BitOneZero , 3 months ago

I think people who single out hate and dehumanization and violence in one spot have tunnel vision. Hate and violence is all bad. Hate is incredibly popular in drawing a crowd, but overall it is better to criticize all hate like Martin Luther King Jr. did. MLKJr would emphasize not just hate from white to blacks in USA, but all hate in the human brain in general. Too many people want to use hate as an organization tool, weaponize gangs of hate over something or another, and I’m sick of all the crossfire. With social media, it’s everywhere.

BitOneZero , 4 months ago

James Joyce has entered the chat

BitOneZero , 4 months ago

While I agree with what you are saying, I think audiences crave the falsehoods strongly, regardless of how the sausage is made. And I know that the technology itself may be regulated for normal consumers, while ‘professionals’ will use their wealth to get another set of technology that does it better. Much like in the USA prostitution is generally illegal, but filing sex for pornography media is legal. There really are not very many preaching to level the playing fields on media production hardware. And if you look at the energy requirements and cost of a high-end GPU just as run-time, you can start to get the sense of how a $15,000 camera is going to be able to do post-production that a consumer smartphone won’t have.

BitOneZero , 4 months ago

if I need a Chrome based browser

I don’t think Chromium has “gone bad”? They make a WIndows and macOS build too, not just Linux: chromium.woolyss.com/download/en/

BitOneZero , 5 months ago

Bad Dog seems to have a YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ but they aren’t off to a good start. All the songs they uploaded are marked as YouTube Kids which means you can’t even playlist them.

BitOneZero OP , 5 months ago

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

This fits with the “Rumors” of technology company of this community.

BitOneZero OP , 5 months ago

Twitter / X is the drug, tiny little bits of LSD drug. www.LazyWake.com for video by media expert Marshall McLuhan.

BitOneZero OP , 6 months ago

Kids these days. In 1776 when I was 7 years old, we MEME war on CB Radio, Breaker 19!

BitOneZero OP , 6 months ago

My contribution to Humanity and #MemeLife platforms - I come from BBS days in high school.

BitOneZero , 6 months ago

IBM, Lions Gate, Apple, EU… apnews.com/…/elon-musk-x-antisemitism-twitter-ads…

BitOneZero , 7 months ago

“Je ne vois pas dans la religion le mystère de l’Incarnation mais le mystère de l’Ordre Social. La religion rattache au ciel une idée d’égalité qui empêche le riche d’être massacré par le pauvre.” (Napoléon Bonaparte / 1769-1821 / au Conseil d’Etat, le 4 mars 1806)

BitOneZero , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

We are in an Information War and I don’t see enough peer to peer friendships being made between The People of China and everyday people in USA, South America, Africa, North America, Europe, Australia, etc.

I don’t see China people on GitHub and YouTube like I did 5 years ago. Maybe the real war is power over technology and all of humanity isn’t winning. Isn’t that another way to interpret Climate Change, an education mistake on a global scale? Advertising and marketing defeating science teachers? The love for the singe-passenger automobile 9 to 5 commute job - exceeding the reality of global climate physics?

Like they say in The Orville - Dolly Parton was a hero! she basically turned out to be a great teacher, like Mr. Rogers on the true problems of childhood. 9 to 5 was kind of like showing children what your divorced single mother was having to go through. Not to say that fit the relationships in the film itself, but the office environment of white collar world. The technology of the Office Workplace and the era of typewriters as business machines. EDIT: It’s a real War: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Do6VWUxyg

BitOneZero OP , 8 months ago

Latest information is often of the highest quality on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaraqosh_wedding_fire

114 deaths reported so far.

BitOneZero , 8 months ago

we aren’t far away from easily-made interactive images / video where people will be able to create realistic selfies / video clips of their own self - in famous situations. Like Forest Gump being inserted into meeting historic President. The appeal is too strong and it will likely create tons of highly upvoted/shared social media images distorting the original.

People tend to treat detecting photoshop images as a game of one-upmanship, not as an importance of preserving a documented concept or situation for others to learn and understand.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

I think public-facing they have to be that way, otherwise they would copyright infringe on their training material. Behind the scenes, I suspect that the wealthy can gain access to AI engines where the random response isn’t set so high and they can even fact-check and cite their own training material better. It’s really hard to imagine that they can debug these things without having any idea what training material influenced which pattern of associations. I sure don’t buy that they don’t have tools to trace back to training material.

Right now consumer-facing AI wants to put in simple prompts and get back unique term papers each time you ask it the same question.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

I think their creators have deliberately disconnected the runtime AI model from re-reading their own training material because it’s a copyright and licensing nightmare.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

What a non-story.

Lemmy project set wild unrealistic expectations on GItHub project: 1) "high performance’, maybe the Rust code but PostgreSQL logic is the ORM madness. 2) “full erase” while sending all your public comments and posts to ActivePub without agreement on concept of delete.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

“Terms of service” checkmarks are their reality

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

Just because it’s written in Rust doesn’t make your app safe, or performant.

