I trust the FDIC to be far more johnny on the spot to resolve a liquidity issue than I do any private entity
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I trust the FDIC to be far more johnny on the spot to resolve a liquidity issue than I do any private entity
If your sub exists as a sort of support sub for one small group that feel they are oppressed by $largerGroup, the most bitter, jaded and cynical users will be the most active. The most active users are the most likely to be recruited as moderators. Those moderators then do not bother to moderate content that matches their more extreme world views, and that pushes more reasonable folks away from the sub. Before you know it, the sub's tone turns more bitter, the wheel turns, more moderate folks leave, and on it goes till your sub is now a profoundly negative and bitter space.
It takes very proactive moderation to prevent that slide, and most folks aren't equipped for it.
Now, post removals, we do a lot more of. We do try to moderate the sub such that it has an open, positive vibe in line with it's stated purpose.
I do fully understand what you're saying though. I've been banned for everything from merely asking that a sub enforce it's rules consistently, to asking for sources, to even posting in a particular collection of subs that another sub found objectionable. You have to run pretty far afoul of reddits sitewide rules as a mod to be removed from the position. That's why you see so many thing2 or thingNoCensor subs on subreddit maps.
You, as a user, only see one side of it. I'd quit, but I don't want to let down good people who are making an honest effort to keep the sub a nice place to be. Some part of me hopes I catch another site wide shadowban for vpn usage, and I have an excuse to put my account to the torch and start over as just a normal user
I tend to use tmux for persistent sessions when ssh'ing to and fro between my own personal machines, but I've never really delved that deep into it when my work computer is a macbook pro and I simply use iterm2 and splits.
Likewise, over on linux, everyone raves about tiling window managers, but I've never really moved beyond a simple L/R split that's easily achievable in every decent floating wm / de.
Interesting, I run audiobookshelf bare metal on my old laptop that only has 8gb of ram. I've considered using a docker container but my experience using rancher for work is that it sits there chewing up 4GB of ram on my company MBP.
Maybe I'm wrong but I've never seen the point in a self hosted app running in a container when it seems much lighter to just run the app?
The above incentives are why I mentioned that I think governments should fund a non profit app. Happier citizens, more stable families filled with the number of kids they want. It's an obvious win win to me.
Believing in a higher power has seemed to provide great comfort to a number of friends and family over the years. I went to a friend's father's funeral a while back, and I had to admit, the service, the way the community came together was moving, and it really made me question whether I should return to the church as an adult, even with my questions of faith.
You could have an exponential backoff, if someone gets a lot of potential matches, but doesn't move forward with them, they're downranked in search results. Honestly I could see that being beneficial to both parties because plenty of women talk about being overwhelmed and swamped on the apps. Men get shown women who are serious, women get a sane number of matches they can actually deal with, and those playing games don't get the validation they're looking for.
I'm sure someone smarter than me could poke holes in the above idea, or make it better, but look at the state of things now. We hand over all sorts of sensitive data to private companies, who have fundamentally misaligned incentives. I would think some sort of non profit app would have to be better.
The trust funds are almost dry, so we're either going to have to raise those taxes to fund those programs, or cut a critical safety net to the American public. I know where my vote is going.
I'm a little tired of billionaires 'buy, borrow, dying' to get around the paltry taxes they're currently subject to. We need a harder tax to dodge.
I'm sorry, what?
I'll put it to you again, you sound like me after playing around with gpt 3.5. It was interesting, but it wasn't good. There were still questions as to whether scaling would persist. My doubts were pretty much obliterated. LLMs haven't been mere text completion for a while now. Heck, even a model small enough to fit on my 3090 is now shockingly competent and useful. Does claude sometimes go off on weird tangents making me reel it in? Yeah, but it's genuinely great in present form, and it's the worst it'll ever be.
You're welcome to your opinion. It used to be mine too, but I disagree now. I find pretty much every AI benchmark has shown forward progress, some with non public datasets, and some things have gotten scarily better.
It's definitely changed in that time