a curious game. the only way to win is to not flood a thread calling out a white supremacist with slurs, nazi shit, and covid misinformation

WOPR catches fire and the 37-year-old chan poster puppeteering it from the inside runs out screaming

haha yeah enough of you

• 🙅 showing basic information on the frontend like an icon representing the value of the post’s local flag
• 👉 starting a ridiculously ugly wikipedia clone which appears to be designed for the express purpose of spreading misinformation in a way that can’t be moderated

I am once again asking the authors of fediverse software to consider moderation structures that make any fucking sense at all

I think the indicator for this is supposed to be the weird rainbow net icon next to the name? which I never look at to be honest because it looks like a shitty share button I never use in an app that I hate

so it’s kind of the opposite of that — lemmy’s standard behavior is to hide the domain if either:

• the user is local to your instance
• the user has a display name set (many lemmy posters don’t, so it defaults to @username[@domain] instead)

kbin’s default behavior fucks that up a bit by telling lemmy that the display name is the poster’s username regardless of anything. but now that I’ve written it out, lemmy’s behavior here is very inconsistent and has tripped me up a ton in the past. for example, a lot of masto posters seem local but aren’t, because display names are very common among mastodon users

I don’t interact with it much (actually I’m kinda surprised it’s federating with us now — not sure if lemmy or kbin fixed whatever was broken) but from the outside it seems like a flagship fediverse instance: way bigger than anyone can effectively moderate

update: yeah, @FfaerieOxide@kbin.social is fine, though they’re being followed around on kbin by a rather aggressive fascist spewing shit like:

You’re clearly not, as you jump on anyone you even slightly perceive as against your narrative even if they’re calling out blatant corruption and illegal action that will damage institutions and all of its credibility for generations to come.

Sounds like you’re the fascist, but again all the readers can clearly see that

Hope this helps 😊

I’m gonna report this shit, though I don’t know if lemmy reports federate with kbin (and knowing lemmy, they don’t). is kbin alright? this seems like a pretty clear-cut ban for an instance with moderation that’s paying any attention at all

yours has a fuckton of right-wing dogwhistles including this fucking gem about brave:

look, I’m not defending bigotry….

But an aggressive homophobe seems like the type to be highly motivated to care deeply about working privacy tools these days

So who exactly do you trust?

also a ton of moronic AI takes, though the bigotry was more than bannable enough. so off you fuck

It feels like the type of scheme a high schooler would come up with and call it an “infinite money glitch” while patting themselves on the back for just outsmarting Warren Buffett.

having met far too many bitcoiners: yes, it’s exactly this

I’ve been following it too, and hoping it yields a fork with better development priorities (and, frankly, developers) than lemmy, though I’m not at all looking forward to dealing with deploying Java and Go to production

new might be a good global default for everything local to our instance, given the traffic patterns of our threads. unfortunately it might take some doing to make that the default just for local stuff, without making things janky for folks reading federated content

amazingly, lemmy doesn’t even seem to persist the last sort you’ve selected correctly. which is like easy 10 lines of code to do even in React with Typescript

“it’s not plagiarism, the output is just indistinguishable from plagiarism” oh how foolish of me to not consider the same excuse undergrads use to try and launder the paper they plagiarized

oh wow a fresh account with the exact same writing style and shit takes as the other poster, wonder who that could be

they signed up here on the pretense that they’re an old r/SneerClub poster, but given how long they lasted before they started posting advertising for their machine god, I’m gonna assume they’re either yet another lost AI researcher come to dazzle us with unimpressive bullshit or a LWer trying to pull a fast one

oh fuck yes, finally!

also wondering what it would take to make a Crank/Grifter/… X-Ray type browser plugin, which auto-highlighted and context-enriched all known names of grfiters, boosters, cranks, etc in displayed content

I’ve considered making something like this — kind of like a generalized masstagger but with a very specific mission

same! which is why it’s maddening that I almost gave up on finding it — I had to reach back all the way to when sora was announced to find even this criticism, because all of the articles I could find since then have been mindless fluff. even the recent shit talking about how the OpenAI CEO froze when asked where they got the videos to train sora on are mostly just mid journalists slobbering about how nobody does gotcha questions like that anymore. not one bothered to link to any critical analyses of what sora is or what OpenAI does. and the whole time this article I couldn’t find via search was just sitting in my tabs.

it took me sifting through an incredible amount of OpenAI SEO bullshit and breathless articles repeating their marketing, but this article links to and summarizes some of that discussion in its latter paragraphs

bonus: in the process of digging up the above, I found this other article that does a much better job tearing into sora than I did — mostly because sora isn’t interesting at all to me (the result looks awful when you, like, look at it) and the claims that it has any understanding of physics or an internal world model are plainly laughable

you seriously thought reposting AI marketing horseshit we’ve seen before would do anything other than cost you your account? sora gives a shit result even when openai’s marketing department is fluffing it — it made so few changes to the source material it’s plagiarizing that a bunch of folks were able to find the original video clips. but I’m wasting my fucking time — you’re already dithering like a cryptobro between “this technology is already revolutionary” and “we’re still early”

now fuck off

why is this specific technology predestined to improve from its current, shitty state?