And yet you’re on Lemmy which also has a hot feed.
The things is you can do both, and it’s hard and unrewarding to find interesting things on Mastodon. So I stopped trying.
The really dumb things is the new feed is also an algorithm. You’re just proud that it’s not very good.
It’s just a mathematical inevitablity that it won’t work well.
Most people’s posts are not as good as their best ones and if I’m just going to dip into a site I’d like to see things I’m interested in that other people also thought were good.
Some people don’t like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.
Yeah but most toots are boring, and the chronological feed, and refusal to even hide repeated posts by the same person, does Masterdon absolutely no favors.
I think the last time I logged in my new feed was entirely posts by Cory doctro, who just decided to toot an entire article, and after I clicked more posts enough, it was just showing pictures of someone else’s cup of tea.
There’s a hacky bridge that’s meant to allow for it, but Bluesky uses a different protocol, so no they can’t without a bunch of effort.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/bridgy-fed-connect-mastodon-and-bluesky
Yeah I tried to move to Mastodon but without a hot feed it’s just so boring.
Unfortunately only Bluesky and Lemmy seem to be attempting a decentralized hot feed, and Lemmy is too quiet for niche topics, and Bluesky is only decentralized in theory.
That’s probably more a stalling tactic then anything else.
The longer they can run down the clock, the greater the chance is that Trump dismantles the FCC before the case is over, and even if he doesn’t do that it lets them keep selling data for longer.
This is missing at least 9bn of Tesla subsidies. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-embraces-trump-scorns-subsidies-tesla-still-lobbies-us-benefits-2024-08-12/
Tesla’s first major manufacturing facility, in Fremont, California, was developed with the help of a $465 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, repaid three years later. More recently, Tesla has reaped almost $9 billion since 2018 by selling what are known as “regulatory credits” securities filings show.
The boring company also depend on us government contracts.
Wainwright has already condemned it and Leonard Cohen’s estate has issued a cease and desist order in response.
Fuck palantir, I want to know how Sauron is voting.
They recommend that you do vote, and don’t vote for anyone except Harris.
But they don’t explicitly recommend you vote for Harris.
This is super serious voting strategy you guys.
He fucked up dropping out as well as everything else. People can still vote 🪱 in a bunch of states.
The original case was just bullshit made up by a bored journalist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.
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Although it’s federated nature is kinda dying.
If you’re not on one of the major providers good luck getting people to see your email.
It just says can be activated. Not “automatically activates”.
Kill switches are overly dramatic silliness. Anything with a power button has a kill switch. It sounds impressive but it’s just theatre.
You err’d fucked-up twice.
Once when you flat out failed to find anything using Google, when other people clearly had no trouble at all. If you’re telling the truth, this just means you suck at Google. There’s no reason to be googling chatgpt’s hallucinations instead of searching for the stuff an actual human told you about.
The second time was when you took chatgpt seriously. Just don’t. It’s a very expensive toy that occasionally does something cool. We’re still trying to figure out if it’s actually useful for anything, or if it’s just really good at appearing useful.
Google returns sources that you can evaluate for accuracy.
Chatgpt just says things.
Every output of chatgpt should end with “source: just trust me bro”.
As someone working and publishing in the field this is more a cyber jerk about American exceptionalism than actually true.
Chinese universities and companies publish a shit tonne at pure machine learning conferences. They absolutely do a large amount of research into the fundamentals of machine learning as well as the applied stuff. They’re probably the closest to the US in terms of having large firms that are prepared to bank roll the training of the very large language models.
Alibaba in particular has been constantly doing cutting edge stuff in terms of multimodal language models that are worth paying attention to.
The actual truth is that China does both kinds of work. Broad foundational and applied work lead by independent research groups in companies and universities, and focused application driven stuff for direct application by the state.
Google still stands out in terms of the amount of research it does, but this is because Google is different to everyone -other US research institutes don’t compare to it either.
The app phones home to access recipes.
Maybe it works without access to the server, but maybe it just refuses to do anything.
I didn’t think so. It’s a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.
This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let’s you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you’re stuck with standard algorithms.
None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they’re mostly topic feeds, but who knows what’ll happen.