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I’m wondering if you could have any version of this—assuming best intentions and smartest people—which did not demand very similar countermeasures past a certain equivalent growth threshold.

I unfortunately have to imagine Codeberg is like Lemmy and flies under the radar from spammers.

…for now.

LLMs all but guarantee a future of oppressive noise to signal ratios. I imagine IRL connections, or at least numbers saved in your phone, will become pretty important there. So then I think up in-person local-community-vibe verification schemes but they all end with dirty marketers or operators inducing members of the public to astroturf or lease their accounts…

Looks like we gotta fix that redirecting BoarTaint dot com citation link [2] on Wiki

Didn’t JUST get this way, we been smart

Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down. The software was also attached to the time clock, so it knew who was working in the restaurant. Manna also had “help buttons” throughout the restaurant. Small signs on the buttons told customers to push them if they needed help or saw a problem. There was a button in the restroom that a customer could press if the restroom had a problem. There was a button on each trashcan. There was a button near each cash register, one in the kiddie area and so on. These buttons let customers give Manna a heads up when something went wrong.

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Or, “Jane, when you are through with this customer, please close your register. Then we will clean the women’s restroom.”

And so on. The employees were told exactly what to do, and they did it quite happily. It was a major relief actually, because the software told them precisely what to do step by step.

Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Marshall Brain

Walking past a Taco Bell it seems someone competent implemented the system—seems to understand people just as well as the best software I’m aware of can.

Very interesting, how’d they enforce that?

Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1

It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.

Mastercardery & Visary processes too

Clearly a rare sighting

As a noob, those little wrappers are great.

Well, I just started considering multi-tools and attachment heads and all that :)

Whoh thousands and not hundreds?

Very nice. The screenshots look promising!

MacDown is pretty solid, but I've been looking at alternatives. Unfortunately, while MarkText may be feature-rich, latency is untenable. I think that one's an Electron app.

Well can even make a little Custom Floating HTML Prompt in Keyboard Maestro to push commands to a CLI - just one way

Sounds like Burlingame & San Mateo - San Francisco Bay Area

I always nodded and said yes.

inadvertently kickstarts Elizabeth Holmes promotion to CEO a job or two later :p j/k

btw curious what the proper verification work is. Thought calls were standard. Maybe pulling tax records if possible?

The time cost, too. Huge hassle to buy, move, sell. Inspections, agents, viewings… big pressure end to end.

purchasing almost always makes more sense.

I remember the San Francisco Bay Area threw this old truism off when purchasing became so expensive, it was just about a wash whether you wanted to rent or buy.

These tiny little homes starting at a million bucks or something…

could you imagine needing to employ a lawyer through several court cases, an appeal, and ultimately state supreme court hearings to keep from being responsible.

The “I would sue”/“you should sue!” crowd isn’t listening!