Rub harder.

Should the NVD be deeply involved in all of them just to provide the most accurate security score? That’s an impossible ask.

This is a false dilemma. If the task is truly impossible, that’s not a valid excuse to try anyway and fail repeatedly, especially if doing so causes negative externalities. Numbered scores with decimal precision are not necessary to the core functionality of a CVE database and there are plenty of alternative solutions which would minimize harm and scale more economically.

You’ve assumed that I want to explain the root cause of the initial decline. This is not the case. Historically, SO has seen several periods of decline. What I’m actually addressing is the question of why the decline has not stopped, because the sustained nature of this decline is what makes it unusual. If you look at the various charts, you can see a brief rally which gets cut off in late Winter 2022 – this lines up rather nicely with the timing of ChatGPT’s release, I feel.

Let’s ignore that. Tell me more about your Google angle: what’s the basis of your hypothesis?

It’s too much to attribute to any one effect. 50% is a lot for a website of this size (don’t forget that Lemmy exploded from a migration of <5% Reddit usershare). Let’s KISS by attributing likely causes in order of magnitude:

1. ChatGPT became the world’s fastest growing website in a single month and it’s actually half-decent at being a code tutor
2. ChatGPT bots got unleashed on SO and diluted a lot of SO’s comparative advantages
3. Stack Overflow moderators went on strike, which further damaged content quality
4. Structurally speaking, SO is an environment which tends to become more elitist over time. As the userbase becomes progressively more self-selective, the population shrinks.
5. The SO format requires a stream of novel questions, but novel questions generally get rarer over time
6. Developer documentation has generally improved over time. On SO, asking about a well-documented thing is a short-circuit pathway to getting RTFM’d & discussion locked

Here’s the current usershare breakdown by instance, if anyone’s curious:

Source: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/tree/main/frontend/public/data

We did it Lemmy

That feel when the billionaire tech tycoon isn’t just like me 😞

With that being said… Lemmy is still a huge win for the /r/blind folks. Being able to fork the project puts the power to be better into their own hands. It’s also another glowing endorsement to the power of federation that blind community members will be able to browse any Lemmy/Kbin community while still enjoying the benefits of their fork’s accessibility enhancements.

The current state of the fork is already a better screenreader experience than browsing either version of the Reddit website. The fork has been running for 8 days compared to /r/blind being founded 15 years ago. I repeat my previous statement: their fork is already a better in-browser experience. What more needs to be said?

I quite enjoyed reading that quote. You can practically see the columnist rolling their eyes. Does this spokesperson not understand how to say “no comment”?

Alright, let’s say I do that. I’ll take my $12 and split it equally between every unique channel I’ve watched in the last 30 days. Eyeballing my watch history shows… about 100 different channels.

Let’s ignore for the sake of argument the incredible overhead I’d have to take upon myself in order to facilitate and account for 100+ recurring micro-donations. How much more money do you think these creators would get from my direct donations rather than going through greedy Alphabet? Let’s do math together:

• Subscription: $12.48 (the extra $0.48 is applied at checkout for the 4% VAT)
• 4% VAT (rounds up): -$0.48 ($12.00)
• 1.9% + $0.30 Processor Fee (rounds up): -$0.53 ($11.47)
• 45% Platform Split (not rounded!): -$5.1615 ($6.3085)
• 100x split: $0.063085 p/channel

Ok. That’s ~$0.06 instead of the $0.12 each creator would have gotten had I simply hand-delivered two pennies and a dime to every single individual. I don’t know about you… but I’m kind of too busy watching YouTube to go outside right now, so let’s go ahead and factor in what would happen if I managed to donate using a platform like Patreon instead:

• Not-Subscription: $12.48
• Rounded up: $13.00 (the donation has to be evenly divisible by 100)
• Per-creator donation: $00.13
• 4% Local Digital VAT (rounds up): -$0.01 ($0.12)
• 5% Platform Fee (rounds up): -$0.01 ($0.11)
• 5% + $0.10 Processor Fee (rounds up): -$0.11 ($0.00)

In other words: I’d be paying $0.52 more to donate a grand total of: no money. If we ignore the “no money” problem, there’s also the issue of it being literally impossible to donate such a tiny sum in the first place. Of course, we also conveniently ignored the issues of currency conversion and the man hours required to fill out 100 donation forms…

Let’s be honest with each other: you weren’t being completely serious when you said that your suggestion had anything to do with ✨the creators✨. Even if you were serious, I’m certain that you don’t follow your own advice because it’s quite clearly impossible for a normal person to internationally distribute $12 among dozens of strangers.

