I’m fortunate to have an effective scrum master. She knows the products will enough to properly interface with our different stage holders. The amount of shit that doesn’t make it to us because she’s essentially our firewall to the customers, is astounding.

That said, there are plenty of other business decisions being made that are rapidly leading to a team wide brain drain. The top brass is so out of touch with reality, and they make major decisions on that ignorance without consulting anyone that knows anything. It’s also turned into a boys club at the top, so there’s no individual accountability, just yes men.

I think we’re just on different wavelengths. Anecdotally, it appears to me in most communities that I look in, people don’t want mass expansion. A lot of us like the smaller community where we recognize different regular users. More people means more drama and more shit. If the platform never expanded from where it is right now, I’d be satisfied as well as I think many others would be.

More diverse instances and sub Lemmy’s would be nice for more niche topics, but I don’t want to scroll through posts with thousands of comments.

But again, different strokes for different folks. It’s not what I’m looking for, but there certainly are people such as yourself that do.

Your right, but I can imagine what it would be like, and that’s something.

Most people here don’t want reddit size. We like discussion, and 10s of thousands of comments and bots. If it gets larger overtime and scales horizontally to keep the communities a reasonable size, that’s great. We’re here because it’s not Reddit, not because we want it to be reddit.

They don’t want every website to do it though.

You asked if it is, and the response was “yes”.

I know a guy that has 4 kids with 3 women. That would be a 3:1 ratio and that’s the type of situation that I interpreted this as. I didn’t think of it as the man had 4 kids and that was amortized across 3 women, just true or false on having children.

Sure, for basic projects if you don’t value security or efficiency.

That’s definitely a choice you can make, but if I see AI at all, I immediately move on from the article or at the very least treat it as nothing of value. Other than the ethical implications of using AI, seeing it tells me the author couldn’t be bothered to care about their article, and so neither will I.

Just some outside perspective and feedback from just one person.

Read the room.

It’s not about your system. It’s about every system connecting to the Internet. It’s not local age verification, it’s widespread monitoring by the government.

I’m curious how this works in action. If you use a VPN provider that doesn’t do logging, and inherently you’re traffic is encrypted via that VPN, what are they spying on? That’s kind of the whole purpose of running a VPN in the first place.

If they happen to somehow see the unencrypted traffic, I hope they enjoy sifting through ass loads of torrent data. Good luck, shit bags.

It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

There’s a difference between discussing something and speaking as an authority on a topic. I have a coworker who parrots the saying, “seek to understand before seeking to be understood”. Nobody understands everything about anything. Having conversations and learning from them are part of gaining knowledge.

AI is the most rushed to market product I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It makes Cyberpunk’s release like like a polished gem in comparison. Yes, things evolve over their life cycle for better or worse, but none of this other things have been so ingrained in everything, cost even a fraction of LLMs, both monetarily and environmentally, it sucked as hard.

AI is a different monster. A shitty shitty monster.

I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

So by “windows supports backwards compatibility” you mean you have to bypass Windows in order to use it? That’s a hack, not compatibility.

You can think piracy is a positive, but the fact that you have to do that in order to use the OS isn’t a win.

Anti cheat is malware. It has broken Windows installs. I’m not in the habit of installing malware on my computer intentionally. Just the ability to do so is a net negative to Windows.

Do you think Linux doesn’t have forums, videos, and is also scraped by LLMs like Gemini?

Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros are very simple to use for average users and it just works with a load of pre installed, open source apps out of the box. No need to buy private software or go out, find, and download alternatives. It’s easier to install than Windows, and it doesn’t make you bypass the OOBE in order to create a local account. Only power users would know the steps in order to do so and they are also the ones knowing the implications of using a live account. Windows by default stores you private bitlocker key in Azure and has given that over to the government to bypass you private data. That’s not a thing with Linux.

Linux doesn’t have rewind malware either.

People that can’t tell when an obviously fake show is fake are idiots. Who changes their views on life from watching HIMYM? Yea, Barney is a misogynistic turd, but he often gets what’s coming to him and has many redemption arcs throughout the series. The whole point of the show is a man who found love, while also showing tight relationships, both friendship and love, throughout. There’s regret , sadness, and happiness. Anyone that cherry picks and is influenced the bad stuff are people already like.

Every not childrens story whether in books or visual media has an antagonist. Siding with them is telling of the person who does so.

They do exist but they’re not as easily accessible. I remember reading through the dated information of encyclopedias doing projects in school. Information on the Internet is readily available and updated in a timely manner as new information is gathered.

There are also plenty of books and other education resources that are full of bad information. There are many things taught in schools that aren’t true.

The source of information is the problem, not the medium it lives on.

It’s one medium that can lead people to misinformation, but the pros far outweigh the cons. Education, sharing of vital information in real time, communication, and connections before unavailable with friends and relatives exist because of the Internet. It’s rapidly being policies down a dark rabbit hole of shit policies. Blaming bad journalism and bad actors on the Internet is like blaming the roads when someone is killed by a drunk driver.