Yes. The people here are neat.

👋 hello it’s me

People complain about Lemmy having limited content and engagement. Not in this article so much. I’m sure there were fewer posts in the past too. But what I found is that there are real people on here and you don’t have to wade through bots and shills which makes this community feel much more whole to me.

They’ve been unprofitable for years. This move will probably push them into the black next year. Every company is using AI as an excuse for layoffs when it’s just over hiring.

I remember being a kid and looking up at a mostly still and dark sky. Fast forward to when I started hiking and camping much more in my thirties. I’m creeped out by the LEO satellites whipping around. I dont know exactly why. It feels like something changed that shouldn’t have. A place that we used to stare into the limitless beyond is now barred or trespassed by something so terrestrial.

Yeah the major powers have anti satellite weapons. Shits fucked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Round

This is the one I was thinking but drunken master fits as well!

There’s a movie about that. It’s pretty good

I recently vibed a project just to get a sense of where things are. One interesting take away was that everything the LLM wrote was basically a proof of concept, an example, a snippet.

I think this is probably a result of scraping stack overflow and other help sites. I doubt that this will really be resolved. The leak of Claude code shows that the industry leaders best approach to code quality and consistency is to beg the model to do the right thing.

Sources and data would be interesting here. Even anecdotes.

Direct censorship is another tool along with narrative shaping which highlights some content and buries other content. It’s interesting to see that the same tools that make user generated content palatable for advertisers is also suitable for mass censorship.

This further highlights the need to ditch centralized corporate platforms and move to independent platforms