Thank you and good work

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.

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.

Agreed. It is urgent that we teach Neil Postman's "media ecology". The junk noise garbage shit Internet sucks, and enough is enough!

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.

Musk and Putin, two historic experts and achievers in trickle-down memes. Population control via meme machines. They seek power the Rupert Murdoch way.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

are they cigars, I can't tell

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.

Interesting observation....

yes, reading code to people, basic interpretation. It's a pattern that I think comes post Cambridge Analytica media tactics.

yes, interpretation of various things, not just reading normal prose.

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.