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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • That appears to be you avoiding explaining how a CEO of a for-profit company could censor an entire "decentralized" "open source" app for millions of people.

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • But that was already in the process of changing

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • But I thought BlueSky was open source and decentralized? /s

    EDIT: In case it's not obvious (as it apparently isn't to OP) if BlueSky was either of those things then it could not be simply shut down by a CEO.

  • What is World?

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  • Is this thing as sketchy as it seems?

    Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz involvement should be all you need to know. But the reality is probably less dystopian than some people make it out to be. World to me just seems to be Altman trying to sell a solution to the problem that he's trying to create with OpenAI (chatbots that are indistinguishable from humans).

  • 45k upvoted post on r/steam that's clearly AI garbage

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  • Non humans yes, non persons...?

  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • The whole point of federation is a variety of moderation styles so it doesn't really make sense to federate in comments from other communities because it would take away any identity that exists

  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • I noticed on the redditalternatives subreddit whenever someone mentions Lemmy and someone else is like "I didnt like it because of XYZ" someone else will often say "you should look into Piefed its much better"

    Which is funny to me but at least it's working!

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  • my instance required me to name a food from star trek lol

  • You wouldn't sideload the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

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  • What's your thoughts on this?

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  • It also pales in comparison to the carbon cost of printing out the poster and lighting it.

  • Removed

    Tuta posted a #deGoogle ing guide.

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  • There's Tasks.org, I remember trying it a while ago but I forget what turned me off. Not local-first maybe?

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    Tuta posted a #deGoogle ing guide.

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  • They're different things, Aurora is a privacy respecting alternative to the play store app. F-Droid is it's own thing but it's library does have some overlap.

    Best practice is to get both, and check F-Droir first.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • It worries me that there are scientists out there who are making studies based on the assumption that an LLM chat bot is a reasonable stand-in for a human in this context (in any context really but that's another conversation). It's just not what LLMs are, it's not what they are designed to do. They've fallen for the marketing.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • We address this question using a novel method - generative social simulation - that embeds Large Language Models within Agent-Based Models to create socially rich synthetic platforms. We create a minimal platform where agents can post, repost, and follow others. We find that the resulting following-networks reproduce three well-documented dysfunctions: (1) partisan echo chambers; (2) concentrated influence among a small elite; and (3) the amplification of polarized voices - creating a 'social media prism' that distorts political discourse.

    1. lmao "generative AI chatbots trained on social media behave like social media users"
    2. Shame on ArsTechnica they should be better than to publish a study like this.

  • Firefox is great, that is all

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  • what is happening in this post

  • first time using linux, how screwed am I?

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  • Go with Bazzite, it tries to mimic SteamOS out of the box. Very easy install/setup process (easier than windows).

    Bazzite is Fedora Kinoite with some extra stuff, Kinoite might be better for a desktop setup but either one is totally useable for gaming and desktop so don't overthink it.

  • NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism

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  • I recently came across Signal Jam which is a podcast about privacy that probably doesn't have anything most people in this community aren't aware of but still seems like a good resource for a lot of people.