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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I’m loving how the tools that are supposed to be used to make the rich richer are being used by the people to cut into profit margins. Maybe we’ll see the day where releasing something closed-source won’t make sense anymore because somebody will point an AI at it and say “make this run on my PC” then upload the code for everybody to use.

    Macroslop has been praising AI for a few years now. Let’s see how they’ll thread the needle between praising it and trying to limit it from hurting themselves.









  • You’re presenting assisted suicide as if it’s just a “willy nilly” decision. People don’t “just” go to a physician and stick a needle in their arm. It’s a long process that involves careful evaluation.

    Going “I didn’t kill myself and I’m happier for it” doesn’t make you the spokesperson of thousands of other people who are still here, suffering, and wishing they weren’t here anymore. You aren’t in their bodies. You aren’t them. They should be able to decide for themselves and if that means suicide, they should be able to do it with dignity, not by jumping in front of a car and messing up multiple lives in the process, or running amok and getting shot by a cop, or jumping from a building and traumatising those around them.

    You shouldn’t get to make that choice. They should. That’s the discussion here.







  • “nobody”, nearly 50k people.

    Asking people on mastodon if they use lemmy also doesn’t make much sense to me. I don’t use mastodon because it’s not threaded, people on mastodon probably don’t use lemmy for a similar reason. I’m not sure how many people use both threaded and unthreaded platforms, but it feels to me like the two layouts attract different people.