Well… I’m using pidgin right now.

Thank you for explaining this concept. I still don’t see how it can be considered planned obsolescence, though. It looks more like a matter of optimizing the output and doing a tradeoff for more performance.

I see planned obsolescence as artificially limiting the longevity or repairability of a product, without any benefit at all, but with the intention of making it less durable. A good example could be locked smartphones without updates.

But perhaps, the definition of planned obsolescence is broader than i think.

but to actually provide a compromise leading to an overall better product.

Could you elaborate a bit more on that?

Whoa, I didn’t know tiktok was so popular. it’s like 1/8 of the entire world population, and considering that only about 70% of the world has internet access, it’s like 18% of all internet users.

Or are lots of these bot accounts, like other social media, and the real numbers are lower?

Foldable phone will always be either more expensive, less durable, or both, so it’s a no go for me, as much as I like the idea.

No, but they accepted to publish political fake news ads for one of the running parties (the fascistoid one, of course) in the last elections here in Brazil.

That party has lost, but it was too close. In the 4 last years, during their mandate, hunger, violence, discrimination rape, and other problems rose to the highest levels in the century.

Google and other big tech companies have been influencing elections in a lot of places, and the consequences are enormous.

People also have that tendency to personify AIs. I don’t really understand why.

Would be even better if we did our own on lemmy.

Are you saying that, technically, chatgpt is constructing legal cases against itself?

I know you’re asking about linux, but just pointing out that you can try android x86 on it, just in case you don’t know about the project.

+1 for syncthing.

If my pc fails right in the middle of some serious work, I will be no longer in despair. I will simply use my second machine to finish it, and repair the main one later.

Do you think it’s safe for the average joe to forward ports in the router to access things from the outside?

As interesting as the technology is, it was extremely overhyped and attracted the worst kind of people, who only wanted to gret rich quick".

The amount of crypto projects today is absurd. The scalability problems aren’t solved yet, but people keep pushing their “revolutionary” coins.

We reached a state where even technology enthusiasts and the ones who like the idea of decentralized money became weary of the blockchain environment.

The posters/commenters/lurkers ratio of reddit is highly disbalanced. If enough posters (which are a tiny fraction of userbase) come to lemmy, the rest will follow.

It’s not the same. GPT-based bots add much more to the situation.

Current bots are easily identifiable, and can be just banned when spotted, but gpt bots can interact in a way that makes is more difficult to spot. They can be programmed to present different personalities and tastes, commenting on several places, and even chit-chatting here and there. Then, they will do their propaganda, considering the contexts, arguing and replying to counterarguments.

It’s a much more complex structure, and much harder to identify. Today, gpt produces text following some patterns, but that’s something that can be improved.

You’re right, I checked here, and they always moved the line. Feels strange to see how our memories can trick us.

I looked for more info, and you’re right. Strange, because I can remember it clearly. Was I a victim of the mandela effect?

There’s something that worries me about GPT-like technologies, and I see very few people talking about it: GPT-based social media bots.

It can give people and groups to create much advanced mass manipulation strategies. Imagine a lot of gpt accounts on all sites creating comments advocating pro or against something, every time it’s mentioned, in a very natural language, that can fool most people.

It worries me a lot, and I’m sure it will be done at some point. If recent elections around the world were a mess due to a lot of social media manipulation and fake news campaigns, now imagine that powered by gpt.

I remember when they took it off. They probably brought it back because it was giving them a bad image.