Absolutely nothing… This article literally just says that somebody on an internet forum pointed out that what might happen is that if your account has been around longer than the average lifespan then they’ll investigate and maybe terminate it after determining it’s no longer owned by the original account owner. Valve today doesn’t have the support capacity to perform this kind of investigation. Valve in 50-60 years will be an entirely different beast. This speculation means nothing.

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Testing scams

Any non-scams yet? Or is it safe to assume anything that looks like a scam, is one?

Computer monitors are significantly more expensive for the same size and are overkill for the applications TVs are generally used for.

Yeah, what do people expect? It’s not like they own massive, self-sufficient data centers on several continents.

And that’s really what all these guys saying “AI will take er jobs” don’t understand. Good programmers are not just good coders, coding is really the easy part. They’re also good analysts and listeners. I understand what he’s saying - if you spend time accruing specific domain knowledge instead of computer science then you can perhaps make better, bespoke solutions because the “coding” can be handled by AI. But in present day, AI makes garbage code all the time and you’ll be left there not being able to do amything about it because it doesn’t make any sense to you. So who do you call? Someone who can code. Even if we get to this hypothetical dream scenario where you tell an AI to do something and it just does it perfect (gigantic IF), who’s making that AI? The interface for it? The important safety nets to make sure it doesn’t go on a rampage? Itself? Too much context is already lost in conversations between humans, let alone an AI. I can think of one kind of AI that would be able to do it perfectly though (assuming AIs could be perfected, that is), and that’s an AI pre-equipped with full understanding of the domain. But then in that case, why do you need the human in the mix at all?

Are you a mod of something? Might be related to that, cause I got an invite too and the only thing I can think of is I have moderation activity.

Nothing you can do. This is the implicit (and sometimes explicit) contract we have with cloud services, that they’ll keep our data safe and keep the lights on forever. If you think about it, though, unless you’re paying for it this is untenable. A single user, when paying with their attention, will only ever generate a fairly fixed amount monthly. And yet the cost of keeping them on as a user grows steadily over time as more data is accumulated.

Man, I can’t believe people fell for this. Seeing it now, the copy on the “ad” is just horrendous.

How much for your markdown files?

That would work for my… Uhm… Purposes…

It’s not a single tense (would have - past conditional, had to - past modal, have been - pluperfect), it’s a hypothetical past state being caused by a hypothetical past event, but the trick here is that the “past state” is omitted because it’s contextually read. If you were giving full context it’d read: “If it was spitting out sensitive information, it would have had to have been trained on it.”

Take that, ESL learners!

I was thinking more like an “Other” with a free input field

They really had the foresight not to add an “other” option. Says a lot

Ur just mad that my stick can glow man

Right, whenever someone like Linus talks about developers he’s probably not referring to your run-of-the-mill code monkey making simple web apps.

I think a balance can be struck. Early internet ads didn’t have to watch you all across the internet. As far as I know DuckDuckGo ads are just old school keyword matches, too. Newspapers don’t feel the need to know the last 10 stores you visited. It’s this obsession with personalized, targeted ads that brings up all this spyware crap.

That’s a good analogy, it’s also way easier to describe this than fully explain Mastodon and the fediverse. If somebody’s looking to quit Twitter but they’re on the fence because they’re like “but I still need the info even if I don’t actively participate” you can just say “hey here’s an alternative until all that info can move, at least you won’t be directly supporting them and won’t be further contributing value by being tempted to participate” rather than “well all that stuff will move eventually”

Shitposting alone saves. Blessed is he who shitposts, more blessed is the one who has been shitposted upon. Shitpost save us all

Why are people downvoting this? It’s just practical. If you don’t reduce the amount of storage you use, the cost of storing will constantly and steadily rise, will donations or personal budgets keep up? Maybe on lemmy.world or other mega instances but it just won’t be the case for everybody. I think purging old content is gonna be a reality eventually, even if it takes a really long time before it catches up to the larger instances. And it’s going to be OK as long as, as this person suggested, the rules for purging old stuff is tenable for everybody.

For example, does lemmy.world, lemm.ee, and sh.itjust.works really NEED to keep each other’s entire federated post history, in perpetuity? As these guys grow larger wouldn’t it make sense to start purging very old duplicate content between them? Stuff that hasn’t been accessed on the instance in, say, over a year? Mind you, I believe that before we get to this point, there will be other systems in place. For example, the Reddit archive sites were never run by Reddit, and they often contained ads or other monetization strategies. Donations can keep the most recent or relevant content up on the instances, but somebody somewhere is gonna have to pay for this content to stay out there. For all we know, it’s gonna be fucking Google and their seemingly unlimited cache. For all we know, some person at Google is spending his 20% personal project time subscribing a bot to everything on the fediverse and collecting data for some kind of new search engine right this very second on Google’s hardware.

Anyway, just some food for thought.