An opt out block list would be great for this. New users don't get inundated with one way bot generated content, but if you want to monitor a verbose bot you can. Sort of an opt in.
Actually now that I say that, just set up a community, and have the bit post to the community. Subscribe to the community to get the bot's posts, don't to not see them.
Hang on, but that community would still show up in the "All" feed wouldn't it. Hmmm. Okay, I see the dilemma.
I think there has to be separate security guarantees before a successful NATO application process could resolve. Finland and now Sweden^1 took over a year to become full NATO members. A lot can happen in a year.
Depending on the eventual outcome of the Russian invasion, I have trouble imagining a Russia that wouldn't engage in any shenanigans during the application process.
I mostly agree with you, but I think this is a problem that might have a solution. Maybe as a precursor, seperate bilateral mutual defense pacts. It's a mess, but I can't imagine Ukraine leaving itself for Russian invasion 2, Electric Boogaloo in another 10 years. Smarter diplomats than me are probably already coming up with plans, contingency plans, and counter plans.
Wasn't that an old example of perverse incentives? IBM ranked or paid bonuses based on lines of code. In short order, all their code became bloated and inefficient.
This was an old example in the 90's and maybe the 80's, so could have been over of the other OG computer companies (Digital, Sun, HP, etc). Could also be apocryphal. Point is, it's a classic example of dumb management ideas.
Twitter had an outage at the same time Threads: An Instagram App was launching. Threads now has something like 100 million accounts in a matter of days.
So apparently lots of people and businesses are replacing Twitter with Threads. It's just over here on Lemmy, most of us seem to be Reddit refugees. There is a lot of discussion about Threads federation via ActivityPub (if you are on the right communities at least), but otherwise I think we are all mostly just happy to leave all that corporate BS behind.
I like the quotes she put up on the screen about Canonical and System76.
I've kept coming back to Ubuntu over the years, but ultimately, they are a corporation, and they need to satisfy their shareholders. Someday they will likely be bought out, then who knows?
Since I learned that the EU and Germany have been running official Mastodon servers for a while, and have recently been joined by Netherlands, I'm hopeful that this initiative might be a catalyst for an open and interoperable system. Details are pretty light though in the article, and it sounds like mostly establishing regulations. Still, if those regulations are structured well, there could be an open and interoperable "Metaverse" (whatever that might mean).
Women's reproductive rights are strongly supported in Canada, but that doesn't stop one of the main national parties playing coy with a commitment to not reopen the debate.
The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just what particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Stephen G. Breyer, You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
It's used around 4:40 in the Don't Take To The Police video.
I remember that from Don't Take to The Police. Since gotchas I can think of is touching an eagle feather lying on the ground (endangered animals plus a market for poachers). Point being, that it's essentially impossible to say with certainty that you've broken no law.
Fair enough. I absolutely remember running randomly generated dungeons from the back of the 1st edition DM's guide, and the players dutifully mapping it out on graph paper. No cohesive dungeon theme, just all random monsters and such.
It was kind of fun, like playing Diablo.
Of course this also reminds me of the first time I ran Pacesetters Chill. A single monster… investigations, a false finish. My player's loved it. This Dungeon Bot is the complete opposite that, for sure, but it's still kind of fun, like just mowing through random monsters.
Maybe/probably but it's a false dichotomy. Interest rates are only one mechanism for controlling inflation, and a target coarse one.
Consider housing, increasing the interest rates makes it harder to buy a house, but it also makes it harder to build a house. Since this inflationary spiral we seem to be getting sucked into is at least partly (probably mostly) tied to restricted supply of "the stuff to buy" side if the balance, prolonged high interest rates could lead to stagflation.
This same high inflation also effects capital spending at any company seeking to expand production.
I'm not an economist, and I'm sure you'd get three different answers from two different economists, but I'm thinking we're getting into that tickle point where interest rate hikes might start putting us into stagflation. Fundamentally, central banks aren't going to fix this global inflation problem by playing with interest rates. You're dealing with a real loss in production wrt the pandemic, and now a major land war in a highly agriculturally productive area of the world.
I think that the best solution is probably "best practices" and defederatiom used to enforce some sort of minimal Code of Conduct wrt the actual mechanics of running an instance.
Otherwise, the only other way I could see to address this is to lump some data at the instance level. I.e. each instance simply reports a total of upvotes and downvotes from it's instance, and you just have to trust the instances to behave. There might be some checks to make sure the vote totals are plausible.
That's exactly how Office365/Microsoft365 got it's start. Now, instead of buying a copy of Office, you subscribe to Microsoft365.
I'm assuming that the path from cloud as an option to subscription based OS will be a little faster. To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if the stripped down locally installed version is offered as a Freemium option. Air-gapped and non-online computers usually just do one thing anyways. Most aren't being used to watch movies, buy stuff, etc.
My prediction would be that within 5 years, probably sooner, if you don't subscribe to your cloud-based Microsoft Windows OS, you'll have a bare-bones experience. Good enough for kiosks and such.
Granted, you are correct, the article passed around only talks about how it's an option right now, with some benefits… but we've all seen Microsoft do this exact same play before.
No Man's Sky, lots of No Man's Sky this last month. Monster Hunter World is installed and ready to go... but I just need to finish something in No Man's Sky first.
For a smaller Indie title, I was playing Aground before the latest NMS community expedition.
My daughter has been borrowing it to play The Lake, and my son and I have been playing Nickelodeon Brawl and Nickelodeon Carts on it.
An opt out block list would be great for this. New users don't get inundated with one way bot generated content, but if you want to monitor a verbose bot you can. Sort of an opt in.
Actually now that I say that, just set up a community, and have the bit post to the community. Subscribe to the community to get the bot's posts, don't to not see them.
Hang on, but that community would still show up in the "All" feed wouldn't it. Hmmm. Okay, I see the dilemma.