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Tabs the whole bloody way round…

This seems like a FOSS bait and switch. Yall gotta start getting the message: The profit is the problem.

That or dumb money is just dumb, and if the cost of money is free, you can just guess at things that might work with thousands of monkeys hitting typewriters.

Could you get a couple whistles at ‘come online’ at various speeds?

You might need some funnels to concentrate the air, but if you might be able to tune it so it works in the lower speed, 0-30 range.

Otherwise, if you can could also get a Raspy and a gyroscope to play them as recordings when certain tilt requirements are met.

I’m gonna pay my $15 to watch.

15$?

Register a domain name based on some hair brain fantasy for the year.

Then spend the year ideating and fantasizing about what might be while doing nothing.

Thats a whole year of value for 15 bucks.

Yeah its been a journey. My cakeday for the an account I made on ml would be about now, and I think its around a month till this account is officially a year old.

Its an odd time to be on a platform like lemmy.

We’re seeing an almost complete adulteration of what we might call the internet 2.0 era sites into walled gardens of exclusion. Effectively, the stealing, en-masse of almost two decades of user generated content. The walls and gates of the gardens we planted get higher everyday; the enshittification of all things.

And yet here we are. On a self-hosted, federated, unbought, unbroken, and unbent platform. Obviously its not all roses, but for what its worth, both the users and developers have created something incredibly special: A ray of hope in a time where it seems like the world has only been changing for the worse. And while the instances have their differencs, we should be looking to embrace those differences as much as possible, because this is what truly gives the fediverse strength. If its Kbin or Lemmy or Mastadon; or .ml or .world or .blahaj.zone.

The point of the fediverse isn’t consolidation or control, but distribution and access. There is so much more possible simply because enough of us were willing to make the journey over here. We’re providing the future with an alternative that isn’t tracking them, trying to manipulate them with an algorithm, or to turn them into commodities. There is power in that.

So happy cakeday. Happy cake season to those who were messing around with a browser plug-in about this time last year, trying to delete their reddit history. Happy cakeday to the developers, to those who post, and to the commenters. And most of all, happy cake day to you dear lemming reading this. You make this place happen.

Happy cakeday.

How did the daily driver experience go?

I did it for a week with an external monitor and I thought it was… fine? Wondering about your experience.

40>11

That is a grim but valid point.

I still think it’s a spectrum and I put it at a 2-8% drop in polling by June, and a 6-12 point drop by July.

Keep in mind that’s not a probability of victory. Biden also working to lower his polling numbers.

Yeah. It definitely matters. Republicans and voters who voted for him in 2016 or 2020 aren’t a monolith. They are on a spectrum.

People change. People move on. People use lots of factors to decide what they think the best strategy is going to be.

There is a kind of recursive/ circular reasoning people use to determine who they support, which is specifically “how likely is this person to be elected?”, their electability. People aren’t willing to support a candidate if they don’t see them as ‘viable’ (which itself is determined in-part by how much support a candidate has).

Being a felon is just, straight-up, a hit to electability. A felon Trump is fundamentally less electable than non-felon Trump.

There is some cohort of republican voters that will never move on from Trump. There is some cohort of republican voters that are barely attached to Trump. Most lay some where in between. I would guess that maybe 10-15% of Republican voters won’t ever vote for anyone but Trump. Maybe the same percentage are barely attached to Trump (again 10-15%). If even 3-5% of Republican voters move away from Trump, heck if even 1% of Republican voters can be moved on this, that has big impacts because of the self-feeding nature of ‘electability’. A 3% drop in polling for Trump can very quickly turn into a 5-10% drop in polling.

This ruling makes it just that much harder for Trump to grow his base.

Ahem. I don’t see the Lemmy app on there.

This highlights the importance of anonymity and things like federated spaces on the modern web.

The tendency for people to want to take credit for their work is also at issue here, but the old Internet has a stronger, “I am my username”, emphasis on anonymity and relatively little credit taking for creativity.

I think the focus on personalities, and on single platforms gives companies leverage over as a users and creators of the Internet.I think if we were less concerned about ownership and taking credit, and more concerned about distribution and access, we can make it basically impossible for companies to gain leverage over ideas.

I think also the modern, reactionary view of copyright law is deeply problematic and counter productive. I don’t think the online left quite realizes they can’t can’t have it both ways. Like I get the instinct towards protectionism of small creators, but I think that modern concepts of copyright are fundamentally flawed at both a fundamental legal.level, but also at a conceptual level for what they are ‘pre-supposed’ to protect.

You know if you use temple_os you don’t have to worry about updates?

75?

Fuck that. Social security retirement age.

Looks like a dog.

Mmo game of were wolf or sheriff, but there are goal is to blend in the the NPCs

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This is 100% consistent with my experience. Its been clear that they are nerfing it on the back-end to deal with copyrighted material, illegal shit, etc (which I also think is bullshit but I accept is debatable).

Beyond that however, I think they are also down scoping the queries from 4 to 3.5 or other variants of ‘4’. I think this is a cost savings measure. Its absolutely clear however, that 4 is not what 4 was. The biggest issue I have with this is the issue of “What am I buying with a call to a given OpenAI product?”. What exactly am I buying if they are re-arranging the deck chairs under the hood?

I did some tests basically asking GPT4 to do some extremely complicated coding and analytics tasks. Early days it performed excellently. These days its a struggle to get it to do basic asks. The issue is that not that I cant get it to the solution, the issue is that it costs me more time and calls to do so.

I think we’re all still holding our breath for the ‘upgrade’, but I don’t think its going to come from OpenAI. I need a product that I’ll get consistent performance from that isn’t going to change on me.