Well, some of the comments you mention is just people being people and writing a shortened representation of their state of mind / feelings. You sometimes want to say something, but don't want to compile a fact checked summary of the wrongdoings of the last 10 years. So you just say 'i have a bad feeling about this'. And people either remember reading those news articles back then, or they write something in return and you then get into more details. It's not bad per se. But i agree. Just spitting out random opinions without anything substantial or even being right, is just a waste of everyone's time.
Thats true. But this also means they didn't get all their users because they have a good product to offer. But because they are one of the biggest players and the just exploited their market power to will something into existence.
This is also the reason why your opinion is a bit unpopular. They just have a history of exploiting things and using dark practices to achieve their goals.
And if their goal is to dominate and wipe out the fediverse... they have quite some power to leverage. As they demonstrated with this stunt.
(Also this is quite likely their goal, because that's how capitalism and competition works.)
Thank you for the balanced view. I hope some day we 'free' people will stick together and replace that fear with trust in each other (and good moderation tools to ensure it). I'd love to hear those exact 'fears' and see if they're warranted or artificial and this is just the excuse for protectionism. Because I myself am afraid that some of the free 'alternative' communities aren't big and stable enough to bear additional stress and being split up in several fractions. It feels the same with the latest split and defederation happening in/on lemmy with beehaw separating from instances like lemmy.world. That caused quite some confusion with new users and trouble for everyone. I don't think this is healthy for the platform as a whole. And splitting up any federated platform unnecessarily, will inevitably harm the platform as a whole.
This being said, tilvids must have made some exellent choices, too. They attracted quite an amount of high quality content and seem to be generally thriving. I have to give them that... :-)
I personally like Peertube but strongly dislike TILVids. They use Peertube but disable the federation bit. If it is the case that you can follow folks on other instances, it is even more unfair, because they block me from subscribing to content on their platform. Well, it isn't worse than some other video platforms, but it's certainly only taking, not sharing like we're used on the fediverse. I'd use another instance and i recommend everyone else to do so, too. (...As long as this is an alternative. Feel free to use TILVids, it's certainly better than Odysee or YouTube!)
Thank you for explaining. Yes. Now that i have skimmed through the paper i'm kind of disappointed in their work. It's not a surprise to me that quality will degrade if you design a feedback loop with low quality data. And does this even mean anything for a distinction between human and synthetic data? Isn't it obvious a model will deteriorate if you feed it progressively lower quality input, regardless of where you got that from? I'm pretty sure this is the mechanism behind that. A better question to ask would be: Is there some point where synthetic output gets good enough to train something with it. And how far away is that point. Or can we rule that out because of some properties we can't get around. I'm not sure if learning from own output is even possible like this. I as a human certainly can't teach myself. I would need some input like books or curated assignments/examples prepared by other people. There are kind of intrinsic barriers when teaching oneself. However I can certainly practice stuff. But that's kind of a different mechanism. And difficult to compare to the AI stuff.
I'm glad i can continue to play with the language models, have them tuned to follow instructions (with the help of GPT4 data) etc
Wasn't the echo chambers during the covid pandemic kind of proof that humans DO exhibit the same property? A good amount will start repeating stuff about nanoparticles and some black lint in a mask are worms that will control your brain?
wow. yeah, i remember trying to build lineage for my old phone after support ended and the people on xdadevelopers also stopped making inofficial builds. my notebook wasn't up to the task. not enough ram, too much data on the ssd.
( my oppinion:
i personally don't like php and js for being too complicated. they are very easy to begin with, which is a good thing. but too difficult to master. there are soo many weird things going on, so many edge cases to remember, and all the pitfalls that are there to help the beginner but require a professional to pay close attention. i like something strict, maybe with type safety and a compiler that yells at you if you're forgetting something or trying to do something stupid. not silently convert it. )
Other than that: Whatever floats your boat... I don't think it's wrong to use something like php. i have used it and still use it from time to time. heck, i've even used lua where people start counting with '1'. sometimes it is the correct tool. sometimes it's more important to get a job done, than having it done in a certain way. and of course people like to work with something that they're familiar with. you're probably better off and faster this way.
on android there is microG with the unified location modules. this is the part that can locate you by surrounding cell towers or wifi networks. you can use a third party database and save that to your device.
For the 'assisted' part: i think there are alternate download servers for the satellite data that is required for the A-... part. I don't know much about that, though. I believe they are incorporated into privacy oriented android versions like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.
why are you stuck with bash? just write a shebang and then your interpreter in the first line of your script.
i can use bash, python, lua and al kinds of stuff...
i don't understand the question. if you mean, why does my shell only accept bash syntax, if i set my shell to bash, idk. use another shell?
'sh' is kind of the smallest common thing that's available everywhere. so when you got to script something that needs to run somewhere not under your control, you use 'sh'. and that's kind of it works. you'll find something, that's been around for some time, otherwise it won't have spread everywhere. and now you can't replace it in newer products, because there is so much stuff using it.
if that isn't one of your problems, go with my first suggestions and just use python or something like that as your scripting language.
Rly? How do you do business in the US? How do (small) companies rent webservers that process credit card information of their clients? How do they store sensitive data? Like data you're contractually obliged not to tell anyone. Where do you sync private data from your phone?
I know technically, you can snoop at data if you're the host and the server is right there with you. But surely that has to be illegal?
I'm sure you're liable if you don't moderate.
I'm no lawyer, but it's certainly possible to host things without ending up in prison. google, reddit, etc and lots of other people and companies do it. and they had that happen.
i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek ...
have to come up with a new concept every other machine.