RoundSparrow 3 months ago • 100%
Thank you and good work
RoundSparrow 8 months ago • 58%
Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don't have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows...
Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it's trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11201649 > George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’::George Carlin's estate has filed a lawsuit against the creators behind an AI-generated comedy special featuring a recreation of the comedian's voice.
RoundSparrow 8 months ago • 100%
Kudan’s novel is set in an imagined near future where AI has become an integral part of daily life. It follows the story of Sara Makina, an architect who builds a tower in a Tokyo park designed to offer a place where criminals are rehabilitated and explores her discomfort with society’s tolerance towards those who break the law.
Outside of her literary work, Kudan says she often plays around with AI and uses the technology to share thoughts that she “can never talk to anyone else about.” Admitting to using it in her writing, apparently, wasn’t one of them. Kudan added that she hopes to maintain “good relationships” with the tech and use it to “unleash my creativity” with it going forward, according to AFP.
RoundSparrow 8 months ago • 100%
Agreed. It is urgent that we teach Neil Postman's "media ecology". The junk noise garbage shit Internet sucks, and enough is enough!
RoundSparrow 12 months ago • 17%
No other political framework actively suggest loving, caring for and helping the anonymous fellow.
What? Levant, 2000 years ago, Bible "1 John 3:17"
They even number each sentence in the book to make it easy to find.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Musk and Putin, two historic experts and achievers in trickle-down memes. Population control via meme machines. They seek power the Rupert Murdoch way.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 69%
ELKG: "Trickle down economics" is a lie, but there is a truth that nobody speaks "Trickle down memes". Billion dollars of capital spent making movies that fill all the meme networks. And audiences who removed and complain if one CGI scene has the slightest distortion, who removed about production quality at every opportunity. They are addicted to the billionaires who fund their "Trickle down memes" that they copy/paste to every social media website for decades.
EL_Toddler: The Population of society is addicted to the images, faces, voices of the rich and powerful - even when they are incredibly ugly icons - they can't stop speaking about their distinct orange skin color and the power that comes with political power and media stardom - "you can grab them by the pussy" power.
That power comes from the population, The People, who can't resist repeating the memes. Worked for The Church in Europe in 1450 when the population was similarly meme-addled until a priest in Germany upset the meme apple cart and translated The Meme Book to German from Latin. A new printing press in Germany helped that too, even if The Church funded the first printings.
Remember kid, Tricke down Economics is a lie, Trickle Down Memes and images of the politicians, religion symbol memes, orange skin color images, they TRICKLE DOWN and that is REAL POWER over The Population! A population who can not resist taking an image of a famous orange person and repeating it hour after hour on their meme copying machines they hold in their hands or sit on their desk.
P.S. In polices, repeating a name alone, campaign signs that just show a couple colors on meme symbols and signs - work well on the population. This is proven with statistics of voting results vs. money spent on spreading the name. People generally do not go into issues and validate the performance after election that the politician is honest and delivers... name recognition by shear trickle-down of meme signs in yards, endorsements by other meme icons of society, and repeating their image and name in other places is what it takes.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
A karma system is sounding pretty good right now
lemmy's code already does it. person_aggregates keeps track of post_score and comment_score. It just isn't displayed on lemmy-ui. A bot or new code can look at these values.
August 2023: https://kesq.com/news/national-world/cnn-national/2023/08/26/students-professors-report-chaos-as-semester-begins-at-new-college-of-florida/
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 85%
Way back in October 31st 1517 finally one of the clergy got so fed up reading the damn book that they said, "Sin Boldly" and said... read here, verse Romans 11:32 ... romans1132.com
The book is so full of contradictions and that's the power. It cuts both ways.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 83%
A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.
I'm not sure I was ever told there was "a plan" for that, being born in 1969... and graduating high school in the late 1980's. By the time I was 8 years old, the radio was already playing: "somehow we missed out on the pot of gold"... "free to face a life that's ahead of me"... something beyond what you describe... "we will search for tomorrow on every shore"....
My personal plans in life have been consistently wrecked by the waves of power-seeking by governments, businessmen, and technology power shifts. I feel like the age of Mass Dehumanization has been underway with climate change denial, medical science denial, pretty much the fears outlined by !sagan@lemm.ee in 1995...
