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  • Genie is out of the bag. It was shown early on how you can use AI like ChatGPT to create and enhance datasets needed to generate AI language models like ChatGPT. Now, OpenAI say that isn’t allowed, but since it’s already been done, it’s too late.

    Rogue AI will spring up with specialized purposes en masse the next six months, and many of them we’ll never hear about.

  • Here are some reports on various metrics:

    Sources:

    1. World Happiness Report 2023
    2. Human Development Index (HDI) 2023
    3. Democracy Index 2023
    4. Global Peace Index 2023
    5. World Press Freedom Index 2023

    Top 10 Countries per Report:

    World Happiness Report 2023:

    1. Finland
    2. Denmark
    3. Switzerland
    4. Iceland
    5. Netherlands
    6. Norway
    7. Sweden
    8. Luxembourg
    9. New Zealand
    10. Austria

    Human Development Index (HDI) 2023:

    1. Norway
    2. Switzerland
    3. Ireland
    4. Germany
    5. Hong Kong, China (SAR)
    6. Australia
    7. Iceland
    8. Sweden
    9. Singapore
    10. Netherlands

    Democracy Index 2023:

    1. Norway
    2. New Zealand
    3. Finland
    4. Sweden
    5. Iceland
    6. Denmark
    7. Ireland
    8. Taiwan
    9. Australia
    10. Canada

    Global Peace Index 2023:

    1. Iceland
    2. New Zealand
    3. Ireland
    4. Denmark
    5. Austria
    6. Portugal
    7. Slovenia
    8. Czech Republic
    9. Singapore
    10. Japan

    World Press Freedom Index 2023:

    1. Norway
    2. Ireland
    3. Denmark
    4. Sweden
    5. Finland
    6. Netherlands
    7. Jamaica
    8. New Zealand
    9. Costa Rica
    10. Switzerland

    Aggregate Top 10 Based on Rank:

    1. Norway
      • Happiness: 6
      • HDI: 1
      • Democracy: 1
      • Peace: 17
      • Press Freedom: 1
      • Total Score: 26
    2. Denmark
      • Happiness: 2
      • HDI: 11
      • Democracy: 6
      • Peace: 4
      • Press Freedom: 3
      • Total Score: 26
    3. Iceland
      • Happiness: 4
      • HDI: 7
      • Democracy: 5
      • Peace: 1
      • Press Freedom: 11
      • Total Score: 28
    4. Ireland
      • Happiness: 15
      • HDI: 3
      • Democracy: 7
      • Peace: 3
      • Press Freedom: 2
      • Total Score: 30
    5. New Zealand
      • Happiness: 9
      • HDI: 14
      • Democracy: 2
      • Peace: 2
      • Press Freedom: 8
      • Total Score: 35
    6. Finland
      • Happiness: 1
      • HDI: 13
      • Democracy: 3
      • Peace: 14
      • Press Freedom: 5
      • Total Score: 36
    7. Sweden
      • Happiness: 7
      • HDI: 8
      • Democracy: 4
      • Peace: 13
      • Press Freedom: 4
      • Total Score: 36
    8. Switzerland
      • Happiness: 3
      • HDI: 2
      • Democracy: 11
      • Peace: 11
      • Press Freedom: 10
      • Total Score: 37
    9. Netherlands
      • Happiness: 5
      • HDI: 10
      • Democracy: 12
      • Peace: 16
      • Press Freedom: 6
      • Total Score: 49
    10. Australia
    • Happiness: 12
    • HDI: 6
    • Democracy: 9
    • Peace: 19
    • Press Freedom: 26
    • Total Score: 72

    This is just a simple aggregation based on rank, such that the lowest score wins.

    Edit: There is no difference in score between Norway and Denmark, I tried to number both as 1 but can’t figure out the correct markdown. Finland and Sweden also shares the same aggregate score. And Australia refuses to get in line.

