Dr. Moose

I don’t think it’s everyone either - just a very vocal minority.

RAG on 2 pages of text does not hallucinate anything though. I literally use it every day.

I’m genuonely confused how is that even possible in a developed country such as US. Do people not read at all? As in an article or gossip magazine - all of those would get you there.

Is it just country side folk drinking beer and watching fox news? It can’t be 50% of all people. How.

AI threads on lemmy are always such a disappointment.

Its ironic that people put so little thought into understanding this and complain about “ai slop”. The slop was in your heads all along.

To think that more accessibility for a project that is all about sharing information with people to whom information is least accessible is a bad thing is just an incredible lack of awareness.

Its literally the opposite of everything people might hate AI for:

• RAG is very good and accurate these days that doesn’t invent stuff. Especially for short content like wiki articles. I work with RAG almost every day and never seen it hallucinate with big models.
• it’s open and not run a “big scary tech”
• it’s free for all and would save millions of editor hours and allow more accuracy and complexity in the articles themselves.

And to top it all you know this is a lost fight even if you’re right so instead of contributing to steering this societal ship these people cover their ears and “bla bla bla we don’t want it”. It’s so disappointingly irresponsible.

Do you give toddlers post-grad books to read too? This is such an idiotic slippery slope fallacy that it just reeks of white people privilege.

This ignorance is my biggest pet peeve today. Wikipedia is not targeting you with this but expanding accessibility to people who don’t have the means to digest a complex subject on their lunch break.

TL;DR: check your privilege

It looks like two worms split running from another tinier worm. Makes you wonder what it has done to be so feared

Samsung tab a9 is legit good and its 8" and costs like 100$. I use it as an e-reader with a matte screen protector and it’s awesome!

Its not even about taxes but straight up class warfare. Lately billionaires noticed that they are not as untouchable as they thought they were and now they’re aligned to fix this.

Inb4 “The satellites are beaming mind control into your head”

As someone who wrote their CS thesis on networks I find starlink infuriating. Its such a terrible option that basically persists through memes and highly niche use anecdotes.

You can literally cover entire landmass of earth with fiber and cell towers for pennies on a dollar what low orbit satellites would get you.

Not to mention is objectively better technology which we would have to setup anyways if we want low latency networks and why wouldn’t we want that in the future? There are countless benefits to reduced latency so it’s really unavoidable. Now some want to prioritize worse technology when it’s at peak cost. It’s so fucking stupid.

Most contemporary python tools like flask or uvicorn do exactly this and require an explicit entry point

I used to be very opinionated about programming languages but now I just really love all of them.

Sure some might not be the best tool for some jobs but maintaining a language is insane and just such a mind-blowing endevour.

You’re using appeal to popularity to claim that Telegram has good UX because more users use it which makes no sense unless you have A|B test that you can execute right now to prove your point.

Just because it’s popular does not mean it’s good especially when the market in this scenario has no choice or vote how the UX is implemented.

Which specific issues and in which regard?

The one you mentioned for starters - following multiple channels in a single feed.

Telegram has a terrible UX for social networking and feed following - it’s a private messaging app that has been hacked together into use case it was never made for in the first place and it really shows.

Market has decided that this UX is good

Lol

Maybe you should start with real existing technologies when you do your analysis: rss, federation, graphql. Group chat is the most primitive of feed types and is incredibly outdated UX in 2025. Even RSS - technology from 1999 - has solved the issues telegram is still trying to solve now 26 years later.

Tbh reserving “main” is just a hacky if not more so than checking __name__ if you actually understand language design.

enshittification is full force now

Not really. It just group chats and some are used as news feeds.

Its one of those terrible UX where people force a tool to do something it’s not supposed to like Discord for forums etc.

Its basically used for piracy and drug markets for tech illiterate but somehow caught on.

I don’t think accuracy is an issue either. I’ve been on the web since inception and we always had a terribly inaccurate information landscape. It’s really about individual ability to put together found information to an accurate world model and LLMs is a tool just like any other.

The real issues imo are effects on society be it information manipulation, breaking our education and workforce systems. But all of that is overshadowed by meme issues like energy use or inaccuracy as these are easy to understand for any person while sociology, politics and macro economics are really hard.

This would only work in a perfect capitalism but that’s not our reality. Once a company acquires status that can control and drive the society the society has the right to correct for that.

Apple was too greedy to the point where courts have decided that their greed costs society more than society gains from Apple. There’s no philosophical binary formula here.