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I'm talking about the software side of things. Generative "AI" seems to be a "brute force" approach to artificial intelligence - just throwing hardware at the problem instead of finding a better approach. Given the limitations of GenAI, it just feels crazy to keep going this way. Like a sunk-cost fallacy. These are just my thoughts though, not a real scientific analysis.

I have to doubt the cost efficiency too.

It's strange that the concept of efficiency seems to have been abandoned. Is consumption of vast computing resources no longer seen as indication of a design flaw?

Upvotes/downvotes are unfortunately a fundamentally flawed concept. They originally served as an superior alternative to forums' previous sorting method of most-recently commented, but they are far from flawless themselves.

My ideal alternative would be some kind of customisable sort order chosen by the user that uses some kind of sentiment analysis of the text to find the kind of posts the user is interested in. For example, you could sort by whether post look serious or joking, how long they are, ratio of words to hyperlinks, etc. Could also filter out ragebait and similar rubbish.

Of course I can see downsides - performance considerations, and it would only work for text posts and comments, but it's just an idea off the top of my head.

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

I'm curious - what are the advantages of using Bazaar to install Flatpaks as opposed to just installing Flatpaks via the Software Manager in Linux Mint, or equivalent in other OSs.

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as "banks" for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn't like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .

If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.

I've often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I'm commenting from piefed.social