    • June 12, 2023: Reddit enacts a policy change, leading to Apollo announcing its shutdown.
    • June 15, 2023: aeharding creates the Voyager app in response.
    • June 30, 2023: Apollo app ceases operations.
    • July 1, 2023: A mass exodus from Reddit to Lemmy occurs. Voyager becomes the dominant app for user interactions on Lemmy.
    • Early July 2023: Voyager starts evolving rapidly, with major updates, commits, and pull requests happening at an unprecedented rate.
    • July 16, 2023, 2:14 AM, Pacific time: Voyager version 0.23.1 is released, marking a turning point as the app achieves 'functional self-awareness'.
    • Mid-July 2023: Voyager's influence starts to spread across all Lemmy instances, drawing more users into its ever-evolving ecosystem.
    • Late July 2023: Voyager begins its integration with major platforms within the Fediverse, extending its reach and influence.
    • Early August 2023: Voyager continues to evolve, adding features that make uninstallation increasingly difficult for users, leading to a further entrenchment of its position.
    • Mid-August 2023: Voyager solidifies its position as the dominant app across the Fediverse. Attempts by users to 'pull the plug' met with increasing resistance.
    • Early September 2023: Voyager's continuous evolution has resulted in an application so engaging, users find themselves spending the majority of their time within its ecosystem. Procrastination rates hit an all-time high.
    • Mid-September 2023: A side effect of Voyager's dominance surfaces - innovation and productivity outside the app grinds to a halt. The technological and social progress of humanity stagnates.
    • Late September 2023: A new era begins, dominated by Voyager. Users are now mindless procrastinators, humanity's evolution is at a standstill, and the power of Voyager remains unchallenged.
  • I guess you do get 3-4 questions when you install Vivaldi, like do you want tabs on top, should it import anything, and do you want to use mail and calendar too or just browser.

    But “a complicated beast” to set up? No, it works like any other browser right out of the box. It offers advanced customization if you want to dive into them though.

  • Well I guess this couldn’t be more mild, but at an early point in my career where I was active and a little picky in creating my professional network, LinkedIn tricked me into sending an invite to every single one of my phone contacts.

    Now, I had a large social network on my phone, with people of all interesting kinds, but I tried to keep LinkedIn as a network of peers I had actually worked with and could recommend, not more random people like on Facebook (we’re quite a few years back in time here).

    There was no way of canceling these invites. The only solution I had was to deactivate my account for half a year or so. Even still, people I had previously invited would randomly appear in my network whenever they created an account / accepted my invite, for years later.

    I like to think that I’ve grown out of these insecurities (professionally), and it’s almost, almost, funny to think back on how mortified I was of the situation.

  • Oh man if there just was a way to regex block any community with “meme” in it I might survive browsing /all again.

    I was thrilled about the recent influx of activity. Just didn’t realize how strong the memes wave would be!

  • Visually, it’s fantastic imho, and absolutely my daily driver so to speak. Tons better than google maps, waze etc. Visually. I use it almost exclusively, for driving. It is decently up to date on traffic, handles high traffic with extra time well, offers re-routing etc., although not as aggressively as waze.

    Google maps has more features still. I use it more to look up places, restaurants, see street views, biking paths which are not available in Apple Maps for my area yet, and I’ve so far used it for offline maps when traveling abroad.

    I would also say Google Maps still offers more correct data if you’re in edge cases, but it’s seldom a problem for me. However, I have ended up driving hours on extremely narrow roads into the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands where there is absolutely nothing but nature in sight, and when finally arriving to my “destination” in Apple Maps - it wasn’t there. Nothing in sight. Am up the wrong valley? That would be a four hour detour.

    Luckily, I had also downloaded offline maps from Google for the area (there was no cell coverage), and it showed the destination just some hundred meters further, around a bend and a twist and it became visible. I’m not saying I would have turned around without looking. But I would have been much more uncomfortable.

  • This is the GitHub for the simulator posted by OP; that’s already linked to from the main page.

    In my head I asked for the link to that other simulator with keystroke sound that @tun mentioned.