Yeah. There would be a way to do it that I feel like might potentially be useful. The described method (doing clustering instead of just having a similarity threshold to group tabs together, vectorizing the entire tab title through a whole fucking network instead of just tokenizing it and calling two tabs similar if they have uncommon tokens that are within a certain similarity level) really sounds to me like people who have no real idea what they’re doing, just being “ML experts” all over the codebase and fucking things up, and probably walking away very proud of themselves while helping themselves to bunches and bunches of the Mozilla Foundation’s Google-money.

Like why should including a feature with “AI” in it get them VC money?

Spoken like someone who’s never interacted with Silicon Valley VCs… just imagine someone with tons of a money, a moderately competent business background, and very little understanding of even the basics of technology that you and I take for granted. And then make them stupid and greedy.

“AI? Yes please! Here’s some money, I’ve heard of Firefox so I know you’re good for it.” It’s not really any more complicated than that, I don’t think.

Blame can be shared. It’s absolutely true that the Democrats like to run shit candidates, because Washington is a putrefying swamp of corruption and very few people who work there give a shit what happens to anyone let alone brown people halfway across the world. It’s also true that people who talk mainly about “refusing to vote for Democrats” thinking that’s going to be a useful strategy for improving anything are making the problem worse.

It’s not an either-or thing, where the first thing absolves someone of blame for the second. Just because the smoke alarms don’t work… doesn’t mean, the person setting fires on purpose, that all of a sudden it’s not his fault that the building’s currently on fire.

Don’t forget climate change and justice for working people.

Oh, and attempted genocide in Ukraine.

Oh, and also, that one of the central problems the Democrats have is that their consultants constantly lie to them about what will work to win elections, what the American people think, what policies are “popular” and things like that. The idea that if we just keep not voting for them, they’ll figure it out and stop supporting genocide so they can win elections again, is incredibly unlikely. All the Palestinians will be dead before it works. It is mired in a kind of “my only input to the system is voting” mindset which is pretty much guaranteed to failure. Very few people in Washington give a shit if people stop voting as a “protest” movement or w/e, they love it, it helps them consolidate their hold on power with even less input from the humane segments of the public.

If you wanted justice for Palestinian people there are about 50 things on the list that you could take vigorous action on that would produce some measurable chance of good outcomes, whereas with these guys it always seems to begin and end with not voting for Democrats. The only impact of which will be an increase in suffering and death of which there was already no shortage at all.

Glad you have the luxury. Meanwhile, “I will never through inaction let someone come to power who wants to torture or expel anyone who opposes him, and also supports Israel way more and has been overseeing Americans directly participating in war crimes instead of just standing on the side giving weapons, and also is opposed to fighting climate change among many other horrifying outcomes” is over on the sidelines, neglected.

And in the meantime people are dying both in Gaza (at an accelerated pace) and in CECOT, and in Louisiana, and soon, in your town. Quite soon.

This is vital context. They didn’t disable his truck because he talked trash about it. He loves his Cybertruck. They disabled it because he’s black and dances around like a black person while he’s talking about it, and that means he’s not welcome at the party. If he was Tim Pool making a song about how much he loves his Cybertruck they’d have invited him to the next event to put it on stage.

Someone who supports modern Russia or the modern CCP is not “left leaning” in any sense which makes sense to me.

Maybe it’s not real productive to have an extensive debate about labels, but the exact reason I dislike these people is because they’re doing so much legwork for horrific right-leaning regimes. If they also have some left-wing views, then great, but it doesn’t really excuse their support for de facto fascism in my view.

Seriously? It is a little off topic for here, I guess. I just thought you guys would enjoy it. Whatever, I’ll find a new place for it then.

Especially when the vast majority of the countries around the world – basically, everyone except Russia – believe the exact opposite.

I did interact with people who told me more or less exactly this, particularly about Putin, and said that the only reason I had the anti-Putin viewpoint that I did was because I was American. I mean, sure, why not. Then he started the war, and they started watching apartment blocks and hospitals getting blown the fuck up, and they stopped talking down to me about Putin.

For all of America’s very real and very numerous crimes, I literally have never met a single person American or not who thinks Russia is doing a damn thing other than chewing up innocent men, women, and children for whatever psychopathic reasons of his own. I’ve seen it online, and now I’ve heard it from Hasan.

