I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts

More like AITA

Same with people believing all vtubers are AI chatbots or, to a lesser extent, that all female vtubers are just men with voice changers.

Like a minute or two of looking up either on any search engine would clear things up. But hell if it does show how little the average internet user seems to know about AI or audio editing. A lot of people seem to think technology is just straight up magic.

Like that one MatPat picture he started using as his avatar, so much so that he looks photoshopped into the real picture now.

Saying it works is very generous.

They also originated loot boxes (TF2)

Why is the preview pic two politicians kissing aggresively

IIRC wasn’t it also cause the higher ups cheaped out on personnel and hired a bunch of people who didn’t speak proper Italian, let alone the same language, to man the boat?

The only active AI feature is the automatic alt text one, and that’s entirely local. The second one is a sidebar that will just open AI chat websites, which you could already do by just, ya know, looking up the webpages the regular way. No data is getting sent anywhere so far.

I take it they finally moved on from 1990 in the government?

This has been available for most of the year. What took any tech news org so long to even awknowledge its existence?

“Our users, who don’t have as much free time as they did during the pandemic, didn’t binge watch a 13 episode show, one hour per episode, the very day it came out like they did during lockdown? Cancel the show its a flop”

Fucking Aquaman

Yeah, that’s odd. I could swear Google had something in its terms that specified you couldn’t mix its results with other search engines.

Any relation to the WordPress competitor Ghost or are there two blog platforms called Ghost

Because it isn’t finished

I quite like it precisely because it provided no recommendations. I’m not enticed to waste time watching something I wasn’t interested in 3 seconds ago. If I want to watch something I have to look it up and that’s usually the end of it.

Doesn’t the compatibility layer mean its restricted to its own wine prefix? Or am I misunderstanding?

The former lead dev (who is still part of the team) seems to think many people are out to get him for no good reason. He has claimed repeatedly that Calyx devs have sent harassers to target him for years (from spamming gore or nazi content in the matrix channels, to swatting him and almost getting him killed by the police) and that they constantly speak ill of him, but has never actually shown any proof. Instead, he sources his own past claims about how he has shown proof, in a sort of endless loop.

Also, youtuber Techlore made a 5 second joke about GOS’s extreme approach to security in his mostly positive review of it, which the lead Dev took as a personal attack. After which he started attributing harassment to him too. He made a later video talking about it, and Louis Rossman commented on it expressing concern. After which, the lead Dev accused him to being complicit in the harassment.

Eventually he stepped down as project manager, citing how the harassment and bullying he constantly got was too much. But to my knowledge no one has actually seen it ever.

It’ll probably be open for anyone to use. They’ll just be pissy about it.