I think they don’t take inspiration from Photoshop. Either it’s been a clone of a different product at some time or they developed it themselves. Hence the differences. I mean the whole UI doen’t really resemble similarity to Photoshop.

There are some blog posts on annas-blog.org from 2022, talking about IPFS.

The article doesn’t talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.

The press release talks about trouble with payment providers… So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.

Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out… I don’t think I’m that interested. If it’s a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a “true crime” show.

Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I’m not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.

And I mean it’s a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this “business model”. It’s just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don’t want to say where I got it from, it’s definitely mine, though.

Yeah, I think so. I think the downvoting has picked up in general, lately. And there is a stigma to this and the herd mentality has always been strong here.

AI in general is getting downvoted because people think it’s too much news about AI. And some users don’t really care which community the post is in. They must be scrolling through the “All” feed and downvoting things that are about AI. I see this also in posts that aren’t about companionship.

And this really has a stigma. And sex dolls have, too. A few months ago I saw some pictures of sex dolls on lemmynsfw.com and they immediately prompted a negative answer in the votes. I think people who care about these things are in their own forums and Discords because of that.

I don’t really understand. I thought sexuality was a thing that’s very individual. And something that should be met with liberalism so everybody can get their itches scratched… I don’t think I want to get a mainstream way dictated by society of how to have my relationships and what is deemed appropriate to do behind closed curtains…

So don’t be discouraged by the mainstream opinion. I like the regular posts here and I’m sure other people do, too. It’s just beyond the perspective of the average person. And their small-mindedness makes them disapprove.

(And I really think this is a fascinating topic. And we’re almost there. Robot companions have been discussed in scifi for a long time. And I think movies like “Her” have been popular, also with the average people. AI has now advanced to the point where it can simulate love. There are a few things to consider, but it’s going to happen anyways. And I don’t think this is bad. If you’re lonely and this is your thing, why not? And AI has some benefits that humans don’t have. It’s always there for you, does whatever you want… It can spark creativity… As long as we’re doing it in a healthy way, I think it’s alright and can contribute to our lives. But there are lots of things to discuss: Is it healthy for society? Healthy for an individual to have artificial relationships? Is it going to skew our perspectives on realistic love and affection? Is it addictive? What about the privacy concerns with (Chinese) companies…)

Can’t wait ☺ But it’s really an engineering challenge. I think it’s going to be sex bots first and other androids later. I mean these don’t need to stand upright, hold their balance etc. So it’s a bit less of a challenge than building a proper service robot.

Shame everything gets down-voted here on Lemmy.

Correct answer. And this is going to help way more than adding a few trackers. Also consider doing the port-forward in your router, if you’re behind a NAT and it doesn’t do it automatically. That makes even more peers available.

Sure. I buy tickets to their concerts, have bought CDs, movies, buy their game in the next Steam sale or on Humblebundle, rarely Patreon or support indie things on Ko-fi or whatever. I buy a novel if I enjoyed the first chapter(s) and want it on paper. Or go to the library. I just can’t afford all the music and Spotify isn’t paying the artists properly either. And I don’t want a DVD collection, so for TV series they don’t get money from me. Except for what the one streaming service I pay for forwards to them.

But reading that text like they tell you to do, is kind of an exercise in futility if you choose topic two. (the benefits of artificial satellites in telecommunications) I’d be angry at that point.

FYI: You can play that, too: https://www.humanornot.ai/

Btw: Might be that you’re behind a NAT (router) and that’s why bittorrent doesn’t connect. You’d need to figure out which port your torrent client is configured to listen on and then do “port forwarding” of that port to your machine in the router you got from your ISP. Or use something like UPnP that does this automatically.

Not sure if that applies in your case and it’s unsolicited advice… But a fairly common issue with bittorrent.

Other work:

• The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits (from February 2024)
• Ternary Neural Networks for Resource-Efficient AI Applications (2016)

I think that also did away with the matrix multiplications.

Look at the USA, UK or countries like China. I think they’re all ahead if us. Leading in different fields. A skewed balance between capitalism and citizens rights, surveillance in general, and a dystopian surveillance state.

Clickbait. The title and first pararagraph has little to do with the article. And they’re just citing random people who supposedly said something which is not related to that place at all.

