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every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private
because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private
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Aw fucking shit!
@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!
I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org
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Generative AI today is where self driving cars was in 2015. Lots of impressive announcements by big tech and startups with the idea that machines replacing humans was a few years away.
In reality, instead of being close to done, a decade later we realize now we’d barely started.
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You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they soon abandon it because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?
It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.
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My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.
Parenting sucks,
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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.
I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.
And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.
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Which is better way to find the area of a circle?
1. pi X radius squared, written with soot on some pressed reeds
2. Take all the known areas of all known circles that have ever been, stuff them into a tokenized data base, power up a nuclear reactor to crunch the numbers, then give an approximate answer that's judged to be right 81% of the time by slaves employed in a sweatshop in Ghana, then present the results at a board meeting while the ice caps melt?
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I am on my second cup of coffee today. I am dreaming already of my third.
I went off coffee for 3 months for reasons of "I try to force myself to not get too addicted", but fuck, I am so happy I am back on coffee
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Appealing the removal didn’t yield any result. Google just repeated the same statement "the app was removed because it uploads the contact list" without even acknowledging any of the arguments I made in the appeal.
I understand that most of my audience here on Mastodon is more ideology aligned with F-Droid but the app sales on Google Play store have contributed significantly to me working (almost) full time on #Conversations_im.
Without the revenue from Google Play I can’t afford this.
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Pretty sure almost all of these systems are just bots and ai models looking for something they think is suspicious and will have 0 people looking at your case unless you bring in big bucks for them :)
I use the playstore version because it has gcm/fcm enabled but I'd rather not of course.
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Grab a couple of dice. Roll them.
If you get below 5, those are rookie numbers. Shout at the dice, let them know they're underperforming.
If you get above 9, that's what we want to see! They're good dice, and you should acknowledge that.
Repeat that and keep a record. You'll notice that negative feedback often results in better performance on the next roll. Positive feedback, conversely, can make them get lazy.
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What is this even saying? That an individual's workplace performance is a stochastic process? That a skilled-enough manager can do the equivalent of "rolling" a person such that their performance is biased towards being better-than-average?
I mean, I get the surface message, but I don't think it holds up for precisely the reason that people aren't dice.
(a) the dice are not responding to your feedback: they're dice
(b) nonetheless, the stats "show" that your negative feedback was more effective than your positive feedback (this is a genuine thing you can try if your Friday nights are as exciting as mine...)
People are a little stochastic, although that's not really the point: we have good days and bad days influenced by factors that we can't predict well. In fact, the first time I saw this effect referred to it was in the context of actual human beings, and it occurred to me that it would be amusing and maybe clearer to put it in the context of inanimate objects.
It's a really powerful cognitive illusion caused projecting an emotional response onto regression to the mean, and a similar effect can definitely cause people to believe it's in some way effective to mistreat others. To be clear, I don't think it is.
I guess it's not really an analogy, it's a thing you can actually do, and the dice don't even have to represent anything other than their cubical selves.
I'm going to link to this excellent explanation (with code!) in case any future travellers get here
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@cheetah_spottycat 100%! Definitely!
Google has been actively sabotaging the web from all fronts for decades!
But Mozilla* really needs to figure out getting Mozilla** in check, but that seems unlikely
* The not for profit
** the for profit
What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.
I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.
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$0.0000001196969/req web server
$0.0000019666666/req auth server
$0.0000040533333/req database
$0.0008833333333/req large language model
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my SaaS product is dying.
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So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.
For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.
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Hi everyone, I’m looking for work! I have ~7.5 years experience working on iOS apps, both Objective-C and modern Swift.
I’m based in the Netherlands and would be looking for a fully-remote position.
Boosts appreciated!
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According to Apple’s lawyers, "no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."
I repeat to make it clear: According to Apple itself, no reasonable Apple user should expect privacy when using the device.
So let’s make it even more clear: if you expect basic privacy using your Apple device, you are "unreasonable" (= a fool).
(originally posted by @mysk )
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Happy #blackhistorymonth Canada, we’re doing great:
Three Black speakers were barred from a meeting with clerks of the Supreme Court of #Canada for their social media posts related to #Palestine.
Supreme Court staff polices Black voices and shows anti-Palestinian bias
Three Black speakers were barred from a meeting with clerks of the Supreme Court of Canada for their social media posts related to Palestine.Nick Seebruch (rabble)
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EDIT: WE FOUND THEM AND THEY ARE OK
hey! has anyone seen Lore AKA @taq ? nobody has heard from it since last friday. last seen in edinburgh uk
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You don't hate project management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of project management
You don't hate product management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of product management.
Go find the people those tech bros were talking over last year. Hire them. Listen to them.
When something underrepresented people have been arguing for becomes trendy, it gets diluted by mediocre overrepresented people in tech.
Break the cycle. Stop building mediocre teams.
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When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
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Well said. Here's my own take, from almost exactly 3 years ago.
Why I'm losing faith in UX:
https://creativegood.com/blog/21/losing-faith-in-ux.html
(by Erika Hall https://nitter.net/mulegirl/status/1332389999656927232 , via @markhurst )
(Nitter addon enabled: Twitter links via https://nitter.net)
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how about we go back to instantaneous load times
because that is something we can do
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Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just
I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out
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an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!
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I know I shouldn't be surprised but
look at the shithead trying to appropriate Jennell Jaquays' career accomplishments
https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/xandering-is-slandering.html
Xandering is Slandering
On January 10, 2024, the game designer Jennell Jaquays died. She was a woman of many accomplishments, who published one of the earliest and ...diyanddragons.blogspot.com
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Ah, gotcha.
Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying
Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂
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What if we defined "security" as being able to put food on the table?
As safe and abundant housing for all?
As access to healthcare?
What would investing in “national security” look like then?
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