Here’s Nadella almost saying that headline:

For this not to be a bubble, by definition it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread. I think a telltale sign of if it’s a bubble would be if all we’re talking about are the tech firms. If all we talk about is what’s happening to the technology side that then that’s just purely supply side.

We’d just like to welcome on board our newest Pivot to AI contributor, Satya Nadella.

top kek omegalul

I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, OP, but I do know of https://activitypods.org/.

Great summary of the current state of things and of the actors involved. There’s a certain flavor of “oh no, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions!” to this situation that’s quite disheartening.

I’m not sure how the comments are counted, but there may be an increase in comments in Lemmy communities made by accounts from other fediverse software like piefed and mastodon.

The accounts that post to !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org and !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org are pretty great. I don’t know any of their IRL names (nor do I wish to, to some extent).

On the nth day of Christmas, my true love gave to meeeee–

An LLM in a pear tree?

Interestingly, that page cites vocata as related work

Plus, natural languages are not necessarily spoken nor heard; sign language is gestured (signed) and seen and many, mutually-incompatible sign languages have arisen over just the last few hundred years. Is this just me being pedantic or does Moro not address them at all in their book?

A Europe of sovereign regions, sounds great. A Europe of multinational corporations that uses the free market to enact a race to the bottom of quality of life just to ensure greater profits, please no.

There’s a reason many of the “far left” (read: actual socdem, not milquetoast neolib) political parties here are more wont to evoke leaving the EU, even those that despise Putin.

I wonder when those people started using reddit. I started in 2012 and it already felt like a completely different (and generally worse) experience several times over before the great API fiasco.

Oh god, reddit is now turning comments into links to search for other comments and posts that include the same terms or phrases.

I see a new post.
I click, I read, I scroll on.
I am the lurker.

#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)

It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.

which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don’t expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.

https://iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf “We simulated 131 million human beings using LLMs and found 11% of jobs could be done by AI instead of humans” I can’t tell what’s real with LLMs anymore. I wonder if that’s the point.

I want to chime in on the subject of community sidebars.

To my understanding, many of the mobile apps people use to interact with the fediverse (and more specifically the threadiverse) haven’t figured out a great way to render community sidebar content in a way that a new user knows that it exists. Sidebar content is accessible, but often hidden in a sub menu or a non-obvious interaction. I use Boost, for example; in it you swipe inwards from the right side of the screen to slide the sidebar into view. This isn’t surprising to me, a somewhat veteran Reddit user that expects communities to have sidebars and for those sidebars to be on the right side of the screen. However a user that doesn’t already know about community sidebars has almost no way of discovering their existence when they use Boost. Mobile apps have limited screen width so they tend to focus on their “principal use” (visiting a community to browse their posts), but if you don’t know that communities have sidebars in which they describe themselves and their posting and commenting rules it’s very easy to end up in OP’s position.

Not to excuse their comments nor question their ban; I agree with the decision by the mods of c/196 to not spend any more effort dealing with such an oblivious user.

I suspect many Lemmy clients are designed for experienced users who already know how to navigate the space(s) and how they function. Yet much of the “how do we introduce new people to the fediverse and onboard them?” discussions I’ve seen seem to settle on “suggest a generalist instance like LW or .zip, suggest a mobile app like Voyager, and make them start browsing! Newbs are put off by having to do work like read up on an instance”. I wonder how much this end up contributing to creating cases like OP’s.

Then again, !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone was plagued for over a year by men claiming they were “just responding to posts in their /all feeds”. When told about the community’s rules and sidebar, the most common response was along the lines of “I can’t be bothered to read the community name before commenting on a post in my feed, now I need to navigate to the community and find their sidebar?? This community should find a way to prevent their posts from appearing in /all instead”. If these users aren’t going to the effort of reading the community name as displayed on posts then there’s no guarantee they would read community sidebars even if they were already on-screen, in front of their eyeballs.

Even in the comments on this post I can see the argument that basically boils down to “spaces that don’t cater to me should also bear the effort of keeping out of my way” being voiced.

It’s a very clever follow-up to their previous project, the fediverse schema observatory (also mentioned in the Last Week in Fediverse published October 30th of last year).

Title changed, lol. Damage control for the damage control?

If you’ve ever watched his live streams, he lets the mask slip from time to time. […] There are other tells and dog whistles if you pay attention.

Totally. I’ve never even heard that comment on Michelle Obama but it tracks with all the other things I’ve seen slip by. I couldn’t point to a single moment that convinced me, but one of the earliest warning signs I saw was him defending another dev streamer who’s decidedly more lib-coded (theo-of-the-t3-stack/ping.gg/the-t3-llm-chat-app) to his community by stating “he helped me out when some people were trying to accuse me of being alt-right, which I mean come on <smirk>”. This being when he still had skinny anime girls as his pc desktop on-stream and would make “blue hair + pronouns” jokes about rust while simultaneously advocating to use the language.

It should have been obvious earlier to be honest.

But we’re supposed to be the unprejudiced ones, not the crypto-fash (I’m only being half sarcastic). It’s tiring how they exploit benefit-of-doubt, and it’s so hard for me to tell the difference between someone who’s well positioned to fall down the pipeline and someone who’s actively part of said pipeline.

this screenshot hurts me.

So “update omarchy” just means “do a git pull on the dotfiles repo” and it doesn’t even seem to be passing --depth 1 because we see info on several branches being updated and the entire “update” weighs in at 1.01 MiB just for 1 line change in the conf file to (I assume) make steam work nicely with hyprland…

This really reeks of not caring in the slightest about your users, almost to the point of “if they don’t know better and can’t figure out how to do it properly on their own, then they deserve to suffer”.

Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.

According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch’s installer take literally 5 times the disk space?

EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