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Not that you aren't correct, but Tahoe is a MacOS release, not iOS. I assume you mean iOS 18 (the version before iOS 26)?

Good message, but did you really need to use AI to write it? It could have been about half the length.

My question is why a sizeable portion of the American (and greater Western) public seemingly votes against their interests?

> You go an admit that you haven't read the article and then you knowingly make a strawman argument saying I support "social media sites using moderation centres from poor countries"

To clear it up, I read the article before my most recent reply to you. The very article that you linked mentions that private social networks use moderation centres from poor countries. Did you read the article you linked to me before sending it?

> Because they simply don't work today and at scale. We have new problems today that didn't exist in the past.

So your response is just to throw your hands up and say "won't work". Buddy, let me tell you, we could squeeze out a lot more performance to run social networks if we needed to. The hard part is the moderation, as you correct identified. But private-run social networks use questionable labour to moderate anyway (as per the article you linked).

In the past running a hobbyist social media worked, it can work again.

Mastodon isn't a good example. It's written in Ruby and serves up a heavy React application. A light version of it could be written in something much faster, and served up on something much smaller.

You haven't provided a coherent argument to suggest otherwise. Goodbye and thanks for the discussion.

I'm not OP, but; shorting requires careful timing. Because the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, I don't short.

Neovim now comes with its own plugin manager

Honestly did not see the article, I apologise.

The issue they are having is moderation, not technical costs. This is the same issue sites like Reddit have. In the article, they even mention that private social media sites use moderation centres from poor countries. That is abhorrent. Not sure why you are advocating for this?

> Spare us your fallacious "back in the old days" argument, we aren't there anymore, we are talking about now.

From my perspective, what is the point of continuing this conversation if you won't address an example in the past where my argument worked?

> 9.9/10 times it doesn't work

I'll concede that it doesn't work out a lot of the time. This is not very different from for-profit websites. Also, your number of 9.9/10 is probably pulled out of your ass. I'm note sure what the real number is, but I'd wager it's lower than 9.9/10.

I'm not sure how old you are, but in the early 2000s there were so many community forums; most of them survived. Even if it doesn't, the community can go to another host at some point.

This isn't the counterargument you think it is.

Easy. No corporate social media networks. Hobbyists run local light social networks (such as forums) again (like they do currently; see Mastodon, Lemmy), with super efficient SSR HTML that is cheap to host.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Is there any procedure to validate or at least allow users to report inaccurate content?

Why won't you respect your audience enough to write with your own voice?

Thanks. I know that there are things that can be done to bring down the compile speed of Rust, like splitting a project into sub crates. But I agree with the post that you linked. Game dev, especially UI and game mechanics benefits from a high degree of polish. You just can't realistically get that with compile times in the 10s of seconds. The most polished game I've played, Balatro, was built using Lua and Love2D specifically because of the iteration speed that they made possible.

This is not my area, but what about Rust or Odin?

You just reminded me of Star Wars Roleplaying on Habbo Hotel when I was a preteen circa 2006. Habbo Hotel was basically an IRC and MUD with user-created hotel rooms. The Sith and Jedi orders were popular "rooms" in Habbo, and would often rise to the top and bring an influx of users– mostly teenagers.

But they were clearly gated, like a nightclub. There were those who were "in" the Jedi Temple or Sith academy, and those who were out. This creates a sort of exclusivity, and people would naturally want to join the Jedi Temple or Sith Academy. They'd have to agree to a set of rules written on a sticky note on the room's wall, and dress the part.

Sometimes all hell would break loose when a Sith Warrior or Inquisitor would come and attack the Jedi Temple. They were legally allowed to do this, as long as people were online to witness it.

It was really interesting how they battled each other with just text chat. They had specified rules where you'd have to type out five action lines (minimum of 5 words) after an attack in order to maime or kill someone. At any point in those five lines, the defender could use 2 lines to repel the attack. To add a complication, the actions had to be coherent with each other.

So it ended up being a lot of;

Sith: Jedi filth! Hiding in your temple, while the universe suffers. I will free them of you!

Jedi: Your oppression ends here, Sith!