Edit: Heads-up, I guess I am deleting this post.

Why sure, I would be happy to type up a transcript so we can talk about what he actually said without needing to pretend that there’s some mystery about it or he said something else.

Russia is waging this war – in their minds, in their estimation, in the estimations of the third world – at the behest of everyone who has been fucked over by American imperialism. While Russia is engaging in ??? [eerie dentist acts? I got nothing] that are unconscionable and unjust and violent, and totally immoral, that is the analysis that the rest of the countries around the globe are looking at. That is what they’re looking at! They’re looking at Ukraine as an extension of the West and they’re looking at – [reading chat] “You sound like Israel asking Hamas why they won’t just agree to a ceasefire” … WHAT DO YOU MEAN [begins yelling and missing the point of the analogy]"

Emphasis is mine. If he’d just said that in Russia’s mind, that’s what they are doing, then I would say that he’s obviously wrong and kind of stupidly naive for thinking that, but it’s not a totally backwards-land statement. Saying that “the rest of the countries around the globe” look at it that way is what makes me stop taking him seriously after watching this.

Yeah, pretty much. I guess the speculative lore progression is:

• Lemmy.ml developers become communist because they value human freedom and economic justice 👍️
• Dessalines goes further than that into pro-China and pro-USSR because he’s young and like a lot of people has more idealism than sense and detailed knowledge, and attention-seeking iconoclasty is fun 🤔
• Entire instances crop up full of people who love to “dunk on the libs” and be edgelords by posting pro-North Korea and pro-CCP content 😐
• State actors join in to egg up the content and work to direct it subtly or unsubtly at the Democrats and NATO 🙁
• Russian expats join in because they need a community and this is literally the only place that is accessible to them that will tell them that “their people” are anyone other than the villains ☹️ <- This comment thread is here
• Groupthink intensifies, borders of the in-group solidify, anyone who questions the narrative get banned ☹️
• “Hey guys can we have some of your money for Lemmy development” 🙄

Yeah. I was going to try to delve into the psychology of it (and compare and contrast it against MAGA people I’ve talked to who seem like they use a very similar flavor of “logic”), but what the hell man. I’m just not into it today. They’re just idiots.

Largely to prevent the Nazis from taking all of Poland

Polish People’s Republic was flawed but overall a net positive

Dude this has to be performance art.

I had Cowbee categorized as “actually believes this stuff for whatever reason” as opposed to “taking the piss” or just working his day job (and I guess trying to break down categories of that is pretty much a waste of time anyway), but holy smokes. It’s hard for me to believe a person exists who is this deluded.

I knew a few people whose families fled from communism, and I used to work with some guys from Eastern Europe who would practically physically attack you if you ever called them “Russian” because of hearing their accent. Yes, Polish communism was “flawed.” That’s one way to put it, yes.

Wrong mother

“Is this mother?”

“Mother is pink and different now. And bigger. Oh well, hello mother!”

Wobbly Sausage

IDK, the original article is sort of in this Schrödinger zone. On the one hand, yes, it’s harassing and you shouldn’t make dickhead jokes where the principle of the joke is basically “lol they’re women.” On the other hand, people can do funny things sometimes and be dickheads, it’s part of living in a free society. Definitely trying to crack down on it and tell them they can’t is just going to spark this universal human impulse to say “Okay I hit paydirt here let’s double down because now it’s really funny if it happens again.”

Oh, Jesus. Yeah, that’s bad.

Holy shit! Search and you get this type of thing as the results.

As far as I can tell, it’s just Google Search without the bullshit, them having punted to a branded version of Google instead of maintaining their own DB. That’s… actually remarkably useful. I think I will still use DDG but just the idea of using a search engine that’s too unpopular for anyone to want to garbage-ify seems very compelling.

PTB I guess, the nottheonion mods seem to be terrible. In fairness though, I saw the headline and also assumed it was porn spam.

I think this is more on Vice than on you, the article was fine, but they can’t give titles like that if the thing is ever going to be posted anywhere other than on Vice’s site in among with a bunch of other articles to give it social proof. It’s like anti-clickbait.

And, if he’d lost the coin toss, he would have decided he should flip again, because that one didn’t count.