Every medical professional I’ve spoken to says they hate the A.I. scribe because it makes so many mistakes and gets confused, but they’re forced to use it by the practice manager / institution they work at.

Yes you’re right, I was being hyperbolic. We’re 90% mostly-in on cars

The only reason cars are good right now is because countries like US and AU went 100% all in on cars. Do you have any idea the astronomical cost of public roads and car infrastructure? Imagine if we invested the same amount into a really really good train and tram system. Or, alternatively, imagine if we underfunded roads the same way we do public transport.

For coding tasks I treat A.I. as a fresh intern that doesn’t really know what they’re doing but you can just ask them to do that horribly tedious task and just do a code review later. As you said, something like “rewrite this in Rust”, or “create unit tests for this function”. Then you fix all it’s mistakes. I’d never let it touch an actual algorithm or anything important though.

That makes sense. I kind of just assume everyone can find out my identity if they try hard enough. So my infosec is as if I’m speaking to a stranger on a nearby train. They could probably follow me home but I don’t give them a reason to and I don’t say anything incriminating.

Out of curiosity, what’s the purpose of multiple accounts?

I don’t see a problem with that. I don’t personally care who specifically voted for anything, but I also don’t mind if someone knows I was the one who did it

I would probably do it for 6 month’s income as a lump sum to fix that 1 thing. I wouldn’t go back on payroll that’s for sure

I kept getting shadow banned constantly. My comments ending up with 1 view no up or down votes. For completely arbitrary reasons as well. And I got completely banned from a few communities by accidentally using extremist terminology (?).

And yes I don’t doubt they removed it for a reason, it makes it a much less friendly place. Like you’re putting down and directly affecting the other person rather than just disagreeing. It’s hard to explain.

It does feel like a cult doesn’t it? Like the church of the steel God or something. Silicon valley practically performing summoning rituals on their PC’s to try and create sentience ASAP

Lemmy has this feature which is really nice… -20 points doesn’t show +20 and -40. It mentally feels a lot better to know that 20 people agreed with you even if more people disagreed

Myself and everyone I know considers Reddit to be a social media. Along with TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Lemmy. Some grey area ones are Discord and Snapchat. So if you work backwards from there, the Aus Gov definition you listed above is actually pretty reasonable.

I agree that the forums I used to ask for help in Diablo 2 don’t count as social media, and they are rightly excluded in the definition you listed. So you’re really just trying to argue that Reddit and Lemmy is a forum instead of a social media, which you’re entitled to your opinion of course, but most people will disagree with you.

Yeah exactly. I set up Zorin OS for my family who are not tech savvy at all. It was a bit different at first but they said they felt much “calmer” using Linux. Modern Windows feels like trying to read an article online or watch a YouTube video without an ad blocker.

• The sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end-users.

You can’t argue that a news site that happens to have a complementary comments section is the sole purpose of the service. It’s not comparable to Reddit and Facebook at all. Look I hate the social media ban as much as you, but that’s a completely separate issue you just mixed up in there.

Governments banning websites is a whole other kettle of fish I don’t really want to get into right now. Social media has always been a vague definition. It’s like porn, you can’t define it, but you know it when you see it.

4chan is a forum because it lacks the features that make it social media-y. There’s no upvotes. There’s no feed. It’s just a list of unstructured posts and comments. What would happen if you added upvotes, comment threads, direct messages, friends list, an algorithmic home page, to 4chan? Oh look it’s Reddit. Which is a social media.

You can’t just change the definition of words because you don’t like governments restricting them. The actual problem is governments attacking your rights, it has nothing at all to do with social media. If instead of restricting social media they restricted specifically “comment sections”, would you be arguing with me on the formal definition of a comment section?

Again I get that you hate the restrictions. I think they’re dumb too and I live in AU. But the definition of social media is not the problem here.

It seems to me

the powers that be

hope the technology

will speed up the “wee”

poverty and displacees

to but a generation or three

It’s just corporate doublespeak messing with your head. The normal person translation is:

oh fuck something might have happened. But we don’t want shareholders to panic. Uhh, so everyone, please pretend everything is fine.

Heat pumps mentioned, Technology Connections fan spotted

My favourite part is when your style or the auto formatter changes over time and you have to decide between:

• running the auto formatter on 200,000 12 year old code files
• doing them one by one
• formatting them when you have to change that file
• or ignoring all the warnings forever (it’s this one, this is what you do)

Plus it doesn’t fix the problem of auto formatters writing ugly code. You can’t easily tell the auto formatter that early returns can be bracketless for brevity, but nothing else can be. Unless you add a comment like \\ ignore-rule-2753674 which makes me want to throw up

It feels like social media to me. It has upvotes, replies, notifications, comments, a feed… If it’s not a social media then neither is Reddit, and at that point the word stops being meaningful. Look right now we’re even arguing about semantics just like any good social media

Does that make Lemmy an underground black market? 🤔