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Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Dorsey went back to Xitter!

Why would he do that 🤦

sorry, ignore my previous comment. This too! I need to read a little on this now. Apparently i missed that move

edit: reading this ☞ https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

This tool was designed such that it had, you know, it was a base level protocol. It had a reference app on top. It was designed to be controlled by the people. I think the greatest idea — which we need — is an algorithm store, where you choose how you see all the conversations. But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that's truly decentralized. It’s another app. It's another app that's just kind of following in Twitter's footsteps, but for a different part of the population.

Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That's not what I wanted, that's not what I intended to help create.

Around the same time, I found Nostr. We don't know who the leader is, it's like this anonymous Brazilian. It has no board, no company behind it, no funding. It's a truly open protocol. The development environment is moving fast. And I gave a bunch of money to them.

Day by day, I learned that this was actually the path. It emerged from something that was not Twitter-driven, it was a reaction to Twitter's failures, and I thought that was right as well. That's what I should help, and that's what I should support.

So I just decided to delete my account on Bluesky, and really focus on Nostr, and funding that to the best of my ability. I asked to get off the board as well, because I just don't think a protocol needs a board or wants a board. And if it has a board, that's not the thing that I wanted to help build or wanted to help fund.

this sounds alright, no?

pale moon browser question in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 1 points 18 hours ago

where did you download palemoon from? Which OS are you on? Did you scan for viruses recently? Your lang may be set in English but is your region English speaking? did you try manually setting the homepage you prefer? &c et cetera

Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 3 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

they're not creating "another one". Dorsey is already made and he seems to be immune to whatever is working elon's intestines.

ps i don't care a bit about Dorsey either. I just see a difference.

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h‑rcPNID8W9E0KLCaJ1bRw3AVUtqjfkiGpTlnvH7dSF4 (sh.itjust.works)
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by Marius van Dokkum in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 3 points 1 day ago

year?

Fox Spotting in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Humans are accidental intermediate hosts that become infected by handling soil, dirt or animal hair that contains eggs.

☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcosis

Foxes, coyotes, domestic dogs, and other canids are the definitive hosts for the adult stage of the parasite. Cats may also be involved. The head of the tapeworm attaches to the intestinal mucosa by hooks and suckers. It then produces hundreds of microscopic eggs, which are dispersed through the feces.

Humans can become an aberrant intermediate host by accidentally ingesting eggs of E. multilocularis when handling infected animals or consuming contaminated food, vegetable, and water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcus_multilocularis

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

better now?

🙂

Speed Pioneer in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 2 points 1 day ago

You cannot copyright a fucking prompt, but you could sure as fuck try, but it will fai…

☞ "there surely will come a day when people can copyright their prompts"

every song is made of words, like prompts too are, yet nobody today (again ☞ today) argues that they're not copyrightable. You can make a song with a "random sequence of words" and if a year later, let's say, Taylor Swift makes another song with the same random sequence of words, I'm sure you won't still be claiming : oh, it was just a random sequence of words.

‘Yes, I am a human’: bot detection is no longer working – and just wait until AI agents come along in c/[email protected]
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet in c/[email protected]
Speed Pioneer in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the prompt has nothing to do with my question. I am questioning your comment.

with the way things are, there surely will come a day when people can copyright their prompts. Why do YOU care, you fucking dolt?

Speed Pioneer in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

are you an artist? are you working on, or with, ai? are you a lawyer?

where does this comment come from and why do you feel the need to add this comment under a prompt based image?

Are users deserting Elon Musk’s X en masse and where are they heading? in c/[email protected]
[–] merde 1 points 2 days ago

Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’ ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-claims-only-afd-can-save-germany

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analogy (sh.itjust.works)
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ladies and gentles,

the royal we presents to your attention this masterpiece of promptArt

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Lucid dream (en.wikipedia.org)
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  • The dreamer is aware that they are dreaming
  • They are aware actions will not carry over after waking
  • Physical laws need not apply in the dream
  • The dreamer has a clear memory of the waking world
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engineer's degree (sh.itjust.works)
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hophophop (sh.itjust.works)
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Wide Cars (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23039863

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Cargo cult (en.wikipedia.org)
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Cargo cults were diverse spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the late 19th century. Typically (but not universally) cargo cults included: charismatic prophet figures foretelling an imminent cataclysm and/or a coming utopia for followers—a worldview known as millenarianism; predictions by these prophets of the return of dead ancestors bringing an abundance of food and goods (the "cargo"),  typically including a bounty of Western goods or money, often under the belief that ancestral spirits were responsible for their creation; and the instruction by these prophets to followers to appease "ancestral spirits or other powerful beings" to fulfill the prophecy and receive the cargo by either reviving ancestral traditions or adopting new rituals, such as ecstatic dancing or imitating the actions of colonists and military personnel, like flag-raising, marching and/or drilling. Anthropologists have described cargo cults as rooted in pre-existing aspects of Melanesian society, as a reaction to colonial oppression and inequality disrupting traditional village life, or both.

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Decimal time (en.wikipedia.org)
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This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100,000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86,400 SI seconds per day).

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The Blue Boy - 1770, Thomas Gainsborough (sh.itjust.works)
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Blue–green distinction in language (en.wikipedia.org)
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In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e., expressed using a single umbrella term.

The exact definition of "blue" and "green" may be complicated by the speakers not primarily distinguishing the hue, but using terms that describe other color components such as saturation and luminosity, or other properties of the object being described. For example, "blue" and "green" might be distinguished, but a single term might be used for both if the color is dark. Furthermore, green might be associated with yellow, and blue with either black or gray.

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Krampus (en.wikipedia.org)
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Although Krampus appears in many variations, most share some common physical characteristics. He is hairy, usually brown or black, and has one foot that has the cloven hooves and horns of a goat. His long, pointed tongue drops out, and he has fangs.

Krampus carries chains, thought to symbolize the binding of the Devil by the Christian Church. He thrashes the chains for dramatic effect. The chains are sometimes accompanied with bells of various sizes. Krampus will carry a bundle of birch branches with which he occasionally swats children. The birch branches are replaced with a whip in some representations. On Christmas Eve, Krampus travels with a sack or a basket strapped to his back; this is to cart off evil children for drowning, eating, or transport to Hell. Some of the older versions make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and taken away.

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late fee (sh.itjust.works)
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