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giant_smeeg, to lemmy in Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy

Just need ma boi Sync.

GeekFTW,
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Hopefully soon, along with an API for kbin (since I'm there and want it too lol).

fabiocosta0305,
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It would be nice to link kbin to a blog post as a comment system integrated with forum

StarLuigi,
@StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’m curious, why did you choose kbin over Lemmy? I immediately started away from it due to the lack of a mobile app and just seemed less integrated.

jiji,

I originally went with kbin over Lemmy because the kbin webapp looked and functioned (for me) so much better. But now Memmy has gotten pretty good and close to Apollo so I’ve moved there. For me it’s all about ease of interaction/function.

GeekFTW, (edited )
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Lemmy has some bonus points which at the time when I signed up (I joined Beehaw around the same time) that Lemmy does (or didn't) have.

Blocking domains, blocking instances (coming soon), better UI (subjectively), user styles to add extra features, each community has a "normal topics in a forum" and a "Twitter-lite" area for different post types, I believe kbin has better integration/federation with Mastodon (which I also use) compared to lemmy, along with others I'm probably forgetting. (Edit: Forgot one lol, on kbin we can see upvotes and downvotes, as well as (on a topic by topic basis) you can see who upvoted and downvoted things, which I get some people wont like, and some will like, but we also have that on kbin, and can see those stats across instances of kbin & lemmy).

I don't follow your end of the development so Lemmy may have some of those in the pipeline, or may already have some added, but at least a month ago it was a bonus on this end. The lack of an API right now does suck since it limits the app thing, but they will have an API, several of the apps devs have already said kbin will be included when time comes, and kbin mobile is honestly real good regardless so it works out.

Gestrid,

Awaiting Boost for Lemmy, but I’m happy with Connect for now.

1stTime4MeInMCU, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

Ugh imagine they achieve super intelligence and it has the personality of a redditor. I’d rather be made into a paper clip

SzethFriendOfNimi,

Hello there M’user

ChowJeeBai,

It looks like you’re having trouble connecting! Would you like to try offering some help?

ji59, to technology in YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking

NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you're using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don't need an account on any service to use NewPipe.

So NewPipe doesn't use yt API and it never accepted its terms, so NewPipe is safe (from my understanding)

Psythik,

What about ReVanced? Should be safe, since it’s just a modded version of the official YT app, right?

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@startrek.website avatar

Unfortunately that’s more likely a strike against them than in their favor

The_Mastermind,

Yep in a technical sense they are except they could get sued to hell idk how anonymous the newpipe devs kepp them selves but if they are not I’d say they don’t stand a chance to win a lawsuit against google .

FaceDeer, to technology in YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos
@FaceDeer@fedia.io avatar

None of this is AI-specific. Youtube wants you to label your videos if you use "altered or synthetic content" that could mislead people about real people or events. 99% of what Corridor Crew puts out would probably need to be labeled, for example, and they mostly use traditional digital effects.

scrubbles, to technology in Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

This development aligns with Microsoft’s ongoing initiative to streamline its software offerings and concentrate on more sophisticated applications.

Gross corpospeak. Translated as “We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it”

GentlemanLoser,

How would you prefer they say it? Unless you mean to say they’re not within their rights to stop giving away a product?

off_brand_,

They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don’t think anyone is saying that windows is not “within their rights”, they’re saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.

Honestly though I’m struggling to understand why you’d think that’s about Microsoft’s rights to begin with??

GentlemanLoser,

The specific complaint was “gross corpospeak”. Let’s go ahead and use your explanation of the situation instead of mine, as it is indeed more accurate: how would you disseminate this change to your customers in a way that’s not “gross corpospeak”?

off_brand_,

I can’t speak for the original commented, but I’m personally quite tired of the thin veneer that’s slapped into these statements. I would prefer a company just be honest and talk about the profit incentives. They want people using the free version to please pay for the expensive one.

For my experience, I still retain the general irritation at product quality going down regardless of how they word it. But now I’m also annoyed that MS isn’t being straightforward about it.

JCPhoenix,
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But if it’s not being developed (that’s my assumption as I haven’t touched WordPad in many, many years) and not many people are using it (again, I’m assuming based on my own personal experiences and those in the workplace), what’s wrong with removing a legacy system?

People complain all the time about Microsoft retaining legacy systems, often seemingly detrimentally, so here it is, an opportunity to remove a legacy system, but now it’s bad?

I get that not everyone has Word. But Word isn’t as paywalled as it once was. There’s the web version of Word, that’s free to use with a free Microsoft account. There’s Google Docs, also free with a gmail account. And there’s of course OpenOffice and LibreOffice, obviously free. So users have options for word processing that are better than WordPad.

t3rmit3,

I mean, I think they literally provided the preferred, truthful version of the statement?

“We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it”

jarfil,

Alternatively: “Not enough people cared to use this stuff, so we’ll shift our efforts towards stuff that our users care more about”.

Agreed on the corpospeak, though.

belated_frog_pants,

100% corpo bullshit but laymen have moved to google docs for better or worse.

MaximilianKohler, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

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This is horrible news. Reddit is a horrible website and only getting worse. OpenAI promoting them and using their garbage content to train their AI systems is alarming. This is so dystopian.

And of course it always leads back to money:

Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit

LostWanderer, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

Horrible, glad I deleted my Reddit account just as the kerfuffle began. That site is going to hell anyway, hopefully only the techbros stay to make all the learned information toxic and useless.

Rolando, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

Reddit: The front page of the AI-net.

ChowJeeBai, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

Bots training on bots? It’s bots all the way down.

BarrierWithAshes, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content
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Lol this is more like death by gunshot. Can't wait till reddits just all AI-generated crap.

graves, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

Deleted my reddit account after seeing this today.

bolexforsoup,

Good. Fuck Reddit

xor, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

training bots with bots

ex_06,

Yep, my first thought lol

lolola,
@lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Each one teach one

bolexforsoup,

Blip bloops stronger together

TropicalDingdong, to collapse in OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content

This

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snooggums,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

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TropicalDingdong,

Thanks kind sir! Edit: Wow this really blew up!

penquin, (edited )

OMG!!! Why did I have to scroll so much to find this?

Edit: typos (I don’t know why I need to say why I edited my comment)

Postmortal_Pop,

I’ve never seen reddit summed up so concisely.

cy_narrator, to technology in Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source

Even Windows XP is unofficially open source at this point.

hydroptic, to technology in Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source

MIT license too, huh. I was sort of expecting a more restrictive one because, well, Microsoft and IBM

NeatNit,

They could not care less, this is so ancient and irrelevant.

hydroptic,

Something being ancient and irrelevant tdoesn’t stop a lot of companies.

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