“Also, I have three questions for you…”

A browser is not like a social network though. There’s barely any difference in practical terms between Chrome and Firefox. Once you’ve switched there’s no reason to go back.

Modern TV is too tidy, with everything tied to one or two storylines and everything being wrapped up tidily with maybe one or two cliffhangers. It makes fictional settings cough Star Wars cough seem small and insuler.

Interesting point!

I think a big part of this is because of the internet. Nowadays, if the writing isn’t 100% polished you will get people screaming loudly about inconsistencies, plot holes, or hooks left hanging and I’m sure this has an impact on the showrunners.

That said, I think you can have highly professional/polished writing, and still make the universe seem big and complex. The high quality dramas (Sopranos, etc.) have shown this. Not something Star Trek has every really been good at though.

I think that goes back to the start of the internet. Maybe has become more common over time

Yeah, that’s basically why I got out of IT. Too many managers/clients refusing to listen to warnings about what would happen when they did X, then blaming the techies when things went to shit.

Because they are the “boss”, they have 0 accountability. Worst case for them is a golden handshake, and failing upwards where the cycle starts again.

We have our own cutie called Julie. She’s not so playful these days, but she’s very attached to us!

I think they have some areas where they’re very useful, but beyond those areas they’re only OK at best. They don’t come close to living up to the hype, which is mostly based on “the next version will be mind blowing!”.

They are a new type of app, nothing more. New types of apps can be extremely useful, and make a lot of tasks easier, e.g. spreadsheets. I would say at best generative AI is as game changing as spreadsheets were, but maybe less.

The hype machine wants us to believe they are as revolutionary as the PC itself, or the car. In fact 10 times as revolutionary! I just don’t buy it… at least not in the foreseeable future.

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Of course people could do that, but you have to find someone willing to do it or be able to afford to pay for it. It happens but it’s maybe 5% or students or less.

There is always going to be cheating. But once it becomes nearly impossible to detect, and maybe 30% or more people are doing it, the system breaks down.

Good luck doing one on one assessments in a uni course of 300+

I think choice of software (wiki or otherwise) is the least of your worries. The problem is not so much with fake data, it’s with the interpretation of the data. That’s where the bias (and sometimes manipulation) comes in. Even if you managed to moderate it well enough so that all the data was “objective”, you couldn’t stop subjectivity being a part of the interpretation.

As an example, in most countries, certain minority groups are over-represented in prison populations. e.g. in the US, black people disproportionally end up in prison. That is an objective fact (so far as it goes).

But based on that fact, you could interpret it as either:

• Black people are just inherently more likely to commit crimes
• There are systemic biases that mean black people are imprisoned more often

How do you decide which is right when both are based on the data? (One is clearly racist, but still based partially on facts)

Or find a smaller instance. If everyone joins a bigger instance it’s just moving the problem

I thought it was too big at first, but it meant everyone had a lot of space so turned out about right I think

Agreed. Commercial sites like reddit like to create false scarcity. Doesn’t have to be done all the time, but every 3-6 months might be good.

Also if it’s advertised in advance more people will know about it

Lemmy.nz winning per capita

Yeah, it’s a fricken nightmare… Windows is ok in a well managed corporate setup where all the crap is uninstalled

I bought a laptop recently which came with Windows. I was going to setup dual boot because I need Office365 for work… but in the end I just gave up, deleted windows and installed Ubuntu.

I hear lots of people used to using Windows saying “I tried Linux and couldn’t get anything to work”… it’s not that I don’t believe them, but I really struggle to understand it. Windows is so much worse!

I agree, but I don’t know what could be done differently? If people refuse to acknowledge a single thread of evidence that Trump tried to overturn a legitimate election, what can be done to reassure them if he’s put in prison for doing it? The options are give him a fair trial, and sentence him if found guilty or just ignore his crimes completely.

Codeberg is at least non-profit. Gitlab.com is for profit and has (or will have) the same problems as GitHub.

I’m not sure what makes you think the law applies to billionaires