Sure. Germany has an arms industry. We sell submarines, Leopard tanks, drones… And they’re used all around the world for destruction and to kill people.

I think it’s fascinating tech. And fun to play with. But I think a lot if the every-day use-cases are more of a gimmick. In the good old times we could look up facts on Wikipedia. Or google why the yellow light on the router started flashing and we’d find an answer on Reddit. Now we ask ChatGPT, but that alone doen’t increase my quality of life. I’d rather have it sort the mess on my 8TB hdd, find a cheaper insurance company for the car. Do my stupid paperwork at home… And maybe I’d like an AI robot to do the chores for me. Laundry, dishes… So I can relax and do other things. But I feel it’s still early days for the really useful tasks. AI is more useful for replacing callcenter workers, assisting programmers… And unfortunately it’s bad for the environment and makes computer hardware unaffordable.

Empathy and availability are great. Listen to them, respect their struggles growing up. I don’t think that necessarily means being strict/authoritative or lenient, for me it means more feeling respected as a person. And a sane, straightforward way to deal with mistakes. Because we all make mistakes. Especially while learning and growing up.

And I’d say shared memories are awesome. Whatever that means for you. Go on a Canoe trip, teach them how to fix their bike, do woodworks, drill a hole into the wall or bake a cake.

According to their documentation “EU data residency” is an enterprise feature. Not sure if that’s available to regular end customers?! The top models all come with inference by companies based in California (USA) or China.

Hmmh. I think you already found the well-known services. I found one more: regolo.ai from Seeweb?!

But I’m not aware of anything that properly fits what you’re asking for.

I’ll mostly tinker around with RunPod instances. But that’s not what you’re looking for. If you find something good and cheap (and prepaid) I might have some use-cases for it as well. Like connect my Home Assistant voice assistant to it.

There’s Mistral AI in France. And Microsoft offers the OpenAI/ChatGPT models running in EU datacenters as part of Azure.

And if you’re willing to set it up yourself, you can always rent a cloud server with some beefy GPUs and run arbitrary workloads on it. Your favourite AI models, games or whatever you like. OVH or RunPod.io for example have Linux servers with GPU access.

To be fair, you accumulated most of the downvotes (I see) in a single post and the attached comments. You got two things at the same time: the unpopularopinions community tends to be harsh. From my experience I’d say you get way more downvotes there, than in other communities. And secondly, you picked one of the two super controversial topics. Brace for downvotes if you post about AI. Or Israel. Dunno if the latter toned down a bit, or if I’ve unsubscribed from enough communities since.

It’ll be better with almost all other topics.

Not sure if I’d go straight for “silencing”. I mean the post and most comments are still there. So it’s just that you got a lot of backlash. But I can still read what you wrote. And you got quite some engagement. But I get what you mean.

And down-votes are a bit weird. We never agree if they mean bury the content somewhere at the bottom. Or if it means " I disagree with what you wrote". That just gets lumped together. And some people use them sparingly, some hand out a lot of downvotes. Which I guess could be fine if they’re used to for the frontpage ranking to sort the posts. But the way we use them doesn’t really give them the right weight.

And by the way, I’m not sure if I like up-votes either. You’ll get 300 of them for re-posting a meme. And 3 upvotes for coming up with really good advice to someone’s question.

The post text is supposed to be right underneath the “This is an automated archive […]” and the following few links. Dunno if that depends on the subreddit. Or if most posts just don’t contain text as they’re a bare link or image…?! But I see content attached to several posts mirrored by the Lemmit Bot.

I think there’s just a lot of posts with the entire text in the title and it’s just an image or link. I just scrolled through 25 of them and the original doesn’t have any text either. And then there’s some with text and the text gets copied. (Example: https://lemmit.online/post/8076620 )

There’s an entire instance dedicated to mirroring Reddit: https://lemmit.online/

Yeah, me too. For some hobbies there just isn’t a lot of activity.

We have some regular pc gaming communities:

• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
• !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
• !factorio@lemmy.world
• !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
• !zocken@feddit.org

And some about tabletop games:

• !tabletop@beehaw.org
• !dnd@lemmy.world
• !scifi@ttrpg.network

Not sure if there’s more, that’s about the ones I’m aware of. Lemmyverse.net has a few more: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=gam

Well, previously we had LemmyNSFW. That one died, pretty much out of the blue. Now the second admin(?) of it launched FediNSFW as a successor. We have that - for now - I guess? They said they’re gonna try to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.

