[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 39 points 2 months ago

Mostly the whole exploitation part, which often goes too far and can be very humiliating or outright dangerous for participants. Some scrapped videos supposedly amounted to torture. Then there's the rigged giveaways and the fact that the dude just unnerves a lot of people because he, as this post demonstrates, doesn't smile with his eyes.

There were also allegations that one of his colleagues was a sex offender but as far as I know everyone including the purported victim ended up denying it, so I don't know how much people care about that still.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 32 points 2 months ago

It really is a cesspool, they're tripling down now stating immigrants are eating pets, kidnapping kids in pedophile rings and then cannibalizing their victims. Total nutcase stuff.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 36 points 2 months ago

Otto has been very vocal and active in getting his daughter's diary published and getting her story told. It's far more likely he dragged himself there.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 43 points 3 months ago

Even sadder:

The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 38 points 3 months ago

I'd imagine accusing millions of women as "murderers", and then expecting their vote, probably also doesn't really net much benefit to a campaign.

It really is that car huh.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Right Honourable Member of Parliament Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, King's Council to His Royal Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Lord of Mann, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Anything less is offensive and requires a licence.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 32 points 5 months ago

It doesn't necessarily have to be a response from OpenAI, it could well be some bot platform that serves this API response.

I'm pretty sure someone somewhere has created a product that allows you to generate bot responses from a variety of LLM sources. And if whatever is interacting with it is simply reading the response body and stripping out what it expects to be there to leave only the message, I could easily see a fairly bad programmer create something that outputs something like this.

It's certainly possible this is just a troll account, but it could also just be shit software.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 36 points 6 months ago

Bombing a house in the middle of a residential area seems "reasonable"?

A judge and jury found the police department used unnecessary excessive violence and violated constitutional protections against unlawful searches.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 35 points 11 months ago

A country with a chapter in its history named "The Troubles" might not be the best pick here.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 31 points 11 months ago

Because it seemed Dugin was the target of the operation I believe.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

David_Edmundson - KDE Developer

Don’t create a social media hype of something before discussing it with Plasma devs. That’s obviously going to antagonise people, and puts us in an awkward situation afterwards.

Looks like this "vote" is not really official and blindsided the devs a bit.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/facebook-russia-trump-sanders-stein-243172

It's a well-established fact that a part of her social media campaign was funded by the Russians.

To be clear: I'm not saying she necessarily did all this in cahoots with Putin. Russia funded divisive ads that boosted Sanders too. Regardless, Sanders quit the race whilst Stein did not. That means she acted as a spoiler candidate, where a vote for her means it's more likely that a republican candidate wins instead, instead of the democrat candidate that a green voter is likely more aligned with. It's an unfortunate effect of the two-party system. Nonetheless, those effects are well-known and Stein had a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. She knew this, but decided to remain on the ballot anyway. Her candidacy therefore did help Trump win the election.

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