less filling tho

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I agree that it’s awkward and it creates problems in some scenarios. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s an understandable (over) correction for some pretty heinous behaviour.

I think it’s also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone’s humanity.

At work? I think it’s preferable to limit our interactions to work related stuff.

Outside of work, I’m ambivalent. We associate physical features, names, and accents with cultures. But those don’t always line up to significant differences in someone’s personality.

In the last few decades we’ve noticed that we’ve been treating each other like shit. We’ve used race, skin colour, ethnicity, weight, etc to insult others and reduce their social standing.

We’re trying to fix that. As such, calling out those specific differences is frowned on, even if we aren’t using them negatively.

Is this inconvenient? Yes. It’s pretty easy to point out the only black/fat/disabled person in a work place. But we’re really trying to avoid any conversations that could turn into insults or attacks.

So we now have an unwritten social rule that we avoid using those identifiers when talking about individuals.

The one sticking out of the pelvis.

Computer needs practice to get program right.

Or the AI on shopping websites saying “I’d recommend this model…”

We don’t have a pronoun for “this non-human unit”. LLMs are marketed as conversational, so they need to conform to the limitations of English.

One could argue that “we” or “one” would be more appropriate, but that would sound stilted in many contexts.

I’d prefer linguistic markers to distinguish between people and machines, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

That looks neat! Thanks for posting it!

I really think removing downvotes or requiring the downvoter to explain the downvote would make communities better.

Lemmynsfw solved this by disabling downvotes. I don’t think memes were a problem there.

An alternative is strong moderation to keep off-topic comments and posts out.

Pretty much this. We have strong beliefs. Strong enough to leave a popular, functional platform for ideological reasons.

YouTube is popular because it gives creators a way to get paid. So a new service would need to offer some of that.

I always enjoy images projected onto the offenders buildings.

Generally speaking, you need to use social signals: does it seem like other people are using the software? Is it recommended by people you trust? Does the author look legit (other projects, a presence on social media, etc)?

That’s because it’s really easy to hide malware. Developers can’t read an entire codebase, and the codebase of every library required by the tool.

In the ideal scenario, permissions on your home directory are configured appropriately so an attacker can’t do too much damage. I’m not sure if that’s realistic, however.

There have been lots of stories about supply chain attacks that steal developer’s crypto wallets, which is a perfect illustration of the problem.

Edit: running everything in a VM is probably the safest way to deal with untrusted code.

Trolling is how we express love in my household.

Isn’t that where Amazon makes 1/3 of their money?

In the beginning, we were weirdos doing it for fun. It was a hobby. Now there’s a bunch of people trying to make a living from content generation. It’s a job.

you’re gonna have to break this down for me

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