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Settings > Default Font. (This is a serious answer for Firefox 120).

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We can only imagine how the internet was to the natives before the eternal September.

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Facebook, mostly. For China it's WeChat.

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The way the US democracy works, attempting this would be too dangerous i.e. either all your fellow voters agree with you or you lose. How sure are you about winning this?

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ChatGPT is the kind of AI that is hyped now. Other kinds of AI (formerly statistics) have been used for decades. Oh you can learn the parameters of some function from the data? Must be AI.

The Pilnacek case – A challenge also for the European rule of law (verfassungsblog.de)

With the “Pilnacek” case, the debate on corruption in Austria – ongoing since the „Ibiza affair“ (May 2019) but largely inconclusive so far – is heading for a new high point. The affair showcases massive political influence on the Austrian criminal justice system and proves that it is challenging to bring the problem...

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It's a good thing nothing critical depends on this, then!

Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4...

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stock investors, accountants

Computers already replaced a lot of them long ago.

management, CEOs

What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?

kpw OP ,

Thank you for a serious answer.

Threads has hashtags now (www.theverge.com)

“Tags work a little differently than hashtags do on platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). When composing a Threads post, you start a tag by tapping the # symbol and then typing out your topic. But instead of being limited to just one word, you can type out a whole phrase (with spaces!) and add special characters,...

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I use hashtags on Mastodon all the time. They're definitely useful and easier than subcommunities.

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If other drivers are more cautiously around you, it's already a huge win and to some extent offsets your mistakes.

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Great. So what?

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Crimson Screen of Grief

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No, there is a random crash every six hours now to increase familiarity.

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I would be very careful with that. US should try having a more representative government first.

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Talking about protocols seems pretty technical to me...

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Imagine someone cares more about the color of their bubble than proper end-to-end encryption.

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The same right the EU has to enforce standards in money, electrical plugs, data protection or food safety. Does your country not have laws on what products can and cannot be sold within its borders?

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RCS limits attaments to 100mb

Does it say so in the specification or is that the limit of a single RCS provider? How does sending files even work in RCS?

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Please send me the numbers of the lottery numbers last week. As you already know, I will split 50/50.

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Fuck.

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How do those governments have access to this data? Is it not TLS encrypted?

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It's not so difficult actually. If you already use Conversations from F-Droid you can use your XMPP address to receive push notifications for example.

Trump says he'll be a dictator only 'on day one' if elected (www.rte.ie)

Donald Trump has said that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US president again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that the US was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Fuck, well at least he’s honest on this statement

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Hard to say what would have happened, but I feel like I was pretty much unaffected as an European the last time.

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Yeah, probably wasn't great for climate action, but that's true for all conservative politicians not just the crazy ones. How did Trump affect whites and non-whites living in Europe differently?

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No.

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It's missing a emoji so I know how to react tho

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Please stop purposefully misunderstanding people when the thing their trying to say is clear. Most annoying character trait one could have.

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Matrix isn't proprietary, but effectively controlled by a single VC funded startup. We don't need a bloated re-invention of existing internet standards anyways. They should just make a better XMPP client.

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Yes, but compatibility with existing internet standards is also important. For example you can't have end-to-end encryption if you use a non-standard protocol. VC startups like Matrix only increase fragmentation of the ecosystem.

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The organization is called the IETF. The XMPP core is defined in RFC 6120 and RFC 6121 like DNS, HTTP, etc. are defined in RFCs.

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There are lots of high-level standards for communication. You might have heard of email, its protocols are also defined by the IETF. For instant messaging it is XMPP.

This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Matrix has E2EE while using a “non-standard” protocol.

You can only encrypt messages when the recipient happens to be a Matrix user too. If they use another protocol it's not possible. That's why we need standards and that's why building on existing internet standards is important as opposed to everyone cooking up their own IM protocol like Matrix does.

Every new project that is created increases fragmentation. So does Revolt, Discord, Skype, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. These all use “non-standard” protocols.

Yes, they all increase fragmentation as they do not interoperate with one another. A standard would solve this problem.

Lot's of standards are written by people who work at large corporations. Also multiple experts from multiple corporations work together. Wasn't the original author of the XMPP protocol was hired after the fact by Cisco, precisely because he wrote XMPP and the first server implementation?

The IETF still has a much better track record than any single corporation or VC funded start-up.

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That's why it's so fast.

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Overfitting.

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It can easily be fixed by truncating the output if it repeats too often. Until the next exploit is found.

Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. (lemmy.world)

We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, can display misaligned behavior and strategically deceive their users about this behavior without being instructed to do so. Concretely, we deploy GPT-4 as an agent in a realistic, simulated environment, where it assumes the...

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Which major corporation? Google and Microsoft don't seem to have one.

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This article may be bullshit, but people are still wasting their time on walled gardens like Signal. Organizations like Signal can easily disappear because they run out of money or, arguably worse, sellout because there is no other way to stay afloat. I wouldn't use any messenger not compatible with the XMPP internet standard at this point.

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All your contacts will still be gone when their servers shut down.

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Now everyone is using WhatsApp again and all energy that went towards convincing everyone to use Signal is lost. A better use of that energy would have been be to promote provider independent internet standards.

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Using the current server distribution of my contacts, I would never loose more than 13% of my contacts if a single server shuts down. Federated systems are much more resilient against providers shutting down as well as takeovers. Think Reddit vs Lemmy, Twitter vs Mastodon, Signal vs XMPP.

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Here is what I found works pretty good

Android: Conversations
Linux: Dino
Apple: Monal
Windows: Gajim
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I like it. I was looking for a Reddit client anyways. Now let's give users the ability to block domains like on Mastodon and everyone is happy.

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Can you prove that anyone except you exists?

You're reading this and you're not me, qed.
I actually just wanted OP to consider it. I know there cannot be definitive proof.

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