean that it’s not forbidden by the policy. A more complete summary would also mention that where it is allowed, disclosure of LLM use is required.

Personally, on the few occasions where I’ve resorted to querying an LLM it’s been very much the same kind of experience that using Stack Overflow used to be. It’s a quick way to see one way that other people have done some thing, but you wouldn’t want to rely on it being the right way.

People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn’t federate with it so I don’t see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it’s gotten worse. Not that it’s an “echo chamber” and I don’t mind hanging out with communists, but there’s too much low-quality noise.

Personally I wouldn’t block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.

Protecting children from accidentally seeing anything slightly sexy is naturally the top priority. That’s what is harmful to minors. We better all stick to legally safe things like racism-based disinformation.

… but yeah, the designers of mastodon deliberately chose to avoid posts any longer than very short.

Alternatively, make the picture more and more blurry and have people try to recreate the text.

Weird that Myspace is still “owned” by someone when it’s spent so long not being a thing that exists.

For most of us, thinking random thoughts about it while in the shower is probably not the most effective way to gain an understanding of the mathematical details of quantum mechanics.

A goose that lays eggs composed of heavy metals has serious health problems, yet we value it.

The memory clock might be measured differently — base clock speed vs “effective” memory clock. Anyway my 6600 running Furmark also says 875 and does about 92 fps without trying to optimize anything.

If you’re willing to ask even this ridiculous question here in public, I’m not sure why you’d need to go anywhere else.

This would be one of those times where your post would be a lot better if it included more than just the deceptive clickbait headline.

There ought to be some kind of 2016 css subset that everyone sticks to and then we can reconsider maybe updating it to include any newer stuff that’s absolutely essential once every ten years.

Mentioning here that the dev’s objection to F-Droid was that they marked the Holy Bible as “NSFW” would’ve saved us all a click.

The “shower thought” version of this should be more like “I should verify my friend’s key fingerprint today.”

(Signal calls it a “safety number.” If you want real security don’t use Whatsapp.)

Statcounter, huh. I’m guessing “unknown” means Windows 11 but they haven’t updated their software to recognise it yet.

“Instead of constantly making futile attempts to control the weather, we should adapt to the ever-changing climate that has existed since time immemorial. After all, climate has always been a reality that impacts humanity from the outside, and we must align our actions accordingly.” — from Google’s translation of the AfD manifesto

Huh. I knew they were pretty openly fascist, but didn’t realize they were climate deniers too.

Yeah? We can only hope that maybe some day the nation will progress to the point where it’s possible to reach the historic first election of a president who isn’t running a cryptocurrency scam.

Reading this is not going to be good for my faith in humanity, is it. Let’s see…

1. make them think everyone else is doing it
2. bribe them
3. get their cult leader to tell them to do it
4. persuade them that it’s good for “the economy”

With these techniques in mind, you may be able to persuade people to take bold actions such as sharing a video, initiating a conversation, or signing up for a newsletter.

The hacker news discussion is surprisingly not bad. Very few Google stans coming in to shill for their corporate masters, and they’re getting soundly ignored and downvoted.

Oh, sorry, did not mean to put that in c/technology.