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Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s

Wait, didn't Starmer and co want to "AI" everything like last week? I thought the UK were going to be world leaders in "AI".

Oh snap yeah, they're broke.

This exactly. With a federated app store, how would users verify that apps hadn't been tampered with? Federation isn't a one size fits all solution.

And yes, "a future Fediverse OS" isn't a potential, it's a hallucination.

Checks out, Thursday must always be Star Trek day.

Per the article,

This brand new REPLICAart Series U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 figure […] is based on the iconic design from the 2009 film, Star Trek, meticulously replicates the NCC-1701’s appearance and intricate details.

Within the last few years, and particularly the last few months, we’ve heard this refrain: AI is the reason for an abuse committed by a corporation, military, or other powerful entity.

Oh, how does that '70s IBM memo run again? But this is both the allure — perhaps even a selling point — as well as the Achilles heel of "AI". When companies and authorities let it make decisions, they do so with the illusion that nobody is responsible for the consequences of those decisions.

The "AI" bros will have us know that as a technology, it is totally neutral. "It's just maths, you can't regulate maths". Yet they attribute faculty and agency to algorithms that acquits their users from responsibility, while denying the responsibility to the people whose work the algorithms are trained on.

Hopefully this first wave of realisation — that trusting faulty statistical implementations to do humans' work always come at a greater cost than the projected savings — will be the last. We need a good Butlerian Jihad so we can get back to our actual, global problems.

TBF, the device isn't out yet, so I'd think making a custom ROM would be premature. Your other comment makes me think twice about buying Oneplus again, though.

I got a lot of mileage out of my OP6, so perhaps the last model to receive a custom ROM would serve me fine for a couple of years.

I repressed that. Most of what I remember from that book is about the killer robot dog that is really a Good Boy. Also, never to buy a set of VR glasses from Mark Zuckerberg.

Huh. So the future we're living in is Minority report but instead of precog copaganda it's petty commercial entities excluding you on the basis of old tweets.

Hexenbrett are odd ducks, mixing their punky black metal with elements of Italian Giallo horror movie scores of the 1970s. This pandemic EP is probably the release where they even visually foreground the latter influence.

The song Joie de mort is particularly non-black metal with its bongo beat and horror synths, but even elsewhere the duo crack out a trumpet to bring some unexpected mariachi flavour into the mix. It's wonky but completely on brand for these Germans, and I kind of love it!

So, I was probably (one of) the first to post that “Pixelfed leaks private posts” thing on here? I first wrote a long reply to this, but it sort if got away from me. The short version would be,

A) sure, the fediverse has a bullying problem in the sense that people do, and that that is usually exacerbated in any online comment field. People are awful, and that includes me, you, Dansup, and anybody reading this. We're also usually pretty brilliant when nobody's looking.

B) despite what I write above, I don't take bullying lightly. I am really uncomfortable with how you use the generally phrased headline to address this specific case. You're not writing about the fediverse as such, you're casting Dansup as a victim.

C) Dan's up, Dan's down, Dan's a victim, Dan's throwing a fit online and then deleting the tweets. As you cite in OP, some people attribute all sorts of unrelated evil to him. Most of all, my impression is Dansup has as a hard time separating from his role as main developer on Pixelfed, Loops, etc, as online commenters has separating his work from (perceived) personal faults.

D) let's imagine those projects were fully open sourced and developed by the community already. Would we be in the same situation here? Again, resorting to ad hominem bullying in online discussion is unacceptable, but I do question that Dansup is an unequivocable victim. Nor is he an evil mastermind who has engineered this situation to garner pity. He just seems to be extremely hard working, with a generous pinch of need for control of his projects.

Spectacular answers

Look, I'm optimistic about the new season until proven wrong, but even I wince at that kind of hollow hyperbole. The episode previews have been promising enough that I'll be happy if the season arc is cohesive and sticks the landing.

Unfortunately, I also know that it's when RTD aims for "spectacular" he tends to lose sight of the basics.