I’ve recently watched this video on YT about some guy that replaced all his social interactions with AI models for for a while. And he, too, said that his ChatGPT “best friend” was too friendly and later in the test preferred some Character.AI “dominatrix” model instead.

Not just a risk, it already happened that the OrganicMaps GitHub repo got locked b/c one contributor appeared to have travelled through a sanctioned region.

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

I like the summaries of notifications. This way, I don’t have to guess what an email is about from the first few words which usually are “Hi mbirth, I hope this email reaches you well”.

The rest of the Apple Intelligence is stuff I can live without. However, Image Playground is nice to create contact pictures or some funny sticker. The newer proofing and grammatical suggestions are nice for second languages. So, it’s not all useless.

It will, starting with 18.2 which is to be released next week.

Following a profile logged-out is impossible now

What do you mean? I can just open an Incognito tab and go to x.com/<username> and see all posts (without replies, though).

because they don’t run alts

I think you underestimate the dedication of some of those trolls. Also, most apps allow to easily switch between profiles with like 2 taps.

Of course, not. But closing and locking the door doesn’t prevent the person on the other side to still listen in on your conversations…

And it’s exactly like this now, if I understand the change correctly. They only removed the “you can’t see this post because the owner limits who can see it” thing. Blocked people still can’t reply.

Yep, that’s why I don’t get all this panicking about the Twitter change…

In closed systems like messengers, where you don’t see any content unless logged in, yes. There, it works brilliantly. But on Twitter, this is like cutting out something from a newspaper when there’s a news stand right next door.

Having a public (i.e. not locked) Twit𝕏 account and believing you can block single people is a bit stupid to begin with.

When screaming on a market square, you can’t demand for single people to “please not listen” to what you’re screaming.

Rather people have no idea how blocking on 𝕏 worked/works. You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.

I don’t understand all this fuss about this simple change. He only removes a useless feature that was never more than a minor inconvenience for those that got blocked.

If you don’t want people to see your tweets, lock your profile. This worked before and this still works just fine.

There was a discussion about this topic on Hacker News a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

One ex-Googler pointed out that due to the machine learning stuff and every new employee trying out the latest “AI” stuff on top of it, no human can understand and thus debug the search engine properly anymore.

There was one where the guy behind it went to massive lengths so people couldn’t easily distinguish the example files by other means than audio quality. Verdict was that people with more expensive equipment even preferred the sound of the MP3s (320kbps). I think it was this one (Links to Parts 2 and 3 at the bottom.).

Somewhere else I’ve read that - for most humans - 256 kbps MP3s encoded with VBR-ABR using a high-end encoder are basically indistinguishable from the lossless original. Even at 192 kbps it’s still more hit&miss than it should be. But I don’t remember where I’ve read that.