Oh! I’d never heard of Premium Lite so I thought you were speaking hypothetically. TIL.

Yeah, that is a lot lower. If they offered that option I’d definitely use it over the $12 one… but I suppose that explains why the pilot never took off, eh?

Fair enough, you need to look out for you. If the money would be missed, don’t pay the bridge troll. Block ads and be free.

FWIW: YouTube Red was basically what you’re asking for and it cost the equivalent of 9 EUR/month. Red wasn’t available in Europe so this is a moot point, but that’s the rate that YouTube previously valued itself at as a standalone product if you’re curious.

Eh, I’m not here to hawk product. The higher bitrate is nice to have, but the impact of bitrate on video quality is perhaps a bit overblown. In a lot of situations, you’d have to pixel-peep to spot the improvement – youtubers are pretty good at making videos look nice under the core quality settings.

On the other hand, ads suck. I’d have never watched enough YouTube to buy premium without years of heavy adblocking (shoutout to ReVanced Manager). Getting an ad-free experience out-of-box is very convenient and could possibly be worth the value of the subscription depending on your usage & means.

I’ll say something unexpected: I pay for YouTube. With money! Why?

• I use it every day and I’m a human who likes boosting the things that I enjoy
• I think YouTube’s content recommendations are a genuine value-add and not easily replaced
• A cut of my subscription fee goes directly back to the video creators that I watch
• The “premium” encoding levels are actually a substantial improvement to video bitrates
  • Important: the premium bitrate is higher than anything previously offered and probably would not have been otherwise practical to serve for free

So yeah. I personally like YouTube enough to pay for it and I have the financial means to do so. Am I a clown for expressing personal appreciation towards a faceless megacorp? Yes. Yes I am. Constantly winning is a drag though, so I think I’ll continue to enjoy getting swindled.

Well, it’s bound to happen to some extent (e.g.: instances blocking lemmygrad), but you have a lot of power to mitigate this effect as an individual user. By default, nothing’s blocked, so it’s on you as a user if you choose to “live” somewhere that’s interested in proscribing undesirables.

It’s not a perfect solution. Perhaps leadership changes (or you change) and suddenly your interests are no longer aligned. Nobody wants to get stranded! Eventually maybe user migrations will be a thing, but for now we’ll just have to do our best to choose our home-bases wisely based on our own ideological and practical needs (SDF represent!)

The Verge has been pretty awesome about covering the ongoing Reddit implosion. Love to see these 1-on-1 interviews, too. It shows a certain level of journalistic rigor beyond the usual “people are mad, here’s why” articles that we’ve seen getting churned out.

The Verge has been pretty awesome about covering the ongoing Reddit implosion. Love to see these 1-on-1 interviews, too. It shows a certain level of journalistic rigor beyond the usual “people are mad, here’s why” articles that we’ve seen getting churned out.

It almost certainly can hallucinate the known function list, but it’s unlikely since the model necessarily needs to have a strong conception of the functions to interface consistently.

That’s speculation, of course, since GPT is a closed model, but, based on how like-models are known to work, we know that there’s just one single “slot” for input to flow into without any backdoor pathways for specially priviledged input.

Every year that goes by, the less my colleagues give funny looks when I talk about being a Linux user. These days it’s more often envy – my default browser never changes, I can put my start menu wherever I like, my hard-drive never spontaneously encrypts itself, my user account never deletes and replaces itself with an always-online doppleganger. These statements are somehow impressive brags and that amuses me greatly.

I miss Lopen-bot…