@anubis2814 Yeah, I read about that! I didn't want to go off on a big tangent about the Windows-emulation stuff, so it probably sounded like I was giving Ubuntu too much of the credit.
I was kinda surprised that the improvements showed up under Linux Steam rather than under Windows Steam under WINE (which is now actually rather more broken than it used to be) -- which just shows gaps in my information, I guess ;-)
@wdlindsy ...and now having read the entire thread: my greatest sympathies for your recently-intensified struggles. Remember that self-care is an act of rebellion, in these ugly political times. I wish you and your husband the best of luck in getting through all of this, and every possible joy on the journey.
@wdlindsy It sounds to me like the admins there... how shall I put this... have chosen to devote a level of moderation-resources that doesn't allow proper examination of context when handling reports.
(There's a possible worse explanation, but I'm going to choose the charitable one as long as there is no further evidence against it.)
We receive a fair number of reports in which posting anything non-negative about the Palestinian experience is equated to anti-semitism. This false equivalence appears to be very popular in political spheres in the US and UK (at a minimum).
I can easily imagine an overworked admin seeing "anti-semitism", not having the time to really look at the content (much less get to know the users well enough to determine if the accusation tracks with past behavior), and acting out of a genuine sense of wanting to maintain a safe space.
I have found, however, that failing to take context into consideration can lead to other forms of abuse -- most obviously malicious reporting intended to suppress discussion of certain topics. A well-meaning (but overworked) admin can thereby become a tool for speech suppression.
(I guess I'm just explaining all this in case it helps to shed any light on the situation.)
#Kubuntu 26.04 gets plus-points for Linux-Steam being able to run almost* all of my silly Windows colored-ball-smasher games (at long last), but minus-points for Eye of MATE always crashing on startup.
I have not yet been able to find any information about this issue.
(* Luxor 2 insists that it needs Win 98SE or later. There's probably a fix for this...)
@sus The ethos has not yet caught up with the technology.
(I predict that much of what is flatly dismissed now as unethical will be understood to be ethical if used in certain careful ways, following guidelines informed by years of cultural experience -- preferably aided by sensible rules and regulations. The mirror of this is also true: it will be much harder to get away with blanket praise for all applications. ...kind of like how advertisers used to be able to get away with telling us that smoking or exhaust-fumes are good for you.)
@mxchara FWIW, I had much the same optimism -- my parents took me to see a very early showing of 2001, in Cinerama, when I was, liek, three -- and the idea of becoming a spacefaring civilization stuck with me, the embers only fanned by Trek.
I still feel like this could be a good thing -- space travel, intelligent machines...
I always got that Fagen's lyrics were commenting on the naïveté of that 1950s technofuture (itself, I suspect, largely created by salesmen) rather than lauding it -- possibly because I had the advantage of being a bit older when that album came out -- and of course HAL 9000 and Trek's "The Ultimate Computer" showed the dangers inherent in allowing too much central control. SF never told us "it's okay to let the machines take over", while still saying "if we do this right, it could be really cool".
Bringing this careful mix of optimism and skepticism forward to the present, we have the "too much control" problem again -- but it's more about how the economic systems we have bred in our global Petri-dish have allowed malevolent humans to gain ever-increasing power, and to use the machines and technology they "own" to give themselves ever more control.
LLMs are just the latest power-up in that storyline. The more things can be automated -- even poorly -- the more precision with which our lives can be centrally controlled.
The problem, though, is less the ginormous for-profit companies doing this and more that the rules we have in place give society little to no input into the decisions made by those companies, while privileging choices which appear (without any deep examination, even) to favor "profit", and privileging individuals who can "sell" those choices to naïve investors and consumers.
That is what needs to change -- which applies regardless of whether we're talking about space tech, "AI" tech, comm tech, general manufacturing, food production, or anything else.
(/opinion)
I feel like "expect" is one of those words which is used in two different but related ways: it can mean either a prediction ("I expect things will go better if we take action") or a standard ("I expect politicians to do their damn jobs or else we will do our best to get them fired").
I think you probably mean something more like the latter.
@anubis2814 I guess the point is that whatever they've decided is relevant, those are the things that come easily into focus for them. Very few wandering thoughts, wanted or unwanted.
fedi, please help. how the fuck do i navigate the job market when i loathe ai? i'm a software/platform/devops engineer, for context
i'm hoping some of you will say something like "oh we're kinda forced to mention ai on job openings nowadays but we don't care that much"
please boost
#boost #getFediHired #fediHire #forHire
edit: well i have just discovered this and y'all might like to know:
re: @alex https://dair-community.social/@alex/116597127029795537
@mekkaokereke Am I reading that summary right -- i.e. "the act wouldn't be needed if the problem it is intended to solve didn't exist".
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@anubis2814 ...just take all the annotations away and monochrome the rest with a reduced intensity range while highlighting one or two items that are relevant in the moment, would be my guess.
If I was in that situation and felt I was being misrepresented by how my words were being reported, I'd want to do some media (video? article(s)?) explaining exactly what I am doing and how it's been working.
The fact that he just tries to pretend he never said it suggests he knows he shouldn't be doing it.
@eseubert @blogdiva @abbynormative
If there isn't already a site which tracks (a) how well elected pols live up to their campaign promises and (b) how good or awful their voting record is, I will eventually build it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@adhd_coffee/116589841788877744
(it me)
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I hereby inaugurate the following hashtags [breaks very splendid bottle build of WINE dated January 1, 1970 over the fediverse's noble prow]
