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Sorry we’re enemies now. We have to fight anytime we’re in the same thread. I wish it didn’t have to be this way.

I mean it’s clean room but without even having to pay highly skilled engineers to do all the labour. It’s pretty catastrophic to the field.

I’m doing great now, thanks. Finally at the point where I realise drinking, paradoxically, only makes hard life times harder. Never easier.

Glad to hear a layoff didn’t knock you off the wagon.

That’s exactly what I said—that I’m highly sceptical.

It would basically have to backfire on all their plans and all the trillions of dollars they’re spending.

It would be very surprising. I would be so surprised.

I can say that drinking about it definitely doesn’t help

Or perhaps low flying, thin skinned dirigibles

I’m incredibly against the big LLM SaaS providers and material waste besides. Anyway I don’t have a crystal ball and I’m highly sceptical that this technology will work out for average people, but it sure would be interesting if it somehow lead to less corporate control and cultural enclosure rather than how it seems to be going right now.

I’m more miffed about GPL or copyleft code going to proprietary software and then being profited from without any attribution. It’s a poison pill.

We’re pleasantly surprised, and hoping you keep the momentum going outside of the ballot box!

So… basically everybody but Nvidia?

I feel like this might be describing just Instagram, because I have no idea what they mean by buzzwords and butter text. But from the images I’m assuming that’s Instagram.

Fedi is definitely social media and has many many problems, some of them perhaps inherent to any social media I’m sure. But posting sure doesn’t feel pointless here, it feels fun.

Edit: oh OK I wasn’t done reading. We definitely yell here lol oh boy howdy

Now there’s an xkcd I’d like to see

Without the internet this moron would have a splash radius of maybe three short city blocks.

It’s called a comparison.

Hmmm they make a strong case. We should think about trying this.

Interesting, I had no idea. I use my browser on my phone. Actually even when I was using a 10 year old phone, I found I had to use browser for everything because no apps would support my old Android OS.

To me the browser always seemed the more accessible option, but I’m used to using a browser from desktop it’s true.

I don’t know why anyone uses apps for any of this. It’s literally just websites. Not to yuck in anyone.

I used an app back in the reddit days but I find lemmy doesn’t have all the cruft that I hate, so I just use the default web UI.

I feel like this is a new user phenomenon.

When I first started on the fediverse I was kind of an obnoxious evangelist for decentralized social media.

Fast forward some years and I still love it and think it’s far superior to the closed corporate monoplatforms, but I’m also fine if the fediverse stays roughly where it is. But I’d also be happy if more people were to discover that you can be on social media without funding billionaires’ future killbot funds.

I worry a bit about waves of “normies” coming in and redditing up the place, but remind myself that federation is voluntary and I can always just go join the smaller networks that will inevitably pop up.

Like I also use snac2 to access the fediverse, and the opt-in nature of that implementation makes slowly and deliberately building a network graph of cool people feel really good.

Yeah like imagine free and open language models trained from the ground up on data sources from people who willingly want to contribute to it, rather than ripped from everywhere and anywhere by companies desperate to make themselves valuable before the VC cash runs out.