Most of the Web GUIs are designed for interaction/collaboration between multiple people, and are massive overkill for one person. Tools like gitk/git gui are more than enough to see what’s going on graphically.

If you want to install all the other stuff, that’s completely up to you, but a lot of people don’t seem to realise that the Web GUI stuff and command line are completely separate things, and you don’t have to install both of them.

If you don’t need the web gui stuff (and you shouldn’t for personal use) you can set up a git server using gitolite. Very easy to manage

Yeah, that’s basically why I got out of IT. Too many managers/clients refusing to listen to warnings about what would happen when they did X, then blaming the techies when things went to shit.

Because they are the “boss”, they have 0 accountability. Worst case for them is a golden handshake, and failing upwards where the cycle starts again.

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Of course people could do that, but you have to find someone willing to do it or be able to afford to pay for it. It happens but it’s maybe 5% or students or less.

There is always going to be cheating. But once it becomes nearly impossible to detect, and maybe 30% or more people are doing it, the system breaks down.

Good luck doing one on one assessments in a uni course of 300+

Or find a smaller instance. If everyone joins a bigger instance it’s just moving the problem

I agree, but I don’t know what could be done differently? If people refuse to acknowledge a single thread of evidence that Trump tried to overturn a legitimate election, what can be done to reassure them if he’s put in prison for doing it? The options are give him a fair trial, and sentence him if found guilty or just ignore his crimes completely.

I’m not sure what makes you think the law applies to billionaires

Depends on the discipline, but yeah, engineering would usually be LaTeX

LLMs choose words based on probabilities, i.e. given the word “blue”, it will have a list of words and probabilities that those words should follow “blue”. So “sky” would be a high probability, “car” might also be quite high, as well as a long list of other words. The LLM chooses the words not by selecting whatever has the highest probability, but with a degree of randomness. This has been found to make the text sound more natural.

To watermark, you essentially make this randomness happen in a predefined way, at least for cases where many different words could fit. So (to use a flawed example), you might make it so that “blue” is followed by “car” rather than “sky”. You do this throughout the text, and in a way that doesn’t affect the meaning of the text. It is then possible to write a simple algorithm to detect whether this text was written by an AI, because of the probability of different words appearing in particular sequences. Because its spread throughout the text, it’s quite difficult to remove the watermark completely (although not impossible).

Here’s an article that explains it better than I can: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/03/watermarking-help-mitigate-potential-risks-llms.html

You have to be careful with any TLD. People outside the US have found themselves subject to US law because they had a US controlled domain name.

Some ccTLDs are fine, some are not, but you have to think carefully when you buy it.

Yeah kind of seems like a bunch of teenagers graffiting “school sux” and thinking they’re edgey rebels.

Sure, Reddit admins are being dicks, but if you don’t like it just move on

Yeah looks much worse when they delete it as well

You might want to look up the law of unintended consequences.

The bigger the intervention, the bigger the potential unintended consequence.

By far the easiest solution to climate change is not emitting greenhouse gasses in the first place. It is still a monumental challenge but if we don’t do that, we’re just treating the symptoms not the cause

Probably partly to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They can say they’re not being monopolistic (even though they 100% are) because they’re embracing open standards.

That’s why they’re not launching in the EU.

I don’t think Meta really gives a shit about the Fediverse. They are hoping to take out Twitter though, and the Fediverse could be collateral damage.

I think E/E/E is still a risk. If some “high follower” type people start joining Threads, and people on Mastodon start following them and making that content a big part of their feed, those people are not going to be happy if Threads accounts suddenly disappear because Meta make arbitrary, incompatible changes.

Hopefully it won’t actually extinguish Mastodon/the Fediverse, but it can still do damage.