Yeah, he probably deserves one of those.

Munich tried this 20 years ago. They reversed that decision in 2017.

While I’m not entirely convinced that Trunky is the best choice of names, I do agree with your overall reasoning. Mastodon was always an awkward choice for a name and probably hurt adoption quite a bit, despite all the cute elephant cartoons people ended up making. Even Pleroma (an alternative server implementation compatible with ActivityPub) sounds cooler than Mastodon, despite also being three syllables long.

If communities were global instead of instance-based, instance mods/admins would likely still be able to moderate posts and comments hosted on THEIR instance (which may be important to confirm to local laws), but they wouldn’t be able to moderate the ENTIRE discussion.

There are likely some advantages to this (such as discussion not being able to be stifled by overeager or politically extremist mods), but it would also mean there is no way to globally enforce any particular rule (unless all instance admins agree on it).

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Two can play that game. And since ChatGPT has a rather liberal bias baked in, I’m not sure it would it work out too well for the tankies.

Like I said, fine with me as long as it’s on neutral ground and they can’t just have an admin delete some of my arguments because they don’t like them.

I’m fine with it as long as I don’t have to debate them on THEIR terms.

I’m honestly fine with that, because outside of their home server, they cannot rely on their mods to protect them from arguments they don’t want to hear.

On your Lemmy instance, go to Settings -> Blocks and just block the entire instance. That’s what I did.

I just ended up banning the whole instance from my account so I don’t end up posting there accidentally. If they want an echo chamber, they can have an echo chamber.

I like how it calls the captcha an “IQ test”.

Even if that’s so, it still needs you in order to tell it WHAT to produce (and to get rid of the 5-10% errors that may still be present).

Also, consider that you may well be able to produce a single module that way, but a complex application consists of hundreds, if not thousands of these, and AI cannot yet meaningfully put them together as far as I know.

Yes, it may very well end up weeding out some of the bad coders whose only job was doing the dirty work of copy and pasting answers from StackOverflow, but as long as you got a brain in your head, I’m pretty sure you’ll still be able to find a job.

Honestly, I’ve spent a bunch of time playing with various AI tools recently and my conclusion so far is that while the tools are impressively capable and can definitely ease the burden of routine tasks, I’d still want to hire people if I needed something done that needs actual creative thinking.

An AI like Copilot can certainly help make a developer’s life much easier, but it can’t replace them entirely. All it is, in the end, is a better rubber duck, which can actually give helpful feedback or even produce whole code snippets for you, but you still need someone with an actual human brain to put it all together in just the right way.

It’s full of ones and zeros

Haha

Yes, that does indeed appear to be the case.

I tried signing up for shits and giggles but so far have been unable to create my own bot as promised, it always takes quite a long time and seems to end up failing eventually, no matter what prompt I used, which doesn’t exactly make me want to go out and buy their stuff though.

Almost feels like it’s a barely working prototype / tech demo and I’m wondering whether the data I see is actually from live bots or simply preseeded.

If someone else can confirm this, I’d be happy to delete the post, especially since, as another commenter pointed out, it isn’t even the first of its kind.

It is indeed.

Dead Internet, here we come.

Perhaps, if there are some very specific compatibility issues that haven’t been solved yet.

That said, MS-DOS 4 isn’t even the most recent version, the last one was 6.22 to my knowledge, and IIRC a lot of games tended to require at least version 5 or 6.