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  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • I could start a comment saying “As a woman” or “As a feminist” that would polarize readers before stating a point.

    That's one of prejudice though, not of communication form and written language. It's polarizing for its content, not its form.

    I did find it interesting, and an interesting thought, when I first looked up what this thing was about. I still find it hard to read every time I see it.

  • Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops?

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  • We get so many free digital services from mega corps. If it weren't for the physical costs involved, we'd already be getting physical goods like that.

    Imagine a possible future of Meta, Google, and Microsoft shops. Selling under cost to bind customers.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • Sounds like it wants you to ask about it and then wants to write fan fiction for you.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • If you don't check their name - Darwin - on Wikipedia, where do you check it? A random AI? When you're on Facebook, their AI? When you're on Reddit, their AI? How trustworthy are they? What does that mean for general user behavior in the short and long term?

    When you're satisfied with a soccer match score from a headline, fair enough. Which headline do you refer to, though? Who provides it? Who ensures it is correct?

    Wikipedia is an established and good source for many things.

    The point is that people get their information elsewhere now. Where it may be incomplete, wrong, or maliciously misrepresenting or lying. Where discovering more related information is even further away. Instead of the next paragraph or a scroll or index nav list jump away, no hyperlink, no information.

    Personally, I regularly explore and verify sources.

    I doubt most of those visits to Wikipedia were as shallow as finding just one name or term. Maybe one piece of information. Which may already go deeper than shallow term finding, and cross references and notes may spark interests or relevant concerns.

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    Is it normal not to care about anyone?

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  • Adding link context/titles:

    The first one is an ask lemmy post titled: Is it normal to not value any other type of relationships other than romantic?

    The second one is a showerthought post titled: "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person

  • How do you beat the propagandists?

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  • It depends. Block them, regulate them, limit their reach or scope. Publish counters on the same scale or in a more efficient way.

    I don't think propagandist is defined clearly enough to list or discuss concrete counter-strategies. A lobby org lobbying for a law could be considered propagandist.

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • For DHH context, I'll link this open letter

    An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community

    David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has publicly published writings that make clear he holds racist and transphobic views, as well as a number of other traits undesirable in any figurehead and community leader.

    We, the undersigned, call upon the Rails Core team and the wider Ruby community, to:

    • cut ties with DHH and his work from this point forward
    • hard fork Rails and associated projects to a new name and development free from his influence
    • adopt a modern Code of Conduct with suitable community governance

    It has three source links on 'racist', 'transphobic', and 'undesirable' if you want to form your own opinion.

    Related to DHH, there's also been controversies on Omarchy/Hyprland recently (post from 8 days ago). That source has a lot more information and historical/personal experience on DHH.

    You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • if it stops you from sharing in the discourse you must not have had much to say in the first place

    Their writing style being hard to read doesn't say anything about what would or could be said in response. “blocks yourself from having real conversations” is a fair assessment. They're not blocking themselves fully, but from conversations with those who can't or are not willing to read the unnecessarily inaccessible comments. I've certainly stopped reading/skipped many of their comments many times. And that says nothing about what their comments say, my interpretation of them, or what I would have to say about their content.

    They're free to continue. But you can't not expect criticism for it on a discussion platform, or people blocking them, and it remains a fact that it's a barrier to accessibility.

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • The vision of an AI PC, where it may or may not launch the app you tell it to, where one plus one may or may not be two, where deleting a file may delete the file you see, or a random different one.

    Sounds great! /s

    Imagine the cost of cloud AI on PCs. That only works too some degree for cloud data and being even more wasteful for the rest.

    Every document you have, legal and medical, finance and personal, will all interface with the cloud. With numerous parties en route, visible and hidden, and a massive system you may or may not trust.

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • Symbolism is a very important aspect of public protest and the consequential reporting on and influence of it.

    Actually, I don’t think I get the point of this whole thing at all. They’re not rallying against climate change or fascism, it’s just “phone bad”.

