Don't be evil.

Nothing went wrong. Reddit's desire to monetize simply trumps everything.

We were witnessing enshittification process in full force.

It's DRM, but for the whole web.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Maps and Photos are ok IMO. Slowly getting shittier though.

I wonder if they can sue against these time-wasting takedown companies. At least bill them by the man-hour or something.

The biggest problem is if Google can influence all the major websites (banks, e-commerce, news sites, streaming services, social media, etc) to adopt this standard.

They've done it before with AMP.

This is a recent article on how Google might've helped killed XMPP. Same argument could apply to this meta<>fediverse situation.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Of course, reality was a bit less shiny. First of all, despites collaborating to develop the XMPP standard, Google was doing its own closed implementation that nobody could review. It turns out they were not always respecting the protocol they were developing. They were not implementing everything. This forced XMPP development to be slowed down, to adapt. Nice new features were not implemented or not used in XMPP clients because they were not compatible with Google Talk (avatars took an awful long time to come to XMPP). Federation was sometimes broken: for hours or days, there would not be communications possible between Google and regular XMPP servers. The XMPP community became watchers and debuggers of Google’s servers, posting irregularities and downtime (I did it several times, which is probably what prompted the job offer).

And because there were far more Google talk users than "true XMPP" users, there was little room for "not caring about Google talk users". Newcomers discovering XMPP and not being Google talk users themselves had very frustrating experience because most of their contact were Google Talk users. They thought they could communicate easily with them but it was basically a degraded version of what they had while using Google talk itself. A typical XMPP roster was mainly composed of Google Talk users with a few geeks.

In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore. And started a long quest to create a messenger, starting with Hangout (which was followed by Allo, Duo. I lost count after that).

As expected, no Google user bated an eye. In fact, none of them realised. At worst, some of their contacts became offline. That was all. But for the XMPP federation, it was like the majority of users suddenly disappeared. Even XMPP die hard fanatics, like your servitor, had to create Google accounts to keep contact with friends. Remember: for them, we were simply offline. It was our fault.

While XMPP still exist and is a very active community, it never recovered from this blow. Too high expectation with Google adoption led to a huge disappointment and a silent fall into oblivion. XMPP became niche. So niche that when group chats became all the rage (Slack, Discord), the free software community reinvented it (Matrix) to compete while group chats were already possible with XMPP. (Disclaimer: I’ve never studied the Matrix protocol so I have no idea how it technically compares with XMPP. I simply believe that it solves the same problem and compete in the same space as XMPP).

Would XMPP be different today if Google never joined it or was never considered as part of it? Nobody could say. But I’m convinced that it would have grown slower and, maybe, healthier. That it would be bigger and more important than it is today. That it would be the default decentralised communication platform. One thing is sure: if Google had not joined, XMPP would not be worse than it is today.

Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes

Alternatively, opt-in to testing via web: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.talklittle.android.tildes

Another step towards interoperability.

Another great alternative to Reddit. It's also a non-profit.

SmartTube is more optimized for TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

Give it a try.

This is awesome. Thank you 🙏

There's the 5$/month option available if you don't search more than 300 times a month.

Most people I know of don't drink from tap water here at all, boiled or not.

Edit: I forgot to share where I'm at lol (Indonesia)

While whether LLMs are intelligent or not is still hotly debated. I think the author's thoughts are very interesting.

This is crazy to me. You can read in a stream of meaningless numbers (tokens) and incidentally build a reasonably accurate model of the real things those tokens represent.

The implications are vast. We may be able to translate between languages that have never had a “Rosetta Stone”. Any animals that have a true language could have it decoded. And while an LLM that’s gotten an 8 year old’s understanding of balancing assorted items isn’t that useful, an LLM that’s got a baby whale’s grasp on whale language would be revolutionary.

For local gallery. Simple gallery is better.

But for searching your photos, Google photos is still pretty great.

Brave might not be better.

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

Used thinkpads (like the T480) are a great choice.

I use Manjaro Cinnamon on mine.

They removed 'don't be evil' from their code of conduct 5 years ago.

https://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

Damn, /u/spez is scamming all reddit moderators to work for free.

First time hearing about it. Link for others who are also wondering what Microsoft Pluton is:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-security-chip-designed-for-the-future-of-windows-pcs/

In This Thread.

Archive link: https://archive.is/CeQHe

I assuming something similar to hootsuite. You can schedule contents to be posted when.

Domain registrations are not free. It's an annual fee, I don't think any company will give those out for free. I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.

The update post: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_is_Not_Shutting_Down

I moved from andOTP to Aegis. Can say that's it's been solid so far 👍

How does it compare to chocolatey? Thanks.

Archive link: https://archive.is/7S8Pu

/u/Lucid5603@lemmy.dbzer0.com found the PDF:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/4967998

Better watch youtube from a piped instance.

Well, it's a remake of an old RPG game.

A really good RPG game though, IMO.

I purposefully split my passwords and OTP. Don't want them to be in one app/place. Kinda defeats the purpose otherwise IMO.

What if my organs are of shit quality? :(

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What about preserving languages that are close to extinct, but still have language data available? Can LLMs help in this case?

Samsung galaxy s5 👍

The article is predicting that smartphones and movie cameras might adopt this.

True, and many people probably overestimate how many Netflix subscribers are going back to pirating movies/tv series.

I'm a bit new to this whole federation thing. As I understand it, it's supposed to be like email?

I don't think I've ever heard something similar happening in email space. For example: Hotmail can suddenly decide that Hotmail users can only email other Hotmail users going forward.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the admins' concerns. Just trying to understand about federation more.