Devastating

“no skill, only play!” OP is wasting everyones time here, including himself. You can’t play the guitar if you refuse to learn how to play. Just go and return it while you still can.

The latest one was LSPatch. Did so much for me. Last message from the maintainer was something along the lines of ‘Seems like people are not happy with the project so I’m dropping it’.

I recently found out one my favourite FOSS projects was abandoned due to bullying. It was a small project and very fresh so it obviously came with some bugs and issues which is a given. The maintainer gave up only few months after because of all the negativity.

Well you can change your ‘assistant’ in Android so not even that.

Try this one

https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-dice-game

Ozawa has reportedly admitted that the charge is true. He told the officials that roads belong to humans and pigeons are the ones who should get out of the way.

Statements like this makes me wonder if hurting animals is so obviously evil or I’m just a hippie.

I remember there was a website where you could choose a companys Privacy Policy and it would give you the important points.

That does not sound quick at all

lol that got me good, thanks for that

Haha reading your other replies, you’re too humble for someone who knows what they’re talking about

I’m not gonna go too deep into it because I’m not qualified to, but I think the issue currently at hand, is that we’re throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Most of the AI models currently used in different branches are being used because they showed promise in the original problem they were designed for. All these tools you see today were more or less designed over than 30 years ago. There’s a lot of interesting stuff being done at an academic level today but we (understandably so) don’t see those in an everyday conversation

That’s a future problem for general AI. Right now it’s still very difficult to make an AI in a specific subject that does it’s job perfectly. That’s why even the commercial AI that we have are (should be) treated more like an ‘Assistant’

For sure, peoples’ only gripes with Mastodon is that it only has chronological timeline, which I personally prefer over Algorithms.

Omg I’m so sorry we thought you knew

That’s too optimistic, even for me. Peoples’ perception will decide the fate of the technology. You might be able to influence a couple of friends and family but the general public is much much larger.

Just take a look at what happened to cryptocurrency. It was an amazing and novel idea, decentrilizing money, cutting the banks, and the goverment from day to day transactions. It had it flaws but nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a few iterations. Nowadays ordinary people won’t touch it because it’s either for ‘illegal activities’, ‘scams’, or ‘gambling’.

I guess that makes us both guilty of underestimating Meta’s resources and influence.

Even in an unlikely event that people would notice our existence, should we choose to preemptively defederate Meta, it is much more likely for Meta to push the narrative that ‘they’ were the ones who deferated us. No one’s gonna hear about our values and what we stand for, even if they did, why would they believe us over the platform which allegedly has the power to influence elections?

edit: They don’t even need to make stuff up, they can just say they were unable to guarantee a safe and well moderated space as a company if they were to stay federated.

You are %100 correct, but I don’t understand how defederating Meta will change any of the things you pointed out?

I AM thinking about the survival of the network. It’s not the question of IF but WHEN they are gonna start pulling their usual BS. My point is, by federating with Threads we will expose more people to the fediverse, who might join us when the inevitable happens. Otherwise it’s just a missed opportunity. Personally, I hate Meta and wish to have nothing to do with them but the truth is we have more to gain by federating than they do. I might be too optimistic but I believe Threads is doomed to fail. It’s basically a social network with worst of both worlds. Threads doesn’t offer the privacy and freedom the rest of the fediverse does while it lacks the user loyalty and established communities so it will be very difficult for them to attract advertisers. We’ve also seen how easy corpos axe their less succesful products so there’s a good chance we might even come out on top.

edit: I was wrong about the community aspect, apparently Thread is interconnected with instagram… EEE does seem more of a concern now.

We absolutely do have something to gain and to lose, and that is users. Like it or not, the big players have the power to bring in massive number of people with marketing and brand recognition. And before you say to hell with Meta shills, if we fracture the fediverse in 2 parts, one federated with big players and the other without, I’d wager most users would prefer the first option when joining the fediverse. Just for reference, Threads got 5ml sign-ups in the first 4 hours, while Mastadon total userbase is around 10ml