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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • The whole point of federation is a variety of moderation styles so it doesn't really make sense to federate in comments from other communities because it would take away any identity that exists

  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • I noticed on the redditalternatives subreddit whenever someone mentions Lemmy and someone else is like "I didnt like it because of XYZ" someone else will often say "you should look into Piefed its much better"

    Which is funny to me but at least it's working!

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  • my instance required me to name a food from star trek lol

  • You wouldn't sideload the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

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  • What's your thoughts on this?

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  • It also pales in comparison to the carbon cost of printing out the poster and lighting it.

  • Removed

    Tuta posted a #deGoogle ing guide.

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  • There's Tasks.org, I remember trying it a while ago but I forget what turned me off. Not local-first maybe?

  • Removed

    Tuta posted a #deGoogle ing guide.

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  • They're different things, Aurora is a privacy respecting alternative to the play store app. F-Droid is it's own thing but it's library does have some overlap.

    Best practice is to get both, and check F-Droir first.

  • OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure

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  • innovation [...] AI

    [citation needed]

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • It worries me that there are scientists out there who are making studies based on the assumption that an LLM chat bot is a reasonable stand-in for a human in this context (in any context really but that's another conversation). It's just not what LLMs are, it's not what they are designed to do. They've fallen for the marketing.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • We address this question using a novel method - generative social simulation - that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms. We create a minimal platform where agents can post, repost, and follow others. We find that the resulting following-networks reproduce three well-documented dysfunctions: (1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices - creating a 'social media prism' that distorts political discourse.

    1. lmao "generative AI chatbots trained on social media behave like social media users"
    2. Shame on ArsTechnica they should be better than to publish a study like this.

  • Firefox is great, that is all

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  • what is happening in this post

  • Sad to see REI join the hype train.

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  • This almost certainly isn't REI, this is whatever recruiting company they use for hiring.

    I misunderstood what I was looking at!

  • first time using linux, how screwed am I?

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  • Go with Bazzite, it tries to mimic SteamOS out of the box. Very easy install/setup process (easier than windows).

    Bazzite is Fedora Kinoite with some extra stuff, Kinoite might be better for a desktop setup but either one is totally useable for gaming and desktop so don't overthink it.

  • NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism

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  • I recently came across Signal Jam which is a podcast about privacy that probably doesn't have anything most people in this community aren't aware of but still seems like a good resource for a lot of people.

  • ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

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  • That's all LLM software is, it has no connection to reality, it's bullshitting 100% of the time. The fact that it is correct mostly, or confident always does not imply that it understands anything it's saying.

  • I bought a 30 MPH electric jet boat from China. Here's what showed up

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  • This is hilarious I kind of want one

  • Proton is vibe coding some of its apps.

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  • I didn't say defending, I said helping. Which you are.

  • Proton is vibe coding some of its apps.

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  • The question is not is Proton perfect in every conceivable way, the question is: is it more private than Google and the answer to that is yes.

    When you opine on social media that Proton is somehow just as bad as Google you are helping doing the work of Google and that's the part that (again I don't truly believe this) makes me wonder if Google/Meta/Twitter is sowing the social web with seeds of doubt about more private alternatives.