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It's not either-or. You can use both.
If you prefer to switch apps and identities and go over to Signal, awesome.
If you'd rather message someone with your ActivityPub identity, you can do that securely now, too.
The E2EE work on ActivityPub uses an open standard, MLS, to encrypt data. One reason we chose it was so it's at least possible to bridge to other social and messaging networks while keeping the data encrypted from end to end.
@malte it's the Socratic method. You can win every argument by demanding a rigorous definition of every term under question, and exhausting your opponent until they concede whatever you want to make them say.
@kworker so, "yes, but" only if hackers refuse to use them?
@malte that horse has left the barn
@smish that's an interesting thought!
@BathysphereHat part of my job is DEFINE QUESTION MARK
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/survive too I guess
Update: and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/can
Can hacker culture survive LLMs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
@dpflug me too.
I also think that people stay home to rest -- either they are exhausted, or they know that rest will help them heal.
But I rarely talk to people who think of home rest as a way to stop the spread of disease and to take care of others. I usually have to explain the idea when it comes up. I'm surprised how many respondents thought it was a major motivator.
Anyway: first, third, and fourth. Thanks for replying everyone!
Thanks to everyone. I think people stay home when they're sick primarily because it's one of the few occasions for taking time off.
I think it's also embarrassing to smell of sick sweat and vomit and to have snot and phlegm coming out of every hole and to have to sprint for the toilet with nausea or diarrhea every 15 minutes. It's weird that so few respondents thought this was a motivator for people to stay home.
@johnzajac I think you've misplaced the topic of that branch of the conversation.
Here's the brigading event we were talking about (Dare responded to my share of it):
https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866
I think the aggressive language and threats are really dark. You might think they're justified.
@skyfaller for individuals, an hour of flight can emit about 1kg CO2. An hour of LLM use on a dirty grid emits 0.01kg of CO2.
@skyfaller AI is projected to rise to as much as 1/3 of all IT emissions by 2030, so about 0.3% of global emissions. Air travel is about 3.5% of global emissions. That's an order of magnitude.
@skyfaller My work has been up until recently building software to make greenhouse gas inventories. I am well aware of the causes of the climate crisis, and I can tell you categorically that AI is not a significant one. You've already seen my math on the topic, but I can share the links again if you need them.
@earth_walker @scottjenson @carnage4life
It would be interesting to have the discussion of how, if we don't manage to abolish all LLM-assisted software development entirely, we can maintain hacker culture and a positive influence on the world's use of technology.
@earth_walker @scottjenson @carnage4life
One thing we don't talk about, when we talk about AI, is that, for hackers, AI-assisted software development threatens our livelihoods and lifestyle. It undermines the special position that we hold in the social and economic order.
No amount of lowering power consumption, careful training data provenance, or decentralised deployment will help with that.
@wlach I'm sorry to hear that.
@skyfaller if flying is more harmful, and one still flies, then there is no convincing argument that a behaviour less harmful by orders or magnitude is absolutely unacceptable.