But I guess it’s still a single point of failure. If they don’t properly ensure there’s several people who own the domain and hosting infrastructure, can administer the contracts, server etc, it might still be down to one person and their ability to keep it up. And if there’s legal troubles, uncertainty, not enough donations, law changes or the hoster or Cloudflare pulls the trigger, that might be the end of all of it as well. A severe technical issue/mistake could also take down a singular instance. And due to the delicate nature of NSFW content, they probably can’t afford to be 100% transparent with us, so I wouldn’t know whether they’re in a healthy place or not.

I mean there’s nothing wrong with FediNSFW’s existence. I just think it’s massively questionable to all bet on the same horse, and then call us the “Fediverse”, a decentral platform…

I think so as well. Porn is available in abundance. We don’t really need it here. What I think could be nice is people who like to write erotic fiction as a hobby and post their original content. Or people discuss erotic computer games. Or like relationship advice and NSFW questions in case some country abolishes sex ed. Maybe talking about piracy, mental issues, loss… all the things that are deemed “not advertiser friendly” on commercial platforms. That’d be something positive. But it’s not easy. And it often all gets lumped together under some big NSFW umbrella and 95% of people want to share pron clips anyway. Mostly with zero care for copyright or the creators’ consent.

Hehe. Yeah, I don’t think we need more content. There’s already some out there. And everyone can add more, all they need is 20sec of time and a redgifs link. What we really need is more admins run servers to host that stuff. And a bigger admin team for the already existing instance so it doesn’t just randomly go away along with all the content, as well. Maybe one or two lawyers, or someone with expertise in bullet-proof hosting, to set it up properly. (And we likely need moderators as well. Half of the communities on the old server used to be a desert. Claimed en masse by some nominal members who left a long time ago.) But original content is certainly welcome 😆

Probably more NSFW instances? We barely have one.

Last time I was part of conscription, I sent in my objection letter, and served Germany as a paramedic.
No regrets, 100% would do it again.

The post has some blue box on piefed.social: “This post is old so votes and comments are disabled.” That’s what I meant. I didn’t have any time to look at the code but thought that could be something that triggers a bug…

Maybe that has something to do with these posts and comments being marked as old? Your profile page says you’ve made 8 comments. They’re just not shown in any way. The comments however, are still there:

Is there precedent for this in Europe? I can’t remember good things which were repeated. They tend to either succeed or fail but that’s basically it. Or political parties rallye to do something but then they don’t. Or can’t agree within the coalition. Or there’s other pressing issues after the election and it gets postponed… But they don’t really say, that’s what we promised, we failed and we’ll put it on the agenda again 5 months later?!

I think this should be somewhat discouraged in a democracy, though. Decisions have to be binding in some form. You can’t just do 5 and then randomly discard 4 and go with the one result you like. And for some reason that’s supposed to be the binding one. I mean it’s a bit tricky. But ultimately it’s the same kindergarden game like you’ll ask your mom to allow something and after she says no you’ll go to your dad and ask him, then your grandparents, uncle… and at some point some adult is busy with other stuff, doesn’t pay attention and you get your “yes” and you’ll do it. It’s a weird thing kids do, not a feature of a democracy.

And in democratic systems it leads to the same discussion blocking the agenda again and again because of some people’s dispute. And other weird things like in the USA, where the first official act of a new president is, to cancel as much bills from the previous administration as possible.

I mean there’s reasons to do it. But I still think it’s mostly a dark procedure within a democratic system.

And other kind of law has it covered. For example court rulings. You’ll need substantial new evidence. Or a changed situation to re-do their binding decisions. And that’s for good reasons. (I think in philosophy of law it’s called “non bis in idem” or double jeopardy doctrine)

Well, computer programmers still do things like Project Euler and code wars. Some people go Geocaching and more organized events which include riddles and different places. We got Escape Rooms… People still listen to shortwave radio and figure out whether number stations change due to the Iran war… I read people tried to use modern AI on the Voynich manuscript and other older riddles… It’s probably all out there, just the internet changed, and now it’s almost impossible to find in the big haystack and walled discord rooms etc. And social media got more consumerist. You’d (on average) be mindlessly doomscrolling there, these days. Not actively look for puzzles to solve.