Yeah, my wildest dreams are a bit more Expedition 33 or Chants of Sennaar.

I hate to be the one to let you know if you didn’t but kbin is dead. It hasn’t had any new code in 2 years and the main instances aren’t running. There’s probably issues all over with it and will only get worse

Codeberg was running Anubis. Apparently several bots have started just solving Anubis and scraping away again.

I’m not gonna bother figuring it out, but real curious how many views FromPirateSoftware is losing, if he was hitting to try and stay afloat after all his drama

I learned a while back that arguing with someone is less about convincing that specific person, and more about convincing the bystanders who read/hear the argument.

It’s actually made it less frustrating for me to engage with people online. The person I’m taking to I know will never change their mind, but someone else might that I don’t know about.

A lot of the forums I’m seeing talked about where more technical or objective kinds. Like in a car forum there’d be repair manuals or parts lists, fountain pen forums would have loads of images comparing inks side by side for different shades and hues. Those are the sorts of knowledge centers being discussed and reminisced about a lot here.

I think there’s a lot of solid arguments against letting AI steal everything, but with the scraping there’s an even more immediate problem. They don’t rate limit or do it in an intelligent method. It becomes a full blown ddos that has take down entire sites and slowed many more to the point of near uselessness.

They’re in a very literal sense crashing large chunks of the Internet and causing havoc which costs very real money to fix, either by upping server resources or installing AI scraping mitigation resources so that every still has access to the free information you mention.

Doesn’t really solve the AI scraping or the silo problem and as Codeberg found out recently, solving the AI scraping DDOS is never ending

If platforming universal healthcare and economic change is conservative then sign me the duck up as a staunch conservative. People are attacking him for having a business but that doesn’t make him the enemy. Plenty of good solid people have a business and pump the money back into their employees and community. It’s the billionaires, the ultra wealthy who think they can play god that are the problem.

I swear, “progressives” can be the most backwards people and their own worst enemy all in the name of ideological purity.

There were plenty of old collaborative and encouraging spaces even from the very early days. The message boards and forums were full of helpful and supportive people wanting to relax and just talk about their interests.

Most videogames don’t do anything to segregate kids from adults (or make sure things stay kid appropriate) and don’t really make the space with kids in mind. They make the space with revenue in mind.

Most videogames, especially with voice chat, you might get an 8 year old saying this is his first time alongside a crochety neckbeard screaming about banging that kids mother

There’s a place for both. Some kids literally can’t go run outside, should have a space for them too.

The problem is it doesn’t matter where, virtual or physical, the spaces have been paved over or you get the cops called on your for letting your kids pay outside. The argument that kids should have spaces made with them in mind still stands

I’ve read that they’ve rechalked it more than once and are going to repaint it

It’s absolutely possible if you’re abusing it recreationally, especially if you start mixing it with who knows what else. The biggest risk is respiratory system just shutting off.

That’s just an OD though, long term abuse like it’s suspected by many that Musk is doing has a whole host of nasty symptoms that you can look up yourself.

I dunno, the whole body transmutation thing and the Lazarus thing? I think there’s an argument to be made he was necromancer or lich.

I feel like we could find ways and tools to help in that situation without stealing the entirety of human knowledge, boiling our planet, and spending a small nation’s GDP. Like better code library discovery or a better mentor environment amongst coders.

I’ve also seen plenty of people get pointed in the exact wrong way to do things by leaning on generative AI and then have to spend even more time getting back on track.

Not even 25% of the GDP of the top ten nations. Seems like a much more worthy spend imo. Like all these billionaires want a dick measuring contest, let’s see who can come up with the coolest carbon neutral tech, let’s see which billionaire can fund the biggest national park or something.

My wife and I dream about building a zero carbon home. Solar roof, mass timber, carbon neutral cement, more environmental based temp systems like an actual thought about air flow. That or starting a commune in Scotland when the world collapses.

As far as I’m aware that was “only” 500 Billion with a ‘B’ in project Stargate, not the Trillions with a ‘T’ that Altman was talking about.

I do think it’s all a shell game and a fragile house of cards of tech brohaha. Really hoping the “We’re in a bubble” comment from him is the start of that house crumbling

You dropped a few of these -> “0”

Sam Altman has been talking about planning to spend trillions on just the data centers, let alone everything else that goes into creating their slop machines.