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by nerdbert 3y ago
Required me to make an account on github? No thanks.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The reporter isn't calling it "news". It's clearly an opinion piece, written in the first person, in a totally non-reportorial voice.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If that were true, there are any number of simple solutions that would have allowed third-party mobile apps continued access at a reasonable cost. I think it's much more about collecting data about users' behavior. The official Re
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I have to admit that sound kinda fascinating to watch.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> They will add moderation tools to their app. Reddit has been promising this for about a decade with near zero to show for it. > The mods who leave will be replaced. The replacements will become annoyed for the same reasons the curre
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by nerdbert 3y ago
They did. You could get one with a green display, an amber display, or a white display.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The financial situation is different if you only have to keep the servers humming and pay some technical people, and aren't driven by VC funding that demands constant revenue growth.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes, I think an English creole is more likely than any other existing language.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It doesn't have to start until it is published or otherwise commercially exploited.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
"We have plenty of money and we are committed to keeping this going. And so we are shutting it down."
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> There are Reddit users waiting in the wings, wringing their hands ready to jump at the 'oppurtunity' to moderate established subreddits and will happily devote their time to custodial duties. Either those people will be bad m
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I sure haven't seen that. The subs that I participate in regularly which have remained closed, have had polls and/or discussions about it, and the members overwhelmingly agreed with the moderators. Maybe it depends on how strong t
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Did you hear about federation? I feel like we're not getting nearly as many /r/startrek jokes as we should be at this point.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There's limited value if the site isn't continuing to amass new human-generated content. An "AI" that can only answer questions about technologies used until June 2023 will probably not change the world in the long term.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Cable have limited bandwidth, and as it is just a single cable, not RX/TX pair as it is for ethernet and it has limited bandwidth DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gb/s down and 6Gb/s up using that same coaxial cable that's bee
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by nerdbert 3y ago
In the idiotic world of Ready Player One, the Jesus Gamer said that all kids would get five days of virtual school a week and then a minute later said that the entire system would be shut down for one of those days.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Nice try /u/spez
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I think the point is that now you have to go to chatgpt to get that information.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There was a time when you could get bitcoin for your reddit karma... back when spending several bitcoin for a pizza was a thing.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Slashdot had metamoderation, where you were asked whether various anonymized votes/tags were valid or not.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Slashdot didn't have democratic voting, though. You'd only get five votes once in a blue moon. It kept people from feeling as involved in the process.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Images generated by these systems look nice because the models were trained on photos that had already made it through curation filters before being published or distributed. Most people toss out their garbage photos and don't share th
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'd like to connect this thing to a drone and go flying.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Except you can't. Some of these objections sound like saying we're not really listening to music on our phones, I guess because there's not really a band playing, or because of the lossy sound encoding or something. In f
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I keep wondering how the demo units at Apple Stores are going to be kept non-vile.
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Unlike Microsoft? Windows APIs are just as "bespoke".
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The proposed model is fatal for them so I'm not sure how anything else could be worse.
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> Usenet didn't even have avatar images! Now let's not forget my 40-line ASCII-art sigfile.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Prices are not lower in Europe. I've lived in 5 countries in Europe. I paid about 10EUR in France for the same plan I have in the US on Tello for $7. I don't believe you. Find me any plan in the USA that is cheaper than what

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