I’m not going to watch a video about polishing a turd but I assume the turd remains a turd.

You’ll not I didn’t actually make the claim that its not possible.

There’s a popular phrase “you can’t polish a turd”. The meaning in this case being that if you put a nice UI on chromium it’s still chromium.

Hey check out this turd I polished.

Yeah I don’t know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this…

“Just let us keep doing what we’re doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems.”

Obviously, the answer is… we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we’re doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.

Automation is always incremental.

I’m an accountant. Components of the job have been being automated or systemised for many decades. Most of the tasks that occupied a graduate when I was one 20 years ago don’t exist anymore.

Not because AI is doing those tasks but just because everything became more integrated, we configure and manage the flow of data rather than making the data, you might say.

If you had to hire 100 professional programmers in the past, but then AI makes programmers 10% more efficient than previously, then you can do the same work with 91 programmers.

That doesn’t mean that 9 people were doing something that an LLM can do, it just means that more work is being completed with fewer programmers.

Plenty of sea snails that large.

Abalone are snails, they’re a delicacy.

Yes. I think it would be hard to find anyone who thinks chagossians should not be consulted in determining what happens with their island.

The stark reality is that it’s probably just not possible, in any meaningful way.

I have first hand experience in this type of negotiation with community / minority group trying to navigate the best outcomes for them with their limited resources, although of course nothing so dramatic as deciding what to do with an island.

The first problem you encounter is that their is very limited governance within the group, or no governance, or extraordinarily poor governance which is acting against the best interests of the group. Straight off the bat you can end up mediating internal disputes which might be generational feuds. For chagossians, you might ask who gets consulted and are they reasonable representatives of the group.

The next problem you encounter is that the demands of the group may very likely be unreasonable and unachievable, and the group might become hostile if they are unmet. For example you might think possible outcomes in this circumstances are stay with UK, join Mauritius, or become a sovereign nation. What happens if the group demands a fourth option, a new island, in the mid latitudes, unpopulated, potential for local fishing industry, et cetera. You can’t really negotiate with a group that would make such a demand.

Another problem is that, well, the stark reality is that maybe the Chagossians don’t really have any meaningful options. What’s the point of negotiating if the only potential outcome is being subsumed by Mauritius and accepting whatever they will provide.

In addition, no matter how much you consult with them, there will always be someone that says they weren’t consulted and they’re bitter because they didn’t receive their new tropical island.

Finally, if things need to be resolved in a timely manner, then involving the Chagossians isn’t going to achieve that. The only option is to hand them over to Mauritius and let them manage all of these issues that have been simmering away since the dawn of time.

I don’t really know anything about Chagos, but is that really what the islanders want? A quick google suggests the islanders might find it difficult to agree.

Most micro island nations just aren’t viable as a sovereign nation in 2024. They need air travel, health services, telecommunications, building materials, food imports, education, et cetera. Sadly they just aren’t able to produce anything of any value with which to pay for all of those things.

In many cases they end up trading their sovereignty for political positions. It looks like there’s already a detention centre for sri lankans in Chagos. China will happily pay then millions a year for them not to recognise Taiwan as a sovereign state, which is kinda ironic.

Nauru is a fairly interesting island nation. They sold the rights to their phosphate (bird poo) 80 (?) some years ago, and after it was extracted they were left with a moon scape. Sadly they squandered the money with some comically bad investments, including a broadway production IIRC. Health outcomes are pretty terrible.

It looks like there’s already a military base in Chagos, so I guess that’s something they can trade on.

Another problem with sovereignty is migration rights. If you’re born somewhere like that you would absolutely want the opportunity to go to university in Australia or UK or similar.

Sorry, my guy seems like a nit wit all the way up and down.

If you want to sell mods as a side hustle that’s great, but don’t form a company with the explicit enterprise of infringing the rights of one of the largest and most litigious rights holders in the world.

Perhaps. I think consumers are more willing to pay producers than they have been in the past. I acknowledge that the time is not yet right, but with time, the less appealing youtube is the more likely alternatives will become.

This is saddening.

I know the invidious contributors have been working on this over the last few months. Looks like they finally got there only to have youtube slam the door. That’s a real gut punch.

I already switched to running an instance at home instead of my VPS, so this news doesn’t change much for me personally but it’s a demonstration that youtube is actively seeking to block the project.

As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.

I really wish more youtube producers would cross post to other platforms.

This is the solution.

All names have problems but this one has the least.

One is online.

Sure mate.

You’re suggesting that showing videos in a town square is the same as posting in Twitter? They’re not the same, obviously.

It’s complex and I don’t have the answers. My comment is merely hilighting the conflict between these 2 ideals… governments shouldn’t whether or not specific content is ok, but companies shouldn’t provide content which is clearly unacceptable.

If xitter didn’t provide that content the government wouldn’t have to intervene.

If the government does intervene it reduces the barrier for them to intervene in future.

I’m quite conflicted about this.

I hate musk. Hate twitter. Hate that people were sharing videos of a terrorist attack.

That said, I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

It’s also disappointing that her kids were doxxed, I don’t condone that at all… but “just doing my job” is not a reasonable defence when you have a shitty job strategising how to corrode privacy.

I don’t concede that the protests thus far have reduced any suffering I’m Gaza.

If you want to minimise suffering in Gaza, make sure Harris wins. Do these protests further that objective?

I understand you’re not suggesting people vote for Trump, but that just gets lost in the noise. There’s plenty of people that would see these protests and conclude that “both sides are bad” and simply not vote.

I still won’t be protesting after the election. Firstly because im not in the US, but even if i was I just don’t think it’s a very effective use of time.

Pressure is applied where it is most effective.

My point is, by complaining about the Dems and not about Trump you’re undermining the likelihood of a Dem president.

The whole “genocide joe” narrative did not provide any benefit in Gaza, but significantly improved the chances of a Trump presidency.

Protesting outside the DNC is actively supporting a Trump presidency and worse outcomes in Gaza.

… if Biden had done this they would be screaming blue bloody murder.