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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I am WAY too unqualified to understand any of the technical stuff, so I'll be waiting to hear thoughts from experts on this one. It looks like if there are no major flaws in it this is a great thing for the platform overall.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I am a bit out of the loop in terms of RDBMS history, what do you mean by MySQL refugees?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

If functionality exists in the client app, there's nothing to be done to stop someone from bypassing checks.

Looking into it further this looks like it's an API between the backend of a service and Google though. That would be difficult to defeat, but you could probably spoof the identity of the requesting device with enough effort

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (13 children)

It's not like dedicated people aren't going to be able to just patch out the calls to this API from the apps themselves...

This feels like yet another attempt at DRM that is doing more harm than help.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, you're living in the future. I'm still stuck using three shells.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well today I learned, thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're pretty reasonable for consensus-based programming prompts as well like "Compare and contrast popular libraries for {use case} in {language}" or "I want to achieve {goal/feature} in {summary of project technologies}, what are some ways I could structure this?"

Of course you still shouldn't treat any of the output as factual without verifying it. But at least in the former case, I've found it more useful than traditional search engines to generate leads to look into, even if I discard some or all of the specific information it asserts

Edit: Which is largely due to traditional search engines getting worse and worse in recent years, sadly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

~~The "P" is for predictive, not pre-trained. Generative Predictive Text~~

Edit: Nope I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

This is the best article I've seen yet on the topic. It does mention the "how" in brief, but this analogy really explains the "why" Gonna bookmark this in case I ever need to try to save another friend or family member from drinking the Flavor-Aid

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

As long as it has good writing... and maybe they turn down the crudity a touch... I think it has the potential to be well-received.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

There are some very big claims in that post. If half that stuff turns out to be true it might be the end for Telegram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are some of the popular Matrix clients that you've seen have this problem? And are they open source?

I've been curious about Matrix for a while as a potential Discord replacement, but haven't actually tried it. Might be interesting to check it out and see whether I can contribute to one of the clients somehow.

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