Need some way to sort contributors by “trust”, e.g. if their PRs have been accepted before, if their account has existed before GenAI was invented, etc

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Using Kiwix you can keep older versions of Wikipedia locally on your computer, so if the online version reaches an unusable state, you can still view the articles as they used to be. Of course, it won’t have information about anything that happened after that point, but it could still be useful for some purposes.

Looks like Skylight is app-only, no website.

Not the Internet, but rather the World Wide Web. The once-humble webpage has become such a complex stack of technologies that it’s impossible for small dev teams to make alternatives to the established web browsers.

Because I want to control my own computer. I had to pay for the device, so I should be treated as the owner, yet Microsoft and Apple act like they own people’s computers, and build software that treats the computer as property of those corporations.

I don’t like tinkering just to get stuff working, so I use more user-friendly Linux distributions, and it’s been very smooth.

The real top boss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, although the Chairman is often appointed CEO, it doesn’t always happen. The Board of Directors is made up of large shareholders - the people who actually own the company. The CEO is technically just an employee and needn’t own any shares at all (although that would be extremely abnormal).

So, there may actually be a time when a corporation’s Board decides to use an “AI” as their CEO to cut costs.

The real security hole is how much information the browser gives to the web server. The only thing a web server needs to know is what content the user is looking for, but sadly web browser send a ton of identifying information to the point where it’s become expected behaviour and some websites won’t work without it.

Thanks. I did try again a couple of days ago and it works now.

How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?

I’m talking about the software side of things. Generative “AI” seems to be a “brute force” approach to artificial intelligence - just throwing hardware at the problem instead of finding a better approach. Given the limitations of GenAI, it just feels crazy to keep going this way. Like a sunk-cost fallacy. These are just my thoughts though, not a real scientific analysis.

I have to doubt the cost efficiency too.

It’s strange that the concept of efficiency seems to have been abandoned. Is consumption of vast computing resources no longer seen as indication of a design flaw?

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

The main differences are:

• package management (how you install new programs)
• release model (fixed vs rolling)
• default desktop environments (the GUI / look and feel)

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .

I’ve often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I’m commenting from piefed.social