It also pisses people off sometimes: “Ugh… Protesters again, now my commute will take 15min longer, what the fuck is wrong with these people… GO TO WORK FUCKING HIPPIES!” As if they were part of the upper class lol, I like how gary from gary’s economics explains it, you are not part of the elite, policies that benefit the elite hurt you, as resources are limited wealth has to come from somewhere, if the rich are getting richer faster that means you also go poor faster

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)

In any case, LLMs are impressive, and useful

Back in the day in the Roman Empire, they used a bunch of slaves to build the infrastructure and stuff, like the water systems, you know? And like, later on, those are still valuable and used as a way to just map out the way we do things today. One thing doesn’t necessarily negate the other one. Yes, it can be mass theft, and it can be an advancement at the same time.

Let’s assume rat poison does have a pleasant flavor (prob doesn’t)

The comparison doesn’t work, as this rat poison only gives you a tiny sensory benefit before kiiling you, while AI can be used for a lot of good, be it in the medical field, as a better way to look up information online of any kind, a way for non techy people to interact with the internet in an easier way, to provide better voice to text for people with disabilities, basic tech support or help with quicker queries, to generate mockups with image gen etc etc etc

Doesn’t seem to be the same category as “completely harmful but slightly pleasurable right before the end of it all”, and I haven’t googled, I’m sure a ton of other things would show up that are positives of AI as a technology

It’s a new tech in its infancy. is hacky Yes, it’s annoying. But the whole point of it is to make people who don’t know what they’re doing actually be more able to, you know, do things outside of their own capabilities. That is a huge improvement. Of course, you do have to have some common sense and some logic to work these tools better. To understand they are not perfect. to understand an AI can make mistakes. But I think overall people will be more productive with AI than without it.

For the security part, I think this will improve over time. For the environment? I wouldn’t be so sure. Still, AI is not gonna go away. You gotta try and take its positives, Because if you don’t, people who use AI will just walk over you. I don’t even think it can work in tech anymore if you don’t use AI.

So we’re going to just not use one of the best advancements in technology that we’ve had in like so long just because it’s used for nefarious purposes? Wouldn’t it be better to fix those issues for the AI to be controlled by just a small elite of people? What’s the solution for you? Do you think they’re gonna just get rid of AI? I think the Pandora’s box has already been opened. AI is not going away. We should find a way to just use it better. You know?

I mean I was waiting to see how shitty the apple tv neuromancer adaptation would be next year, but at this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up pushing random Timmys into becoming techies and netrunners. Life imitates art I guess.

Not sure if that info is available or even possible to filter out, but i think this happens in every social media site

According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I’m sure this is completely coincidental

I joined Matrix today, It’s been 4-5 hours, I’ve seen multiple other users joining aswell, asking for what client is the best one or how to do X. For sure a lil exodus is happening.

someone on matrix told to try sable, its installing rn, thanks for the suggestion!

Element didn’t run properly for me, and Cinny sometimes crashes, but the worst is that i can’t change the size of the UI, so tiling it with my other 3 windows sucks cause Cinny takes a ton of space, I’ll try a few more

safest- id say, I don’t think anything is 100% safe, like on pc i use linux and I feel that’s safer than the old ass Iphone I use. Like on a phone they can decide tomorrow “oh btw we are gonna scan your entire phone now just because or record your screen or whatever” while on linux I feel that’s not a thing.

I don’t know much about security, but I avoided using Lemmy on my phone for example, is it safe to use something like matrix on your phone?

I use a handful of reddits, usually a few of those lewd ones for like hooking over over voice chat and stuff, kinda fun for that ig, but like as you said, most people there are kinda dumb, most conversations I have there are bland, boring, and end in a day or two at most with ghosting. (met a few cool people tho, its just like… 5% of all the ones I talk to)

I kinda am to be honest, best to find out before any personal info was shared than after!

I have nothing on there that’s identifiable other than my current age and country, then the rest is just hobbies or weird reddits I’m in, nothing that can be traced back to me, but still, I’m kinda pissed it’s not more clear that it works like this. Like you have a “hide posts and comments” toggle that seems to serve absolutely no purpose.

Was pretty naive of me, but outside of that, don’t you think it’s a little scummy that they put in “X likes to keep their posts hidden, but check out their stats to learn more about them.”? And even here where it says you content is visible in communities “Profile curation only applies to your profile and your content stays visible in communities. Mods of communities you participate in and redditors whose profile posts you engage with can still see your full profile for moderation.”

It’s written in such a way that makes you think “okay if I post somewhere my post will be seen by people from that community or admins” not “your content will be discoverable by anyone who types in your username on reddit without even needing to log in, and also on google”

Like if you can just do that, what even is the point of having a toggle for your posts and comments to be hidden? For people to go through the inconvenience of typing for 4 seconds in the search up top? I think it’s purposely deceitful.