MetaFilter has a good system for that, they’re effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators.

MetaFilter has at multiple points been on the verge of shutting down, no? IIRC, you pay $5 for an account.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Nebula is all “bread tubers” and left adjacent.

Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor.

And these results are taken at face value by a shocking number of people. I’ve gotten into niche academic arguments where someone just copy and pasted the AIs completed hallucinated response as “evidence.”

I experimented with using AI to generate basic quizzes for students on concepts like atomic theory or conservation of energy, but maybe 2/20 questions it came up with were any form of accurate/useful. Even when it’s not making shit up entirely, the information is so shallow as to be useless.

What scares me is that I’ve tried to hook multiple “geekier” teenagers on Linux, and they aren’t interested. Even the math-y ones don’t know the difference between an operating system and a browser. My main computer is Arch with xmonad and it disturbs and confuses them.

We have a lost generation when it comes to computers. Lots of the little geeks that would have been playing around in the registry or learning powershell 15 years ago are so stuck in walled gardens that they don’t even know there’s a world outside of them.

People meme about “q!” but it is super helpful to have that extra step, because sometimes your fingers are moving faster than your brain is. That quick switch back-n-forth vim - gcc - ./a.out loop and my probably ADHD mean that vim saying, “hey, remember you haven’t saved this yet” is a godsend.

You are right about the best part about vim - you can work as fast you type.

It’s asinine to require me to be connected to the internet to use my computer. My work laptop was absolutely useless without the internet. There’s supposed to be a pin/password thing that lets you bypass this, but it would work maybe 30% of the time.

I also don’t get why I have to give Microsoft my name and an email address for my video game machine. (I get steam and proton yada yada, but I’m often playing anything that you can barely get to work on its native system - has anyone actually got EYE : Divine Cybermancy to run for more than ten minutes?)

Windows XP and 7 hit the mark I think. XP let you take it apart in beautiful ways, and had all kinds of wonderful eccentricities - which is also the problem, because XP was insecure af. Windows 7 got right what they figured out by Vista Service Pack 2 as far as security. Less aesthetics, less access to the internals, but also probably “better” for a normie.

The rule is supposedly that every other one is good or something. Maybe 12 will be good?

Is it a “risk” if it’s the desired outcome?

Altman doesn’t seemed to be concerned with consent in general.

Beyond that - with the porn bans:

Lemmy and mastodon servers aren’t going to collect your ID to make sure you can look at porn. Realistically, small sites are not going to have the moderation required to keep in compliance with those laws - if corpos like Aylo (which owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Red Tube - really a shit ton of porn sites, which could be a fun discussion about capitalism consolidation as well) think it’s too much effort and are just throwing up geoblocks - how many smaller sites will be forced to do the same?

Or even the potential to switch to a “whitelist” internet. Only being able to access websites which are “appropriately” moderated.

Goodbye net neutrality.

Won’t it be so much fun when you have to pay for website “bundles” like they’re TV channels? The web is getting so centralized that maybe they’ll stop offering connections to anything other than Facebook and Shitter if you don’t pay for “unlimited” access.

Would be kinda convenient to make it harder to access fediverse platforms, or anywhere else that doesn’t moderate against any ideas to the left of Reagan.