The absolute bazinga I've been shouting for over a week now!
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Huffman told the New York Times. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
Note the sleight of mind here. That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service. So it’s a bit rich to hear him complaining about LLMs which were – and are – being trained via the largest and most comprehensive exercise in intellectual piracy in the history of mankind. Or, to coin a phrase, it’s just another case of the kettle calling the slag heap black.
Can always double your network further by checking out fediverse communities with your shared interests. And try the microblog, which is effectively focused Twitter by magazine. Obviously you're more than welcome to blog here on EF and then anywhere else your interests lie!
Notice: kbin's reached the point all tech reaches where pics of naked people (and artistic renditions of naked people) are beginning to show up -- especially as federation is now up and running. And they should! Bodies are beautiful.
BUUUUUUUUT if you are sensitive to it or browse at work, kindly remember to 1. hover over your username in the top-right ... 2. go to Settings ... 3. and under General/Appearance choose "Hide adult content" ... in order to prevent a good amount of this from showing on your homepage.
I say "a good amount" because it is early days and some content creators are either forgetting to or maliciously choose not to select "NSFW" when submitting. Protect yourself. And yes, if you see any content that is absolutely unacceptable, report it (in the "more" menu on a post).
With <50 comments a day, I mean, I'm fine with it. After all, the goal is to one day have our own server which will have ethfinance AND ethfunance run by us, for us.
First, good on the Verge for actually pushing that line of questioning; it's important. I'm no particular fan of Verge reporting but this is legit and should be commended.
Second, spez KEEPS. FUCKING. SAYING. "OUR DATA." And it just makes me want to smack him (via protest). It is OUR -- you and me and content creators' -- data. Not theirs. They pay for infrastructure and indexing and are allowed to eke out a margin of profit by feeding us ads. Totally fine, for me at least. This harvesting of user IP has always been an unspoken truth and accepted thing, but now the exploitation of it and punishment of the owners is way beyond permissible.
Last, I'm seeing rumors they're watermarking content now on test subs? Anyone confirm?
tl;dr - seems as though Tether is more or less backed satisfactorily at banking institutions in... cough ... Bahamas, Bahamas, China, China, China, China, China, China, China (x7), and Qatar.
I suppose their money's as good as anyone's. Seems ok.
I had a blast. As a lifelong FF fan since III, I love the return to medieval fantasy. The combat felt so good with that DMC / Bayonetta touch. And while the story isn't world-changing, it is at least more adult and the actors seem to be giving it their all. The main con is just the frame rate dip -- even on Performance mode -- during the biggest environments and most epic scenes. If reviews say that's extent of it and it doesn't get worse through the entire game, I can stomach it. If it struggles, then I'll be at least waiting for the first major patch or possibly the PC release.
Is the 1-year anniversary of the 2022 bottom significant to price, historically?
Doesn't seem to be. BTC retested 2014 bottom (actually technically first week of Jan 2015) just eight months later in August 2015, then retested 2018 bottom fifteen months later in Covid March 2020. So, I can't say that twelve months means anything other than coincidence.
This is fantastic. I wonder if Aether's "data replication" should be yellow? As it relies on users manually deciding to save/archive anything before the six-month mark. Easy to setup, but the expectation of that is slightly less than green dot, no?
Absolutely one to keep in the options. I like the look and true p2p is great.
The lack of development is certainly something to track. Ghostware/deadware means as it scales and fixes become necessary, we rely on fresh devs to fork, right?
I liked what I saw of Plebbit last week, yeah. Please keep an eye on these for us. Although admittedly, folks seem oddly ready to forgive and forget with reddit.
It's bizarre -- the EF sub reopened but many of the comments were espousing how, paraphrasing, "they're so glad to be back as r/ethfinance is the only place they really frequent on reddit!" And I'm like, well if you're already cordoned off to just the EF sub then why's it matter if it's hosted on reddit, aside from server load -- which is a fair point to be addressed. It's a little frustrating in that regard.
Yep but did you get the far more important comment?
"No rate cuts for two years". Which sets up my (admittedly) distant option 2 as now the primary option... one final bull market before the secular bear, and the preservation of the ridiculous 4yr cycle for better or worse.
2023 is confirmed as a 2019 building year. 2024 can be the fakeout to breakout 2020. 2025 (with rate cuts at some point) as the parabolic blowoff 2021.
Yeah there's a little leeway. From the announcement of the cut, to the execution, to the final rollover there's a warning period. 2008 was about a four month period to begin easing out of positions and prepare for the drop. It also had two "humps" to the cut cycle. The markets topped for good in between them.
Awesome, glad it's re-enabled! This is what I saw in the days leading up to the blackout and what I wanted everyone to see. Thanks for trying out the federation stuff!
From what I can tell, subscribing from another instance creates a new community/magazine there on that instance which is fed by the original. So upon a fedia.io user subscribing to us here, they'd general something like: fedia.io/m/ethfinance@kbin.social. And my understanding is it begins collecting data from kbin once that link is established. My understanding is prior content isn't brought over.
I'll check on the username thing but I do believe it's what you fear... a username on one server doesn't preclude it from being registered letter for letter on another. Because with current tools, how could it? That's definitely something to look into and goddamn would web3/ethereum-based authentication be amazing for that verification process!
So back to your instance, should we be using that instead of using this?
Certainly not at this time, if only because it doesn't really work yet. I don't know how the first migration would work since the database would be coming from kbin.social's owner ernest himself. We can't trust that this initial magazine will be preserved, only hope. After that once a person in our community controls the DB -- or a committee or DAO -- then yes, it's an easy transfer via rsycn/rclone/pick your poison.
I don't believe so since they're installed locally. At least if my memory serves from messing with tampermonkey in like... high school, haha. But if they convert over into FF/Chrome extensions, for UX reasons, users should be aware those can change.
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