It’s a marketing thing. Calling LLM’s “AI” was a very intentional move, to evoke that sense of hyperintelligence. Whether it’s truly an artifical intelligence up for debate, but calling them AI absolutely helped them gain attention (good and bad).
Also, obligatory “shut up Avina”.
return to your roots: use notepad
It’s correct, just a bit confusing to parse at first. Like a garden path sentence, but with commas.
What a coincidence, I just started getting back into geocaches myself!
Anyway, all the advice here is great, but I’d also like to point out that we are on the fediverse. There aren’t that many people here, compared to other platforms, and the demographic is certainly skewed one way. You can definitely use these in your favor, but don’t get discouraged when you’re “only” pulling a few hundred, when that pretty solidly puts the community into one of the big ones (again, comparatively speaking). Things are just a bit more quiet here.
OP might maybe have had a shred of plausible deniability up until now as being someone edgy or wacky or whatever, or at best someone with a very active imagination. But that reply there pretty solidly confirms OP is just a downvote farmer.
Downvote and move on, no further point wasting any more of your brainpower on them.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone “CC” someone else outside of business emails. Man, I like it here.
As others have stated, it’s usually as simple as downloading a torrenting program and finding something to torrent. There are many programs, and many sites dedicated to hosting torrented files, both of which would probably be breaking the rules of this instance if I were to link them. But for the sake of intellectual curiosity, if you look them up, you can find them easily. (If you’re interested in what torrenting is and why it’s different than just downloading, I’ve moved my paragraph to the bottom to ease the wall of text.)
As for internet privacy, there’s no one singular repository of information or “holy bible” as it were to adhere to. Internet privacy is something you just pick up over time as you get used to the Internet and indeed make many mistakes on your own. I’ve done my fair share of clicking shady links and losing access to my accounts in my day, and as they say, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. So don’t be so hard on yourself, you’ll learn in due time, one way or another. Don’t be afraid to ask more questions and make your own mistakes, it’s only human. Right now, as long as you’re partially aware of some of the dangers of the Internet, you’re already leaps and bounds ahead of other people, and that’s a-okay.
Anyway, as for the intricacies of torrenting, it’s actually a very interesting and seemingly complex but actually simple system. Torrenting is also called peer-to-peer transferring, which as the name implies, is done by transfering information between everyone! Like others have said in this thread, you’re not just downloading a file from some server somewhere, but you’re getting many many small pieces of information from potentially hundreds or thousands of different people. It’s like if you tried reconstructing a book by going to your friend John, and he photocopies the first chapter, then you go to your friend Mike, and he photocopies the second chapter, and so on. Files in a torrenting network are broken into small blocks, which are downloaded from other peoples’ computers, and then reconstruted as one file on your own computer! This does imply that, while you are downloading a file while torrenting, you’re also uploading it! When you receive information from others, your computer then also turns around and broadcasts that information to anyone in the torrenting network who still needs it. When you’ve fully downloaded the file, you can also choose to continue uploading and broadcasting the file for other people to download from. (This is called “seeding” and is typically seen as either a nice thing to do, or downright mandatory in some circles.) You can probably see now why piracy is so prevalent here, as it’s downright impossible to squash an entire network of people all sharing files amongst each other, and law enforcement can’t prevent everyone from doing it. (And if you’re taking proper precautions like using a reputable VPN, they won’t even know you’re torrenting anything at all!) It’s a very interesting system, one that I think is super neat, but it does have its positives and negatives. Hope you found this as interesting as I do!
Torrenting is simply a special method of uploading and downloading files. I can elaborate if you wish, but I’ll leave it at that. It’s worth noting that torrenting is typically used to distribute illegal media-- there’s nothing wrong with the act of torrenting itself, but because of the method of which torrenting is achieved, it’s mostly used to download/upload pirated movies, games, music, etc. Lots of legitimate things can be torrented, such as Linux distributions. If you’re ever considering torrenting media which may be illegal, make sure you’re fully informed. (Many will argue about the ethics of pirating media, I think this is beyond the scope of this discussion.)
As for metadata, “meta” means “self-referential”. So Meta data is data about data, which is to say, it’s information about itself. Metadata describes many aspects of a file. If you’ve ever opened the properties of a file and seen that it was “created January 1, 1980”, or “1.2 MB”, or “authored by Big Books Inc”, etc, that’s all metadata. In terms of privacy, some files could possibly have metadata such as the name of the user who created it, their geological location, the device the user used to create it, etc. I personally don’t think it’s something to be extremely paranoid over, but it is something worth looking a bit more into if you care about online privacy. Also worth noting that most image sharing sites and services strip images of their metadata when you upload them.
Yeah, and it’s not even subtle to boot. If they had done it this past April Fool’s day after making an API announcement at the beginning of the calendar year, they might have had a smidge of plausible deniability. But now, three weeks after the beginning of some of their most controversial changes yet, on a random mid-July week, it’s an incredibly obvious drive to boost engagement, from both the current userbase and perhaps even a boost from the users who left to return to place a “fuck /u/spez”.
I don’t even understand how this gets greenlit. I mean, it’s definitely going to work, their engagement for the next week will be a YTD record without a doubt. But this just feels so mustache-twirlingly evil.
I know I’m gonna sound like a total knob, but I didn’t even like the idea of a second place. Every April Fool’s event was unique and treasured-- Reddit mold, orangered vs periwinkle, Robin, even 2nd or circle for as bad as it was. Place 2017 (or was it 2016?) was obviously the best April Fool’s ever, and part of its treasure was its temporary nature. Doing place again in 2022 just felt wrong to me. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but this time around it felt like it was almost undermining the first one, and with talks of doing place again the next year or every X years just felt so corporate and faceless among a new reddit that was running out of ideas.
And now here we are. They’re not just running out of ideas, they’re running the site into the ground and dangling a carrot in front of users like, “hey, didn’t you all like place the last two times? Here it is yet again!”
niche subs or communities that aren’t built up here
Oh how I wish someone would make a shittymobilegameads community.
…or for me to get the willpower and motivation to do it myself.
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Why did you pick that instance, out of curiosity?
E: Posted the same comment three times, looks like. Still getting used to this.
Relevant xkcd.