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by fleddr 4y ago
It's a truly strange conspiracy theory to extrapolate that Musk will simply delete Tweets he doesn't like. About a billion of those get posted each day. It's extremely unlikely he called for it on this one, sounds more like a
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Photographers pay more for lenses with worse optical characteristics..." ??? Example?
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by fleddr 4y ago
I understand what you're saying, but it wasn't my main point. I probably expressed it poorly. I was considering an artistically lacking photographer with good gear, that knows how the gear works. That's the typical target of
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by fleddr 4y ago
"A good photographer can take a great photo with low-end gear" Yet an even better shot with better gear. "A bad photographer with good gear doesn't produce good photos" Yet still a better photo compared to low-end g
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by fleddr 4y ago
In the real world, when you're unhinged, annoying, intrusive...you face almost immediate negative consequences. On social media, you're rewarded with engagement. Social media owners "moderate" behavior that maximizes the
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thank you for using that quote, it's one of my all-time favorites.
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by fleddr 4y ago
It seems to me this piece makes lots of assumptions that do not really apply to social media, where I'll use Twitter as the example, just like the author did. People don't really have "conversations" on social media. Mos
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by fleddr 4y ago
"We don't like to implement JPEG XL because this takes code, although barely so since we import a library. Also, we saw little usage in our own browser in which it is actually disabled by default."
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm sure that's a reference to Tesla delays? Fair enough. But my point is that Musk is the kind of person that can say "let's do video, you have 3 months". It doesn't really matter that it takes 4 or 5 months i
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by fleddr 4y ago
First, you didn't address my point that you cannot detect AI output. I already have Stability running on my PC. I generate an image with it. How do you know the output comes from Stability? Answer that, please. Second, a worldwide drac
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by fleddr 4y ago
The idea that Twitter's future is "bleak" is really premature. For that you have to separate your possible dislike of Musk from the actual ideas, instead of jumping to hysterical conclusions. Musk won't turn it into 4cha
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by fleddr 4y ago
Here's why I believe it is inevitable... It's already out there. On people's local computers and soon their mobile devices. People are tinkering with it at warp speed. This point addresses that it technically cannot be stoppe
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by fleddr 4y ago
I like this change, for it is radical. It's very hard to predict the outcome of it, so I'm above all interested in it as a social experiment. For quite a few "check marks" it will feel as a massive downgrade. Not only ar
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm thinking a little bit of empathy doesn't hurt. Reason from Hollie's point of view. She didn't ask for this and was working on cool stuff: https://holliemengert.com/ Next, somebody grabs her work (cop
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by fleddr 4y ago
The article is garbage. It just throws lots of things at the wall.
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by fleddr 4y ago
"The philosopher John Stuart Mill noted more than 200 years ago that, once decent living standards were assured, human efforts should be directed to the pursuit of social and moral progress and the increase of leisure, not the competit
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by fleddr 4y ago
Required reading: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're doing the exact same thing: reverting to instinctive binary positions and name-calling. Throwing away the baby with the bath water. The thing you accuse the original source of, you're mirroring. Sure enough, there really ar
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think there's a neutral technical aspect and a political aspect. The neutral aspect is that if you have so much money (a surplus) that you start giving it away to secondary causes, you're being misleading. The begging messages c
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Where the complaint does succeed is in showing an intense disgust for the social justice movement. So, don't donate to Wikimedia if you are also repulsed by the thought of (a small amount of money going towards) young, non-white,
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's far more than 50%. When specifically considering "woke" politics, centrists and moderate progressives reject it too. I'd say it's in the range of 70-90% rejecting. Pretty much anybody outside California rejects
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're purposefully misreading the situation. A BIPOC receiving a grant is not the issue, the issue, and what might be considered "woke" is to give the grant because they are BIPOC. That's "equity". Equity mean
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by fleddr 4y ago
"For a little time everything is good..." I hear what you're saying. There used to be a time and place where perhaps you could join some niche, a "non-political" one if you will. That barely holds up these days. Peo
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by fleddr 4y ago
Twitter's appeal is outrage and controversy. Their users are addicted to it, even if they don't care to admit it. That's why no significant migration to Mastodon will take place. Even if you do manage to lift and shift your b
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think most are missing that this is a code review + loyalty review. For sure a software engineer from Tesla, or even a manager, can get an idea of how valuable/productive a coder is without fully understanding the code in detail. How
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by fleddr 4y ago
In such a diverse council, which in theory is good, you'll find that moderation policy will be dominated by whatever the "marginalized" members say. Which quite likely is the way it already works.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I reported a tweet where somebody threatened to kill somebody. One day later they came back to say that it's fine, actually.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I would agree that the (economic) policy of the democrats is center-right, but culturally the party definitely has a far-left voice. Radical feminism, postmodernism, anti-racism Mao struggles, gender puzzles. And to use the overused term &q
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by fleddr 4y ago
Exactly. Several types of deep hate, sometimes even death threats, are allowed on Twitter: general hate towards all men, all whites, specifically white men. It also matters who expresses the hate, more is allowed from non-whites, trans peop
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by fleddr 4y ago
Biological sex is not a construct, it's a simple observable reality. Biological sex is factual and immutable.

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