🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

awww, well I hope things worked out for you okay in the end. :)

Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol

Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).

And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.

So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.

At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there’s little chance they’ll be gotten. lol

“Broke containment” to me means two things:

1. Doing things against the safeguards
2. Doing things externally - like sending that email

The former is a big nothing. They just need to obviously build stronger safeguards. That’s what they’ll do and eventually release it, or other models or whatever.

The latter is also a big nothing because people who know nothing about tech will say “OH SHIT IT ESCAPED” but it requires running on large hardware, it can’t “get into the internet” like those people might think, and if it’s doing things you don’t want on the internet, you just remove its access to the internet.

So in both cases, the “containment” issue is really not a big deal.

I agree with those who basically say this is an attempted ad trying to sell it as super-capable-oh-shit-amazing.

[x] Doubt

Only if you like terrible terrible movies, though. lol

I was involved in more than 60 theatrical productions until my health no longer allowed almost a decade ago now. I miss it terribly. Mostly community theatre, but a few professional (i.e. paid) productions. Mostly sound design / running sound/mics, but on stage a dozen or so times, backstage a few times.

The last thing I saw was Come From Away. Kinda cheesy in some ways, but also pretty good show - I’d recommend it. About that Canadian airport that saw a ton of planes land on 9/11 when US airspace was shut down. The local community came together and took care of all the passengers and lifelong friendships were formed. It’s sweet. And a bit cheesy. But fun, and emotional moments.

You made me try to find it and I think it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_at_Lakewood_Manor - that matches what I remember (very vaguely). lol. I remember it was bad and stupid, but also horrifying. lol

Gah. That reminds me of some 70s or 80s horror movie I saw part or all of at some point where ants basically did that. I remember there were scenes with ants everywhere, scenes of people in houses trying to stay very still so the ants wouldn’t bite them - but physically actors were covered with ants. It was horrifying. I’d forgotten about that thing until your comment.

I’m on Windows and got a browser running under WSL and so far, that seems to have worked, along with me using the account extremely minimally. lol

Ah, gotcha, I hadn’t caught that between the lines. :)

Yeah, I think it’ll be pretty trivial to get around. Anyone wanting to post automatically just has to sign up manually, do whatever checking, then post using some sort of scraper i.e. directly to the site rather than via the API. Which probably a lot of bots are doing now rather than bothing to set up the API… heh

I guess it’s good that they’re trying to do a positive thing (ignoring all the shit they’re doing outside of it), but it’s probably not going to help much.

Yes, but what does that have to do with my comment? (edit: they explained the context below)

The article basically says that posting using the API will get posts labeled as “[App]”. That’s what it boils down to. They even talk about human accounts using AI to write posts.

That’s about the level of thing that caused me a coupld of my bans, so sounds about right.

Why do I need to go talk in places I’m not interested in talking, with people who I don’t care for,

Because Lemmy is slower!

hehe, kidding

the top 90% of comments arent the same reddit jokes

I am doing my part to change that, mind. (hopefully not really) :)

I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.

You were a frickin’ saint, because the things I did were either stupid (to call infractions) or really minor. lol.

Or you were lucky or I was unlucky. heh.

time limit on new accounts,

That’s what finally has let me let reddit go - so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads that haven’t hit /r/all yet before you can comment, and that takes time and effort when I just browse /r/all. heh.

Similar here except I went from a warning to a full ban the last two accounts. And for a little while there, when they banned one account, I got a half dozen bans on multis I’d created years ago for some stupid joke and hadn’t used since I created them. heh.

They just really have decided they don’t want the older users around, I guess.

Before I gave up on reddit completely, I was getting lots of 429 errors. Although asking around, some were, some weren’t. Still not sure they weren’t targeting me - apparently I hit their radar and they ban my accounts whenever they figure out it’s me (I just want to mod in my local subreddit, I’ve slowly disengaged from everything else). heh

Last I checked, old.reddit had about 2% of the users. So yeah, it’ll be shut down whenever they get around to it, I’d imagine. Whenever they add something that breaks it, it’ll be gone.

I agree, but it’s still better than the “pranks” that hugely wink at you and think they’re clever, but they’re obviously some marketing team trying to come up with ideas that aren’t offensive… yeah, I said it, this dreck is better than that dreck. heh.

It’s what you told them to do… you… advised them… to do that. Because you clearly didn’t like their comment.

It really is that simple, unless you’re being willfully ignorant.

Besides, the CLASSIC reply is to try and throw it back in MY face like I threw it in yours.