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We were making a big fuss back then. We also made a big fuss about Gitmo.
Nobody cared.

Kind of like the tasers and flashballs, once you give people the tools, they’re tempted to use them.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

They do feel their existence is threatened since NATO expended to the east in 1999.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

Reducing economical disparities will solve the so-called “racial” inequalities.
Affordable education, housing and care for all don’t necessitate discrimination, even positive.
When an university degree costs hundreds of thousands, the problem isn’t the ethnic makeup of the happy few who can afford it, it’s scarcity itself.
European state manage to fund a higher education for pretty much all of those that care to try it, it is not an impossible dream.

edit: to clarify, I don’t think ending affirmative action before making any general progress is a good idea or will do any good.
just to keep eyes on the prize and be aware of diversion tactics.

Trying to find some that haven’t been talked about yet:

Echo. It’s a fantastic experimental infiltration game with an AI that adapts to your way of playing. The setup is very impressive.

Pathologic: one of the three playable characters (the Changeling). It’s a bizarre russian game, with an unique world, and messy gameplay. Can’t recommend it enough.

Va11 Hall-A: chill bartending game in a cyberpunk setup.

The Blackwell series: comfy, kind of amateurish point and clicks by Wadjet Eye. I like them very much.

Transistor: weirdest game by Supergiant. You play as a redhead with a talking sword. I don’t remember much about it except that it was good.

The Fall: (pushing it a little bit, since the protagonist is an AI, but I’ve always seen here as female.) Criminally underrated puzzle games, disguised as metroidvanias.

Eliza (by Zachtronics): the only visual novel I enjoyed. It’s hard to explain, it’s about AI, burnout, whether tech dehumanizes people, and solitaire.

Hedon Duology: for something completely different, it’s a slightly kinky retroshooter, with amazon Orcs fighting demons.
It may sound a bit dumb, but it’s excellent. Huge levels, interesting worldbuilding, and a gameplay based on exploration, puzzles as well as shooting.

There’s probably a ton more, but that’s all I can think about at the moment.

Former CEO at Online Manipulation warns us about online manipulation. Hm.

This looks amazing. Almost better than the original in some ways.
But playing Doom in 1:1 aspect ratio is masochism.

I can think of a way to help with the problem, but I don’t know how hard it would be to implement.

Create some sort of trust score, where instance owners rate other instances they federate with.
Then the score gets shared in the network. Like some sort of federated whitelisting.
You would have to be prudent a first, but not do the whole task yourself.

You could even add an “adventurousness” slider, to widen or restrict the network based on this score.

Hello. The post you mentioned was made as a warning, to prove a point. That the fediverse is currently extremely vulnerable to bots.

user ‘alert’, made the post then upvoted with his bots. To prove how easy it was to manipulate traffic, even without funding.

see:
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/79888/Protect-Moderate-Purge-Your-Sever

It’s proof that anyone could easily manipulate content unless instance owners take the bot issue seriously.

I’m still angry about it.

on sale
They sure can smell an opportunity.

dude, it’s important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTS,S
Hm. It’s a start I guess.

A few persons control a large amount of bots. They can manipulate upvotes, downvotes. Silence opinions they don’t like, boost the ones they support. They can flood everyone’s feed with whatever topic they like. They get to choose what is important, what people get to think about. They can harass any single user, by downvoting posts or being generally unpleasant all the time, and giving the impression that the community agrees. They can create a fake impression of consensus on any given topic.

Now that bots basically pass the Turing test, they can get you to almost never interact with a real person, but instead with machines who never actual learn, listen or change their mind. That sort of thing could erode anyone’s opinion of their fellow humans. That could make one think that there’s no possibility of common grounds with their adversaries.

Don’t underestimate the bots, they’re responsible for most of the political turmoil of the last decade.

Around 26, it’s biological adulthood.

I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.

I feel like knowing anything about that guy makes my life worse.