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mriswith

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  • Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?

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  • Indeed, the vast majority on any social media platform does not engage. And when they do it's mostly just liking content and not even replying. You see it on lemmy as well, with news articles often having few comments. And when they do it's one or two top comments and a bunch of replies.

    Over the years the only thing I can imagine is to add another anonymizing layer, where people can send in questions and the "best ones" are posted by a general/bot account. But that is something people much smarter than me have tried to figure out for years, so I have no idea how it would be implemented.

  • Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?

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  • Is there a way to encourage people to post more? Because the main problem seems to be getting actual posts, not replies to them.

    For example "nostupidquestions" only has a few questions a day, but there are 40k subscribers and 1500 people or so checking in every day. It has 4.2k posts and 170k comments.

    "asklemmy" has more posts, fewers subscribers, and over 2k a day check in. 6k posts and 317k comments.

  • Bombshell report alleges Stephen Miller is running the show at DOJ while Pam Bondi is playing the part ‘like an actor’

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  • Yeah, this is why they've been spamming social media(including lemmy) with the whole "Kakistocracy" thing recently.

    They really want you to think the idiots are in charge, that way you don't try to dig deeper as the idiots chop off everything they see and some parts they're told. Just look at the Librarian of Congress thing. People were making jokes about librarians, meanwhile she was basically in charge of defining DMCA and digital copyright.

  • AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

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    1. It was proven years ago that the average consumer doesn't give two shits about privacy on the internet.
    2. The average consumer doesn't use knowingly use LLMs/"AI" for anything beyond a replacement for a search engine.

  • AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

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  • I thought that was pretty obvious by now? Based on how much the companies are trying force feed people their latest version through constant notifications about assistants, assisted search, etc.

    It's one of the greatest flaws of relying on social media for market research: Tech-bros being overly loud about things like AI, NFTs, etc. trick companies into thinking more people are interested.

    Now they've invested tons of money and people aren't biting, so they're constantly nagging people to engage so they can justify their expenditure.

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  • It's mostly just morons hacking and slashing with zero understanding. They literally just search for "climate", "trans", etc. to cut funding and remove access without checking anything, they just assume they're correct.

    And then when theyr'e called out they just lie and double down. Case in point, they refuse to admit they confused "transgenic" with "transgender" to the point where they made a post on the white house website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/ (For reference, it was alzheimers research)

    The real scary part is that there are people who have an inkling of what they're doing, and you're not hearing much about the things they're changing.

  • Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE

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  • I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out.

  • Here we come

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  • It started as showing off how new something was, and sometimes brand and/or price. And it turned into a fashion statement. Caps are probably the most famous for leaning into the trend and having giant gold and silver stickers covering the top of the visor.

    Obligatory Key & Peele sketch

  • Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'

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  • For anyone not reading the article: She was the co-founder and was putting together a collection of games they had made and needed the source code for the game Wasteland.

    I asked for the source and was given a blank stare. I went to the COO's office and he gave me a cardboard box that looked like it was run over by a truck and it had some of the source on floppies. I ended up contacting friends at Electronic Arts to get a copy of the source we sent them when Wasteland shipped.

    After that she started keeping backups of everything she worked on.

  • FedEx board member David Steiner to lead US Postal Service

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  • At this point the only reason they aren't openly transferring money into their own accounts, is because they still have some fear of the international banking system.

  • Overwhelming Majority - Norway's Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of Israel

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  • Indeed, they specifically called it genocide when it was announced. And they voted against their leadership who only wanted one of those "culture and academic" boycotts(a small part of the leadership also wanted to call it "unimaginable suffering" instead of genocide). But the people voted 240 in favor and 69 against an economic boycott. They're also backing up the UN's demand of the occupation ending by September. At which point they want Norway to initiate an international boycott if it has not happened.

    They have some ties to the current major political party, the Labour Party, who's leader said he "disagreed".

    For reference, this an "umbrella organization" with two dozen smaller unions totaling over a million people, out of Norways 5.5m total population. They represent around 35% of working adults, meaning that if they go into strike, the country shuts down.

    EDIT: It should be mentioned that this was at a yearly conference, which is also why it didn't happened sooner.

  • Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE

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  • Lufthansa and Air France might have some massive fines incoming.

  • Indie Devs Have Begun Adding a No Generative AI Stamp to Their Store Pages

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  • Now to be fair, there is a massive difference between using the fancy "AI" autocomplete to fill out the rest of a line when writing a function or something. And actually generating music, voice acting, art, etc.

    That's at least where I personally draw the line between proper generative content and not. Partly because the autocomplete is possible without any form of ML. Some of the suggestions are often of similar quality as ones I got in Dreamweaver over twenty years ago.

  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Yeah, the amount of industrial machinery being controlled by ancient hardware would baffle a lot of people.

    For a comparison people might relate to: There are ATMs running twenty year old versions of Windows XP.

  • Manufacturers say Trump has made opening U.S. factories impossible

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  • Well they want to almost destroy America, that way the rich can buy up everything for cheap and become even more pwoerful. They're literally trying to recreate the situation that caused the rise of oligarchs in Russia.

    And the idiots vote for it because they've been brainwashed by propaganda to think they'll be part of the elite once it's over.

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  • Conceal Spell

    Through sheer mental effort, you can simplify the incantations and gestures needed to spellcast, leaving them barely noticeable. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell, the spell gains the subtle trait, hiding the shining runes, sparks of magic, and other manifestations that would usually give away your spellcasting. The trait hides only the spell’s spellcasting actions and manifestations, not its effects, so an observer might still see a ray streak out from you or see you vanish into thin air.

    Silent Spell (Metamagic)

    Benefit: A silent spell can be cast with no verbal components. Spells without verbal components are not affected. A silent spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.

    Doesn't work for Bard spells, although they have a way to disguise theirs:

    Melodious Spell

    You subtly weave your spellcasting into a performance. If the next action you use is to Cast a Spell, the spell gains the subtle trait, hiding the shining runes, sparks of magic, and other manifestations that would usually give away your spellcasting. The trait hides only the spell’s spellcasting actions and manifestations, not its effects, so an observer might still see a ray streak out from you or see you vanish into thin air.

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  • Yeah and we should be glad they're so dumb: It has a nice little "in your area" feature where you can see all the ones who signed up near you(no need to give them location data, you can specify the area and check several to hide your real one).

    They of course made it so magas could show support. But in reality it's literally a perfect way to find local business to boycoytt that you might not otherwise know was supporting evil.

  • Forced to lie on a questionnaire (BioLife)

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  • They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don't realize the size of the site.

    You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.

  • WATCH: Furious Residents Surround ICE Agents Trying to Arrest Mom Clinging to Baby

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