I think a lot of the same API issues are going to hit.

Reddit wants to stop OpenAI from crawling all “their” data (that was given to them for free by their users), so any kind of algorithmic fetching of comments beyond web scraping will be removed.

Yep, they sure can.

Los Angeles has been turning their streetlights into EV charging stations. So if you need to charge - just park under a lamp and plug in.

The goal is that everywhere in the city will have charging, so presuming you can park near a streetlight you’ll be able to charge your car. After all - the streetlight needs power anyway.

That said - I bought my Model 3 when I was still living in an apartment. Charging wasn’t too bad. My job gave me free charging in the parking garage as a perk, and on top of that I had a Supercharger I could stop at on the way home if I needed it (which I rarely did). Usually I only used that charger if I was eating in that shopping center anyway, and typically my charging would get done before I finished waiting for my food (so I’d have to rush to move my car before getting idle fees).

The challenging part came when the pandemic started. I didn’t commute to work anymore, but my car would slowly die in the parking spot (just like how your phone can die in your pocket).

Every weekend, I had to take it down to charge it. This honestly wasn’t so bad. There was a charger by an In-N-Out, so I’d stop by and grab something to eat while I charged. There was a mall across the street with free charging as well, but during the early days of the pandemic they originally blocked a lot of the mall off.

After a couple of months I moved to a place with a garage, and now I charge using a regular wall outlet without any problem. But it really wasn’t too bad having to charge while in an apartment, to be honest.

When water evaporates, it has a cooling effect - this is why your body produces sweat. As the sweat evaporates, it causes your body to cool down.

The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be reached as a result of water evaporating.

When this wet-bulb temperature approaches human body temperature, then the human body cannot reduce its temperature via sweating. This causes your body to overheat and will eventually lead to death. This is true even in the shade, even with unlimited water to drink.

At some point in the near future, it will be so hot somewhere that the wet bulb temperature will reach 35C (95F). Once this is reached, anyone exposed to that temperature will die after a few hours. The only way to avoid it is air conditioning, and if the power fails due to the heat then that won’t work either.

This is most likely to happen somewhere tropical first, but it will slowly happen in more and more places as the Earth warms.

Japan wants to lead the world in AI, so they’re pursuing very AI-friendly policies.

It still seems conceptual, yeah. AFAIK it isn’t implemented over there yet.

I just noticed it when I was reading up on the site after it got recommended to me on Reddit. I like the concept of the place, but my turn-off is that they don’t allow cute cat pictures or memes. Most of my Reddit day is spent looking at cute cats and sending memes to my fiance.

If you go to the Communities tab and hit “All”, you can see a list of communities you can subscribe to based on what your instance has federated with. Then you just hit the “subscribe” button and you’re good to go.

One thing I think is interesting is how tildes.net is planning to handle moderation.

Basically - they give you broad powers initially, and take them away from you if you show yourself you can’t be trusted. So if you report a user and it’s a bad-faith report, they can ding you. If you keep making bad-faith reports, then over time you lose the ability to create reports at all.

By contrast - if you repeatedly prove to make good reports, and your reports are usually actioned upon, you become “trusted” over time and your reports may cause content to be removed as soon as you report it. (And of course - if a moderator restores a post that you got removed, that counts as a ding against you.)

Over time, trusted users get hand-picked to become moderators. This has the ability to create “power users”, of course, but a moderator that acts in bad faith can become less trusted over time and potentially loses their privileges. The thought is that the risk of power users is less than the detriment of an unmoderated community.

I’m just waiting for the first “wet bulb” event.

I’m not sure what else it’ll take for people to take climate change seriously, but by then it’ll probably be too late…

I’m amazed that this didn’t happen sooner. AZ is going to have a far harder time with water than even CA.

Yep. I’m already seeing AI start to displace some jobs. And what we’re seeing right now is the “baby” form of AI. What will it look like in 5 years? 10? 20?

But really AI is just part of the puzzle.

Everyone talks about Tesla as it is now and how bad their self-driving is - without considering that one day it will get better. And it’s not just Tesla; it’s places like Waymo too. Let’s not forget that Tesla now sells semi trucks, and there’s no reason why the tech won’t apply for them as well. One day - not today, but maybe in a decade - self-driving will be the norm. And that kills off Uber, taxis, semi-truck drivers, and anyone else who drives for a living.

And that applies to other delivery methods too. Right now, Domino’s has a pizza-delivery robot. At scale, those can replace DoorDash, Amazon, and even the USPS. Any job which is “move a thing from one place to another” is at risk within a decade. Even things which don’t exist now - like automated garbage trucks - will one day soon exist. Like, within our lifetime.

It doesn’t stop there, either. Amazon has a store without cashiers. Wal-Mart has robots which restock shelves. That’s a good chunk of stores now completely automated. If you’re a stocker or a cashier, your job is on the chopping block too.

