if people can’t say “fuck” or “lick the outlet” anymore.

People can say fuck though, I’m not sure why people claim Internet is politically correct now just because we outgrew SomethingAwful & 4chan (both sites that still exist).

show the code or go fuck yourself

Except that’s not really true, you can look at the Linux kernel for example multiple out of tree forks existed for years because of personal beefs not coding skills (it doesn’t matter how good your tail-packing filesystem or scheduler is, if you’re an asshole it won’t get merged).

beautiful place where engineers and geeks lived in harmony.

The peaceful bliss of usenet forums & the nice decorum of mailing lists, lol. The mythical peaceful Internet has never existed.

Outbound firewall and SMAC protections.

If you compromise my server you’ll struggle to phone home without manual intervention, which is good enough to stop botnets.

You can’t leave me hanging, what subculture?

THIS, organize for things you can change.

And so some pointless but fun things too, I bike marshal at PSL/lib rallies, not really going to change anything but it is fun to do.

Effect change in your country, start local!

Nah bro, if we chant “one solution, revolution” one more time we’ll totally stop the genocide.

Anyone who drinks more than me, everyone who drinks less than me is a lightweight though!

What value would it add to the game?

• LLMs are computationally expensive
• Replacing voice actors with AI means making dialogue worse
• Replacing writers with AI means making the story worse

At the end of the day AI is mostly a marketing term for LLMs and LLMs just aren’t that useful in most games, they just average out a dataset to autocomplete a response, that autocompletion is worse than what a human would have written.

We saw with procedurally generated worlds that it takes a lot of effort to prune what is generated to make the game interesting.

There are particular subgenres of games and applications where LLMs might be useful though.

Why the move from SDDM to PLM?

What do you mean by fediverse data?

What problem are you trying to solve that isn’t solved by BitTorrent and IPFS?

The nice thing about the fediverse is that it’s largely a concept with a few common protocols to make interoperability easier, you can solve pretty much any problem in line with the fediverse, but you do actually need a problem to solve.

I think the issue is putting barriers to legit users even if it prevents some spam will keep us small.

What is the point of “staggered new account permissions”?

At most we should be Autofolding/hiding unpopular comments.

I don’t know, can you repeat the question?

https://www.guildofletting.com/blog/the-implied-covenant-for-quiet-enjoymentnbspand-how-it-impacts-tenancies

The landlord’s duty to adhere to quiet enjoyment means the landlord must:-

• Ensure the tenant’s actual possession of the property is not interfered with by the landlord or the landlord’s agent

• Prevent any interference with the tenant’s enjoyment of the property. Interference may arise because of an omission or failure to act.

The right is usually used to protect against harassment from landlord, but it extends much further.

I think there are a few reasons that mean the network effect of music services (YT music, Spotify, etc) are hard to beat:

• Available of commerical music - a service could obviously enable Piracy but this does make things more complicated
• Exposure for smaller bands - there’s a reason that even C3 content tends to be posted to the fediverse using its YouTube upload instead of the native upload
• Larger training data for recommendations - YT/Spotify can compare your entire listening history to every other user they have and use this to generate playlists of songs you might like, this is computationally expensive, relatively complex algorithmically (especially because it can’t be as simple as I doscribed at scale) & benefits from a large userbase.

This is something I’d like to work on when the world isn’t as on fire, I’m less focused on the backend at the moment and think:

• improvement could first be made to frontend apps like spottube (effective a Spotify privacy app), while piracy is easier (you can’t takedown software for enabling piracy as easily as you can services)
• Scrobbing/Playlist integration across multiple services to get more data even from people still locked in to Spotify
• Playlist generation with open algorithms - honestly this is something the fediverse is pretty weak on, I think Lemmy is really the only app I’ve seen grapple with this and it’s still very much functionally closed (while the code is open users can’t tweak their feeds)

None of this really helps artists though, but by breaking the cartel of music services, playlist generation could more easily include sources that do pay artists.

Honestly I don’t think they have much infrastructure, what they have online is more time, while the rest of us are out supporting our neighbors or trying to have a meaningful impact on the state of the world, they’re busy glazing Al-Sharaa.

But even on Lemmy their takes are unpopular, they’re just visible because we don’t filter them, and they get an initial boost because we (normies) are busy living life, while they are busy on their discords (🤔 weird how they use the same tools as right wingers to “organize”) telling eachother where to post their way to the “revolution”.

If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.

I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent (same goes for most left-wing spaces)

You’d be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off Asad Khamenei is sticking it to the man <insert ML bullshit about imperialism here>

That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.

Sadly it is not common practice anywhere as your landlord violating your lease in such a way, it is difficult to get anything done about it, because ultimately you still need somewhere to live and getting out of your contract isn’t a win, in the way that your landlord getting out of his and rendering you homeless if you don’t agree to his terms is.

I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.

You can’t imagine, the guy taking 1/2 your paycheck having to actually earn that money?