Yeah, it really left a hole in the music world.

It definitely affected me. In retrospect I’m glad I bought a different EV.

As opposed to other social media platforms like reddit where you can only have one, right? 😜

That’s an interesting observation! It’s definitely plausible that some people might enjoy pretending to be LLMs (large language models) for fun or as a social experiment. The lines between human and AI-generated text are getting blurrier, especially as LLMs improve. Some folks might see it as a challenge to mimic the “voice” of an AI, whether to test their own skills, engage in satire, or even to highlight the current state of AI and its limitations.

On the flip side, encountering an LLM pretending to be a person raises questions about authenticity and the ethics of AI in communication. It brings up important discussions about transparency, trust, and how we interact with digital personas.

Both scenarios—humans mimicking AI and AI mimicking humans—illustrate the fascinating, sometimes confusing, state of our current tech landscape. The key takeaway might be that whether you’re interacting with a person or an AI, it’s always good to be mindful and critical of the content you’re engaging with.

To be fair, nerds will tell their tech-illiterate friends about this change and probably influence them enough to consider it. Especially when it’s something as easy as downloading an application.

It’s much easier to switch a browser then it is to stop using Google, Facebook, etc.

I’m sure the void would have been filled with anither company.

This should be the American catch phrase 😅

The problem isn’t that there are no libraries out there that parse Markdown. There are, in fact, plenty for all different languages. The issue is that every site has its own flavor of it. Lemmy does it one way, GitHub another, and something else does it completely differently yet again.

It is, unfortunately, kind of a mess.

In university I had a prof that used an overhead projector and a marker to slowly follow the lines drawn on the sheets.

I’d have given anything for a few PowerPoint slides.

“Why fix what is not broken??” George added when asked if they wished they had been separated.

This one still gets me.

It’s so normal for us to assume that the best course of action would have been to separate them if possible and here is the person affected by it saying otherwise.

“And then everyone clapped and I got a raise”

Closed source does mean it’s worse by default because we can’t verify what the app does. The only things we really know about Whatsapp are:

1. Meta is scanning your texts before the message is sent. Back when I last used it you could easily verify this by typing a url and having the app underline the url for you.

2. Meta is collecting an enormous amount of Metadata. This can also be verified by checking the permissions the app has and by various people that have monitored the background activity of the app.

3. Meta is using the Signal protocol to send the message. However, as previously explained this means nothing because they already scanned the message prior to sending it.

So with no way to look at the code we have to assume that Meta is collecting and storing the messages and their metadata.

As another older gamer I have bought every single switch first party game to display them on my shelves. I also have them all on my PC as roms so I can enjoy them with high fidelity and stable 60 FPS.

I will neither buy another one of their games nor their next console and I also downloaded each and every rom I could find out of spite. I hope their next console crashes and burns like the Wii U…

What if we’re part of an early machine learning cycle? Things will get worse and worse until our simulation fails so future generations can become better.

I don’t know about brainwashed, but he was indeed a deeply troubled person.

Do you have a source? I watch the channel quite a bit and haven’t heard about the controversy at all.

Not OP, but the lack of Linux support is my biggest issue with them.

This argument always bothers me.

Do you really expect people that are involved with child pornography to go “Oh well, now that it’s forbidden to have private messaging I guess I will just stop looking at children, because the law is the law and I have to follow it.”?

These people know they are breaking the law and I can promise you this. They will find a way to privately exchange their shit while the rest of us now have even less privacy…

Is this loss?