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by alex1138 10mo ago
I do apologize. However, it's also fairly bad faith for this other person to repeatedly accuse me of being a bot
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I've been curious how much the Facebook IPO affected the industry also We know they lied about video metrics; everyone has to pivot to video to stay competitive (with fradulent metrics) Given the suspicion of fake accounts and further
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Are the LLMs in any way trained semantically or by hooks that you can plug in, say, Python docs? And if a new version of Python then gets released then the training data changes, etc
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by alex1138 10mo ago
So if we're linking stuff (and please don't scream at me for Rumble, Youtube loves removing videos) here's one https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html I was initially trying to make a point t
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I do think about this in the context of other tech companies, the "bidirectionality of enforcement", or whatever you want to call it Let's say you have Facebook, which is notorious for banning people yet never seems to ban th
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Not just links, either Youtube comments are completely censored in real time with some sort of AI, it's horrible
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Downvoters: I am suggesting that the lack of care by a CEO in his younger years translates directly in his older years as the company grows and reaches global proportions Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414771
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They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122
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Good news: Libreoffice is still called Libreoffice
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Agree with you and I'd also like to see more abuse by said companies punished They went after Pirate Bay by literally threatening trade war repercussions with Sweden which is far more destructive than any files downloaded
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https://xkcd.com/1172/
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There's some funky things like drivers etc but on the whole switching to Linux is probably even easier for Kathy and Wayne (sorry, Alice and Bob) because the updates won't randomly break like MS's do
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Which would be fine if there was a good reason to do so but there often isn't
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Because they also ban everyone they disagree with
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471081 already posted
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I want to separate the site itself away from the audience, really It does get a bit screechy over there but I prefer to view it by its own merits technologically
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And while we're on the subject of Musk and Twitter it feels like architectually he did destroy it but I'd also like to point out that he told one of the authors of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barringto
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by alex1138 10mo ago
1996 is not that long ago as Unix goes but it's fun to know as I browse with my Debian computer that I'm using something (derived from Unix but BSD also isn't original Unix either) that has a long tradition
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Sarah Wynn Williams in her book talks about how it was her initiative to call it Free Basics because internet.org was false advertising
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To me it just validates the history of Facebook Did he/didn't he steal? Dunno, though there's a fair few bits of evidence in the various lawsuits (Winklevoss, Greenspan) But if you didn't know about any of that you could
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Speaking personally, Reels are just annoying (not that I admire TikTok either, aligned as it probably is with the CCP) Snapchat features are blood money, they also result in less people using Snapchat Nobody says Zuck doesn't earn a lo
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Yeah but Zuck has always been a nasty piece of work. He wasn't "just young" and "grew up" when he wrote those IMs. See: (to list just one) the constant copying of Snapchat
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Speaking of industry wide shift, how many companies has FB fucked up by proxy? I refer to the video metrics scandal. How many video autoplay and other things has everyone felt obliged to copy because Zuckerberg (who seems to care about nobo
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This Minimum 50% of cases (in anything). Probably higher
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ipv6's::syntax::is::weird
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I'll add, with no disrespect intended to BSD, because they're serious OSes, but GPL is also a really good thing to have
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This is true with a lot of companies. If you made people actually use their own product (do they?!) maybe they'd think twice before doing boneheaded things Then again, I get the biological desire to put food on the table for one's
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Their UX is not steamlined. They seem to also opt you in by default to every conceivable category of notifications. It feels like a clown website. If they fixed some of this it could genuinely be enjoyable though of course I get the point t
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Myspace was a problem with this On the one hand, the pages were kind of ugly. Nobody likes autoplaying music. On another hand, they ruined their own site with a (separate) series of boneheaded decisions. On the other hand, Tom didn't s

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