cabbage

"workers admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by [...] intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it"

Lol. Sounds an awful lot like the company is sabotaging itself in this case.

cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

It fails to capture the difference between a conservative German not approving of Merz because he's a bit of a dull bore and a marginalized American disapproving of Trump because his rule is literally threatening their life. You won't see no king protests against Merz. He is not so unpopular that he might realistically put an end to Germany as we know it.

It doesn't show that threatening the entire working class will make you lose elections. It doesn't have a class dimension at all, it just says how many people actively like their leaders in a handful of countries. Neither Macron nor Merz were particularly popular when they were last elected, they are just strategically positioned within their political systems.

It measures what it measures. We have seen again and again that leaders can be democratically elected and re-elected while fucking over the working class.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

US President Donald Trump ranked just ahead of Erdoğan in 10th place from the bottom, despite launching military operations in Iran. Some 38% of Americans said they were satisfied with his work, while 57% were dissatisfied.

If the survey was to indicate anything, it'd be that Germans, unlike Americans, are not absolute tools.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

Nobody approves of Merz, but few people disapprove of him as much as reasonable people disapprove of figures like Modi and Trump.

This is measured as the percentage of the population in the country who disapproves of the leader. So Trump comes out alright because a bunch of Americans still approve of him. That doesn't really reflect badly on Merz. It reflects badly on America.

That said, if Merz started saying he would deport non-ethnic Germans or some shit like that his approval might grow by this standard because he would at least have some sort of base. Right now he appeals to nobody.

So in short, it's a bit of a shit indicator.

The survey is conducted by Morning Consult, who received $31 million in funding from James Murdoch in 2020 and another $60 million from some group named Advance Venture Partners in 2021. I don't think they do bullshit research by accident.

cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

The term antifa is pretty common among anti-fascists in Germany at least. Maybe it hasn't catched on much in the US because the country has been busy sleepwalking into totalitarianism.

cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

My intrusive thoughts usually revolve around yeeting my phone off a bridge or a boat. I've managed to contain myself so far.

As for storm drains, I lost my keys down a deep one a few months back. Went to the hardware store and bought strong magnets and a wire and got them out after a lengthy fishing expedition.

cabbage @piefed.social 2w ago

Italian and Basque are the two best ones, followed by New York. Scandinavian is nice enough and also not listed.

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cabbage @piefed.social 3w ago

To find jobs in Norway, try searching for the word "jobbportal". At least some of these sites allow you to sort for English language jobs.

cabbage @piefed.social 3w ago

Also he is a raging lunatic who actually speculates whether trump is the literal Antichrist in a biblical sense.

That's a positive development on his end, but still pretty batshit.

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cabbage @piefed.social 3w ago

To be fair he also gave cyanide capsules to his wife and kids, so I guess that's just how he showed affection.

cabbage @piefed.social 3w ago

Just started using it a week ago or so. Guess it was good while it lasted.

cabbage @piefed.social 4w ago

If we can have fewer nazis at the price of a slight inconvenience for users who were born in 1988 and for some reason want to have their birth year in their user name....

Yeah, I'll take fewer nazis, please.

I'm fine others may disagree, but let's at least be honest what we talk about when we talk about "controversial moderation".

cabbage @piefed.social 4w ago

It seems Ernest recovered, and just decided to step away after his health got better!

Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I had to step away from actively working on Kbin and leave its further development to the community. Nevertheless, I am happy to see the project thriving, with a dedicated group of users and contributors who continue to push its vision forward.
Open-source has always been important to me, and while I am no longer involved with Kbin, I still believe in the power of community and the potential of open technologies to shape the future of the internet.

cabbage @piefed.social 4w ago

Again, what exactly are you talking about?

Which computer software is ever not implemented on a "code level"?

The lead developer recently started a thread in the Piefed meta community specifically to open for people to ask questions about these things. In full:

I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful. We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at https://chat.piefed.social/ or https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers:matrix.org.
There’s no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we’re right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water’s fine!

Nobody in the thread managed to come up with an even remotely critical question. I'm not in the chat so I'm not sure if there were any interesting discussions there, but it's safe to say it's hard to find the weird conspiracies floating around reflected in the actual development.

If you have an issue, ask in !piefed_meta@piefed.social. If the community agrees your concern is valid I can guarantee you it'll be addressed.

There's also the question of what exactly would constitute controversial moderation. If we could hard code out fascists, stalinists, and misogynists, I would be entirely in favour. There's no need to supply these people with tools for their nonsense. My only issue with it is that it's not realistic without generating false positives. I don't speak for Piefed here though, just my personal opinion.

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cabbage @piefed.social 4w ago

Also multi-communities is a pretty central feature. A list of differences with Lemmy is maintained here.

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cabbage @piefed.social 4w ago

Piefed is Lemmy with cross-posts collapsed to one thread, and controversial developers (moderation defaults)

Would love to hear which moderation defaults of PieFed are so controversial. Your phrasing seems to indicate that Lemmy developers' support for Putin and Xi Jinping is no more controversial than Piefed developers' preference to silence trolls and fascists.

The rules for Piefed.social are available here. The software Piefed ships with some default moderation options enabled, which can be disabled should the server admin choose to do so. I think having stricter moderation enabled by default when people set up a new server that they may or may not know how to manage effectively is obviously a better choice than to set the default to "anything goes".