It was added to the "exclude" list in an apparently unrelated commit three days ago with absolutely no explanation. Glancing at its front page I see nothing objectionable, just a lot of anime stuff. When challenged u/dessalines had nothing to say other than "no, that is full of CSAM" and just closed the discussion without further comment.

Unless some more info comes to light it does not look good. Probably as good a time as any to depart from lemmy.ml.

He's wrong on both points.

My time was wasted by LLM-generated nonsense just yesterday. I wanted to know when whistling tea kettles similar to the classic design we know today first became popular. The first search result I got was a 3000-word essay all about the history of kettles, so I started reading. You'll know you've found the same one I did if at various points it claims that the kettle was invented "ca. 8000 BC", "4000 years ago", "around 3000 BC", "15,000 years ago", and "approximately 906-1127 AD".

There are various other inconsistencies and things that make no sense at all by human standards, but it's written in an authoritative tone, looks pretty nice, and was the first result on my searx instance, appearing in the results from several well-known search engines. It wasn't immediately obvious to me that it's all bullshit, and there's probably at least some truth mixed in there somewhere.

It's not exactly something to panic over I'd say, but it sure is annoying.

It is if you redefine AGI to mean the thing that's already here, although to get away with that it helps if at the same time you overestimate what LLMs are capable of doing.

"Halved?" No. There should not be software patents. They are good for nothing.

Wow, 2015. Back when they had to hire actual humans to write bullshit like that.

It got rebranded as the “Topics API” and is now live in many people’s web browsers.

I understand why they can’t have proprietary drivers

Who can't have them? 90-some percent of Linux distributions make them available to those who are unfortunate enough to need them.

Alternative headline: Google is making it even harder for non-Google operators of mail servers to interoperate with gmail.

One marketing executive's "super" is another man's "crammed full of crufty garbage that nobody wants."

Don’t believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.

This one is pretty bad but that is definitely not the right lesson to take from it. The one thing it does show us is that approximately 20k extra new users suddenly showed up compared to the trend, and that would be much more difficult to see if the relevant axis did start at zero. The bigger problem is that it shows too short a time span. It's not clear how unusual this event was, or if it happens every week.

The other weird thing is that bottom-right axis does start at zero for some reason. I'm guessing it might somehow be trying to indicate "toots" specifically made by those new users? But that's not how it's labelled and it seems unlikely they could have that data.

XFCE: we added some format options for the clock