Software Developer, Switzerland
Languages: German, Allemanic (Swiss German), English
Hobbies: Gaming, Anime

I almost only watch seasonal anime.
As for games, I currently mostly play Star Rail, Noita, and Shotgun King.

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Joined 1 year ago
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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Antitrust is about powerful companies abusing their powerful positions. With powerful I mean control over a market.

    The idea is that if society is functionally dependent on a product, it shouldn’t be the case that the owning company abuses that position to force people into walled gardens.

    While it’s of course still bad if a smaller company does it, the amount of people impacted will be lesser, so it’s not seen as critically important to take action against it. So that’s why antitrust laws only target the big ones.

    I do absolutely disagree with Apple not being big enough though. iOS has a 30% market share in the mobile OS market according to statcounter, that ought to be big enough imo.


  • Not sure, I’m not familiar with the test, just figured I’d tell the results from asking the AI.

    I think based on what you said about it

    AI will actually TRY to solve it.
    Human nature would be to ask if the person asking the question is having a stroke or requires medical attention.

    That the Balanced style didn’t fail, because while it didn’t ask about strokes or medical attention, it did point out I’m asking a nonsense question and refused to engage with it.

    The Precise style did try to find an answer and the Creative style didn’t realize I’m fucking with it, so I do think based on the criteria they’d fail the test.

    Though, honestly, I’d fail the test too. When asked such a question, I’d think there has to be an answer and it’s stupid of me not to see it and I’d look for it. I think the Precise style’s answer is very much where I’d end up.


  • So, I asked this to the three different conversation styles of Bing Chat.

    The Precise style actually tried to solve it, came to the conclusion the question might be of philosophical nature, including some potential meanings, and asked for clarification.

    The Balanced style told me basically the same as the other reply by admiralteal, that the question makes no sense and I should give more context if I actually want it answered.

    The Creative style told me it didn’t understand the first part, but then answered the second part (the turtles being blue) seriously.


  • I really don’t see the issue. So more users is bad? I thought our issue is the lack of users currently.

    I’ve seen people complain about ads and data harvesting here. But instances can already do that. Meta joining would change nothing about that. Actually, being a proper legal company, it might be easier to sue them over misusing your data than random instances.

    “Embrace. Extend. Extinguish”? Let’s stop between the last two steps then, not before the first one.

    Kbin would be crippled by the amount of Threads content? I thought federation only happened if one kbin.social user is following a user on Threads? Should be as easily manageable then as Mastodon is currently. Or am I misunderstanding how this works?

    To me, big sites federating looks like a clear advantage. I don’t really get the big problem.