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The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon (gadgeteer.co.za)
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[–] nous@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Algorithm is such a nebulous term. All programs are algorithms, all it means is a set of unambitious instructions. I don't think half the people that use it even really know what they mean by it except whatever big tech are doing.

I am kinda sad that the word has now been tainted this way and wish there was another word for a content recommender that's only goal it to keep users on the platform for as long as possible so as much money as possible can be made from them.

[–] UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shall we work on writing the algorithms to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? That's always a fun one to explain the concept.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That would be a procedure