Way better with the last two panels swapped!

The US left wing has a lot of great ideas and some really really terrible ones that are completely out of the mainstream.

That’s probably specific enough, right?

Replacement is just one application. What about generating entire performances? Can’t do it yet, but the data will be there when they figure it out.

The data is still going to be there when there’s cost effective AI tech…

• Dump on tl;drs
• Subject your readers to a minimally-edited 4000 word rant

You get to pick one.

Malicious custom emoji contained scripts that sent session cookies to the attackers.

And here’s where the mods turn to the camera with roguish smirks, because they weren’t necessarily bluffing.

You know, I’d love to read things that are written to be read, not something that reads like the storyboard to PCG’s video content for this item.

TBH I’m having a really tough time with this one. I’m not a lawyer, but there are competing Constitutional interests here:

• the state government wants to protect its citizens from discrimination by businesses within the state, which is a power it has (limited by federal law and the Constitution)
  • Importantly, it is NOT a violation of the couple’s constitutional rights if the business refuses to serve them because they’re gay. That’s why the state law exists, because there’s nothing covering this at the federal level.
• But in this case, the service is also a form of expression/speech by the vendor, which (religious or not) is constitutionally protected.
  • If the business in question was a plumber, there’s no question the state law would apply; plumbing is not a constitutionally-protected activity.

So we have a state law compelling speech-based services from businesses in scenarios where the client is a member of a protected class as defined by the law. Who wins?

Keep in mind that the same decision also controls the hypothetical-but-plausible situation where the business owner is a person who supports LGBT rights, and who doesn’t want to design a website extolling the exclusive virtues of a Christian heterosexual lifestyle for some highly religious prospective clients.

Of course a buck is a buck, and some designers would take that job because they wanted the money. But should they be compelled to make that site? I wouldn’t think so, personally!

So that’s a tricky angle. There’s also the edge cases.

• Can a printing business refuse to print a poster design by someone else on their printers if they don’t like the message of the poster? Probably not, because the service doesn’t fit as easily into the speech/expression category
• What about a sign painter who doesn’t write the text itself, just stylizes it? Is the creative expression still linked to the message?

Nope sorry, Youtube gets punished for bad ad practices. You don’t get to pretend that the content creator is the victim of the ad-blocking user when YT controls the platform.

Americans who understand the first amendment will tell you that freedom of association is inseparable from freedom of expression. The government (plus its agents) is the only entity constrained by the First Amendment. Everyone else benefits from it, including certain instance owners who don’t want to associate with certain others.

Hercule Poirot sat in his armchair, eyebrow raised as he read the peculiar Lemmy comment before him. His mustache twitched in amusement at the dramatic flair with which the analysis was presented. He admired the cleverness and relevance to the topic, but couldn’t shake a feeling of familiarity, as if he’d encountered a similar style of writing before.

The detective leaned back, his mind busy with the details concerning the case brought to him by an anonymous client. The client had claimed that the comment was generated by an LLM, an algorithmic language model, and sought Poirot’s expertise in evaluating the comment’s authenticity. It was a clever observation, but Poirot wondered if such a deduction could truly be made based on the content alone.

With a thoughtful stroke of his mustache, Poirot dissected the essence of the comment. He noted the grandiose language, the crafted phrases, and the lack of personal touch. It seemed constructed solely to impress, rather than convey genuine insight.

Poirot’s eyes scanned the room, landing on a shelf of books. He remembered a similar style of writing he’d come across in a novel written by a pretentious author. He retrieved the book, finding a passage that matched the tone of the Lemmy comment.

“Ah, mon ami,” Poirot muttered, smiling wryly. “It seems our LLM has not proven as original or interesting as they would have us believe.”

Poirot focused on the motive behind such an endeavor. Why would someone generate a comment that mimicked an author’s style? Perhaps an aspiring writer sought attention or validation.

With a triumphant glint, Poirot concluded that the motive behind the LLM’s imitation was simply a lack of creativity. The individual had chosen to emulate a well-known author’s style, believing it would garner attention.

“It seems, mon ami, that even in writing, some are tempted to take shortcuts,” Poirot mused, shaking his head. “But true brilliance lies not in imitation, but in the unique voice and perspective one brings to the table.”

With that, Hercule Poirot closed the book and returned it to its place on the shelf. He had solved the case of the Lemmy comment, revealing it to be an uninspiring endeavor. Poirot hoped that the aspiring writer behind the LLM would find their own voice and path of genuine creativity.

This is news about news, one of the most useless kinds of news. Pass.

Right but to your other point, the admins who don’t fork will send you spam.

Also, even if I don’t upgrade to v0.18, I have to live in a fediverse that have other instances that WILL, and they might pose a problem with increased spam.

A fork avoids this problem how?

I disagree, once your open source project “sprouts wings” you enter an unspoken power battle. If enough of the community disagrees with something the chance of a successful fork grows. Once a project is forked away, you no longer have any control at all.

Who’s writing the code for the fork? If you see them, can you ask them to just submit the PR that the devs said they’ll approve?

Despite what you’re implying, the devs have no duty to fix admin-reported problems using admin-dictated solutions.

They have already said they would accept a PR adding support for captchas. Someone will undoubtedly do this before long.

Until then, why the urgency? What is it that’s preventing you from keeping your instance on 0.17?

So basically we are sitting in a room.