Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.

source?

he absolutely carried Stargate Atlantis, it was weird to see him in Aquaman

it's satire

genocide and ethnic cleansing were inevitable from the moment Israel was formed. ethnic cleansing is the inevitable result of an ethnostate, and Israel was formed to be a Jewish ethnostate. an ethnostate is an ethnostate, regardless of which ethnicity it's for

I can sort of see the appeal if it were able to plug into your smart home or something so it could respond to queries like "where's the dog", but as a general knowledge assistant it's worse than useless (unless it magically doesn't confabulate anything anymore)

it's in the name: generative pre-trained transformer. the one thing ChatGPT and GPT-3/3.5/4 are truly good at is transforming data. it can restructure paragraphs to have a different flow, take class notes and make flashcards out of them (that's how i use ChatGPT), or even take non-textual data and potentially present it in textual format if trained right

oh hey, it's the evil bit all over again

New York’s 18th District Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) called the action an “absolute disgrace” and said it was antisemitic because New York City has a large Jewish population.

ah yes, the Democratic Classic: conflating the government of Israel with all Jews

i don't have one on hand, but it's a physical letter sent through the mail which basically says "delete the copyrighted data we think you downloaded or we're shutting off your internet"

a new instance doesn't know about any other instances at first. when someone on the new instance, instance A, searches up a community on instance B, instance A now knows about the existence of instance B and starts pulling content. the more communities people on instance A subscribe to, the more of the Fediverse instance A sees.

what this means in practice is that a community can be hosted on any instance, and people from any other instance (that isn't blocked by the community's instance) can post and comment on it seamlessly. the community you posted this to is hosted on lemmy.world, but you have an account on kbin.social. and i have an account on sopuli.xyz!

this means that you get the freedom to pick whichever instance you want to set up your account. since each instance is its own independent website, if one instance goes down, the rest of the network isn't affected. you could even set up your own instance on your own hardware! different instances have different rules and vibes, and if one instance is misbehaving (e.g. mods have lost control, the software is glitching and spamming other instances with too much traffic, there are nazis), other instances can block it temporarily or permanently.

as for how many instances there are, FediDB lists 1,175. no instance sees every other instance, so there isn't an optimal one to join like some people have asked about

for OSS projects, it's "ping the dev on Discord"

i'd honestly love to visit St. Petersburg if that happens