True, checking whether a number is prime is very limited in scope for chargpt, but this is in line with other reports of progressive dumbing down.

I visit some subs occasionally on old reddit, but have never logged in again. Fuck u/spez.

It wasn’t that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative…I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)

Because he used his money to turn a townsquare into truthsocial 2.0 and now is paying trolls to stoke division. He is not a good actor.

PS: just to be more explicit: there are amoral people who screw you over without even noticing it, that’s how the game was set up, ok. But that is not what Elon is doing. This guy went out of his fucking way and took a loss to ruin a platform for everyone. Think about that. Imagine going out of your way to hurt yourself so you can hurt others more. And this guy says he wants to manage a Mars colony and lead humanity into the future. Please, Jesus, no.

E.g. Wikipedia is community-driven because people contribute individually without a lot of coordination and without anybody telling contributors what to do, same for game mods. I guess by “corporate-driven” you mean there is a hierarchy and people whose job it is to do what management says e.g. Wikipedia foundation runs the infrastructure that hosts the community content and the same for most games. I’m not sure I’d call it “corporate driven” unless it has board members and investors demanding a profit such that they influence the decisions downstream, like reddit.

Is this topic-specific or are there other bots other than the one in UnderNet? I’ve never found on IRC a book that wasn’t in libgen

Don’t inspire fear or disgust, that’s the basics.

It looks like they read your material, until you ask more questions and it starts hallucinating bullshit, like a kid pretending that he read a book for English class, but only read Cliff’s notes.

I remember, it was fun. And it’s actually important in the age of silomania. Heh, the internet’s not dead yet, turns out.

Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can’t lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.

But why do the current lemmy instances have to die if facebook decides to make ActivityPub+goldextra? We’ll just stay on our branch, maybe lose a few users who should know better. Facebook isn’t even making use of ActivityPub’s federation anyway, which is why we are here.

I’m actually afraid that they won’t defederate at some point but find some way to track the activities of the federated servers.

Yea, Eve was fun for a day or 2, then got more boring than an actual job. Another one is Don’t starve together in my opinion. No Man’s sky is getting there too, with every planet looking nearly the same while pretending to be different, while your chore is to constantly fix your deadbeat ship.

I don’t see why this is a problem (apart from supposedly private data like email), it’s not just Google that can do this, all this data is available to everyone for everyone who can use it to benefit. If you want to make Google pay for a publicly available good, tax them accordingly. That’s the point of taxes: if you are successful enough to take advantage in any way from a country’s public roads, education system, access to a labour market and a functioning society generally, taxing the massive profits from using that system is fair, not enclosing everything and holding access to the content we contributed hostage.

Isn’t this equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess’s_paradox

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox