cecilkorik

They have different data centers for storage (AI doesn't need much), but you're right, it's all unbelievably specialized to the point of being basically useless for any purpose that it wasn't specifically designed for. We really have been spoiled with how general purpose our computing infrastructure has been up until now. That's simply not how things are scaling up anymore.

I'm on piefed.ca! Love to see Piefed gaining traction. It's a much better experience.

The French figured out how to solve that particular problem hundreds of years ago. Guillotines are efficient and reusable.

You're a cheese not-great-enough if you haven't watched Spaceballs.

are encouraged to be violent with the people they are told to hate.

Encouraged by who? Told by who? The fact that the people doing the fighting don't understand they're part of an organization that is coordinating them to fight a civil war doesn't change the fact that it's an organized civil war.

I get accused of being a bot all the time now because I still enjoy writing long-form posts and, y'know, contributing what I can to the state of human knowledge, or what remains of it anyway. I can't blame people for being defensive about it. It's the AIs themselves I'm offended by, they're the ones doing wrong. We're all just trying to cope with the avalanche of unverified garbage they're putting out. It's digital pollution.

I had one of these. It was truly terrible, extremely limited, clunky, dim, with awful battery life, but sort of better than nothing. Barely. The days before white LED backlights were a really painful time for portable electronics.

Piefed connects them and shows you comments from other communities on other instances.

It's beautiful.

Piefed(.ca at least) is great. It doesn't really matter much to me where the community is hosted but it should be wherever you feel comfortable hosting it and I agree the Lemmy devs are very toxic.

Also nice design!

I wish you were right. I don't mind governments and political parties who aren't fascist. Democratic socialists and responsible environmentalists can AI-pump their ideology all they like and it's not going to do much harm to civilization. But if they are doing it at all, they're not doing it anywhere near the level that fascists and kleptocrats are. The latter benefit from radical change, and they are using AI to achieve that.

This also has big implications for consumer rights and society as a whole in other areas of digital technology and right to repair, it is a foot in the door to start actually holding manufacturers responsible for the full lifecycle of their products (digital and real) that requires them to actually relinquish their control when their product reaches end-of-commercial-life, instead of turning everything into digital garbage out of what basically amounts to apathy and compulsive rights hoarding.