The overwhelming vast majority of mods are not power mods and did it because they liked their communities. They're good people who worked hard to make a safe, fun place for others.

When awkward turtle got banned, they were happy too.

Beehaw has sign up requirements to curate the type of community they are. These other instances do not, allowing anybody.

Since any account can be used for in any instance still federated with the instance they made their account on, Beehaw was upset that their curated community was being interrupted by troves of unregulated members of the large, general servers. The tools for moderating Lemmy are also still in their infancy, so the Beehaw moderators were finding it harder to do their jobs.

So they defederated for the time being.

For instance: it could help remote villages or third world countries. But Starlink costs a pretty penny in western money those places lack. Otherwise they would already have traditional infrastructure.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Dark matter has been proven numerous times, is a predictive model, and is the only explanation that has held up to scrutiny and observations. It's very clearly the right explanation and we know how dark matter generally behaves, we just don't know specifically what it is.

See, for example, the behavior of the bullet cluster merger.

It's mid-way through 2023, so 3.5 years, right? That seems a little generous, but reasonable. Products for the next year are likely already designed and finished. Then it'll take time for companies to redesign their devices now that they have to totally change how their chassis are designed, how they achieve IPS resistances, to source the new part, etc.

Come on, let's be adults about it. Beehaw has always had stricter registration requirements, but didn't defederate until just now. The problem was that they simply don't have the tools needed to moderate such a huge influx of people from uncurated instances and it was interfering with the culture they prided themselves on.

I'm not a member of Beehaw, but I can respect them knowing both what they want to be and when their limited ability to enforce it meant drastic measures to preserve the community. This is one of the good things about federation: they're allowed to do that and we don't need to switch platforms entirely!

Wish everyone luck going forward.

How is Xorg a "direct competitor" to Microsoft? Especially Microsoft's trademark to X in the gaming market where they own the Xbox and Xorg doesn't participate at all?

Trademarks protect consumers by preventing fraud and misleading naming. It makes perfect sense that Microsoft owns X in the given market space due to the enormous prevalence of Xbox. Their first console was literally X-shaped and it would be bad for consumers for anyone to be able to make the "X-station" or "X-cube" or some such.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of physics if you think that analogy is even remotely similar to dark matter.

The other fella covered the more general user-generated approach, but the WefWef app has a way to migrate from Apollo using the JSON export tool they (Apollo) provide. Looks like the grab the JSON dump, parse out the subs, then generate a big list of community search links in-app.

Expanding on that, a potentially good idea to make this as easy as possible is to find a way of having the user export a list of subs from their Reddit account (either by biting the bullet and using the API or developing a user script or browser extension). Allow clients to register an anonymous user ID (to avoid tying identities together too hard) with such a list. Then the clients can update this user with what communities they join via what instances, along with what instances they joined at all.

Then your service would feed them recommendations."Users from /r/programming[,...] tend to join programming@programming.dev" and/or "Reddit users like you usually join the fediverse through programming.dev".

It may be worth DMing some of the Lemmy client developers to see if they'd be interested in such a service or if they have any better ideas. Smart people, them.

If you do end up doing work on this, please do post any cool ideas you have! It's a neat domain space.

Hope you have a great day, good luck!

I imagine apps and frontends should implement a hook to prevent this. It'll be a lot easier to enforce that way.

Lots of good reasons to bag on Spez, but this isn't one. That was way back in the day when anyone could be added as a moderator without consent.

Oh, okay, so I'm not crazy!

Saw this scrolling down /c/all and immediately noticed something was off with the tiny leg on the left. The only obviously weird thing (to me) was the planters on the left have the suspending wires attached to the leaves. I still wasn't sure if it was AI generated.

In a few years these are going to be absolutely indistinguishable. What a time to be alive!

Except premium pays the people that make the content. ReVanced is, regardless of if you hate big tech, blatantly stealing the work of the skilled artists you enjoy.

Not really, though it's hard to know what exactly is or is not encoded in the network. It likely has more salient and highly referenced content, since those aspects would come up in it's training set more often. But entire works is basically impossible just because of the sheer ratio between the size of the training data and the size of the resulting model. Not to mention that GPT's mode of operation mostly discourages long-form wrote memorization. It's a statistical model, after all, and the enemy of "objective" state.

Furthermore, GPT isn't coherent enough for long-form content. With it's small context window, it just has trouble remembering big things like books. And since it doesn't have access to any "senses" but text broken into words, concepts like pages or "how many" give it issues.

None of the leaked prompts really mention "don't reveal copyrighted information" either, so it seems the creators really aren't concerned — which you think they would be if it did have this tendency. It's more likely to make up entire pieces of content from the summaries it does remember.

Poverty, lack of education, the US overthrew multiple democratically elected leaders during the red scare by funding extremist groups to commit coups, harsh environment.

Who in the world said western state propaganda was a good thing? Military recruitment and political ads are pretty universally hated.

I might also add that western tech giants and media aren't directly owned by the state, nor is the state a dictatorship, so it's a little different? You think Elon's Twitter is on the same side as Bidens Executive is on the same side as the conservative Congress?

AI could have free access to all public source codes on GitHub without respecting their licenses.

IANAL, but aren't their licenses are being respected up until they are put into a codebase? At least insomuch as Google is allowed to display code snippets in the preview when you look up a file in a GitHub repo, or you are allowed to copy a snippet to a StackOverflow discussion or ticket comment.

I do agree regulation is a very good idea, in more ways than just citation given the potential economic impacts that we seem clearly unprepared for.

I use it all day at my job now. Ironically, on a specialization more likely to overfit.

It may be a statistical model, but ultimately nothing prevents that model from overfitting, i.e. memoizing its training data.

This seems to imply that not only did entire books accidentally get downloaded, slip past the automated copyright checker, but that it happened so often that the AI saw the same so many times it overwhelmed other content and baked, without error and at great opportunity cost, an entire book into it. And that it was rewarded for doing so.

Yeah, those are doing some heavy lifting for the aesthetic here.

I remember looking for a wrist rest a bit back, but it was hard to find something that was a combination of:

• Affordable
• Real wood (not epoxy)
• Didn't scream it's branding

This one is real sleek.

I'm happy to talk about this more, but I'm afraid I don't understand your analogy. I'm sorry! If you'd like to rephrase it, I'll make myself available to respond. 🙂