kernelle

Don't be so cynical, and the value you put on tradition is an entirely personal thing. Valentines day has been celebrated for hundreds of years as well so it's by definition a tradition.

We spread out days throughout the year to put emphasis on the people who are dear to us, ofcourse we should show them every single day, but it's not a bad thing to highlight a day of the year.

And since you've decided it's only about consumerism, let me give you a few ways to go above and beyond for you partner without having to resort to consumerism:

• Learning a skill related to your SO
• Revisiting a place or activity you enjoyed together, maybe throw in a well prepared picnic
• Growing your own flowers in advance
• Cooking a meal which is difficult and high effort to make

The amount of value placed in a day like today depends on relationship, but saying it's only about consumerism is such a big cop-out.

The way AI is trained today creates a black box solution, the author says only the developers of the model know what goes on inside the black box.

This is major pain point in AI, where we are trying to understand it so we can make it better and more reliable. The author mentions that unless AI companies open source their work, it's impossible for everyone else to 'debug' the circuit.

Zero knowledge proofs are how they are trying to combat this, using mathematical algorithms they are trying to verify the output of an AI model in real time, without having to know the underlying intellectual property.

This could be used to train AI further and increase the reliability of AI drastically, so it could be used to make more important decisions and adhere much more easily to the strategies for which they are deployed.

I feel like most the old school redditors have long migrated, I've only ever heard good things about the new UI from relatively new users.

Lemmy is old reddit, if not OG internet ethos.

Sure yeah it's a discovery tool OOTB, but I've used it to perform specific packet sequences as well.

Also does anyone still port knock these days?

Enter Masscan, probably a net negative for the internet, so use with care.

And that's easier on the fediverse than any other social media platform

This seems to be a big misunderstanding, if we're talking votes and participation then you are right, but participating data is but a fraction of the data collected by all other forms of social media. Websites can track:

• Login and usage times
• Ip addresses
• Every single action that is made, clicked, viewed, etc

And with apps they track

• Notification data
• Local network
• User behaviour
• User engagement
• And depending on the given permissions much more

I own my instance, therefore I own the all of the data that could be tracked. Yes my participation is synced with the entire Fediverse, but nothing about my usage and behaviour is.

First off, I like your post as a pretty good baseline. People aways ask "Why Lemmy?", because just saying it's a reddit alternative doesn't do it justice. You're trying to be careful with the word federated, which is smart, but it's its best selling point, especially for those fed up with reddit enough to consider an alternative.

I'll try my best an example paragraph:

Giving instance suggestions is great and explaining the top few is a good move as well. Maybe group them by region or interest based? I like to stay away from my own biases when recommending instances and some people want to be federated with everyone.

Also, explaining instances without explaining federation makes it look like Lemmy is a divided mess, while in reality its a true melting pot.

Hey YouTube, today we're testing this photon detector I found browsing ebay that was sold by some friendly russians. It's been collecting dust for 10 years but due to some recent developments it's as relevant as ever! Now I'll be able to see the feds coming from miles away!

Any word on the screen? Would be sad if it wasn't OLED but it wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to cut cost for the base model.

I hate how often Discord is mentioned as a viable alternative, how that is even remotely close to a link-aggregator fora is beyond me.

Not at all, but I am craving Cinnabon™

Belgian telecom has historically been anti-consumer.

Causing the need for the EasySwitch-law, every operator in Belgium is responsible for transferring accounts and any cost attached. They could still have the same limitations for becoming a customer though.