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Agreed. But feeding AI existing text and asking it to generate variations seems a staple of what has become big in 2023.
From what I have seen, the AI released to the general public has been specially trained to create a unique response no matter how little input is given to avoid copyright infringement on it's own training material. It's kind of the perfect engine for students to all ask the same 1-sentence essay prompt and get back unique answers. If ChatGPT fabricates information, gets facts wrong, people still seem to accept and praise the output...
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
are they cigars, I can't tell
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If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion
Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.
It used to be something people said 'out loud' about people not reading links and just commenting... then it just became normalized.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 66%
Interesting observation....
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
yes, reading code to people, basic interpretation. It's a pattern that I think comes post Cambridge Analytica media tactics.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
yes, interpretation of various things, not just reading normal prose.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
They store more data now in Memcachedb than Postgres. It’s like memcache but stores to disk. Very fast.
And that was 7.5 million active users with 2010 hard drive technology. Hardware in 2023 is way faster. Lemmy is incredibly unique in it’s stance of not using Redis, Memcached, dragonfly… something. And all the CPU cores ... and still crashing.
For 4.5 year old code, I think the crashing speaks for itself. But this is the days of Elon Musk and Reddit changing their API with 1 month notice... the social aspect of social media seems to be making choices that just seem ... odd. And it isn't just Twitter, it isn't just Reddit...
I mean, May 2023 people flocking to the Lemmy door, your servers can't keep up with the poor-performing SQL... add scaling tools like like Redis, Memcached, dragonfly to the platform. There was a 40-day countdown to the Reddit API change.
I don't understand what has happened here on Lemmy since May any more than what Elon Musk is doing to Twitter to X. It's bewildering. Redis, Memcached, dragonfly are easily integrated...
"Redis has been a staple of the web ecosystem for years. It’s often used for caching, as a message broker, or simply as a database. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to use Redis inside a Rust web application.".... and the same exists for Rust and memcached, and Rust and dragonfly... Lemmy was in active development for 4 years, it's impossible to accept that nobody knows of tools like dragonfly and Redis.... its some kind of social choice at play, one that I find bewildering and frankly, has put me into tears as people seem to think the server crashes can't be addressed!...
the crashing servers speaks for itself, but I guess I spoke for it too. It's been a sad journey since May :( I don't understand what is gong on in social media audiences that Elon Musk and Reddit and Lemmy are making such choices.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
There is some kind of social construct with Lemmy's 4.5 year development that foundational tools like Redis, Memcached, dragonfly were avoided when in May 2023 people were beating a path to the door of Lemmy. And lemmy servers crashed, one after the other, and I don't think there will be any statistics about all the times the pages didn't load and the 4 year old Lemmy app's SQL statements couldn't cope with the comments/post growth for even 20,000 users.
Sure, people will leave Reddit and Twitter/X and Threads and whatever again later in 2023 and in 2024. But it's still some pretty odd social situation that May 2023 came along and performance problems were holding the project back... and Redis, Memcached, dragonfly were not put on the table as routine tools of the trade.
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 Reddit spelled out all the performance and scaling problems they had, they gave an open presentation. The source code was open since June 18, 2008... long before this May 17 presentation.
If anything Reddit should have turned itself into a non-profit organization and kept selling reddit awards after ChatGPT came on the scene. The 2 month move to "charging for the API" was the wrong direction.
Twitter and Elon Musk with X, it just seems popular to turn things bad. Crashing servers, broken features, wild changes.
Clickbait news and anti-science popularity still seem to keep growing. Reddit or Lemmy users could replace headlines with sincere and earnest descriptions of news and information... but it seems Reddit and Elon Musk are in some kind of agreement that audiences don't really want that. In APRIL 2017, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales tried to take on clickbait and fake news, but few have cared and clickbait headlines are still all over Reddit and Lemmy in 2023.. I don't get the appeal and attraction of junk clickbait all the time. But it's hard to ignore the upvotes it gets on Reddit and Lemmy both... you can watch it every day.
Leemy seems determined it doesn't want to optimize SQL statements and add scaling tools like Redis, Memcached, dragonfly to the platform. The crashes have been all over multiple sites since May, but the SQL problems and caching need is still ongoing in August.
The trend of Reddit, Twitter the ongoing favoring of clickbait seems intertwined.