Sith: swings lightsaber towards your body

Sith: it connects with your neck

Sith: it cuts through the muscle

Jedi: swings lightsaber at lightsaber (illegal: 4 words)

Jedi: it parries your lightsaber away

Sith: it connects through the bone (illegal: parried)

Of course, these would often devolve into long OOC (out of character) arguments, and this drama would bring in even more of a crowd. It was chaotic, and a whole bunch of fun.

It wasn't just RP fighting though. They would have all the Jedi initiates wear "robes" and hang out in rooms decorated like a Jedi temple. Then the Jedi Masters would conduct lessons and we'd have to memorise the Jedi code.

I still remember the Sith code. I had to memorise it and recite it at random times to the Sith Lords. When I graduated from that, I ended up teaching it myself to several acolytes.

"Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me."

Pretty fun times.

I'm a fiction writer. The way you make AI better at writing prose is the same way you make a fiction writer better at writing prose...

You edit it manually.

That's it. There are no shortcuts to good prose, except perhaps paying a ghost writer.

I've been waiting for my lobste.rs invite for years. I joined the IRC for a few days, but being in Australia, rarely saw too much activity. I could chase someone down for an invite, but at that point I just don't care that much.

I'm just dipping my toes into AI. What prospective guardrails are being considered or used?

Just to piggyback onto this comment; has anyone tried running multiple of these in conjunction? For example, having a Python script that has one of these orchestrate others, and offloads certain tasks to better/more powerful models, or even cloud models?

For executives looking to impress? Not really. Being able to rattle off perspective on a book, curated by someone with very high media literacy would signal the same level of media literacy to their audience.

An LLM may be able to synthesise results well each time, but there will be quite a difference between a synopsis written by an LLM and someone whose job it is to write synopses of books.

Huge difference in quality, and considering the clientele, they are willing to pay for that quality.

It only does this if you have the apps in multiple groups. Dump them all in one group. Yeah it sucks that you can't configure each of them separately, but it works really reliably now.

Look I love Rust and hate Typescript. But if NPM didn't exist, wouldn't the attackers just hit the next most popular supply chain? Cargo isn't immune to this, as much as I love Rust and wish more shops used it.

I can't wait to see what these companies will be willing to pay real humans to clean up the mess they will have made– if they survive.

Come to Australia. About two years ago there was so many Teslas. In the space of two years, I've seen twice as many BYDs. I can only imagine this will continue.

Are these not the same things people are complaining about in the West, though?

Am on Vyvanse. It helps, but mostly just covers my work hours.

Yes. I get my gym and novel writing done before work. But I lose steam at work very early. No bueno.

The reason people go from work to nothing on retirement is because work fills up the nearly all of the productive hours of a person's life. If it were to take, let's say 4 days, or six hours a day, people would be so bored, they would be making projects, business ventures, or volunteering. And then on retirement, people would still have their hobbies and passion projects they had been working on their entire life.

That is the biggest rock in the bucket. Smaller rocks include social media use, diet, exercise, whether the person is in a toxic home environment, mental health, or has children.

I have ADHD and I often struggle with having the energy to do anything outside of work. So I try to optimise my life to give me the most energy that I can have. I eat really healthy; high protein, high fibre, low saturated fat. I try to keep my social media use low, using ScreenZen. I meditate. I do resistance exercise a few times a week.

But even still, I find that my mind is exhausted part of a way through a workday, usually by 14:00-15:00. Maybe that's because I'm a software engineer.

I don't know how to fix it. But I'd really appreciate an extra day a week off, even at the cost of some remuneration. I love my work, but I don't want it to feel like it's the only thing I have going.

I actually use LLMs a lot to rubber duck my problems and help develop plans. Then I manually code, to ensure my skills don't deteriorate. I feel like I'm a lot faster, with few of the downsides. Do you have any thoughts on this process?

How do you ever have a social media network that is immune to this from now? You could with the best intentions start a non-profit, defederated, open-source, grass roots social network. It would go great, until the moment it hits critical mass and becomes prey for people who are willing to piss in the pond to make money.

There's no way to defend against it. You can just copy and paste text from an LLM into the reply box.