AshDene

AshDene, 10 months ago

And my comment. In a private window I can see that he replied to my comment as well, despite the fact that I blocked him, so blocks are still not working properly apparently.

AshDene, 10 months ago

I'm not expecting perfection, but there hasn't even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to "tools aren't ready yet", but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.

10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it's a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.

Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don't know. But I don't particularly want to be on a site that I don't feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I'm taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.

AshDene, 10 months ago

This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.

AshDene, 10 months ago

Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.

If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.

AshDene, 10 months ago

Did you know that Pepsi briefly owned 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer?

Edit: On less of a technicality, the East India Company had something like 250k troops back in 1824.

AshDene, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The entire paper is already sub-field (AI) in industry (software engineering) specific. No stats are perfect, but I think these ones are pretty damn good for something where peoples role are pretty poorly determined in the first place. Of course you're welcome to try and find better ones.

The "pure tech" companies I've worked at have been roughly equivalent or better than these stats, but at that point I'm sampling from software engineers in general (not having worked at an AI specific company), and my sample is unlikely to be unbiased anyways.

AshDene, 10 months ago

We should really amend the law to be "and if they incorrectly deny a claim they have to pay 10 times more". Enough to make it cost more than it's worth if they do it intentionally, not enough to bankrupt them...

AshDene, 11 months ago

It looks like this article is using @ZLabe 's charts, he posts regularly about this on mastodon, if you're using the "follow" feature on here (or on a mastodon account) at all I definitely recommend following him.

AshDene, 11 months ago

But it claims it will become decentralized (unless something has changed in the last month or so).

AshDene, 11 months ago

A single world spanning country.

If we don't kill ourselves off first it will probably happen eventually. Country sized used to be limited by things like communication latency, and the time it took to move forces around. Technology has shrunk the world so that those things no longer matter. The natural size limit on a country is almost certainly as large as the earth now.

It won't happen soon, cultures will take time to become similar enough to merge. Leadership structures take time to be absorbed into a greater one (EU style) or have to forcefully taken over (Chechnya style, thankfully very rare these days). But with no real impediment to countries growing larger, it will happen eventually. With no-one able to fund or support rebellion and modern technology making police actions extremely effective it may well last effectively forever.

Whether it's a democratic utopia, a dictatorial nightmare, or something in between for the common citizen is not yet defined. Either way, war, as in peer to peer conflict between sovereigns, will be over.

AshDene, 11 months ago

It's literally a fork of wine.

But from a practical perspective, you tell steam to start the game and it starts it, installing and using proton as necessary. If the developers haven't configured it you have to first click a button in preferences that says "use proton" (paraphrased), but that's it.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I mean, if genders are equal then an equal number of men and women should be leading in matters of gender equality.

And there are real issues that stem from this. If you make it so that under-represented people always lead initiatives to improve representation, you are adding workload to the under-represented people involved in the <activity> (governance in this case), and making them even more under-represented in the rest of the activity.

The optics in this case are bad enough that the downsides of sending a candidate chosen in a gender-neutral fashion outweigh the upsides, but I'd definitely advise being cautious about assuming that's always the case. If anything it's the exception, not the rule.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I don't know if it counts as a "city" exactly, but there's still a lot of defensive locations. Concrete apartment buildings can take a hell of a beating and stay standing apparently. Houses are damaged, but they're still cover...

Shitty resolution, but here's a recent video of it: https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/14ac2lu/ukrainian_air_assault_forces_firing_at_russian/

AshDene, 11 months ago

If you haven't, I strongly suggest making these comments in the NPS link. Environmental assessment processes really do care about things like the public actually being able to access the parks! Like most government processes they're going to evaluate material submitted to them, not material found in random places on the internet.

I'd phrase it as "allowing eBikes lets me benefit parks like this and gives me these benefits" and not "otherwise I might sell my ebike" because they care about public benefit, not about whether or not you own an ebike.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Other parties (including the ones you mentioned) have sizable stakes in twitter, but they are much smaller than Elon's stake, not the other way around. (Remember, it sold for $44B, you can divide that by the numbers in the article by that to see how much each investor mentioned owns).

AshDene, 11 months ago

Yes :)

Here's a link if you want to see how it looks from the other side: https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml/t/49107/Downvotes-count-but-upvotes-don-t-and-boosts-count-as-upvotes#comments

AshDene, 11 months ago

Honestly taking a glance at it it's doing shockingly well for being effectively unmoderated (if the number beside moderation log means what I think it does, there have been no moderator actions, though maybe "admin actions" don't show up there or something).

I doubt that will last though.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I don't believe any kbin instances have been de-federated by beehaw...

AshDene, 11 months ago

Open signups aren't novel on the fediverse, lots of places have them. The problem is having them without following up and banning problematic users... but yes I expect that if stricter instance-wide moderation doesn't happen this instance will end up being defederated by most of the fediverse (with mastodon at least that seems to be the norm).

I'm hoping moderation has been been lacking because Ernest is just overwhelmed with the amount of load, and that it is fixed soon, if not I'll end up moving on once admins start defederating it (probably to another kbin instance).

AshDene, 11 months ago

I also wasn't familiar with the term, but the concrete issue is supporting genocidal dictatorships such as the CPP and denying the very existence of atrocities that they've committed like Tienanmen square and the Uyghur genocide.

AshDene, 11 months ago

So does the microblog feature and mastodon integration on here mean this doubles as a twitter and reddit replacement? Or is it missing features it needs to be a twitter replacement?

AshDene, 11 months ago

Replacing a website containing text with a livestream to scale better is hilarious. The tech behind serving a livestream is so, so, much more expensive per user.

But, of course, someone else is eating that cost ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AshDene, 11 months ago

virtual geocaches

PokemonGo lol

That might actually be a great app for making it normal to wander around in a headset.