Brewchin

If you're going back that far, I remember hearing a story about the Australian military experimenting with immersive AI during a typical "give us money" event where a helicopter was flying over an area and the kangaroos scattered at the sound, disappearing over a hill...

Then reappeared with RPGs and fired them at the helicopter, taking it down. Lots of red faces and mumbling about working out some kinks. 😄

tl;dr: I'm old enough to remember when "AI" was a benign comic novelty. 🙃

Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.

Y'know, in case their servers are down...

Every serious person in law enforcement, who doesn't have an agenda, acknowledges that the old fashioned policing methods make all of this redundant.

It just takes longer (and so costs money), which is what this is about.

These people would destroy the security of the world's protocols just to save a few quid. It's deplorable.

I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure greedy pigboy is doing that. Everything changes.

It won't be what it was, and the grift will grow be off the charts, but I think it will evolve into a mix of what it was and grifters grifting. Just delineated by subreddit.

It's not often I laugh aloud at a meme, and rarer that I do so loudly. Excellent. 😄

"I don't like it...

• "...so it should be banned" (for everyone) is never the right approach.
• "...so I blocked it" (for me) is.

It's a simple heuristic that works in almost every situation.

You don't know what value something you don't like provides to others.

I did a search here before posting, so thought it was a new issue. Then later remembered I had my view set to 1 day... 🤦🏻‍♂️

The "What's New" link to the GitHub repo? I see now it's mentioned as a fix in the most recent version. 👍🏻

I'd wondered if that might be it, thanks.

I know the developer is active here, so thought it night be a good opportunity for them to address it ahead of more questions. 😊

The algorithmic feed and the low barrier to entry, including UX familiarity.

Aside from the headache of understanding what instances are and choosing one, and finding a decent mobile client, a lot of people care about unique usernames - especially those in the business/professional sphere.

I see their point, when @trustedname@genuine-instance can have all their effort and goodwill destroyed in a day by @trustedname@malicious-instance. While the Verification option exists, more needs to be done in ActivityPub and client developer guidelines to prevent or intuitively mitigate this kind of impersonation. But mentioning such shortcomings get sneered at or waved away, which keeps serious well-meaning people away.

Why would they go through that hassle when Bluesky's shortcomings are ideological and potential future direction?

Now do January 2025.

The IRL version of the used car salesman meme: "(Slaps roof) We can fit so many months inside this bad boy..."

Can't escape Cory Doctorow's observation that the internet is "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four".

We may be away from those 5 sites, but the behaviours and content from them is very much here.