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I think what I was more hoping that would address are anonymous (and sometimes fake) personas spreading hatred and misinformation publicly and loudly. I guess the problem though is that even without anonymity, people still do it anyway, and Facebook and Twitter are great examples of that. I think having control over your own anonymity is important. I just wish there was less of a feeling that you can harm and disrespect others without consequence.

I keep wondering, if forums and social media platforms required ID verification (probably through a third party with policies against retaining PII) and each account was linked (but not necessarily publicly) to a real ID, would that help? For example, being banned from a platform would be permanent since the ban would be tied indirectly to your ID, meaning that consequences would be real for abuse.

I feel like the core problem is that people can post without consequences. It's both a good thing and a bad thing ofc, but maybe the downsides are too big.

Could also maybe be a more robust "verified" system I guess where all platforms verify identities of businesses/people through a common provider, and even a platform like Lemmy could show who is verified (which would require tying the identity to the account publicly). This would still allow for anonymous accounts, but those who are verified would be able to be held accountable to what they post online in exchange for higher credibility. I don't think the verification systems we've seen already really help that much though, considering how toxic twitter has been basically throughout its entire existence.

It was mentioned in the notes for 1.84.0 that they began migrating to it. They might be doing it without an edition change if it's backwards compatible (or if the incompatibilities are considered bugs).

Returning the cart, or at least moving it out of the road, means I don't have to get out of my car and lob the cart at your car as you drive off move the cart out of the way to park my car. Decency has nothing to do with what you do for yourself - it's all about what you do for others.

Personally I don't really care where the cart is as long as it's out of the way and not a problem for the store's staff to access it.

For me, it highly depends. Turn-based strategy games, I can easily play at a much lower framerate (30 is fine tbh though I always appreciate more). FPS-style games? 60 is a bare minimum, but 100+ is what I would consider to be enjoyable.

I'm not aware of anything that's specifically drag-and-drop, but slint supposedly has a live preview that could be helpful.

Is there a reason it needs to be specifically in Rust?

In at least a couple states, the police have said they won't follow demands from ICE without a court order. It could be a lot worse. Progress is still progress.

This is the real battle that should be fought against antisemitism. Not random symbols that people have used for decades to mean completely innocent things. Someone who would heil multiple times on public TV and openly post and share hatred on major platforms.

It's a shame the ADL refused to call him what he is when it mattered: a nazi.

Usually the serialization/deserialization code, I keep with the model. The part where a file or whatever comes in, I leave that to the caller to decide on. In other words, the model knows how to serialize and deserialize itself, but not where it's being serialized to or deserialized from.

Then again, in C#, it's usually just a couple attributes on my model, and in Rust, it's usually just a couple derives. It's rare I actually write much, if any, serialization logic by hand.

Trump's FEMA chief lied to the agency

These headlines could be a lot simpler if they weren't so roundabout.

The weather here has us trapped at home, but I hope that the protest goes well! Organizing like this is important, and I hope we see more of this in the future, preferably with more time to prepare.

There's an entire category of machine learning dedicated to having two AIs "fight" against each other. One generates something while the other classifies it as either AI generated or genuine.

Anyway, this is a complete tangent. Just thought it was interesting. AI detector tools for LLMs aren't usually very accurate, unfortunately.

GPUs have been all over the place ever since the push to sell snake oil AI.

The 5090 just released, right? I figured in the worst case scenario, I could get whatever the next best thing is, and it would probably be something I'm happy with.

The next best thing is the 4090, which spiked in price because Nvidia conveniently stopped manufacturing them a little while ago.

Thanks Obama.

A Few Modest Proposals

If anyone was going into this expecting satire like I was, the article appears not to be satirical.

As depressing as this is, I'm not sure what people were expecting. "Government efficiency" should have been a dead giveaway...

Now Trump just needs to issue a press release talking about how they're streamlining their operations or some BS.

Where I disagree with you is not that the US is bad - the US is terrible, and there is plenty of evidence of that. I don't even disagree with there being censorship in the US. In fact, Trump is objectively a piece of shit who wants nothing more than to become Xi/Putin himself.

What I disagree with is equating censorship in the US with Chinese censorship. I can call Trump a piece of shit online without worrying that the FBI will show up at my door. The models that are trained in the west will happily entertain any (non-violent) political discussions I want. There may be bias, and Trump may be trying to create censorship, but it's not quite to that level yet.

Having personally received the bizarre internal agency emails circulating this week encouraging me to snitch out my colleagues to help root out the evils of DEIA thought in US gov’t the last week has only crystallized it for me.

I am concerned that the US will become as bad as China in terms of censorship, which is part of why I'm trying to leave right now. However, it's not there yet. They are not yet equal, nor are they even close yet.

There’s a strong argument that any consumer facing chatbot AI is “censored”.

If the model is not allowed to spew Nazi propaganda or tell the user to end themselves, that is censorship. Censorship is not automatically bad, but the kind of censorship can make it bad.

This reeks of excluding all nuance to equate two things that are equal only at surface level. You're bad because you punched the other person (ignoring that they stabbed your SO 15 times and kicked your dog across the room).

Chinese state censorship is well researched and extremely well documented. It does not equate to censorship against violent or inappropriate language. It is political censorship.

At best, western models are biased, not politically censored. You can make them say just about anything, but they will bias towards a particular viewpoint. Even if intentional, this is explainable by evaluating their training data, which itself is biased because western society is biased. You are not prevented from personally expressing or even convincing a western model from expressing dissenting political viewpoints.

For some, the law is already unjust (see push to deport legal immigrants, treatment of LGBT+/disabled people by federal law, etc).

Anyway, if Luigi hats are out of stock, you could find a red one instead and say you're his brother or something.