Lemmy 0.18.4 listing posts, frequently via ORM Diesel:

<span style="color:#323232;">            SELECT "post"."id", "post"."name", "post"."url", "post"."body", "post"."creator_id", "post"."community_id", "post"."removed",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post"."locked", "post"."published", "post"."updated", "post"."deleted", "post"."nsfw", "post"."embed_title", "post"."embed_description",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post"."thumbnail_url", "post"."ap_id", "post"."local", "post"."embed_video_url", "post"."language_id", "post"."featured_community",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post"."featured_local",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "person"."id", "person"."name", "person"."display_name", "person"."avatar", "person"."banned", "person"."published", "person"."updated",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "person"."actor_id", "person"."bio", "person"."local", "person"."private_key", "person"."public_key", "person"."last_refreshed_at",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "person"."banner", "person"."deleted", "person"."inbox_url", "person"."shared_inbox_url", "person"."matrix_user_id",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "person"."admin",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "person"."bot_account", "person"."ban_expires", "person"."instance_id",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "community"."id", "community"."name", "community"."title", "community"."description", "community"."removed", "community"."published",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "community"."updated", "community"."deleted", "community"."nsfw", "community"."actor_id", "community"."local", "community"."private_key",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "community"."public_key", "community"."last_refreshed_at", "community"."icon", "community"."banner", "community"."followers_url",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "community"."inbox_url", "community"."shared_inbox_url", "community"."hidden", "community"."posting_restricted_to_mods",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "community"."instance_id", "community"."moderators_url", "community"."featured_url",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              ("community_person_ban"."id" IS NOT NULL),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."id", "post_aggregates"."post_id", "post_aggregates"."comments", "post_aggregates"."score", "post_aggregates"."upvotes",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."downvotes", "post_aggregates"."published", "post_aggregates"."newest_comment_time_necro",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."newest_comment_time", "post_aggregates"."featured_community", "post_aggregates"."featured_local",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."hot_rank", "post_aggregates"."hot_rank_active", "post_aggregates"."community_id", "post_aggregates"."creator_id",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."controversy_rank", "community_follower"."pending",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              ("post_saved"."id" IS NOT NULL),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              ("post_read"."id" IS NOT NULL),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              ("person_block"."id" IS NOT NULL),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_like"."score",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              coalesce(("post_aggregates"."comments" - "person_post_aggregates"."read_comments"),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              "post_aggregates"."comments")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">             
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              FROM ((((((((((((
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                ("post_aggregates"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                   INNER JOIN "person" ON ("post_aggregates"."creator_id" = "person"."id"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                INNER JOIN "community" ON ("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community"."id"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_person_ban" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_person_ban"."community_id") AND ("community_person_ban"."person_id" = "post_aggregates"."creator_id"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                INNER JOIN "post" ON ("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post"."id")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_follower" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_follower"."community_id") AND ("community_follower"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_moderator" ON (("post"."community_id" = "community_moderator"."community_id") AND ("community_moderator"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_saved" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_saved"."post_id") AND ("post_saved"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_read" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_read"."post_id") AND ("post_read"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "person_block" ON (("post_aggregates"."creator_id" = "person_block"."target_id") AND ("person_block"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_like" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_like"."post_id") AND ("post_like"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "person_post_aggregates" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "person_post_aggregates"."post_id") AND ("person_post_aggregates"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_block" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_block"."community_id") AND ("community_block"."person_id" = $1))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LEFT OUTER JOIN "local_user_language" ON (("post"."language_id" = "local_user_language"."language_id") AND ("local_user_language"."local_user_id" = $2))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                WHERE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                (((
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    (((
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    (
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    ("community"."removed" = $3) AND ("post"."removed" = $4))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("community_follower"."pending" IS NOT NULL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("post"."nsfw" = $5)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("community"."nsfw" = $6)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("local_user_language"."language_id" IS NOT NULL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("community_block"."person_id" IS NULL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    AND ("person_block"."person_id" IS NULL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                ORDER BY "post_aggregates"."featured_local" DESC , "post_aggregates"."hot_rank_active" DESC , "post_aggregates"."published" DESC
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                LIMIT $7
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                OFFSET $8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">			;`
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

That is with hand-optimized person_id = $1, which the Rust code does not do.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

serous problems with scalability, it works fine if there is little data in the system.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

We have way more complex queries

It isn’t the complexity that is the problem. It is the open-ended nature. It lacks any WHERE clause that specifies which posts to get. It just kicks off join after join without restricting what it is looking for. It relies on the “LIMIT 50” that Lemmy restricts post listings too. Which worked OK in March 2023 when Lemmy was over 4 years old and still had very tiny amounts of data in all these tables that it joins, but once even a modest amount of data got point in the open-ended nature of the WHERE clause kept making it slower and slower as more and more content.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

ok… that’s about as exciting of a cause as … plain oatmeal.

BitOneZero , 9 months ago

it sounds like he was listing to sell the actual game, not just 45 minutes of footage of the game…

BitOneZero , 10 months ago

absent

Edge: …microsoft.com/…/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-…

BitOneZero , 10 months ago

“Essentially, they’re saying you can bake up a sample of this stuff, pop it out of the oven, and just sitting there on your lab bench it will conduct electricity without any resistance.”

From what I have heard, it’s not supposed to be that expensive or even difficult to make. They should have sent actual samples of the material to a dozen different universities from a batch they share their own data measurements about. Save everyone a lot of time about doubts that it’s manufactured correctly.

BitOneZero , 10 months ago

I think this is bullshit.

I think it is exactly how people are behaving. And I can even recall witnessing many people first hand who flip a newspaper to the sports section. Never learning anything about science news, medical news, unless it’s some kind of social column about a diet.

People wanting to cut out and block things they don’t want to read in a newspaper is what I consider the “default behavior” of most of humanity. No surprise they do not care about the news their friends share. An intelligent computer system that filters out (based on topic/content study) what they don’t want to see before-hand is always going to be popular with such people.

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” — Marshall McLuhan.

BitOneZero , 1 year ago

That’s probably a big part. Web browsers can do ad blocking. Within the official Reddit app that’s way more difficult.