rozodru

@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Didn’t their CEO like several months ago pretty much defend a known fascist/tranphob on the platform and essentially told people who complained about it to “not post” out of protest? Also Bluesky is extremely quick to bend to the whims of whatever government body makes demands. They were one of the first sites to quickly implement age verification in the UK I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you hit the nail on the head. I run my own piefeed instance and I have lemmy.ml and hexbear a long with a few others blocked on it. But I had to KNOW about those before hand. It’s not like Reddit where you pretty much have to go looking for that content if you want to see it and/or block it.

  I’m by no means a fan of moderation but I think we need to at least have some kind of rating system when selecting an instance or something and not have it be purely based on user count. Have it similar to how we already have it with users where you can see without clicking on anything if a user has a bad reputation. just add that to instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the password was “starwarssux”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you’re now interacting with unhinged strangers or unhinged family members and no one wants to deal with that in their daily lives.

  This isn’t like the days of Myspace or early Facebook or even old PHP forums where you essentially chose who you interacted with and in turn selected who could interact with you. But it’s also the fact, at least for me personally, I just don’t want to share all the details that go on in my life anymore with everyone. It used to be I could post something personal online and only the people I trusted or very close friends could see it and thats who I wanted to see it. I didn’t want my Parents to stumble across the fact that a girl I was dating had a weird/unique fetish or whatever. Once my parents got on Facebook then it was over.

  Social media is fine when you’re allowed to keep it within a contained, personal, and customized environment. Once you open the flood gates and allow EVERYONE into your life you might as well be screaming on a street corner about what you had for breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  add to the fact that these platforms are still relatively small so I can recognize usernames thus making it feel more personal I suppose?

  Also I run my own instances of everything in the fediverse so I have more control of what and whom I want to see/hear from. If you’re a person I don’t agree with and have negative opinions then I can easily block you from everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the issue is at one point, like say a year or so ago, LLMs weren’t that bad. they were fairly accurate in their solutions. But lately within the past few months they’ve all collectively gotten noticeably worse. They ate up all the content available and then proceeded to start eating each others waste and vomiting out that as a solution. Claude for example at one point was a decent coding assistant. now? now 8 out of 10 solutions are hallucinations. GPT5 is a clear downgrade from previous versions and now the thing just rants and rants in hopes that somewhere in it’s rants and info dumps there’s potentially the correct solution. It also now fails to remember the context of a prompt most of the time. If you can’t get the correct solution within one answer from GPT5 you might as well just close the tab because it’s never going to get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry I just went off the article and didn’t watch the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem is two fold and this applies to all LLMs.

  1. according to the article the person asked HOW to increase the font size. Copilot then tells Aura to go increase the font size so it’s not exactly what the person asked.

  2. like all LLMs it MUST provide a solution. it MUST do something. Copilot asks Aura to increase the font size to 150%. it’s already at 150%. but instead of going back to the user and saying “the font size is already set to 150%, would you like to increase it more?” it just goes ahead and bumps it up to 200 because it has to. it has no choice, it must provide some kind of solution. LLMs like GPT5, Claude, etc will do similar crap which ultimately shows that recent models are all collectively garbage. they now must ALL provide some sort of solution even if the majority of the time said solutions are actually hallucinations. LLMs aren’t allowed to say “I don’t know” or “it’s already done” or whatever.

  So this video/article just shows how pointless and unreliable LLMs/AI are at even the most basic things. They’ve all been told that they must provide some kind of solution, always. It’s especially bad now with recent updates. Claude will hallucinate 8 times out of 10 for its solutions. GPT5 now just info dumps on you hoping something in there will resonate, it can’t provide an accurate precise solution anymore it just vomits on your plate and calls it a meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes if they want you back you NEED to demand higher pay. Many companies, even some of my clients, are trying to pull the “we need you back but we’re going to pay less than what we previously paid you” bullshit thinking devs will be desperate enough to take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  your last point is key. Bluesky has notoriously horrible moderation and a CEO that refuses to acknowledge it and mocks users that do.

  This reeks of Bluesky letting “the babies have their bottles” so to speak but I feel it’s a waste of time. Bluesky users already heavily depend on lists to build their own communities in a way. It’s almost to the point on there where if something you dislike shows up in your feed well that’s your fault and the communities as a whole for not almost shadow banning an account via the god knows how many block lists users have created. “disliking” a post isn’t going to do anything. it’s stupid.

  Hell Bluesky users have been trying to get some transphobic journalist banned from the platform for well over a year now and the CEO of Bluesky has essentially said “lol, nope, you all suck. don’t like it? stop posting in protest.” When Bluesky users are offered an alternative with better moderation that THEY can control i.e. Mastodon they tut their tongues and roll their eyes saying “eww the linux of social media”.

  so again, let the babies have their bottles. it’s not going to do anything because Bluesky has clearly said they don’t want to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “sorry honey just a bit longer, I’m in the process of flashing the bed, we can go to bed soon…god damn sig faults!”