With respect, if you had read it you’d know this isn’t about drones, and it’s not about active combat like in Ukraine. This is sort of a decades long testing of boundaries, and the article is about a move that NATO made to potentially stop that testing.

I didn’t get AI vibes from this. I took it as a guy a little overpleased with NATO military prowess but still i very nteresting information. What made you think it’s AI?

Thanks for sharing. Although I’m an enthusiastic open source user, I haven’t written any code of significance, so I’m not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I’m picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.

From what I hear the Chinese EV manufacturers have a lot better features and finish than what we can get in the States. One concern I would have is if the manufacturer were to go out of business can you still get parts and maintenance.

This is astroturfed. No one was demanding they prove the robot wasn’t human. It’s a thing the company planned to do ahead of time, and then they’ve planted this story. I’ve seen this posted several places, but I haven’t encountered anyone who was like “oh wow, I thought it was a person”

Pretty cool. Does make me wonder functionally if the robot part actually increases the odds of success, or if it just means fewer people put at risk. Because it both came under fire and hit a mine. But maybe because it’s smaller it was less likely to be detected than a crewed vehicle? Maybe it would have been hit more or more fatally if it was larger?

Well, if you really wanted perfect intonation the best way would be to completely preprogram all the notes using software and remove the live performance by a human part.

Not saying I have a lot of everyday need for a theremin but I think it’s a pretty cool instrument.

You’re welcome! I’d be interested to see your list if you share it somewhere.

A buddy and I were playing with Sonobus this morning. It lets you collaborate on music remotely.

Musicians will know already, but if you’re not aware, the latency (lag) between participants makes it impractical to play in time together. But if you can get it below 30ms then it’s roughly equivalent to playing with someone across the room. Needs a hard wired connection and the other people probably can’t be more than 500 miles away. But for me eliminates a two hour round trip to work on a song.

I did read it. Here’s the company post that the article references and links to.

The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don’t, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.

They say the dislike button will apply to “Discover and other feeds” which is a little less relevant to me because I don’t use discover. Maybe I’d check it out more if it was better.

It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn’t indicate they’re changing that.

Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.

Thanks for sharing your experience. What does a visa run entail, just leaving and coming back?

What languages do you speak? What are the best places you’ve lived?

I’m not here to tell you that their motives are pure. But I don’t see how a dislike button or social proximity are enshittification. And I don’t see how it’s tighter reliance on their control.

Is Lemmy having the ability to downvote enshittification? That’s what drew me to Reddit and now to Lemmy. It pushes less useful/interesting content down and brings better content to the front (generally)

Is showing you posts from people connected to people connected to you enshittification? That’s a feature I genuinely like about LinkedIn. I’ve seen posts from people I know but wasn’t connected to yet. I’ve seen pictures from events I attended but uploaded but people I don’t know personally.

Sounds fun! You’re describing temporary living, right? My understanding is most places even to get a nomad visa you have to show proof of income much higher than $500 a month.

What countries would you say fit that $500/month range, and what kind of lifestyle does that cover?

I don’t know, I could see that improving the experience.

I may have some insight here: in marketing there are third party services which will “verify” an email is legit. They do this by sending an automated inquiry to that email domain’s servers. Many servers are set up to respond and verify, “yes this is a real address” or “no, we don’t have an address like that.”

Catch is that this allows marketers to confirm, yes, my message will reach a real person if I send it here, and they may send spam. So some services intentionally configure their servers to give no response or a less definitive response.

Without looking into it I would bet that’s what Tutamail has done.

Still annoying that Loudly doesn’t support it, but probably less a question of size/location and more of configuration.

I’m an atheist, but coming from a Christian background I think you’ve got some details wrong. For example, from a theological standpoint Jesus wasn’t a victim, he knew he was going to be crucified and moved forward anyways because he was going to take on the sins of humanity.

Of course that’s not real, but if you’re going to criticize religion might as well try to frame the criticism in a way that would make sense to your audience.

Because the only way Marvel movies know how to ratchet up the stakes is having more and more people die.

So the screenshot is a reminder because when you’re scrolling through recent photos you might happen to see it? Isn’t that kind of like setting an alarm clock that will only go off 50% of the time?