I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.

too real

While the stats vary depending on who’s measuring, the story is consistent: web publishers, who provided the content that trained these AI models, face dramatically diminishing visitors, which means lower advertising and subscription revenues, even amid overall growth in search impressions.

Wear cargo pants or a jacket, solipsist.

I’m glad I didn’t have that experience. I think I had cases on those phones, so that might have been what made the difference.

Back when removable batteries were a thing, the couple of phones I had both were removable without screws.

I have no strong feelings about what a removable battery should look like, but I love the idea of increasing a phone’s longevity easily.

Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?

No. Most people won’t notice, and the sites they’re visiting have other tracking mechanisms.

I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don’t seem to change.

Yes. Those sites fill a need/role. Non profits typically don’t have the same content factories that for-profit orgs do.

Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?

Legislative change is the only way forward. You have a threat model that involves privacy, but most people don’t. Instead of trying to change everybody, focus on legislation that would improve privacy regulations for all.

I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.

As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.

I worry that training myself to be mean will bleed over into other parts of my life.

When are the bidet advocates gonna show up? This post has been up for like an hour!

It sounds like you’re asking about algorithms, which are (sort of) language-agnostic.

You’ll find some neat stuff if you search for bubble sort, Dijkstra’s algorithm, tree sort, hashing, complexity theory, and number theory. The last two are more theoretical.

To my knowledge, Introduction to Algorithms is the standard textbook used to teach university students about them. When I was in uni, it seemed to be the standard. Some people find it accessible. I did not.

Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

There’s definitely scenarios where that is the case.

Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It’s my characterization. I didn’t mean to imply that you said it.

Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.

Generally, Hanlon’s Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity user error.

There’s a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we’re under attack.

Lemmy has no chill

If the most creative thing they can think of to answer that question is “Money” then their critical thinking skills are pretty much zero,

Yes. If the candidate thinks acting out a post they saw on Reddit adds something to the interview, they’re probably gonna make poor choices as an employee.

You’re getting downvotes, but I get the vibe that most of the c/android users either use Graphene or aspire to. So you’re not wrong.

(I’m in the aspire camp)

I feel like disposable cups, flimsy disposable plates, and crappy plastic utensils are the opposite of luxury. They remind you that you’re eating food made on an assembly line at the lowest possible cost. But maybe that’s just my point of view.

Search around. I think Google has “certified” some repair chains, so it’s probably pretty easy to find someone who will do a decent job.

The version I present nowadays usually is better socially adapted and better able to integrate itself into a conversation

That seems positive. But it’s your call.

For me, “conforming” means listening, considering my audience, controlling interjections, and asking people about stuff. I don’t feel like I’m denying myself, I feel like I’m being more considerate.

I can see how other kinds of conformance could be awful. Denying one’s sexuality or something like that.