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  • I remember listening to an episode of hardcore history about capital punishment, it detailed public executions throughout the ages, and the takeaway is this:

    You could literally publicly rip people limb from limb with horses and rope, people are still going to steal, assault, and rape.

    If seeing someone getting skinned alive isn’t enough of a deterrent, I don’t know why prison would be.




  • The classic example is email; Imagine if you could only email people on Outlook, from another Outlook account. It’s intuitive how shitty that would be, but for some reason we give social media a free pass for doing exactly this.

    The benefits are (analogously):

    • if you notice Yahoo users send you a lot of spam, you just block all of Yahoo. Sure, you might miss something important, but that’s their fault for using Yahoo.
    • if some dickhead like The Zucc releases a new email service (Threads) then maybe your email service (instance) will do you a favor and block them (defederate).
    • pedos and bigots look for instances which is known for hosting shady shit, effectively acting as a containment barrier (most instances defederate these by default). Would never see that happen on Twitter (thank you Elon! /s).
    • if an instance crashes, that sucks. But there are many others hosting federated content, so Lemmy will never be ‘down’.










  • Zozano@aussie.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzBlack Mirror AI
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    2 months ago

    It doesn’t always get the answers right, and I have to re-feed its broken instructions back into itself to get the right scripts, but for someone with no official coding training, this saves me so much damn time.

    Consider I’m juggling learning Linux starting from 4 years ago, along with python, rust, nixos, bash scripts, yaml scripts, etc.

    It’s a LOT.

    For what it’s worth, I dont just take the scripts and paste them in, I’m always trying to understand what the code does, so I can be less reliant as time goes on.