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I don’t have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂

I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) “artificial intelligence”, yes.

According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are

• that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
• you need a level of “AI” that isn’t going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects’ conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros’ hype of the technology, I’m not convinced we’re anywhere close.

Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.

Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂

Welp, there goes the [online] neighbourhood! It was nice knowing you all.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

I didn’t want to pay for their search engine before, and this garbage sure as hell isn’t going to change my mind.

as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage

I would like this to be the takeaway lesson that humans are better at history. However, loads of accepted history is also trained on garbage.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

When there are only two options om the ballot and one is set to steer your country into fascism and a recall of human rights — there is no comparison. You vote for the other one.

Also, dick measuring.

Love that featured image 😆 Perfect metaphor for latter day Twitter!

Sorry, I thought you might want the scenic route to Github 🙂

<Sees fish symbol>

<Notices the word “reborn” in the project name>

Give it three days, it’ll rise again.

Cool, and she updates her github repos now and then. Good to know.

Looks like this might be the one, and it supports @Generative@aussie.zone’s info that she’s behind the Nukit twitter account (and online shop).

So apparently the state “only” cracked down on her previous online presence such as Youtube, and probably put her and her partner under increased surveillance/control?

No, I’m talking about people seeing past f—ng fandom to the reality that others they meet online, or whose content they consume, may live under less free circumstances than themselves.

She was outed by Vice, which seems to have been met with apathy by the online community, and it looks like the authorities cracked down on her as a consequence. The insistence of some commenters to see this through a “fan” or “taste” lens is pretty blinkered.

Person. We’re talking about a person in a precarious situation who was basically doxxed by Vice, and more or less shrugged off by the general online public.

It’s not like you deciding you’re not into vaporwave anymore.