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  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • Ideally, a full log of joins and leaves wouldn't be bound directly to a chat anyway, right?

    Matrix development seems to be getting pulled in a lot of different directions: the membership history seems like it's an IRC-inspired feature, while communities are inspired by Discord and Slack.

  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • The de facto default/official one, although I have tried others in the distant past.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • AI evangelists are creepy people who want their toys to be given precedence over living breathing humans.

    Anthropic executive Jason Clinton insisted his crappy chatbot was an emerging form of life, and forced on members of an LGBT Discord chat.

  • America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs

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  • Sora 2, the product that cost $1.6 billion and hasn't recouped even a thousandth of that yet?

    Yeah it's as financially unviable as ever

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • Seems the site is made up of AI enthusiasts who just don't like Trump. At best, it's misguided. At worst, it's plain insincere.

    They encourage you to use AI from Google and Anthropic, two companies which are evil like OpenAI.

    Alternate corporate options include Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic.

    People think ChatGPT is the only chatbot in the game... It's time to change that.

  • Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning

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  • Here we were, worried that Sam Altman would jam ads into the middle of ChatGPT responses, and it turns out some innovating pioneers have already done the hard work for him.

  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • are you using the spaces feature in element? that's the same thing as discord "servers". they are on the left, unless you have none yet.

    I wrote my comment when testing with Element X. You only get one room list, and it commingles chats from spaces with chats you made yourself.

    You have to go to a separate screen to see the spaces themselves. On this screen, I clicked on a group I was in, and it took six seconds to tell me there were four available chats.

    You can also disable showing name change and membership change events if you don't care, but membership is good to be aware of and shouldn't be a problem with element x

    Even if you disable viewing the events, they're still loaded in the background. I like to disable them, but then you see a lot more nothing and you may not be sure why the screen is empty for a longer while.

    Joining a space requires you to manually join every single room in that space, which is bound to cause even more events in low traffic rooms...

    Basically, Matrix isn't fast, it doesn't look like it's gonna get fast anytime soon, and it is definitely not a Discord replacement.

  • Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

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  • Two wrongs don't make a right, though. Being targeted by big actors doesn't mean you should try to DDoS someone else. And the Archive.is maintainer also has a little history with spamming Wikipedia with links to his site, so it's not as if the decision materialized out of thin air.

    Some additional reading from Gyrovague, the victim of the DDoS, and other interesting context.

    When asked by a commenter,

    do we want archive.today taken down over this? Who would lose and who would benefit the most from this takedown?

    Gyrovague responded:

    As for outcomes, I'm very much a bit player/spectator in this drama, nobody's going to be "taking them down" over DDOSing an obscure nerd blog.

    If they do go down, it'll be the FBI or equivalent, and it will be publicly justified as some combination of "protecting the children" (cf. WAAD) and/or copyright violations.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • I agree with you, especially when it comes to tech stuff. But those people are only one group - and Discord actually does a better job filling the needs of other groups (thanks to its marriage of streaming and messaging technology) that alternative apps can't really compete with.

  • America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs

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  • Based on your description, I expected the article to be worthless (and it definitely was worthless!), but I didn't expect the author to start breathlessly talking about Steve Bannon as if he's some paragon of populist "AI safety" wisdom that transcends the Republican and Democrat parties.

    For anybody who's not aware, Steve Bannon is a key architect of the first and second Trump administration. And the fact that Bannon is part of the AI safety grift, which should be a red flag that it is a bad thing, this author twists it into a green flag that Bannon might be a good guy after all.

  • America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs

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  • Could AI blow up the world tomorrow? Who knows! The future is unpredictable, so it's basically a 50-50, right? /s

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • I don't think any client can fix the lag in matrix. For example, a room with high traffic but low messages will always be super slow to load messages, because it also has to load state events. (And Matrix communities used as an alternative to a Discord server will be generating a lot of that "join" and "leave" room traffic.)

    I found this out the hard way when I tried out the Commet client.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • I think the article title is technically correct. They walked back the fears that users had. You're right that they haven't changed their policy, and they've exposed themselves as being extra creepy to someone like us, but we aren't the majority of Discord users.

    I imagine the average Discord user, if they were even aware of this change at all, is breathing a sigh of relief right now, until these changes (or changes like them) actually affect those people

  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • The messaging experience between Discord and Element is night and day. On Discord, I open the app, go to a server, and can see all the rooms and all the messages almost instantly.

    On Element (at least on Android), chats from different communities intermingle with my groups. I tapped on a large and slow-moving group, and watched messages slowly lurch into view as most of the messages were "join" and "leave" ones.

    ETA: I tried Commet, and I'm happy to say that while it still has the loading issue and several problems typical to new apps, it does separate private group chats from ones linked to spaces!

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I have older family members that have started muting TV ads, and occasionally ask for help when the ad blocker doesn't work. They aren't all that tech literate, but even they would probably wonder how anybody deals with the ad-full, unfiltered Net.

  • I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

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  • Spying Chrome Extensions: 287 Extensions spying on 37M users

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  • More than 145,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • There's something uniquely dystopian about people rushing out to buy a new computer that costs hundreds of dollars just to run an AI chatbot that could go out of style next week.

    Granted, they're doing it so it doesn't mess up their local hardware, but why would you even have that risk on the same Wi-Fi network?

  • More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • It's a metaphor for the cooked humans that are spinning up super exploitable chatbots for it