AwesomeLowlander

It’s about fashion designs. Your buzzwords have about as much relevance here as they usually do in any startup pitch - which is to say, absolutely none.

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

Welcome to English Idioms 101

Well this is talking about Diablo ONE, so…

Yeah, imagine different people having different opinions than you!

Which will eventually need to pay for its server fees as well, and thus the cycle continues

Without any way to indicate tone or context, OPs intent can be validly interpreted in many ways. More so considering how many people post serious takes which are totally inaccurate. For example, the annual wave of posts about how the Year Of The Linux Desktop is coming.

Better idea, they’re not mutually exclusive

~70% of software developers were using copilot or a similar AI assistant

That’s interesting, do you have a source?

Right. I see there’s no logical discussion to be had here. Have a good day.

My question was very simple and limited in scope:

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

I did not make any sweeping comments, and I would appreciate if you stopped trying to claim things on my behalf.

Fuck knows. It’s not like I made any such claim, you just decided to put up a strawman argument.

Since when could someone do this … with a couple of clicks and zero training, for free and on any device?

You know, somebody probably said the exact same thing about Photoshop when it first came out? Back when cutting up photos and pasting them together was a thing. Then again, somebody probably said the same thing about the advent of photography too, during the days of woodcuts and oil paintings.

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

They’re not just writing the software, they’re responsible for the infrastructure it’s running on. And keeping that running and secure IS a full time job.

Right now, you sound exactly like one of those C level execs who looks at IT and asks “We haven’t had an issue in years, what do we need to pay them for?”

Fair enough! That’s exciting news

If it helps, I agreed with your 1st 2 points. You may die with your dignity half intact.

“Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”

The full quote is “UNLIKE self-serving warnings from Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”. In other words, they’re actively denigrating Musk and Altman, and you’ve taken the quote entirely out of context, in direct opposite to the original meaning.

? It’s not open source, AFAIK.