@mekkaokereke also my wife just pointed out that not only are Swift's cats wealthier than her boyfriend, at least one of them is likely wealthier than Donald Trump (which, by the way, someone should probably tell him)
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I was a Cohost Plus member for a while. The format is neat, even if it wasn't for me.@riley charitable services require grants and/or benefactors. Also note that "charitable" and "non-profit" are not the same thing.
Nearly every nerd space I've spent time in (game stores, comic shops, etc.) has been a hobby project, funded at least in part by other resources its owner had access to.
I'm not saying it's not possible, but you'd need a handful of wealthy patrons contributing significant amounts to keep a charity social space running, and it wouldn't scale.
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I was a Cohost Plus member for a while. The format is neat, even if it wasn't for me.@riley honest thought?
The problem is it was providing a service, and services cost money to run.
Wanting to be a tool is great, but the only true tool is something users have to sand up and run themselves.
What they created - what every social, online service creates - is a social space that requires active maintenance for all the reasons social spaces require maintenance.
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I think the strongest takeaway from Cohost turning off is that it's probably just not possible to run a sustainable social media site without either subsidizing it with VC money or taking advantage of massive amounts of unpaid labor and unreimbursed se...@drdeeglaze @nex3 I suspect the answer is: not much if you have volunteer moderation and automated tools to deal with spam; Big Tech money if you have to hire professionals to do it all manually.
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I think the strongest takeaway from Cohost turning off is that it's probably just not possible to run a sustainable social media site without either subsidizing it with VC money or taking advantage of massive amounts of unpaid labor and unreimbursed se...@drdeeglaze @nex3 I wonder if you couldn't run a site with mandatory subscriptions but on a sliding scale.
Like I wonder where the break-even point is - how much does it cost per user to develop and maintain a social site (including moderation)? We probably actually have the data on this now, between Cohost and all of the fedi instances.
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I was a Cohost Plus member for a while. The format is neat, even if it wasn't for me.I was a Cohost Plus member for a while. The format is neat, even if it wasn't for me.
The thing is, I kind of expected this. The maintainers had been talking about being broke and burned out for a long, long time.
Not gonna pass judgment. It was a good idea. It's still a good idea, even if the format isn't my fave. They bit off more than they could chew and/or overestimated people's willingness to pay for it.
That said, I think something like cohost could exist on fedi.
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idea from @catraxx that i'm reposting in the hopes it will somehow become a reality: someone should stand up an Ultima Online server for the fediverse >_>@eniko oh I mean, yeah, fair. But how do you get resources to own a house and have furniture and clothes in UO?
I would have assumed an old-school MMO would have *more* grinding tbh.
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idea from @catraxx that i'm reposting in the hopes it will somehow become a reality: someone should stand up an Ultima Online server for the fediverse >_>@eniko counterpoint: you can hang out in Limsa Lominsa for free and you don't have to run a server.
(But I totally get what you're talking about. It would certainly be more appealing than, like, an IRC channel or Yet Another Discord.)
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idea from @catraxx that i'm reposting in the hopes it will somehow become a reality: someone should stand up an Ultima Online server for the fediverse >_>@eniko I don't really need a second MMO, but a virtual space people can hang out in would certainly be cool.
If I may ask, why UO?
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Gentle reminder that all programming languages have their uses; they are just tools, and you need a big toolbox to be able to solve a wide range of problems.I've found I can be close to full productivity on a completely new stack in 3-6 months.
In my experience it takes upwards of five years to fully understand a large codebase and its tooling; for very large codebases you may never understand the entire thing (and that's fine).
This is why hiring for a particular stack doesn't make much sense outside of very small, agile, startup-type companies.
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Gentle reminder that all programming languages have their uses; they are just tools, and you need a big toolbox to be able to solve a wide range of problems.Gentle reminder that all programming languages have their uses; they are just tools, and you need a big toolbox to be able to solve a wide range of problems.
Anyone who insists that a specific technology is the One True Way to succeed as a software developer is the proverbial guy with a hammer who thinks every problem is a nail.
Corollary: any developer worth their salt should be able to learn a new stack relatively quickly. It takes far longer to master a large codebase than a new language.
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Fuck Microsoft but if you're like me and can't just move off of Windows we'll all figure out how to disable their nonsense together.Fuck Microsoft but if you're like me and can't just move off of Windows we'll all figure out how to disable their nonsense together.
I've killed Cortana - and now Copilot - a million times on various hardware and you can bet your ass I'll do it again.
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Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.The existential risk posed by AI is that we as a species will no longer be able to transmit and build on generational knowledge, which is the primary thing that has allowed human society to advance since the end of the last ice age.
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Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.The existential risk is that the incredible repository of nearly all human knowledge that is the internet will be flooded with so much LLM-generated dreck that locating reliable information will become effectively impossible (alongside scientific journals, which are also suffering incredibly under the weight of ML spam).
The existential risk is that nobody will be able to trust a photo or video of anything because the vast majority of media will be fabricated.
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Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.
Nobody is going to give a large language model the nuclear codes.
The existential risk is to marginalized people who will be silently refused jobs or health care or parole, or who will be targeted by law enforcement or military action because of an ML model's inherent bias, and that because these models are black boxes, it will be nearly impossible for victims to appeal.
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Who decided to call them "Doritos minis" and not "Dorititos"?This of course implies the existence of a giant nacho cheese flavored chip just called a "Doro"
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Who decided to call them "Doritos minis" and not "Dorititos"?Who decided to call them "Doritos minis" and not "Dorititos"?
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My wife: I’ve never seen more Subarus than here in Portland@skinnylatte it's too bad it's not roller derby season; you could have gone down to Sellwood and taken in a bout or two.
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New CW indicator on web sucksNew CW indicator on web sucks
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Because of our ratfuck Supreme Court, colleges can no longer consider membership in historically underrepresented groups when deciding who to admit.In part their numbers are so low because unlike other top schools, the traditional affirmative action program benefitting white students - legacy admissions - is not officially a practice at MIT.