theneverfox

Don't forget the food... And the water, and the water used to grow the food, etc. Creating a clean generation of even mice would be pretty difficult, it's just everywhere, including most of the tools we'd use to make a cleanroom

You know, malls were initially envisioned as fully indoor planned communities. It didn't survive long, but it was a way better concept

And Facebook has some of the best open source work of all time, from the react ecosystem to making php feasible, to LLMs. There's certainly a ton missing and a lot of it is for their own products, but some of it goes far beyond their own needs

Facebook also did unethical human testing and debatably broke democracy and the social fabric

Just be even handed. Praise the good, denounce the bad, and keep in mind these are monstrously large companies and the people that did the good probably have little to do with the ones that did the bad

Google shouldn't get a pass because they bought Android and only partially used that ownership to control the ecosystem and push their own products

You'd think actual pay would be the next step after they realized pizza parties weren't cutting it anymore

Nope, the new strategy is to just complain "no one wants the deal I'm offering"

Nah, I'm thinking much bigger. I've got an AI that can transcribe video, I'm working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I've got one that can hold a conversation, and I've got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces

The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I'll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed

Then, I'll send it off to find content. It'll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting

I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I'll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home

I've been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I've got most of the key pieces already.

And that's the bubble of Internet I'm building - AI curation of my Internet life, it'll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet

It's quite possible, although I'm inclined to blame it on turnover and pressures for deadlines

I've come to see software kinda like a plant. If you neglect it, it rots, because all software is contextual and the world moves on. If you keep growing it, it starts to rot from the inside. If you carve out down to something smooth and streamlined, it can last a long time and just need TLC to bounce back

Ultimately, if you want something to be big and to last, you have to prune it, transplant it, and continuously work on it. There's no direct money to be made there though

And it helps a shit ton to have people around long-term. It can take years to learn a big stack, but having someone go "wait, if we do this we need to rexamine how we delete photos" is how you avoid fuck ups like this

Seriously... The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind... Not for a paycheck anyways

We're getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family

I'm just not seeing the risk here..."oh no, we wasted our time on a green tech that we didn't need"

This is going to take time to learn to scale up, and even if it turns out not to be useful energy-wise, it'll still create jobs now and have alternate applications down the road

I'd personally love an ev bike, but it'd be wasted on me right now. I really want an electric car because you could run the AC all night and power a computer - I want a little hotel on wheels

Just pause awkwardly for a second, long enough to be felt but not long enough for them to start talking again, and bring up something unrelated

It'll hit them with the feeling of social rejection, but without the confrontation or giving them anything to latch onto. Nothing to get offended about or argue against, there's nothing to react to there

It might take longer, but it's not a request to stop - it's training them to not bring it up. It'll make them uncomfortable to talk about it - even if they force themselves it'll be uncomfortable for them

(Unless they're high on the spectrum, in which case direct is better all around)

How is it a half measure? Not everyone can (or should) be a symbol

You could post your legal name and other socials on here... It would do nothing to make you more convincing imo. But by that logic, not doing so is a half measure

What's a CD?