I feel like ActivityPub implemented federation in a really weird way, and that's what causes problems like @linearchaos@lemmy.world is reporting, or the issue that Blaze is addressing through multi-accounting. Perhaps we shouldn't be sharing content across instances but only credentials.

For example. If you're registered to instance A, and B federates with A, then B would let you post from your A account as if you were registered to B. Then let the retrieval of the content of different instances up to the front-end, instead of mirroring it.

A lot of this boils down to consequences of lemmy.world being the largest instance: typical Reddit users beeline for it, trolls go there, larger comms so more frequent issues with moderation, people who fail to distinguish between "we shouldn't concentrate our activity into the largest instance" and "largest instance bad! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR LE GOLD TO LE KNEE KIND STRANGER!", so goes on.

It's in Italian. I should've changed it before the screenshot, but it takes effort to do so, and I'm lazy.

My computer settings are all in Italian, to avoid getting rusty with the language. Sabe como é - não usa, enferruja.

He's a jumento / donkey and a piece of shit on moral and ethical grounds; he doesn't give a flying fuck about the population, and seems to have a burning hate against marginalised groups. However, he isn't too prone to shoot his own feet.

This is relevant in this case because social media is essential for what he's doing: gathering support for his meat puppet's potential election, while playing the victim of an anti-democratic government. "Poor me, I was unjustly prevented from being a candidate! The powers to be don't want me to! Vote on $person by the way." As such his interests align really well with Musk.

My hypothesis:

Meta is one of those companies wallowing in the idiotic belief that generative AI will "soon" reach intelligence and sentience and the ability to walk your dog, so odds are that it's deploying them heavily for moderation duties. Except that the crap does not understand a single iot of the pictures and text that it analyses, so it's bound to get huge amounts of false positives and false negatives.

Well, here's an example of false positive. i.e. machine mod assuming that the poster is underageb&.

Protip: if you use "assumer machine" to handle people, you're trash, your service is trash, and you both deserve to be treated as trash. Not this conclusion is surprising regarding Meta.

This is the first real meal I had in years.

Said someone who lives off popcorn! 🍿

I'm not judging you though. I used to love this sort of drama. (I still do, a bit.)

Can confirm that it's on again:

If the Brazilian government had actual laws against the issue with Xitter /'ʃɪtə/ - i.e. the fact that it's a Nazi nest - it wouldn't be on again. However Moraes did it through some bloody convoluted way, that stinks "ackshyually" from a distance; first obsessing over that Monark clown, then the representative, then a fine that amounts to pocket money for both sides. As a result, it's on again, "yay" /s

The key here is that legislations (not just the Brazilian one; I'm talking on general grounds) need to distinguish between

• a platform that transparently conveys the discourse of its users, thus not being responsible for what they say; and
• a platform that opaquely "suggests" you what you "should" be seeing, through an algorithm that you cannot reasonably modify, thus being liable for what it shows you

Faecesbook and YouTube fall into the later, but Xitter specially so, as Elon Muppet's personal soapbox.

So, let's give a round of claps to Dickhead for the Effort and Good Intentions® /s.

"By 'free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law,"

Cut off the crap. You were probably babbling this on the grounds of that "first amendment" crap that holds no grounds outside USA.

Bolsonaro and his supporters praised Musk for refusing to block accounts

Of course he did. He might not be himself eligible any more, but odds are that whoever will compete for the ~~Republic's Party~~ Liberal Party in 2026 will be basically his meatpuppet. People often compare this shite with Trump, but they forget to mention that, unlike Trump, Bolsonaro is not braindead.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva previously said that businesses in Brazil must follow local laws and that the country is "not obliged to put up with Musk's far-right ideology just because he is rich."

Lula, you're only there because you're less worse than Bostonaro. Now go drink some booze and shut up.

Or, in a deeper aspect: they're pretty good at regurgitating what we interpret as bullshit. They simply don't care about truth value of the statements at all.

That's part of the problem - you can't prevent them from doing it, it's like trying to drain the ocean with a small bucket. They shouldn't be used as a direct source of info for anything that you won't check afterwards; at least in kitnaht's use case if the LLM is bullshitting it should be obvious, but go past that and you'll have a hard time.

I'll fix it! I forgot that this is like "an hero", one of those memes where the error is part of the charm.

Wow. I'm reading the whole thing, it's... amazing. Thank you for sharing it.

Most Indo-Europeanists don't even touch this subject of pre-IE languages, as it adds yet another layer of complexity, and our knowledge of Proto-Indo-European itself already has more holes than a sieve. I think that it's important though, even for people whose main interest is PIE alone.

With that in mind, regarding Latin columba vs. OCS golǫbь (mentioned in p31), I don't think that it's a good example of that potential isogloss - since the OCS word is better explained as a borrowing of the Latin word. More specifically, from a Late Latin rendition of the word as *gɔlomba, after the Continental vowel rearrangement. The voiced /g/ might look weird, but Latin and the Romance languages often show erratic /k/~/g/ alternation, as shown by

• Latin itself didn't even bother with the ⟨C G⟩ distinction for a lot of time
• Latin cattum "cat" ending as Italian gatto and Portuguese gato
• informal Portuguese rendering cuspir "to spit" as "guspir"

In the meantime, Wiktionary [sorry for the crappy source] says that Latin columba is a borrowing from Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos⟩ "diver". The odd semantic shift might be explained if the word initially referred to swans or other sea birds, specially in the light that Latin had a specific word for wood pigeons, mentioned in the text (palumba~palumbēs).

Ultimately however I do think that the word is from Pre-IE vocabulary, except that Greek was the one doing the borrowing. The argument for -umb- not being an IE morpheme is specially sensible IMO; and the form ⟨palumbēs⟩ might be explained through analogy.

It is in any case clear that Egyptian cannot be the direct source of the European words, due to both a mismatch in vocalism (Latin -umb- requires a labial vowel, cf. Leumann 1977: 81), and Egyptian -r- vs. European -l-.

If we accept that Latin borrowed it from Greek, the meaning doesn't match either; at most what could happen is that both Greek and Egyptian borrowed it from a common source.

...did I spend all this time talking about winged rats?

Stable Diffusors are pretty good at regurgitating information that’s widely talked about.

Stable Diffusion is an image generator. You probably meant a language model.

And no, it's not just OP. This shit has been going on for a while well before LLMs were deployed. Cue to the old "reddit" trick that some people used.

Redirects your search to Google. You can put it anywhere in the search; for example !g how do i shot web, how do i shot web !g and how do i !g shot web will all land you into Google.

There are other 13k (yup) bangs like this. Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Yahoo, Quora, most gaming wikis, etc. A few sites (like Google and Bing) have multiple bangs, that land you directly into a specific page (e.g. !bv searches Bing videos). More info here.