Mastodon, in my experience, is unequivocally left-leaning. People that use mastodon (/the Fediverse) want more people to use it, to help free us from centralised tech overlords. But, apparently, there now needs to be some gatekeeping because people are seeing things they don’t like? The irony.
This somehow passed me by… apparently Israel’s own records show that at least two-thirds of them (46,200) were civilians. Absolutely lunacy.
Always found it weird that your Steam wishlist appears under the Store menu rather than {username} menu. It’s MY wishlist after all. I guess this is one of those things that gets A|B tested and I was on the losing side #ux
This happened to someone I know who worked a charity. Reckon it’s rife in the public sector. Senior leaders protecting themselves rather than the organisation.
I’ve been using an LLM for support while I set-up a new Linux environment. It gives me a sounding board and, I hope, some idea of good/best practice.
It also gives me commands, with most of which I am already familiar, so I am happy to copy/paste… BUT, even in a single conversation, I can see it deviating for it’s own suggestions, or making subtle tweaks to commands it already advised me to run and not always explaining why.
It’s clearly not building a holistic “mental” picture of what we’re trying to achieve. It keeps assuring me it is, but it is evidently not actually able to do that. Maybe this is demonstrated by the way it often regenerates ALL the advice it has previously given when asked for clarification on an apparent caveat. This is when the unexplained tilts can creep in.
Knowing a little of how an LLM works, I think I can understand exactly why that is.
With all that in mind, I can completely understand how it can’t reliably develop an actual code base!
It is pretty great at tedious shit like combining and transforming two simple JSON datasets, though!
“extremes are pushed, nuance is out and polarisation is in”
Ain’t that a fact? What makes it worse is that this is both sides of the political spectrum. On one side we have people refusing to use simple trans pronouns. On the other, we have people saying we should always use preferred pronouns (of any nature), which is equally ridiculous.
It did not pick up. It continued to be mostly ordinary and more than a bit daft.
I made a *monkey user script that simply hides the #related sidebar on YouTube. I use YouTube for ambient noise (like this video) to help my concentration but (ironically), I often get distracted by the sidebar content when I go to switch it on #adhd
I had a similar thing from Dominos. They sent me an email that explicitly described itself as a “service message” from survey@feedback.dominosmarketing.co.uk
So, I emailed their DPO and they, obviously, just waved it away. How is anything that directly encourages me to engage with a business for the business’s benefit not direct marketing? 🤷
Where does your customer feedback function sit? Under marketing. So, gathering customer feedback is a marketing activity? No.
Is there maybe space for another ballroom? Or some other sort of redecorating project? Can’t be THAT hard to find something to distract him.