Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 89%

    You don't have the whole context. The relevance of it being interstellar is that, at the speeds it was travelling, it should have vaporized completely when entering out atmosphere. The fact that pieces survived reentry is anomalous, as it indicates that it must have been made from alloys not naturally present in any other object that we've seen entering out atmosphere from outer space.

    If those alloys are natural (but never seen before) or artificial (and so created by some other intelligence), that's the question here.

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  • What would be the problem if Threads federated with Lemmy&co in the future?
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 100%

    Think of the fediverse as a federation of states, some bigger, some smaller, but all in the same ballpark. Threads had 10M signups just yesterday, which is more than the whole existing fediverse combined. Federating with them would be like the US adding China as a state - it would immediately be the biggest state by far, and would have the power to set politics for all others. And we know what sort of politics they would set, right?

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  • Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 100%

    At least one post was defending reddit in r/programming has been shown to be chatGPT, that's for sure. If they have one bot, who's to say they don't have thousands?

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  • The lack of ads!
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    1y ago 100%

    Tax them like the US did in the 50's, at a global level. Set maximum values for wages and assets. Tax inheritances to level the playing field.

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  • Como é que se colapsa uma thread de comentários no Jerboa?
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 100%

    O Jerboa foi a primeira app que usei também, mas rapidamente notas que é incrivelmente instável e tem ainda muita coisa por polir. A app está a ser feita pelos devs do próprio lemmy, que a vêem mais como side project.

    Experimentei várias outras e acabei por ficar pela Liftoff. Em vista compacta é muito parecida ao RiF, é rápida, e é estável. Zero problemas até agora. Na Liftoff basta um tap num comentário para o colapsar e a todas as respostas.

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  • YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views
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    justgohomealready
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    Revanced stopped working for me a few weeks ago now. It will just play like the first minute of a video, and then get stuck on an infinite loading. Searching the web for that issue, I got the idea that my account was flagged somehow. I've tried uninstalling ans reinstalling and it doesn't help. Tried it again after a few weeks to see if it had started working again, no luck.

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  • Kinda strange that people are so crazy about ChatGPT's abilities for bad
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 100%

    Those bots wouldn't pass the turing test, that's for sure. One thing is pure spam like you're describing, another is to be arguing with an AI (and losing) without even being aware that it's an AI on the other side.

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  • Kinda strange that people are so crazy about ChatGPT's abilities for bad
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 100%

    The problem with chatGPT is that it allows for automation of content creation.

    Imagine a a single guy using chatGPT to control thousands of social media bots, who answer in a human-like way and are able to follow conversations and context, but who all defend the same point of view.

    Or imagine a single guy controlling thousands of "local news blogs" that have a constant stream of fresh AI-generated content (both articles and comments), once again all pushing the same narrative.

    That is the main problem with things like chatGPT, if not controlled - they allow anyone to create their own "troll farm".

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  • Na versão mais recente do Jerboa aparece-me o texto do server, a dar as boas vindas, sobreposto à lista de posts, o que torna o uso da app muito difícil. Alguém mais tem este problema? Alguma dica para resolver?

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    PCP devolve a Metsola e questiona se não a incomoda o “poder nazi” na Ucrânia
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 66%

    Belo quote só com metade da frase.

    O whataboutism é ver tankies a chorar que a Ucrânia prendeu uma idosa, quando na ditadura que apoiam a idosa era mandada pela janela.

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  • PCP devolve a Metsola e questiona se não a incomoda o “poder nazi” na Ucrânia
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    justgohomealready
    1y ago 60%

    No fundo, é disto que se trata:

    Before 2014, there was a large camp in Ukrainian politics calling for closer integration with Russia-led international institutions rather than with those in the Euro-Atlantic sphere, or even for Ukraine entering into a Union State with Russia and Belarus.

    Esta gente, a partir do momento que o país é invadido, tem que escolher um lado. É tão simples quanto isso. Um país não pode ter partidos políticos a defender que se entregue o poder ou se mantenha à mercê daqueles que o querem absorver de forma imperialista, se quer sobreviver.

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  • A comunidade ainda é muito pequena e o software *work in progress*, mas é relativamente fácil fazer a transição do RIF para o Jerboa e, uma pessoa nos primeiros dias andando perdida e sem perceber nada disto, o instinto é fazer o registo no lemmy.pt. Imaginando que se começa a atingir uma massa crítica que, por si só, a atrai gente a uma velocidade cada vez maior, e que o spez continua a ajabardar o reddit e a trazer vagas de utilizadores para o lemmy, há planos para escalar a instância tanto a nível técnico como financeiro? Da minha parte, não me importava de apoiar a instância através de doações ou de um patreon - mas o texto na sidebar dá a entender que as doações existentes já são mais que suficientes, o que acredito uma vez que há tão poucos utilizadores. Mas coloca-se a questão - se essa situação mudar com um crescimento quase exponencial, o que nos garante que não sejam necessárias cada vez mais doações para cobrir os custos (de hardware e de tempo de admin e devops) e que, daqui a 20 anos, o atual admin da instância seja o novo spez? Afinal, o reddit também começou por pedir doações "só para cobrir os custos". O que proponho aqui é gerar uma discussão "filosófica" sobre como evitar repetir o passado, ou como evitar que custos cada vez mais elevados possam um dia levar o lemmy.pt a ser abandonado ou vendido.

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