You can do everything right that people taught you. But you only start living when you make mistakes, fuck up, and find the places where you belong, and a picture perfect life doesn’t bring you happiness; it’s rather shallow and lonely.
That paired with the realization that my mental disabilities will make me lonely for the rest of my life and there’s only so much I can do about it without having breakdowns.
then they came for the civilians. And I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a civilian.
Yeah Thomas Mann’s poem is still relevant and more people need to read it and understand it.
If you “only follow commands”, you are still implicated in every action. If you are a cop you are literally one of the checks in the system of checks and balances.
THIS
Try to get this in writing, or document your day-to-day with this. Focus on the retaliation, the instances they tell you how you’re supposed to spend your money and maybe get coworkers to back you up and write that down.
The more clear evidence, the better. Lawyers love when you have a bunch of evidence in writing. Especially if it’s emails or similar directly from them that prove your case.
I had such a hard time trying to start off on mastodon. Finding the right accounts to follow, getting some basic filtering, no recommendations, …
That was very difficult and uncomfortably unintuitive for me. And I am a software engineer.
I can only imagine what hell that might be for a “normie”.
I love the fediverse and all it’s platforms, including mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, matrix, etc. but we still have a long way to go for people to adopt them, especially if you make it hard to get started.
I personally think the issue was never the recommendations or “content milling”. It was that there was no way to change it or turn it off.
I think the best way to make it more appealing is to put in the basics of other centralized platform but show users that it’s a choice, every time.
Registration? Enable OAuth with Google etc., but show users all of the options.
Recommendations? Use open source algorithms. Or models. On first login enable it and ask them if they want it to stay enabled, changed, or disabled.
Privacy? Turn off telemetry but tell them on first login they are free to turn it on in the settings to help with development.
Donations? Just like in boost for Lemmy, this should be the bottom-most option in the settings. Dessalines deserves the support.
I think the issue was never that a platform is capable of all the things lots of people don’t like, the issue were the dark patterns of opt out and making things hard to disable. Choice is powerful when it’s truly free and transparent.
why are (some) extroverts like this?
I sometimes do this too even though I’m very introverted. I do this because I want to feel useful with the experience I gained and it just feels like a waste sitting on some knowledge and not being able to do something with it.
It’s a really cool thing if you can help someone. And some people have such a need for this, either they completely forget they were very explicitly not asked, and some will ignore it, just in the hopes they get to contribute.
Funnily enough I get to see both sides, because I also sometimes get an answer from multiple people, so I’ve learned how to handle it to some degree.
The best thing to do is not to tell them to shut up, but to acknowledge it and then explicitly say “also wanna hear from [experienced] person as well on this though.”
Tbf “our CEO went off making hitler salutes, dismantling our government and issuing shady deals with rich people” is one hell of an excuse. Probably the best one yet for Tesla.
On a serious node, I feel bad for the engineers who came there to do something great and never got to follow through on it. There’s some geniuses working there that should get more deference.
I feel so sorry for the onion.
It’s about the dangers of misuse of AI too. That’s pretty on point I would think.
Phoria - saving us a riot
My comfort song :)
Also it’s very relaxing and I think that’s a good thing for my peers lol.
Gotta mention Spiritbox. Courtney is one of the most celebrated modern metalcore singers.
Yeah.
Discord needs to moderate, so they ban and therefore conclude their legal obligations.
If it was CSAM and discord thinks it’s bad enough, they will probably forward the information to the authorities.
Now if the authorities think it’s worth an investigation and give it the proper priority, they will start one. If the investigation concludes and they still think you’ve done goofed bad enough, they will persue you under criminal law.
See how many ifs there are and how many people have to sign off on it? There’s quadruple human review at minimum in there, and there’s no way they think they can win on those charges when the evidence if gd damn popcorn.
Also, you can appeal a ban. I got auto banned on discord about 2 months ago and I appealed because I know for a fact I did nothing wrong - I was literally asleep and my last messages did not even contain profanity. I was so mad cause that account is important to me. They reinstated it - to their credit - in a matter of hours. Still, could’ve done without the heart attack.
TL;DR you’re more than safe as long as it wasn’t actual CSAM.
I think it’s fine to dislike a culture. You can respect a culture without finding a liking in it.
Yeah but that doesn’t mean there aren’t lot of them though. I reckon it’s a 30/70 situation.
Sounds kinda inconvenient to put it on Valentine’s Day as everyone will be preoccupied for obvious reasons…
Yes I find this very intriguing.
This should work with deepseeker-r1 as well right? I assume that’s gotta be a bit better even.
Alright no hate on Bernie tho, that dude is a role model through and through.
You’re screwed dude
Harsh, but from what I see I agree, fixing it might be harder than redoing it, and covering it up if it looks good is the easiest solution you have
I mean NGL they used to be pretty unbiased for quite a while which was very odd considering they have direct ties to Qatar. I can’t speak for their recent coverage though and there’s probably something to be said about them falling out of favor.