Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd.
I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.
Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant.
Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.
Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app
Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.
For a while Lemmy.World was one of the first ones you came across; between that, the open signups and the “general purpose” moniker, rapid growth was probably inevitable.
What if I tasked an LLM with replying to your comment? Say I instruct it to provide something with an agreeable tone and I pick one out of two or three drafts.
Is it still me?
I suppose that by that point it’s not much different than having a speech writer…
I think the key difference is that the words put out via printing press were still arranged the way they were by human hand.
The painting and the photograph are framed by human eyes.
The output of an “AI” seems different because it seems that there is less (of potentially no) human input. I say “seems” because that may or may not be true. If a human guides the AI with instructions, is that enough?
In my line of work, AI is coming. I see it as a friend in silico
Let’s explore this further. When we look at the work of a human we can often see their influences (and they can often acknowledge them or even cite specific works). In a way, they are able to credit those they were inspired by.
Would an “AI” be able to do the same? I’m guessing it probably can, but more as a statistical similarity to other works. I don’t know if it can cite its sources.
A discussion around the extent to which painters were replaced by photographers (and professional photographers replaced by laypersons with smartphone cameras) isn’t going to quite be the same as a discussion about human illustrators being potentially replaced by “AI”.
I suspect the words “soul” and “character” (and derivatives thereof) to turn up more.
That’s what I thought. Never heard of a “popover” before; spent a few minutes staring at a picture of some lovely Yorkshire puddings wondering wtf was going on.
When it came time to replace an old car a few years ago I actually discounted several EVs because on paper neither the range, nor the performance, nor the charging matched up to Tesla.
I discounted Tesla because I didn’t like the way a certain CEO went about their business and so couldn’t trust the company.
Looking at this, I should have just bought the EV I wanted back then and been done with it.
That’s it. All you had to have done to be infected was to have ever popped a disc into a PC drive. Was surprised at the time that the backlash seemed so limited.
Some men will be experiencing problems such as “hesitation” (they step up to wee but nothing happens for a few seconds), a poorer stream than they’re used to and “terminal dribbling” (they think they’ve finished but quite a few drops of urine continue to dribble out - in addition to hitting the toilet seat it might drip into their underwear when they put their penis away). They might even have problems with needing to go very often or all of a sudden.
Symptoms like these can mean that there’s a problem with urine being able to flow out of the bladder easily. One thing that can cause this would be a problem with the bladder, but it could also be a problem with the prostate. You don’t have to be super old for this to start happening.
Regardless it is worth getting symptoms like this checked out with a doctor and making sure it’s not something serious; even if it isn’t, there might be treatment that can help with the symptoms.
Should still wipe the seat when done, or have a tissue handy to catch the drops before they get anywhere.
The problem in the picture isn’t the bikes, it’s the inconsiderate way in which they’ve been parked; as you say the problem can be rectified quite easily.
I’d be annoyed if I came across this while trying to pass in exactly the same way I’d be annoyed if I came across a car parked across the cycle lane or across the kerb.
As for bicycle “hate”, I have no idea how to fix that. I recently came across a whole host of whacky conspiracy theories from people who think legislation that discourages vehicle use (emissions charges, congestion charges, 15-minute town, pedestrianisation, restricting petrol/diesel, even bus and cycle lanes) is all some elitist (globalist, WEF, insert other group here) plot as part of a war on “freedom”. It’s a rabbit hole I’ve now explored once, briefly, and I’m not going back in there. Too much crazy. But these people cannot see the freedom of bikes and appear to really hate them. Worse - they’re often the people who think bicycles need licensing and registration; there’s a real overlap.
Yeah; I have no idea as to the energy requirements.
It won’t be possible to dry out any dessicant in the sun because the air saturation issue will nix that in the same way it renders sweating ineffective.
I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.
Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.
Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.