Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Bots picking the questions, bots answering them. They clearly understand whatever the fuck the captcha bot thinks a bus is better than I do.

"Legal and final" are weasel words. Plenty of things that are rigged are legal. Take, uh, the law for a gazillion examples.

This comes off as continuing to fuel the narrative while also trying to slap a "please don't sue us again" sticker on it.

Yeah, you can't buy... anything that Radio Shack used to sell at the Source. It's just cell phones and headphones now. It was still pretty ass before Bell bought it, but at least it had, you know, basic things like cables and solder when Circuit City owned it.

The expectation that things are not private is totally different from the expectation that things are not being harvested for profit, though. Harvesting things for profit is transforming the public into the private.

LLMs create statistical distributions of words and phrases based on ingested data, and then sample those distributions given conditional probabilities.

Why should for-profit companies have the right to create these statistical distributions based on our written works without consent? They're not publishing these distributions, and the purpose of ingesting these texts is not to report on the distributions.

They're just bottom-trawling the internet and acting as if they have every right to use other peoples' written works. While people are having "serious discussions" around it, they're moving forward, ignoring the discussions entirely, and trying to force the conclusion of those discussions to be "well, it's too late now, anyway".

Could somebody explain why this is bad?

Consent.

I don't consent to my copyrighted material -- which is literally everything I write and post online, including this comment -- being included in these products. In some cases, I have implicitly consented to allowing this to happen via the EULA of websites I've used over the years, but having them actively scraping the web for content means they're directly bypassing any agreements I may have made with service providers, and that they're collecting my copyrighted works without my ever having done business of any sort with them.

I haven't agreed to contribute to their for-profit operation, I'm not being compensated in any way for this participation -- whether financially or via the providing of a service -- and I don't believe they have any moral right to decide that I'm going to contribute whether I want to or not.

They can fuck right off.

Feminism left men behind

I'm sorry, but WTF? I don't know how you look at feminism with any kind of understanding and walk away with that impression.

The fact that, as men, we've collectively ignored feminism's every attempt to help us, while whining that women are helping themselves and each other, doesn't mean that feminism has left us behind. It means we've refused help and to help ourselves.

He wasn't happy to add quote toots, though. There's a whole Mastodon mythology built up around quotes.

Then the Elon account boom ended, and suddenly he was happy to do it.

Hes happy to do whatever gives him positive attention.

Did... Did I say it wasn't?

What I said -- implicitly -- was that media companies should participate in that effort by blacklisting companies like Meta.

This is really pretty sad coming from the CBC, and highlights how badly they've lost the plot on social media.

The CBC's always been a relatively early adopter of digital technologies, including social media, as they chase their mandate to offer as easy access as possible to Canadians. But somewhere in there, they went from being on social media to -- like seemingly all of mainstream journalism today -- becoming reliant on social media. They baked Facebook and Twitter into their actual operating strategies. Now, they've found themselves feeling mistreated by the tools they internalized, and seemingly unwilling to just let. The fuck. Go.

Facebook doesn't need news media, but the news media doesn't need Facebook, either. None of this would be happening right now if Facebook and Twitter were major generators of ad revenue for the media companies. Maybe they were, at one point in time, and they've since felt the pinch of enshitification, but that means the paradigm has shifted, and it's time for them to get up off of their fucking knees and do something else.

Mastodon/Firefish/Akkoma are right there. RSS still exists. Some of these outlets are owned by absolutely massive media conglomorates that are, among other things, ISPs serving millions. They have the resources to change the way Canadians actually use the internet. They don't need Facebook and Twitter.

They're just addicted to them.

We did!

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2017/pure-silver-coin---star-trek-u.s.s.-enterprise-ncc-1701---mintage-1000-2017

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/iconic-star-trek-scenes---1-oz.-pure-silver-coloured-3-coin-subscription-2016

https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/star-trek-enterprise---$20-for-$20-fine-silver-coin-2016

The Royal Canadian Mint even has a Memory Alpha entry: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/RoyalCanadianMint

I don't think these people are fearing meth.

It's easier to read for understanding off of paper. Easier to mark up text and make notes. Easier to learn off of. The use and flexibility for learners and knowledge workers is still unchallenged.

Those are action RPGs.

Depends on how one defines "win".

We coulda gotten more people here. Reddit's kind of the perfect centralized service to decentralize. Major subreddits have millions of subscribers and mods with years of experience managing large communities. Many of them could have set up their own Lemmy servers and just said "we're over here now". You get a few large, but still not exactly mainstream r/all kind of subreddits doing that, and things could've been significantly different.

At the same time, there are several ordres of magnitude more people here now than there was before, and the space isn't showing any signs of dying. That's kind of a big L for Reddit, as they're going to continue enshitifying themselves in the months and years ahead, and there's a legit, if somewhat underground, alternative space for people to go when they're finally fed up. Now with an insane amount of mobile app support, to boot.

Reminder that Canadian media actually lobbied for this. They spent like two years calling Zuckerberg a thief for displaying news articles on Facebook.

This isn't the result of the government just doing a random thing. They did what they were asked to do by the media outlets.

The media outlets aren't going to get what they want, but this still seems like a potentially good thing for users. After all, it's not just Canadian media sites that are being black listed.

I've been waiting for a flexible, two page, tabloid sized e-newspaper for, like, 20 years now.

I mean, I guess I'm in the southern part of Canada.

No generational rule is hard and fast. They're all broad stroke generalities.

You can't even go based on year, because sociologists disagree on which years to use.

Or the employers are just refusing to negotiate in good faith.