Japan has automated hotels. You don’t need to interact with a human, at all. There are also robot chefs flipping hamburgers. And I’m sure you’ve seen the self-order kiosks at McDonald’s. Between all that - that’s the entire service industry automated.

Did I mention that ChatGPT can write code? It’s not good code, but it’s code. When given enough time - tech will replace a good chunk of programmers, too. Do you primarily use Excel in your job? This same AI can replace you, too.

AI is coming for all kinds of jobs. Construction workers are even at risk now, for example. And even if the AI isn’t good - one day it will be.

Just like how computers in the 1970s weren’t good. But they are now.

It will happen. You can’t stop it. CGP Grey did a great video on this a while back.

His analogy was basically: just because the stagecoach was good for horses doesn’t mean that when the car was invented there were even more horse jobs created. You can’t presume that new technology will always create jobs; at some point it’s going to cause a net decline.

And what happens when entire industries disappear overnight? What will happen to college students who now can’t get a simple customer service job to put them through college? What happens to entry-level jobs?

Like I said. The genie is out of the bottle.

Now. It’s in the capitalist’s best interest to have money entering the workforce. If the workforce doesn’t have money, they don’t spend that money, and the capitalist doesn’t get more money.

It’s in the politician’s best interest to keep the masses happy. They are what decide elections, and automation isn’t going to stop elections from happening.

Because of that, there are 3 ways things can go down:

1. A complete ban on AI capable of a certain level of automation. I think this is unlikely but conceivable. I expect conservative parties to start championing this in 10-20 years.

2. A universal basic income/expanded social safety net. Notably this is what Andrew Yang was talking about in the US 2020 primaries, and - whether you like Yang or not - it’s something that has gained traction.

3. Fully automated luxury gay space communism. I find this the most unlikely option, but if the politicians/capitalists for whatever reason decide to ignore the fact that 3/4 of the workforce doesn’t have a job… well, something’s gotta give. But like I said - I don’t think this will actually happen, or even come close to happening.

I expect that politicians will be reasonable and nip this in the bud with something like UBI. The reaction will be similar to what happened during the pandemic - nobody has a job and nobody can work, but the economy needs to go on. So the government gives people a stipend to go spend on stuff to keep the economy going.

But honestly… who knows? It could really go either way.

Yep. For example, I’m on the developer-run Lemmy instance, but I can see and interact with the communities on Beehaw.org just fine.

The main difference is moderation styles (Beehaw has more strict moderation) as well as what they federate with. Beehaw doesn’t federate with certain communities, so those communities don’t show up when you look at “All”.

It’s kind of like when Mastodon started to take off. Hopefully it’s self-sustaining.

I’m really interested to see what will happen on July 1st, when Reddit cuts off API access.

Sadly, my German isn’t the best or else I would’ve looked more into that one. ;)

I applied for an account over at Beehaw.org, but they’re slammed since they have been hit the hardest by Reddit users (as they are the closest culturally to Reddit).

I’m also not 100% sure if I’ll switch or not… I’ve had this account since 2020, which makes it a relatively old account in Lemmy terms. Not that I’ve used it much, mind…

How are you liking it? I was looking at kbin earlier and even made an account. I’m not really sure how it differs from Lemmy, though, and it seemed to be under active development?

I’m curious if it lets you follow Mastodon users and PeerTube channels as well. I saw that there was this thing called a “magazine” but it seemed to be kind of like a subreddit and I’m not sure how everything fit together. I didn’t look at it much, though.

The comment nesting of Mastodon isn’t bad.

My main complaint is that every comment winds up on Mastodon. IMO, what should happen is that the OP should show up on Mastodon, and then the replies to that would just be replies to that OP instead of appearing in the main feed.

I’m not sure if that’s intentional or if it’s a limitation of ActivityPub.

The issue is that the images would be hosted on the instance itself - meaning you’d have whatever got uploaded on a local computer.

Then you have to make sure that everything is legit and above-board before you get overwhelmed with illegal content and the cops start coming after you.

Elon is the cause.

He started doing sketchy things. Other tech companies saw that they were leaving money on the table and followed suit.

Let’s not forget that Elon also was the first of the tech companies to start layoffs. These other companies have been playing “follow the leader”, not caring that the leader is leading them to a pile of crap.

Fair enough. It’d be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It’s actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I’ve followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it’s neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.

But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I’m not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it’s not easy…).

Haha, I was here 3 years ago, before Federation even worked. It was very slow, to say the least. ;)

It’s been my first time back since 2020, and it’s kind of wild to see it taking off. I’d imagine it’ll only grow as the enshittification of Reddit continues.

I am very curious what’s going to happen to the larger instances like lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org. Lemmy.ml was struggling to load for me a bit earlier; come July 1st when everyone gets their access cut off I’m very curious how slammed this’ll be.