I’m not speaking for the whole Technology mod team here, just off the cuff. I think a satire piece (if clearly labeled preferably) would be completely fine. Personally I’d also be good with funny articles or other types of writing about tech, god knows this sub could use some levity. I don’t think we would probably be okay with posting tech related memes, though. It’s possible that if the community was really interested we could do a weekly sticky for memes or other lower-effort content, though.

Again, I’m just spitballing here, I haven’t checked it with any of the other mods.

Thank you!

Look, I think Trump probably did rape minors. I think he was probably involved in trafficking. But this isn’t really evidence. It’s hearsay, at best. It’s an anonymous complaint filed via an open FBI telephone tipline in 2016. From what I’ve seen, all manner of wild stuff gets reported to those tip lines. There’s absolutely no way of knowing if there’s any truth to this other than the fact that we all have a gut feeling - and have seen lots of circumstantial evidence - that Trump was involved in this kind of stuff. It doesn’t do any good to go around acting like it’s proof of anything, though.

I think folks are struggling with the format of this post - I’m thinking it’s probably at least partially in interop issue between Mastodon and Lemmy. Folks on Lemmy are usually expecting the post itself to be a link to the article or site, with commentary in the body or in a comment.

The link is in the text block under the post - this is due to the fairly hacky interoperability between Mastodon and Lemmy. You can post to Lemmy instances via Mastodon but they almost always wind up looking very spammy because of the formatting and all of the hashtags.

Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.

Thanks! I was pretty happy with how it turned out, which is nice because there were a few points during the process where I thought it was going to look awful.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of them, and didn’t find an entry on them when looking up on mediabiasfactcheck.com. I wonder if the naming is intentional or just a coincidence around the word “Truth”.

Sorry, isn’t Pravda a literal Kremlin disinfo op? I’m not sure we should be posting anything about the Ukraine war (or, frankly, anything at all) from a Russian state-owned propaganda outlet…

Fantastic article. I’ve had similar thoughts when reading articles on that Marist poll in particular, it seemed like a much weaker statement than most of the coverage was implying.

I think the problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs this way is that they don’t have intent, so they can’t have responsiblity. If this piece of software had been given the tools to actually kill someone, I think we all understand that it wouldn’t be appropriate to put the LLM on trial. Instead, we need to be looking at the people who are trying to give more power to these systems and dodge responsibility for their failures. If this LLM had caused someone to be killed, then the person who tied critical systems into a black box piece of software that is poorly understood and not fit for the purpose is the one who should be on trial. That’s my problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs, it shifts the blame and responsibility away from the people who are responsible for attempting to use them for their own gain, at the expense of others.

I thought the song was called “Head Like a Hole”?

This is one of those stories that probably isn’t actually all that noteworthy - the reporter doesn’t have any actual idea how many people are living in the community, but estimates around 40 - but the details are all just waaaaay too good not to run with it. The original article starts out wild and only gets wilder as it goes. There’s even a guest appearance from Shen Yun at one point. Just check out the first three paragraphs and you can see exactly why this story got written:

Lol, you can tell which commenters have never moderated anything in this thread, IMO. If it weren’t for the high likelihood that these summaries will be wrong an appreciable percentage of the time, this would be a huge help for anyone moderating medium traffic subs. Those types of subs, especially if they have relatively hands-on moderation to keep them from being complete cesspools, often involve seeing a comments or post that is borderline, and feeling like you need to go look through the poster’s history to figure out if they’re a bot or a troll. Something like this that actually worked, especially if it linked back to a sampling of the posts/comments that it is referencing, would be a big help in that. Also something like this that summarized a user’s moderation history would be pretty useful.

Sorry if it seems like you’re being scolded - that’s not my intention. I think it’s fine to post something like this, but maybe I’m the future a brief explanation of why you found it worth posting would be helpful to get the discussion started - either in the post body or a comment.

Hi @BevelGear - Could you clarify a bit what kind of discussion you’re after by posting this? Also, most folks on Beehaw are probably not lawyers so posting a supreme court ruling without any commentary or clarification probably isn’t the most conducive to good discussion.

I have a sh.itjust.works account that I use to join meme communities there and on .world + a few other instances. The comments are a cesspool but the memes are…reasonably dank?

If you aren’t trolling, then you should consider that more than one thing can be bad, and that non-consensual pornography is a violation of a person’s autonomy. Please don’t leave comments like this on Beehaw, if it happens again you will be banned.

I’m on board with Eno here. There are issues with the current wave of generative AI, but the main reason they are such huge problems is the people who are pushing these technologies have zero concern for the potential social harms they could cause or exacerbate.

Please have the common sense not to call for violence on a public forum, especially one run by other people. I get where you’re coming from, but it’s doing anyone any good.