Lemmy is incredibly unique in it's stance of not using Redis, Memcached, dragonfly... something. And all the CPU cores and RAM for what this week is reported as 57K active users across over 1200 Instance servers. Why no Redis, Memcached, dragonfly? These are staples of API for scaling. Anyway, Reddit too started with PostgreSQL and was open source. MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-while-building-reddit-to-270-million-page.html "and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month" Lesson 5: Memcache The essence of this lesson is: memcache everything. They store everything in memcache: 1. Database data 2. Session data 3. Rendered pages 4. Memoizing (remember previously calculated results) internal functions 5. Rate-limiting user actions, crawlers 6. Storing pre-computing listings/pages 7. Global locking. They store more data now in Memcachedb than Postgres. It’s like memcache but stores to disk. Very fast. All queries are generated by same piece of control and is cached in memcached. Change password Links and associated state are cached for 20 minutes or so. Same for Captchas. Used for links they don’t want to store forever. They built memoization into their framework. Results that are calculated are also cached: normalized pages, listings, everything.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy…
That's kind of the history of humanity regarding religion. To some degree when the religious prophets were alive it make sense, but hundreds of years later it's a story book (or oral tradition) and people still strive for the authority.
We haven't really had that many teachers like Carl Sagan who describe the history and our favoring of authority - inability to question them. It's pretty weird, as they often aren't attractive or good speakers, but you see people just accept almost anything they say. I mean in the USA I witnessed so many people who would trust Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones kind of blindly, and there is some mechanism at play that humanity in total seems to keep engaging.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
That's how it always seems to me. They would support mafia rule or middle ages church rule, they aren't really tied to ideals of Marxism but more to the idea of authority solving problems.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
It's the spam filtering, and they consider people spamming any link... and each subreddit can set the spam fitler higher or not. This was going on long before Lemmy and I've seen it even with BBC links.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
I've seen this come up with a large number of links on Reddit that were even to BBC website. It comes down to the subreddit settings on spam filtering...
I think the whole process of automatic hiding of spam filtering for user accounts is a bad-faith experience. People on Reddit are infamous for not actually reading links and wanting bots to bring in text and such, and I think a lot of the anti-spam measures cultivated this for a very long time.
One thing that crowdsoucing never was very good at was spam filtering... because too many would sell out and buy upvotes/likes on Twitter/Reddit etc.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
15 days after you comment, it seems nothing new. I think Lemmy's more small-topic stuff seems to not be taking root very well. A lot of repetitive memes and such seem to be the mainstream. And talking about Lemmy itself, Twitter, and Reddit discussion.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
John 1:1 is kind of at the heart of that, explains how god comes about with words, ideas.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Santa and Easter Bunny we indoctrinate people into at a young age and we don't have trouble explaining that they are fiction.... still are useful stories.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
exclusivity sure is a popular idea, they keep bringing it back.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 95%
I really ponder how anyone over age 21 can interpret it any other way. There are no supernatural books or stories. All kinds of people claim they hear the voice of god, it's the popularity of these specific stories that defines them as religions.
Science shows religion stories fit the pattern of schizophrenia: https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-joseph-campbell-inward-journey-schizophrenia-and-mythology/
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
I can't imagine the volume of those older years is that much, there weren't nearly as many bots and corporate users.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
lemmy.ml is back up! editing the posting title
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Both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world down over 30 minutes now
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lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are both down right now
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Here on lemm.ee, I see comment that says it is deleted - but it is still not deleted here.
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
Shows up fine on downstream lemm.ee server
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THIS COMMENT HAS BEEN EDITED ONCE
Shows up on lemm.ee
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
I see before delete
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
will delete now
RoundSparrow 1 year ago • 100%
That worked
There is so much missing data between servers, I think this would be a significant reduction in load on the serves to not have to replicate. THE CASE CAN BE MADE: that individual likes on remote servers are not absolutely critical to the user interface. Like "saved" posts/comments, the user interface isn't run except from local data - so the impact would mostly only influence presentation or ranking/sort of posts and comments. There is a lot of missing posts/comments to cleanup anyway, so I suggest we work on adding a back-fill - and focus on a way to share aggregate local vote tallies with peers instead of replicating every individual comment_like and post_like Can someone point where in the Rust code such a change could be made, who wants to submit a pull request?