Rockity rock and stone!

They should make the versions UUIDs instead of integers so that we don’t make assumptions about their ordinal relationships.

“Completely new”

Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.

“Solving the crisis … requires the private and non-profit sectors to join forces with the public authorities at all levels of government.”

So as long as everybody coordinates toward the same common goal, we should be okay.

…Welp, we had a good run.

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.

3.5 is still reasonably useful for the same reasons you described, imo… Just less so.

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Wow-- My thoughts exactly. I assumed after that, nobody would go anywhere near them with their disaster-waiting-to-happen affairs. But then I remember how I used to assume that nobody would be careless enough to make their password “12345678” and it makes more sense.

Add in the fact that the horny debuff gives people like a -30 to IQ, and it really starts to come into focus.

Flummoxed!

I mean do you think Fortnite has anywhere near the same level of ability to disseminate information or surveil people as TikTok does?

And actually it makes a material difference that ByteDance is based in Beijing, as opposed to just having Chinese investors. Those social platforms, movie studios, etc., being headquartered in the US is exactly what makes it different. Can Chinese firms apply financial pressure to compel them to act against the interests of US citizens? Yes, of course, and they do.

But that’s categorically different than being legally obligated to comply with the CCP, which ByteDance is.

TikTok is a massively powerful tool of influence and intelligence, in the hands of an adversary that is well understood to proactively meddle with democratic elections.

Yes, obviously the CCP will unabashedly pursue other interference vectors. That should be viewed as more reason to curtail TikTok, not less.

I admire your optimism. I don’t share it, but I admire it.

But they tried so hard…

Yeah, I’m wondering about how they characterize “bot activity.” It seems like “any traffic not proximally related to a user’s synchronous activity” is a little too broad.

I’m not sure if fediverse syncing is bot activity. Or my laptop checking for software updates while I’m sleeping. Or my autopay transactions for utility bills.

The title still works if you remove the word “scraping,” too. (I mean, except grammatically)

Worked for me just now. What did it say when you did it?

Me too! I thought it was gonna be fake, or if not, they’d have fixed it already or something, but NOPE! Still works exactly as described.

I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.