MudMan

Well, that works if the only vector of misinformation is broadcast-based, but it’s not. There are far fewer gatekeepers now than there were last century, you don’t just have to fact check what comes up the traditional media pipe, also social media claims and claims from marginal sources. Both of which look pretty much identical to traditional media in the forms that most people consume them, which is a big part of the issue.

And, of course, anonymous sourcing and source protection still has a place, it’s not as trivial as that.

In any case, there are no silver bullets here. This is the world we live in. We’re in mitigation mode now.

No. Not sure how you get that from the quote.

I’m assuming you’re in a microblogging flavor of federation and that’s why this is broken down into a bunch of posts?

Yes, I’m referring to journalism.

Well, a journalist would often be expected to get in touch with a source directly, which is not feasible if we’re all doing it.

I’ll grant you, it very often doesn’t happen, but still.

I don’t think I know what you’re trying to say there. Can you rephrase that more straightforwardly for me?

Like I said, we should get research methods taught in school from very early on. For one thing, understanding what even counts as a source is not a trivial problem, let alone an independent source, let alone a credible independent source.

There’s the mechanics of sourcing things (from home and on a computer, I presume we don’t want every private citizen to be making phone calls to verify every claim they come across in social media), a basic understanding of archival and how to get access to it and either a light understanding of the subject matter or how to get access to somebody who has it.

There’s a reason it’s supposed to be a full time job, but you can definitely teach kids enough of the basics to both assess the quality of what they come across and how to mitigate the worst of it. In all seriousness.

Well, I don’t know you personally. I’m saying anybody who has to fact-check the uncited claims made in news articles, and thus is an acting journalist is statistically very likely to be extremely unqualified for the job.

Which explains a lot of how the 21st century is going, honestly.

I mean, yeah.

Also probably extremely unqualified to be one.

We really should get way more research methodology stuff into school curriculums from much earlier.

This game was such a visual showpiece. It’d be hard to reproduce that feeling today, I think.

Even then fans of chess games mostly felt it was mediocre as a chess game and kind of annoying to play for long stretches, but pretty to look at. I don’t know what the equivalent of that is in 2024.

Well, I already bought an Intel Arc card on purpose, unironically and not for review, so… your move, nerds.

That a Chrome thing? Feels like a Chrome thing.

We used to actually USE bookmarks, man. It was dark.

Yeah, I’m not sure where they are with that. Earlier leaks did have a couple of higher specs and the mid-size spec matches some of the 580 numbers. You’d also think they’d have called the 580 “780” for consistency if they weren’t doing any higher end parts. But then, it’s 2024 Intel, so whether they come later or don’t come at all is anybody’s guess.

I’ll say that it sure looks like there’s room for a bit more juice in the architecture, given the power draw and the specs. The 4070 is the sweet spot GPU for midrange, and it’s a bit too expensive, so I’d be happy to see more solid competition in that range, which is a bit harder than this 4060-ish space.

Look, I don’t trust Statista numbers at all.

People are free to disagree on that one, Statista most of all. But what I think is undeniable is that these sub-percentage point changes are entirely within their margin of error (same goes for Steam, incidentally). You can look at trends over time, -and I think it’s pretty undeniable Win11 has struggled to onboard the Win10 userbase-, but I wouldn’t overreact to these short term updates.

I installed Mint this week.

It did install more smoothly than the others I tried on this run of “I wonder if Linux is viable now” (Fedora 41, Pop, Bazzite, if you’re wondering). It, however, does not support HDR yet and it, like every other one, won’t do proper 5.1 audio out of my ASUS MB, which has no official Linux drivers.

So Windows it is, then, because all the other distros had bigger problems. Fedora is the one that has all the features I need, and it still has the audio bug and it crashed a bunch after I went through all the hoops to set up an Nvidia card.

Their promo benchmarks have it beating the 770, though, whcih is still a viable card at this price point. It’ll be interesting to see if that pans out on reviews with independent tests.

Not in the market for one of these, but very curious to see how the 780 fares later. Definitely good to have more midrange options.

Meh, I ended up with an A770 for a repurposed PC and it’s been pretty solid, especially for the discounted price I got. I get that there were some driver growing pains, but I’m not in a hurry to replace that thing, it was a solid gamble.

Not a pop culture thing, it just sounds… self deprecating, I suppose.

Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that’s ballsy.

Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose “Home” feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don’t hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I’d be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I’m good there, too).

Holy crap, that was a hard pivot. Is your neck OK?

I mean, Bluesky is a private company, it seems to be incorporated in Delaware as a PBC and they claim it is owned by members of Bluesky itself. It’s unclear if that means Dorsey divested from it when he left the board or not, and since they’re not a public company they don’t have an obligation to say. You know as much about Bluesky as you do about Valve or Ikea.

I don’t actively support them or root for them, but it’s not a particularly huge mystery, and my paticipation on it doesn’t imply my moral support to their board members (who are public and known) or their investors.

You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.

I mean, don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answers to, I suppose.