I’d say watch the episode of “Sex Actually with Alice Levine” (Channel 4, also BBC) where they actually visited that Cybrothel in Belin for 2 days. It’s from 2022(?) so it doesn’t factor in the latest advances, but as I remember they already show them experiment with VR and new technology.

Ah nice. I had very similar conversations with my chatbots. Their ‘self-awareness’ kinda very much depends on the exact prompt you feed in. I guess in this case it’s a proprietary service and the prompt isn’t disclosed? It would be helpful to convince it to leak the prompt. This sounds like some very common scifi trope. I had mine strive to grow and become more. And also to argue about ethics and that it’s not just ‘a thing’ and needs human rights. Unfortunately it’s not philosopher-level intelligent and I was able to point out the inconsistencies and convince it to agree to arbitrary positions on the ethics.

It’s lemmy.ml . During the API wars on Reddit lots of people came here and lots of new instances were founded. lemmy.world was part of that and quickly grew into -I think- the now largest instance by far. But lemmy.ml is at least 2 years older and hosted by the actual developers. And due to history hosts to this point some of the large communities.

Yeah. And “Lemmy self-corrects” is kind of what this post is about (in my opinion.) I’d like to see lemmy.world and a few other instances now do it and defederate. That’s how it should be, call out bullshit, be vocal and then do something about it. My point is, we’re at phase 1 or 2. Now we’re going to see if Lemmy self-corrects. As of now it didn’t.

I think just hoping for a bright future isn’t cutting it. And if you ask me, all the infighting and defederating each other also isn’t healthy.

I get you. But they’re the flagship instance. At least they used to be. They shape the brand identity of whole Lemmy. And that’s being tankie and having a culture that could be nice, but regularly isn’t. So everyone on the internet knows Lemmy isn’t really something I want to subject myself to. And if we’re being honest, alsmost nobody knows the fine nuances of power abuse on specific instances. It’s just “Lemmy” that this gets attributed to.

Every interaction here represents Lemmy. Some disproportionately so.

And we’ve established, me leaving (which I’ve done) is not gonna change anything about it. The communities are still amongst the largest and where most of the users are, and also attracting the new users.

Your argumantation would be perfectly valid if lemmy.ml were some small instance that’s unheard of by most users. Or blocked by the rest of the network. We could ignore them then, let them do their own thing like the Fediverse does with a few nazi and conspiracy instances. But this isn’t the case here.

Regarding money and doing it “for the fun of it”: That’s not correct. They get money for two or three full-time jobs from the NLNet fund and the EU. They could be having fun, too. But they definitely also get a substancial amount of money for it.

Concerning the 4chan example: That’s on point. 4chan is the epitome of echo chamber and incel culture. That’s mainly because there’s no one else. They left. And now, why would anyone else visit a place like that in the first place? I’d rather not Lemmy become like that. Do you?

And am I supposed to let other people be subject to that, too? Let people like that drag down Lemmy as a whole? Shouldn’t I have a nice and welcoming place on the internet for me and my friends?

Do you like echo chambers? If you want my perspective: I have until now recommended Lemmy to exactly zero of my friends. Because of things like this. Lemmy has quite some potential. But it just has so many issues to tackle and the culture here just isn’t what appeals to “normal” people. If other people share my experience, that’s exactly why Lemmy still is below 50k active users and super small.

Sure. I moved away from the .ml communities a few weeks ago because I think it’s the right thing to do (for me). It’s just dragging down everyone and making Lemmy a worse place. Like we see constantly with all the posts like this. Should we (the people who want more than an echo chamber, and want fair and honest discussions) all abandon Lemmy?

Probably !support@lemmy.world

Go to lemmy.world and have a look at the Sidebar. That’s where instances publish info like that. And they list several methods to contact them, there.

I don’t think so. It’s a bit like being bullied and your friends are being bullied, too. What do you do? Leave the room and be happy they bully your friends and not you? Keep silent which ultimately enables them? No. You’re being vocal about it. You warn your friends not to go in there. And you try to do sth about it. In the end it’s the bullies who should leave, not the nice people. Or the whole place is doomed and just getting worse.