The headline is that they advertised beauty products to girls after they detected them deleting a selfie. No ethics or morals at all

By age checking everybody connecting to social media

It’s not fictions job to sell your latest rentier extraction tool. The news media already does it by reprinting PR releases just be grateful for that.

If you want a positive view of the future any startup has the power to make one at any time. Then when you don’t get funding you’ll see where the real problem lies.

Typically working with a junior on a project is slower than not working with them. It’s a little odd you see this as like that and that it’s also faster.

It could also spell the end of today’s open Internet, as Europeans look to build alternative platforms to those of the giant U.S. tech firms.

I think you mean “closed internet”!

What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?

Oh no

I don’t see how you can write the law such that it allows training ai on copyrighted data without making it possible to train a special llm on a single github instead of the entire universe, and essentially treat it as a full compression of the source.

Because once you can generate the GPL code from the lossy ai database trained on it the GPL protection is meaningless.

If open source apps can’t be copyrighted then the GPL is worthless and that will harm open source development much more

But Sam is talking about copyright and all your examples are patents

There have been cases of crypto miners embedded but once discovered they’re nuked so quick it’s hard to get more than rumours.

C# modding is the most likely vector (rimworld, cities skylines, unity stuff) but Skyrim skse mods are raw code too. All can be misused.

Usually lua mods have a sandbox so they’re safe. Eg.factorio. and, um, more but my mind has gone blank.

There’s plenty of people on masto saying they have accounts on both but prefer bsky due to difficulty managing replies.

As I say I don’t really understand it but it’s a real thing big accounts experience.

The tagging sounds great. One of the problems with masto is showing the hashtags in the body making posts that use them look awful, and of course being entirely set by the author

I think there’s a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can’t quite understand it myself.

Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn’t help that “no algorithm” means “show first reply at the top” so quick replies can dominate comments.

The bit I don’t understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can’t quite believe that but I can’t see why blue sky would be less annoying.

It does have keyword blocking.

Not sure what nuclear block means but I can’t think of any way a blocked person could be seen again. It even has above nuclear blocking where you block their entire server.

It has custom feeds but the implementation with lists is very fiddly and I wish it would be improved.

There is a trending posts section but I think you want a personalised discover feed? Which will never happen of course.

Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.

There’s a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.

They aren’t. They’re chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.

Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it’s worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.

But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forever and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.

It’ll take 20+ years because that’s how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We’re all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.

I’m trapped in C++ so I’m doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.

C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels pointing in all directions.

Junior Devs could never code, yes including us

Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.

It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.

The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)

At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.

But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.