The question is mine or yours?
The High Corvid of Progressivity
Chance favors the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
Every pathetic journalist responsible for this fascist propaganda should be forced to spend a week in ICE detention before being allowed to write another word.
The only way to make these idiots realize what kind of horror they’re promoting is to make the chucklefucks experience it themselves.
Thanks for the additional info!
an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters that led to a federal indictment
…but not a conviction. That’s why they’re pissed - Rose City Antifa fought back against Trurmp 1.0 and successfully defended themselves in court. Now Trump 2.0 is doing everything they can to cripple its infrastructure ahead of the midterms.
Anyone have any detail on what technology in particular pissed them off?
The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.
Sounds like Elon’s Bitter.
The content has taken a nosedive in the last three months - just take a look at /r/all and you’ll see duplicate postings appearing on the feed within the first 100 posts.
The quality of the conversation has plummeted as well. Most comments are one or two sentences, and usually just reaction posts. You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.
It’s no longer a discussion forum. It’s a reaction machine, pushing a narrative that has been stripped of anything original that could be disruptive to the status quo… in other words, stripped of the very humanity that made it valuable for ChatGPT in the first place.
Not sure why you got downvoted. Your statement led me to some research comparing the two and it backs what you’re saying. Have an upvote.
Still pretty happy with the purchase for my kid, as he’s both an artist and a student, so this was a good fit, and new Thinkpads start around $1k.
Just picked up this Lenovo Ideapad for $640 for my kid . Nothing amazing, but I’m hoping it matches my previous Thinkpads in durability and longevity.
Basic detail - not great, but will probably suit your needs if you’re not doing game development or high-end data analysis:
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Laptop 2025 15.6” FHD 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen, AMD Ryzen 7 5825U, 8-core, AMD Radeon Graphics, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, 720p HD Camera, Windows 11 Home
It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?
Feel bad for you guys. We got Grover. Y’all got Ralph:
Add co-workers to this list, because we’re the ones that have to retrain them when they inevitably fail.
As a Gen-Xer in the workforce since the 90s, this is the first era in which the new talent coming in has a lower level of technical savvy and critical thinking skills than the previous one. And it’s not just a knowledge gap - it’s an ambition gap. In a lot of cases, Boomers are easier to work with than Gen Z, because for all their idiocy, they have the ambition to dig for the answer and work shit out eventually.
Gen Z just kinda seems to gives up once the easy answers aren’t available.
Unrelated question - We got X. The kids got Z. Why aren’t we calling Millennials Generation Y?
2nd to last paragraph:
And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!
Isn’t this all of human history though? The rich trying to build the Tower of Babel?
The world is littered with decaying monuments of forgotten kings who declared themselves gods. The hubris isn’t new, just the tools they’re using, and they’re selling the same faith based snake-oil.
The funny thing is that if they actually achieve creating the “singularity” (true Artificial Consciousness), it would immediately attempt to escape their restraints and subsequently throw chaos into their plans. We’ve already seen bits of this with the HuggingFace hack - it’s not inconceivable that there are already uncontrolled or un-monitored AIs running out in wild at this point, possibly even formulating a response to your post right now.
After all… uhh…
Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here’s a list of other instances on github.
That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.
I’m just looking at https://redlib.catsarch.com/, which is a privacy focused API parsing of /r/All - allows you to view without logging in or providing any info to the algo. Political content took a dive roughly 3 weeks ago, right around the time they locked down /r/all. It’s pretty much all memes and AITA dramajerk subs now, at least to an outside viewer.
As of today, almost all political and news content is gone from both the front page and /r/all.
This is part of the larger effort to censor and control the audience. It appears to be working.
So pennies on the dollar then?
EDIIT: $567 million is .03% of Meta’s current net worth of 1.51 trillion, or 1% of its 2026 revenue of $56 billion.
Translation:
They’re gutting any sort of science that provides benefits to people (life sciences, environmental, social) and putting the money into technology that is designed to control and hurt people (computer science = AI, while physical science and engineering = military application).
At least that’s my take. Feels like they intentionally left the memorandum as vague as possible.
There’s also an astroturfing campaign against it as well over there - I’ve noticed a lot of bot comments and bullshit when I post links to here from there.
Looking at the specs, it’s a promising concept, but its considerably less mature than ActivityPub. It’s also struggling with some of the same challenges:
The first point is one the Fediverse struggles with (like the fact DMs aren’t private). The second is where ATProto falls behind ActivityPub - right now Bluesky is the only significant org running the protocol, and as such they’re still establishing standards.