Endymion_Mallorn

What’s the point of being a dictator if you can’t be corrupt? The only difference is that you have to remember this simple fact:

No one gives a darn what the dictator’s bank account looks like if they have full bellies, secure housing, and jobs that keep them just right balance of desperate and productive. Do those things, and they’ll cheer when you build a statue of yourself. They’ll be overjoyed when you get yourself a sex partner. And they’ll fork over money willingly. Yes, it’s easier to be feared than loved; but if you just do your job, nobody actually cares about the grift!

No, I was making a general statement.

Tyranny’s only something to fight when you’re not on the same side as the tyrant.

So LLMs operate like blind people - like every other web scraper and chatbot to exist.

I mean, i could confirm her going back to 123r3, so more than just 20 when I touched the grand lady.

Kakuranger police officer announcing the weekday.

Lol. That’s called giving away money. If you do that, you don’t stay elite very long.

Anyone who’s a fan of mecha anime or games already knew this. The human body is a comedy of errors masquerading as a marvel of bioengineering. We’re just fish who forgot how to swim and learned how about economics.

That’s better than the one “bug” I found. Obviously it was in a spreadsheet that was being touched by too many hands without any level of guidance. Problem is, it was a truly ancient error that the “end users” weren’t seeing in their fancy tables or charts. But when I looked at it, it was from when the file was converted from .123 to .xls.

Almost like people who don’t want the government breathing down their necks don’t live in places that are government controlled. As someone who’s lived in NJ all my life, it’s the cities that are the disease. The economy and society in cities isn’t anything we should be proud of.

You as a person don’t need direct representation, usually (though having a lawyer ready us always a benefit). The only way to stop the social media companies from extracting value and facilitating harmful criminal behavior is to stop their actions completely. Yes, that affects people. Yes, that means people won’t be able to use an online service. But if all social media went away tomorrow, the only one I’d actually miss would be YouTube.

Fediverse instances have a different structure, and what should happen is that the owner of each instance that wants to operate in Nepal should register with the government, and only federate with those who are also registered. Otherwise, you’ve lost out on a country that barely us a blip on the Internet radar, with the exception of rich, entitled, jerks ruining Everest and adding to the colossal body count.

No matter what, it’s not worth dying for. Protesting in favor of big companies is dumb from the start. Protesting in favor of niche platforms is dumb. Don’t risk your life for anything but life-and-death situations.

Huh. Darn.

Ongoing development of mbin and attention to the platform as a whole. His lack of overt politics compared to the Lemmy devs also makes me happier. Plus, as an admin, he’s mostly hands-off in my n experience, certainly not a micromanaging mod.

I forget, did Tracy Tormé write for Golden Girls?

Another kbin.social refugee here. I only moved when it was obvious that Ernest wasn’t coming back. So instead, I decided to lean on Melroy, who’s been an awesome admin and dev.

So, Ernest, I wish you nothing but the best. Thanks for kicking off a small revolution. And Melroy - thank you for taking up the torch.

It is neither useless nor funny. It’s optimization for storage capacity. If everyone in the world put in that level of effort into compression, computer storage and processing would actually be faster than the previous generation.

My experience is that basically, if you actually want to do anything meaningful with video, you need to host your own instance, because no one wants to be beholden to the bandwidth, especially if it gets any uptake. In which case, obviously, you’re on your own for the costs. The only way I can see PeerTube working is if a few of the medium size YouTubers & Twitch streamers with decent monthly Patreon takes band together and fund it that way.

Check the vids from Gamers Nexus.

When he returns the cooler block he damaged and stole, I’ll stop trying to turn people away from his content.

PeerTube would be great if you didn’t have to self-host. And yes, I mean that. Every instance I’ve found that allows user uploads charges the users for bandwidth (or charges a subscription fee). I’ve never found an instance yet that works like Dailymotion or YouTube. When we get a big instance (like mastodon.social or one of the big two Lemmy instances), that allows user uploads freely and seamlessly, we’ll start seeing it grow.