That it to their point, yes. Cash is the only ‘validation’ at work here

Ps - it’s better if they don’t have your real info so it won’t affect your real credit ;)

You’re right and more than fair about it. Thanks for a mature response. I definitely get games catering to their communities and those communities, for the past decade or so, have been on Discord in droves… So it only makes sense. It just makes the world a little bit more painful for the people who don’t want to use Discord. And I definitely also get that alternatives (Matrix, a dedicated wiki or web documentation, etc) might take more work for a dev to set up… I guess I just miss when the web felt more open and usable.

I am a big fan of that flag.

The thing is, some of us really care about ethics outside the scope of just what happens with the source. Is documentation and knowledge not just as important? Should our community not care about privacy? What do you think the “F” in “FOSS” is all about?

Judaism and American Jews have deep sympathies to Israel, and this manifests in material structures in the United States (synagogues, community orgs, PACs, etc)

This is exactly why he got in trouble, because he couldn’t just put the word “most” or “many” in there, and tried to paint all Jewish folks as genocide-supporters, and then doubled down, didn’t seem to understand how the study he cited could be flawed (sure, let anyone self-identify as Jewish and answer hot-button questions in a country where the Christian majority actually are the ones who are insanely Zionist)

Nobody seems content with critically thinking - “who would someone behave in this manner?” is a question you should ask yourself, and “they want to slander Jewish people” is in the range of possible answers. I’m glad to hear that this behavior isn’t typical of the user in question. The mods probably should have warned and muted them on that particular instance, and maybe educated them about refraining from believing and spreading this type of rhetoric on Lemmy. Maybe they wouldn’t be on a reactionary streak and doubling down on their positions if they’d been given a chance to save face…

I’m curious whether there’s a better way to quantify intelligence for studies like this (where you need to be able to quantify it to be able to spot correlations and patterns in the data…)

Like, all my life, I’ve only heard of IQ being a quantification of intelligence, and that the methods to estimate it are all flawed and based on racialist assumptions. Is there anyone in our modern scientific landscape that’s coming up with a replacement for IQ? It’s probably overdue…

I am interested in your suggestion that the community downvote this to the bottom of the thread. My instance, on principle, does not do downvotes (there is no downvote button in the Beehaw web interface), so we don’t really have that option.

It feels a bit too reddit-like to have open trolls commenting in our communities, but constantly being downvoted to the bottom of threads. Idk if I like it as a community self-moderation tactic - especially when communities are flinging accusations at each other and people take to simply downvoting things because they disagree, and not on any kind of policies or principles…

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I was offered a job doing QA as a “Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert”, from my University’s alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes… It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position… poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits… maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that’s incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That’s what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

I know this is logically true and I’d probably immediately hear the difference with flacs (and I do have a few of one of my favorite artists, but they’re the exception) but I’ve been listening to a library full of YouTube Rips for so long that I’m scared I’d never be able to go back if I started listening to all of my music in flac… and then I’d need Navidrome instead of being able to syncthing-sync a ~5Gb folder of about 3,000 youtube rips onto every device i listen to music on 😬

It was hard enough migrating from Streaming back to an actual audio library. I still come across songs where my conversion script grabbed the wrong YouTube video for a song, so I have the live version or a cover/remix that’s just tagged like the actual album version. Maybe beets could help find those? But I still shudder to think of using beets. It’s going to be time consuming and probably very frustrating, based on my only other attempt at using it (granted, I didn’t spend too much time on it before throwing up my hands and giving up before)

You’re way too comfortable using the slurs you used, and this whole exercise waw just unnecessary mocking of people who genuinely just want better lives, simply for being associated with a shitty culture that they’re trying to escape from. You’re openly enjoying a power fantasy of denigrating people trying to escape from fascism and smugly asserting yourself as superior, and your whole thought exercise bullshit is just a thin veil for your superiority complex. None of this helped me think about our circumstances in a fresh or enlightening way, and instead I’m just agitated that this is how you choose to communicate, and you expect to be heard and understood?

Hey, honestly, thanks for being mature and real about this. I 100% am going to be migrating away from systemd after seeing how quickly this happened at the project and yhat Microsoft can basically decide they want code added to it; but I’m not gonna drag this random junior dev… I’m gonna choose to direct my hate at Microsoft instead. If they orchestrated these changes, that is the story here. When did that corporation get its fingers into the cookie jar, and how do I now make sure my entire software stack is free from projects where Microsoft can have this level of influence? That’s the tactical picture that matters.

They actually run a surprising amount of local software aside from the web browser. They come with the Play Store installed and run Android Apps natively. They’re basically what Android would be if it was made for 2-in-1 laptops.

Not to mention the Linux support. They are legit computers once you enable the Linux environment. I got by on that for a couple of years for my main computer… not what I’d recommend now, given Google being evil and all, but it’s doable.

Anyways, Apple is now offering a budget laptop that kicks the ass of any Chromebook at that price point, and thinkpads with good specs can always be had, so there’s no real need to get a Chromebook these days. Unless your kids’ school requires it…

It depends. Is there a voicemail box I can wait for? Around 5-6 rings, I start hoping to hear that so I can hang up and try again (or in rare cases, I might leave an actual voicemail - i know ao many people who don’t check theirs though…)

If there is none, and I really wanna get through to someone, then I’ll let their phone ring off the hook, especially at work where our users have landlines at their desk. Hey, if you put a phone number on a ticket and then come back and have your boss contact my boss to escalate the ticket, then you better answer your phone when I have follow-up questions about your poorly-written ticket. After ~10 rings, I’ll put my phone on speaker and turn the volume down as I turn back to my computer and resume working, the ring barely audible in the background…

Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It’s such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It’s a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

I had to make a newsletter for work for a while, and the template I was given was in Publisher. It was a little bit of a pain sometimes but actually fun to use once you figured out its quirks. And it had some quirks- like, you know how you move an image 1mm in Word sometimes and the entire document gets lanky? Well, Publisher is like if they kinda fixed that but the regular word processing was actually the janky part. It’s a Microsoft office product through and through, and you can definitely tell.

No real annoyances on either the desktop site or the mobile website tbh. I don’t even need a client for my phone because the mobile site is that good - which I wish I could say the same about for other social media apps/websites who’ve intentionally kneecapped their mobile web UI to force users onto their app. Glad Lemmy is fully accessible and usable in a smartphone’s web browser, I hope it stays that way.

I mean, I pretty regularly have to debunk the idea that Hitler was a leftist. My dad firmly believes it, because “he was anti-gun and hated freedom, and called himself a national Socialist!”

I’ve explained, until I’m blue in the face, that restricting freedom is right-wing, yes even restricting gun rights can be right-wing, and that Hitler deliberately chose the name “National Socialist” to fool leftists into coming ti meetings - like he straight up admits that in Mein Kampf.
My dad is not somebody who ever learns new information or changes his mind easily, though, so I’ll probably never successfully convince him that nazism was a right wing movement and not even slightly leftist.