    I didn't read the article in full, but it was pretty clear to me right away from the top. They're saying: We as a society should prioritize real human connection over consuming big tech platforms.

  • White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents

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  • Is it a troll attempt though? Moreso than any activity they do? They've always been boasting about their supposed achievements. Posting a highlight reel when joining a platform alone doesn't seem indicative. What else are they gonna do. Join with no introductory post? Join and be self-critical?

  • White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents

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  • Not every public opposition is about changing the message targets opinion. Calling those who are willing to invest in making opposition visible idiots…

    If you ignore toxicity in communities it festers and poisons the communities.

  • What did you treat yourself to most recently?

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  • uuuh, shiny

  • What did you treat yourself to most recently?

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  • Canceling going to a birthday party.

    Canceling going grocery shopping.

    I bought a 12€ Smartwatch recently. (Crazy what you can get for very little money.)

  • What do all you coders actually do?

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  • Right now, I'm upgrading my Nushell plugin in Rust code while not being very familiar with Rust and its mechanisms. I'm using the build errors, cargo crate (libraries) documentation, auto completions/suggestions, existing own and cate/lib source code to find the correct methods and way to do data format transformations. I managed to make it compile again, so now I'll test-run it. I "accidentally" extended what it can map as well, which is a positive side-effect.

    It depends very much on the role I'm in, and what you're asking in particular. As far as hands-on development work,

    • No, I don't copy tons of code
    • I read and/or search and/or analyze and/or remember existing code, to understand what is happening, identify bugs, or embed and write solutions that make sense within the project, reuse existing mechanisms and approaches
    • I develop and write solutions, sometimes in one iteration, sometimes through multiple iterations, when I have new findings during development or solution behavior or new questions raised
    • When it's web, it's more writing, if it's a Windows Forms app developed with Visual Studio, UI placement and layout is a UI process, but connecting it to and implementing it's logic and behavior is still a coding task
    • I love making use of efficient editor and IDE features like multi-cursor editing when they're useful
    • Overall, I think being in the UI is the smaller part of development

    Professional development in general entails much more. I work with my customer and consider their workflows, needs, I discuss and question their requirements, I design solutions both in user workflow, UI, UX as well as in code architecture and implementation. For a long-running project, improving existing code is a large part of what I do when implementing new changes. Documenting what I find out or see and is not documented yet is another big part.

    If you feel you never get it beyond absolute basics I encourage you to work on tools, utils, or projects that you use or care about. I wrote various utils for my own benefit and use, and do regular drive-by contributions to projects I find useful or interesting (mostly related to documentation or tech approachable to me).

    Don't just follow tutorials. Set a goal of something that works. Be it a clock, a calculator, a command line tool that let's you read music file metadata, or starts or stops programs for you. Or whatever you feel might be reasonable to explore and achieve, whether with or without practical use.

  • Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

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  • Tesla should be fined and forced to change when saying or responding with "despite its name self driving is not self driving". They continue to lie. With continued consequences. At the cost of others and the public.

    Them responding as such is absurd. Them getting away with that even more so.

  • A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

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  • By changing one pixel it's no longer signed by the original author. What are you trying to say?

  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • The "Use the selected profile without asking at startup" checkbox in the dialog is not there on mac?

  • Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

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  • As far as I know, while Japanese has no upper and lower case letters, the three/four alphabets Kanji, Hiragana, Katagana, and Romanji get mixed in a way one could see as similar. Denoting different kinds of words or grammatical aspects of a sentence.

  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • The screeshots shows functionality that the current profile/profile launch UI already has. Choose, create, ask on startup.

    Right now it's hidden behind a startup parameter. But honestly, I would prefer a UI between the current one and the new one. That screenshot looks like it would reduce usability through big spacing and suboptimal alignment. At least judging by my preferences.

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles?redirectslug=profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles&redirectlocale=en-US#w_start-the-profile-manager-when-firefox-is-closed

    I guess adding a picture is nice. But does it have to be that huge and prominent?