Lemmy and reddit are definitely more media friendly.
I think reddit managed to capture a certain generation of users for a lot of topics, and I think its recommendation algorithm helps keep the user experience more interesting by throwing exposing the user to new groups they may be interested in. Very similar to how YouTube works.
But like other social media, the reddit algorithm also creates a very silo-ed, radicalized user base.
Forum users tend to be older, and I have seen a few specialty forums die off due to attrition and a lack of new users.
I think one huge benefit of forums is the good ones are tightly moderated, so bots and trolls are quickly dealt with.
Forums whose topics where age is a lesser factor, or where non-commercialization benefits their userbase, are lasting longer, but generally they're getting picked off.
I think Discord is more like a media-friendly IRC, which was never my bag so I'll let others opine on it.
Usually I love Spinrad, but this is just so dated: The idea that a TV talk show host with a massive audience is holding the rich and powerful accountable, as opposed to pandering to them...
Capitalist: Kids, now you too can come and experience the Craft of Mining! Here's your personized helmet lamp and pickaxe! Anything useful that you dig up belongs to me. Notresponsibleforsideeffectssuckasdeathandinjury.
I think you're misunderstanding what the article is saying.
You're correct that it isn't the job of a system to detect someone's skin color, and judge those people by it.
But the fact that AVs detect dark skinned people and short people at a lower effectiveness is a reflection of the lack of diversity in the tech staff designing and testing these systems as a whole.
They staff are designing the AVs to safely navigate in a world of people like them, but when the staff are overwhelmingly male, light skinned, young and single, and urban, and in the United States, a lot of considerations don't even cross their minds.
Will the AVs recognize female pedestrians?
Do the sensors sense light spectrum wide enough to detect dark skinned people?
Will the AVs recognize someone with a walker or in a wheelchair, or some other mobility device?
Toddlers are small and unpredictable.
Bicyclists can fall over at any moment.
Are all these AVs being tested in cities being exposed to all the animals they might encounter in rural areas like sheep, llamas, otters, alligators and other animals who might be in the road?
How well will AVs tested in urban areas fare on twisty mountain roads that suddenly change from multi lane asphalt to narrow twisty dirt roads?
Will they recognize tractors and other farm or industrial vehicles on the road?
Will they recognize something you only encounter in a foreign country like an elephant or an orangutan or a rickshaw? Or what's it going to do if it comes across that tomato festival in Spain?
Engineering isn't magical: It's the result of centuries of experimentation and recorded knowledge of what works and doesn't work.
Releasing AVs on the entire world without testing them on every little thing they might encounter is just asking for trouble.
What's required for safe driving without human intelligence is more mind boggling the more you think about it.
Calling a male a "nephew" in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.
Usually it doesn't mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.
This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain "He's my nephew"
契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as "nephew" but it means "adopted brother"
The moment those Chinese EV startups enter the US market, Tesla will be in real trouble if they don't have their product quality image problem fixed by then.
It'll be like Detroit's Big 3 automakers tanking when small fuel efficient Japanese cars landed in the 70s oil crisis.
Assuming those Chinese EV companies don't have their own quality problems...
It's true that crypto is commonly used in online drug transactions, but there are other justifiable uses, such as moving money out of countries with repressive regimes like China and Russia.
Also paying for certain genres of porn that major credit card banks like Visa and MasterCard have somewhat arbitrarily designated as unacceptable, such as certain types of BDSM e.g. consensual nonconsensual, anything that shows blood, kinky hypnosis and mind control, vampires, etc.
Of course obvious child porn and bestiality should be banned period, so some regulation is needed. But I'm not sure that the government delegating responsibility for regulation to the credit card banks is the best way to do it. The rules and enforcement are completely arbitrary and cannot be appealed.
Depends.
Lemmy and reddit are definitely more media friendly.
I think reddit managed to capture a certain generation of users for a lot of topics, and I think its recommendation algorithm helps keep the user experience more interesting by throwing exposing the user to new groups they may be interested in. Very similar to how YouTube works.
But like other social media, the reddit algorithm also creates a very silo-ed, radicalized user base.
Forum users tend to be older, and I have seen a few specialty forums die off due to attrition and a lack of new users.
I think one huge benefit of forums is the good ones are tightly moderated, so bots and trolls are quickly dealt with.
Forums whose topics where age is a lesser factor, or where non-commercialization benefits their userbase, are lasting longer, but generally they're getting picked off.
I think Discord is more like a media-friendly IRC, which was never my bag so I'll let others opine on it.