I Cast Fist

There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)

So you have to use a keyboard with your keyboard…

I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better

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The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.

I mean, he’s probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?

Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”

Pretty much. It’s probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users’ data.

Welp, that’s yet another maker of incredible art that turned out to be an absolute monster. Fucking hell.

If what he says about The Ocean at the End of the Lane about the kid representing him is true, then he’s just another case of keeping a vicious cycle of abuse going. He should’ve sought psychological help. Hell, he should seek psychological help now, the media would love to write about his RL redemption.

Serving for his rape crimes would also be nice.

Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t.

And why is that?

Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.

With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances or data center infrastructure.

Oh, because it’s not a fucking consumer product. It’s for enterprises that need a cheap supercomputer

From my limited knowledge, you’d need one account on each instance and have all of them boosting the original post, which would make them more visible in their local instances.

Real life 40k IG: ill equipped, trained and worked to exhaustion, lied to at every turn by the higher ups and accused of treason if ever captured

Copy-pasting a comment from Aurich (Ars Staffer):

I set up the Ars Mastodon instance, and speaking as a relatively educated and technically savvy person I found it extremely confusing. And the more I learned later the more I don’t feel remotely bad about being confused, it’s honestly pretty messy.

I put Ars on the main instance, and I think it was the right call. We’re not going to maintain our own, at least at this time, and trusting a random instance that’s very difficult to vet is kinda sketchy.

We ran a guest editorial a while back that I think really clearly outlines the various issues:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

But you know, it’s really okay. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular or mainstream. As long as it survives and people like it? That’s good enough.

I think going into an era of balkanization of social isn’t the worst thing.

One of my complaints with Mastodon and similars is that you can’t search only for posts of a specific instance, or temporarily mute a single instance from your feed. There’s also some sort of “invisible wall” for Pleroma users (niche of a niche), as their public posts simply don’t show up in public Mastodon searches, though I don’t know whether that’s a problem with Mastodon or Pleroma.

Autobahns

Hey guys, I just found madcat’s CSAM stash on Google drive! There’s also a video of him masturbating to it!

Hey, I’m just using my right to free speech! You can’t censor me!

Yes, even bad people should not be censored. When they misbehave, they should be barred from the place they harmed, ideally not forever, but for a week or so maximum.

“Won’t somebody please think of the spam bots?”

The problem is that this childish 'murican view of free speech and censorship has poisoned the entire discussion, because it assumes every speech is equal. It’s not. To think a group of idiots screaming on megaphones with the sole intent of causing a ruckus is the same thing as a 1 on 1 conversation is stupid. To equate a snake oil salesman with someone trying to sell a table is also stupid. Not all speech is done in good faith.

Censorship happens at any group, because it’s all about maintaining social cohesion. Remember when trump was first elected and several family ties and friendships effectively ended? That was RL censorship, because trying to mend the social cohesion wasn’t worth it. Why would you be close to someone who makes your life terrible?

The Supreme Court is now attempting to declare this notice-and-takedown system unconstitutional

This piece explains more or less how the debacle really isn’t about whether it’s unconstitutional, but a matter of convenience (so, yeah, a STF façade) - https://www.jota.info/artigos/marco-civil-da-internet-consideracoes-sobre-o-julgamento-da-constitucionalidade-do-art-19

It also explains that the constitution article being used is 5 XXXII, which is about consumer rights

Article 19, the piece being judged unconstitutional, is obviously not so. The problem, from my point of view, is that it needs to add more cases where the host/provider IS liable for content, especially any content which is advertised (that is, the platform gets money to make some content more visible it to more people). But that’d actually be good, and I know not to expect good things from my country, not even as side effect.

Meta is a threat to democracy. It has too much power over communications and is almost entirely unregulated in that regard. The same applies to Xitter and Tiktok and could apply to any other social media that gets too big.

“Oh, it’s user generated content, we just host it, we can’t be held liable!” - True, but you also profit off it. You also don’t properly act to contain bad actors and criminals (instagram is full of drug sellers and scammers) because they’re profitable, they pay for ad space. They should, at the very least, be liable for any ads they host and require full info (KYC, know your client) on the person paying for that ad.

So it’s ok to say that zuckerfucker developed mental illnesses due to excessive zoophile orgies

but lets just say they use a super underpowered graphics card. or very little ram, or hard drives too small to install most games on etc

That’s why PC games have always had minimum hardware specs listed. Potential buyers will have to keep that in mind if the device they’re getting happens to be too weak to run something like CP2077 or Horizon Zero Dawn.

While I find it unlikely to happen, I can totally see an OEM doing that, the “absolute bare minimum SteamOS” (AMD A6-7000, 2GB RAM, 16GB HD), but the bang for the buck might make it a total sales failure, because unlike a general use computer (such as those walmart cheapo win10 with no usable disk space), buyers of any steamdeck-like devices have a very focused use case of games, so the minimum acceptable specs will probably always be halfway decent

People working at evil company surprised that evil company hires horrible human beings, doubly so when criticism was silenced. I mean, what the fuck did you expect??

Yes, we all need to pay bills and etc, but if you work for an evil company, don’t act like you care about morals or ethics.

I don’t think hardware vendors will use chips or parts that lack decent working linux drivers, which would make the “too many hardware variants” point moot.

Then again, higher ups are known for taking stupid decisions.

$145.99 with me, just look at these CU-RAH-ZY savings!!!

The moment I read “no transaction fees”, I immediately wondered why that would be listed as a feature. Turns out it’s because it uses crypto, though I don’t understand why. Free domain names?