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Celebrity AMAs are mostly just Q&As with celebrity publicists, and are done purely for promotion (usually for some new film, show, or brand they're selling), and are a great example of how fake and astroturfed reddit is in general.
Re:GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:31AM (#36043979)
> It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge.

Sounds much less exploitative and unhealthy than the streamer/influencer parasocial relationships these people are probably currently invested in.

Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @09:24AM (#36011744)
It would be a great application server, if only it supported non-blocking IO and the handling of multiple requests simultaneously with each worker thread. Instead the event MPM is basically the worker MPM (thread-per-connection) with dedicated epoll/kqueue-based listener threads in front, but otherwise synchronous.