This guy is living the dream

Then this would be pretty shitty.

However, pixelfed is very straightforward about the fact that the focus is on image posts and even if they would not advertise that fact you should realize in less than five minutes of using it that all the posts you see are image posts.

Additionally there are enough apps out there that show all content (I use the default mastodon app to see image posts as well as text posts, etc.). If this is what you want just choose that app.

And if somebody makes an app that only shows text posts then this would be great for people who only want to see text posts. I really don’t get the authors problem.

Would you settle for a mail provider which silently drop all emails you receive if they contain the letter “P”?

Yes, if the mail provider is advertising the fact that they are dropping everything containing “P” AND if I’m currently not in the mood to read anything containing “P” AND if there are enough good alternative mail providers that do show me things containing “P”.

What a weird take.

A graph that goes up constantly (even if it’s slowly) is always at an all time high.

I also got excited. However some time ago I set up waydroid and once I got it all running smoothly I was like “what now?”

I didn’t know any app or game that I wanted to play over the games that I have on my PC.

So my question would be: what do you want to play?

Does it need to be iOS? Can’t they use Android?

Yeah sure. But compared to now it was basically empty.

Guess what? Wikipedia was empty as well when it was created. People like you had to fill it themselves.

This.

Being able to talk to a computer is pretty cool (to me). But I want it to be “my” computer that respects my privacy, acts in my interests and doesn’t talk to anybody else.

“Code IS documentation”

This feels like Americans voting behavior. “The thing I liked has gone to shit, so as a protest I will take double shit with extra piss”

It looks ass on this picture. However, it kinda looks like a steamdeck without a screen which is no surprise. And I quite like the steamdeck controls…

Well, my daily driver is actually running arch (btw) so I felt like I’m allowed to use that phrase ;)

You have the same energy against Firefox as Linux users have against Windows. Meanwhile Firefox runs great for me. Used it for years. Never had the issues you described (on windows and on Linux; I use both btw.)

Effort does not require effort

This has got to be satire

I think that there is AI “art” that goes beyond typing a few words into chat gpt and waiting for a result.

I don’t know how popular this is today but about two years ago I watched lots of people go wild with stable diffusion workflows. It was a whole palette of tools: Control net, Inpainting, sketches with img2img for the composition, corrections in Photoshop and so on. It took hours or days of manual work until people “generated” the image that they initially imagined. I would say that this would count as art… Writing one prompt into your favourite llm and take what you get: not so much.

One example for reference: https://youtu.be/K0ldxCh3cnI

I believe those who deploy the machines should be responsible in the first place. The corporations who make/sell those machines should be accountable if they deceptively and intentionally program those machines to act maliciously or in somebody else’s interest.

I generally agree.

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person. Should we then still trust the humans decision just to have someone who is accountable?

What is the worth of having someone who is accountable anyway? Isn’t accountability just an incentive for humans to not just fuck things up? It’s also nice for pointing fingers if things go bad - but is there actually any value in that?

Additionally: there is always a person who either made the machine or deployed the machine. IMO the people who deploy a machine and decide that this machine will now be making decisions should be accountable for those actions.

“‘Sleep more?’… No, I think I will not” sip on my fifth cup of coffee

I read 3 of the points in the middle until I skipped to the green one…