That’s an extremely specific scenario and I would bet money on it not happening quite as you describe.

What if people become more AI literate and generally understand it’s uses and misuses better? What if the dating and social connection landscape changes and some other platform makes things way easier or changes the way we connect? What if people become so lonely they revert back to prostitution?

There’s a million more scenarios and no one really knows what the future looks like, so I think it’s very likely that your scenario does not come true at all.

Then choose one at random. Or make a register page that lets you search for one using tags.

I genuinely don’t think this is hard, it just takes someone putting the time in.

Ok so when you’re talking about xmpp as a discord alternative, basically movim is kind of what people should be paying attention to.

I’ll def check that out. I am also passively observing progress on stoat.

Now this is a question: how far can you get with xmpp? Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions? Or does something like that already exist?

My first instinct with these older protocols is that there’s no way they could support 10 people in a voice call with concurrent camera streams and 3 screen captures. I’m genuinely curious how far xmpp goes.

Because the people make the platform, and not the functions, and for lots of people you need a lower entry barrier, and the entry barrier for both of those is a good bit higher than fluxer.

Don’t get me wrong, if matrix was a bit more convenient (easier to understand and to use like you would discord, and less bugs of which there are still a wide range of), I’d 100% advocate for it. But I can only tell my friends to use something if it’s convenient enough that they will genuinely avoid a degraded experience.

Not following their own professional advice

Pacman supremacy

I use arch btw

Very interesting.

Tying this to the minimum wage has some unique consequences and I can see why you chose that.

I have to point out though that in your wording, disseminating information while you are working will be very hard. For example, going to conferences might get you convicted (working under a contract from a company and then disseminating information in that conference) and I imagine there’s quite a few other things that could also fall under this, though I see you already did some very exact limits.

I feel like these lines could be drawn a bitore elegant but it’s not like I’m a politician who has great understanding of laws and language in order to draft something like this.

Propaganda?

I see the following issue:

What is an ad? Is it an ad spot in the middle of a TV show? A big billboard? A banner on a website? Someone talking about a brand? Just writing or saying a brand name? Subtle algorithmic nudging?

You gotta put a line in the sand, and depending on where you put it, it’ll be harder to influence anyone or harder to address brands or products. There’s always a trade off.

And then additionally we gotta address any behavioural adaptions of big companies. Imagine if companies started striking illegal deals with social media companies for favourable algorithms? How do you control that? And on the other hand, imagine you were talking about a product and suddenly people accuse you of illegal advertising? How do you make sure people don’t skirt the line and also no one is wrongly convicted?

I’m not saying this is a dumb idea, I actually agree cracking down on forceful or manipulative advertising is an interesting idea, I just think that these broad stroke ideas an insane amount of continuous planning, validation and readdressing.

This is genuinely grim

Yes and yes.

It’s a very easy way to have all the pen testing software you want when you wanna feel like a hacker.

To further discourage you from dual booting: there’s a long tradition by this point about your windows OS swallowing your Linux OS or taking over your bootloader and not giving it back. This has only gotten worse with time and there’s basically no surefire solution.

Another approach is always a VM but for graphically intense applications or things like music production, you’ll spend lots of time making passthrough of your audio or devices work. That said, it is a great solution for these oddball apps that you just can’t get to work in Linux.

Goated

It’s only a meme if it’s funny

What do you mean by charts?

If you just mean general engagement, the beat for matrix would be to wait until element is stable enough that we can recommend the platform to a broader audience, and then it’ll just be lots of patience.

I feel bad for everyone who needs censorship bypass apps.

Also if anyone needs a pointer, I just tested Element again and it’s gotten good enough, and it’s technical design makes the matrix protocol more resilient against censorship of any kind. Although I would love to see some more audits and comments from experts.

Iirc it’s even funnier: the relevant case law comes from Naruto v Slater. A case about a monkey taking a selfie and a photographer failing to acquire copyright of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute).

The copyright belonged to whoever shot the selfie, but because it was the monkey and animals aren’t juristic entities, they can not hold copyright. Therefore, as it stands and as new case law outlines, AIs are compared to monkeys, in that the copyright would fall onto them but it’s not a juristic entities either, and therefore copyright just vanishes and no one can claim it.

The wikipedia page suggests current cases on generative AI directly build on this.

Imo that’s why Bad Bunny’s show was great. He never addressed politics directly. He just made his culture look fun.

So now every time someone tries to rope in politics, you can just look at it on it’s face and see a good show that makes you happy if you’re open minded. So everyone who criticizes it has to work really hard to make it sound bad.

Extremely difficult.

I tried dating apps, but ultimately I have friends who I asked out and I got rejected.

For me the hard thing is going out and socializing. It’s just statistics; the more you go out to random places and meet new people, the more likely you are to find someone, but it drains my energy like nothing else and I also gotta gather confidence after only ever being rejected.

Turns out dating is hard, but as long as you keep being open it’ll happen at some point.