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  • I studied a lot of machine learning, going into the math and whatnot behind it.

    In reality these days, you just start some model with a single line of code and you're set.

    You have to know best practices and whatnot, sure, but I fully agree - science and engineering are two different disciplines and should be taught as such.

  • It’s just water in a can. How did Liquid Death become a billion-dollar brand?
  • Oh we're definitely both in agreement that they're being dicks. My issue is that the original comment I replied to is essentially victim blaming folks by saying "all you need to do is not consent, boom, problem instantly solved".

    Based on everyone else's input (notably OP neglected to reply), it's clear that the best you can do is not go to the venue and hope that results in systemic change.

    I wouldn't bet on that solution.

  • Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing
  • Non human origin matters because it's easy to flood the field with this stuff.

    If finding quality videos becomes a needle in a haystack amidst ai generated bullshit, each looking to passively earn a few bucks, overall quality of life will suffer as the ouroboros eats its tail.

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    Updated - programming.dev defederation on hold
  • It is about not wanting to be federated with instances with transphobic admins.

    I might be missing something, but I believe an admin being potentially transphobic only matters if they do not moderate transphobic content that leaks out to other instances. I don't think I've seen transphobic content leak out of programming.dev.

    That said, I've read some of Adas comments on the intention behind defederation, and blahaj. What I've learned is that Blahaj wans set up as a safe space, so 0 tolerance is understandable, and is well within their rights to establish and enforce.

    Coming from someone who is just looking to Lemmy as a reddit alternative, it's simultaneously cool that communities can do this, and a little unfortunate that with Lemmy being as small as it is (compared to reddit), we are defederating over single comment threads. Again, blahaj was intended to be a safe space and has no obligation to be a part of the "reddit replacement" I'm looking for, so if they deem it necessary then good on them.

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  • I'm just sitting here really confused at the choice to defederate based on a single chat.

    Most folks at programming.dev, myself included, are there because it's related to their profession. That's what drew us there.

    It baffles me to think that the entire instance has been judged and deemed unworthy because of a single comment chain that had disagreements.

    You can block users you don't want to interact with. Some instances breed a potentially nasty sentiment or attitude, and when there are too many users from that instance to block, that's when I'd consider defederation. But a single conversation thread, involving a single person?

    I've got no say in how another instance is ran. Just makes me a little sad about a much more fragmented future of Lemmy.

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