Krisando

> I can tell you're not a parent, because if you were, you would know that basically none of the digital solutions provided by tech companies to facilitate gating adult material from children actually work or are in any way thoughtfully designed.

I can tell you Nintendo's parental controls work correctly. Even the eShop doesn't display any content not suitable for younger ages for accounts under the parental control restrictions if configured correctly.

> I have never seen any form of create generative model output (be that image, text, audio, or video) which I would rather see than the original prompt.

I've used LLM before to document command-line tools and APIs I've made; they aren't the final product since I also tweaked the writing and fixed misunderstandings from the LLM. I don't think the author would appreciate the original prompts, where I essentially just dump a lot of code and give instructions in bullet point form on what to output.

These generated documentation are immensely useful, and I use them all the time for myself. I prefer the documentation to reading the code because finding what I need at a glance is not trivial nor is remembering all the conditions, prerequisites, etc.

That being said, the article seems to focus on a use case where LLM is ill-suited. It's not suited for writing papers to pretend you wrote a paper.

> I say this because I believe that your original thoughts are far more interesting

Looking at the example posted, I'm not convinced that most people's original thoughts on gimbal lock will be more interesting than a succinct summary by an LLM.

> I thought that was the whole point of ActivityPub?

To allow others to see your posts, yes.

But if your instance goes away, instances can't fetch those posts anymore and admins of Mastodon instances shutting down tend to run a process that prunes users/history across the fedi too. Even if they don't, that information fades, especially as status authentication is a thing now (checks original instance for the post existence).

Then further, if you move to another server, that history is not attached to your new account either etc.

> And why is your instance shutting down?

This time it's due to new laws that the UK has introduced around social media websites. Previously it's been stuff like admin didn't want to do it after getting bullied. Not enough money. Lost all data and can't be bothered anymore etc.

> I guess "had" is the underrated word there.

I don't believe he's on Twitter anymore.

> Sure, but I' wondering if that need will be met anywhere on the net.

I believe this is currently handled by "algorithms" on the major social media networks.

> Are you paying for it?

I've been donating to the instance, yes. Although the reason this time is to do with UK's new laws on social media sites.

It's interesting to me that the ones who really have a problem with this change are those who already left Twitter. But, having removed themselves from being the target demographic and already indicated that they won't return; I'm very much in agreement with you here that these changes are now much more with the flow.

This article is so bizarre compared to my personal experience.

> If you’re on Twitter today, you’re likely experiencing an app that is more frequently broken

I'm not, I used to get loading issues all the time in years past, not anymore.

> more random

More random ads, but actually less stuff I don't want.

> and more unhinged

The day after Elon sent all those people home to let them know if they were fired, I never got the political stuff anymore, just the content I was interacting with all along, which happens to be photography and art.

> Many users are complaining about seeing more content in the new For You feed that they don’t want to see.

I scrolled through mine, literally only photography stuff if you ignore the ads.

> The problem is, Musk’s plan doesn’t seem to be working as well as he’s saying. Twitter’s web traffic dropped by nearly 8 percent last month compared to the year before, and has been dropping for the past three months year over year, according to new estimates from data intelligence firm SimilarWeb. This directly contradicts Musk’s claims that usage is up.

I don't think that's a contradiction because similarweb doesn't measure app usage.

My photography interactions have only increased since last year too...

> xenaphobia of the native population

People being afraid of the warrior princess is probably a good thing.

I have yet to see a TLR in real life.

You should probably read Karls works and his successors works like:

- The Motorcycle Diaries

- The Jewish Question

- Das Kapital

These were written within ideological contexts and contain things that we would consider hate speech today. Very much perpetuating ideas like:

- lazy Mexcians

- Jewish world conspiracy

- Black people (he would call them the n-word) being closer to the "animal kingdom" than man.

And they did all of these in ideological constructs.