

I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven’t done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.
I’ll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.
Not ideologically pure.
I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven’t done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.
I’ll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.
No worries! And don’t let the negativity in this thread get to you - it’s nothing personal, people are just convinced you’re not real. If anything, I guess that’s a weird compliment of sorts. The best one could hope for coming from the internet, perhaps.
Over on Reddit, people posting pictures of some good looking person and asking “am I ugly” is a pretty common way of farming karma. Whatever the fuck karma is, that’s beyond the point here.
Reverse image search is a way to find where pictures have been posted before using Google. Here’s the search for your image. It appears Google and Reddit has gotten bad to the point where they say your picture was posted 7 years ago, even though this would appear to be false.
Combine the two, and there’s a perfect storm where people assume you’re some 50 year old guy with a weird kink. Sorry about that.
…but when you click those links in google reverse image search, they show completely different people. Except the one posted an hour ago. I have no idea what is going on here, just seems weird to me.
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I was a patient kid in school, teachers would pair me up with difficult kids and expect me to fix them without ever telling me that was their strategy. My patience wore real thin.
If the teachers are pushing for this, telling them that she’s approaching a breaking point and that this is not sustainable might help. Or it might not, teachers are only human and who knows what is going on in their heads.
Or how it has normalized using AI for everything between heaven and earth, when what is actually going on is machine learning. AI implies that the machine is thinking for itself, which of course leads (reasonable) people to draw conclusions that it’s not a very reliable source.
If you want this as a platform to socialize, I think the best thing you can do is to follow your interests, see if there are communities in what you’re interested in here already, and if there are not see if you can get one started.
One community I find particularly inspiring is !superbowl@lemmy.world, initiated by a single user (@anon6789@lemmy.world) who is making an amazing effort and now attracting quite a bit of attention from a bunch of followers.
But of course, it can also be challenging to build a community, as well as time consing - I have to admit I don’t really interact that much with online communities myself these days.
I have a tendency to give off a very unprofessional :| during these meetings, but that’s reserved for IRL only.
I only ever use :) myself. Can’t think of a work email where :( seems appropriate.
I think, on your end, my user name probably shows as just “cabbage”, not “@cabbage”. Which indicates it’s a user name (not exclusive), not a handle (exclusive).
Similarly, OP shows up to me as “Aurora (she/her)” rather than “aurora_glamour”, which is her handle. Piefed still displays the instance though.
It might not be ideal, as it makes imposters possible. Then again, that has always been the case by using visually identical Unicode characters, so it’s not entirely a new problem.
I never cared much about Reddit, but then again, I’m not using Lemmy either. So maybe you’re right.
Welcome here! It’s more focused on public discussion and less on individuals here, but there are some friendly communities around here as well. I hope you’ll like it, but it might not indeed be the best platform for developing proper friendships. :)
Sweet user name!
More on topic, the 30s are messed up indeed. Or maybe it’s just that I’m now in my 30s and the world is fucked. In either case I’m not a big fan.
ActivityPub is absolutely not suited for private communication. I guess you could in theory transfer encrypted content over AP as well, but it’s not what it is designed for and it generally makes little sense for content in a public forum like this. I don’t think anyone thinks otherwise.
This is not what is proposed though. For E2EE, Rimu suggests the following:
Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data
So to keep user data encrypted on the server, as well as looking into finding a way to encrypt private messages. I think it’s hard to argue this wouldn’t be at least a minor change for the better, giving instance administrators less insight into the private data of the users (and thereby also making them less vulnerable to law enforcement).
Of course this wouldn’t make PieFed or Lemmy or whatever a good replacement for Signal. It is not supposed to be. It’s a public forum. But it can still do its best to protect the identity of the users in this public forum, even with the inherent limitations of the format.
Just to clarify, you are aware that OP is the main developer of PieFed?
Chances are that PieFed more or less fits his idea of what he wants, considering that’s what he designed it to do.
I wish authors behind pieces like this would stop confounding AI and machine learning. People read stuff like this and end up believing that a language model managed to discover new metal alloys. The use of generative AI for an illustration certainly does not help.
That illustration is, however, not the fault of the journalist - it’s credited a prompt by Skoltech PR. So the PR department of the research institute itself thought some generative AI image was the best possible way to illustrate this. Which makes me a bit sceptical.
The cited lead author currently has one citation in Google Scholar, which seems to be the product of some workshop on LLMs. Another publication is on financial time series (famously not a field deprived of complexity), and now the author is suddenly an expert of metal alloys. I’m all for supporting young researchers, but I’m also a fan of trying to understand one field before jumping to the next.
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, a private institute in Moscow, started out in 2011 with scientific help from MIT and financial backing from the Russian state. In 2022 MIT cut their partnership for obvious reasons. I’m not sure this helps to inspire confidence, but then again I’m sure there are qualified people working there.
Then we have the concerns voiced already in this thread - can we even count on any of these findings to hold at all, if they didn’t bother actually putting anything to the test beyond their possibly faulty model.
Of course, this new paper is published in Nature, which is pretty renowned and has only occasionally fucked up by publishing grifters. And I don’t know the first thing about material science to assess the value of this research. Would love to hear if anyone closer to the field could give their take on it.
This is crazy to me. I have never seen it before, it seems incredibly weird to me, but your evidence is hard to argue against.
I’m sorry you experienced this, OP. As a European who has never been to the States it’s hard to imagine just how fast the US is going down the drain. It seems to me it is accelerating, bit entirely on the wrong direftion.
What are your options for leaving Texas? And would it realistically be better elsewhere?
It seems to me Blahaj is a particularly good instance for these things - it’s a moderation priority bordering on a raison d’être over there.