Looks interesting, thanks.

OBS is absolutely the best software in the field.

Do you have the phrase “out of the frying pan and into the fire” in Europe?

Mildly approaching an actually useful AI in the stupidest way possible.

I don’t need an AI shortcut in Excel that is just a chatbot. If it could actually perform complex redundant tasks, then it would be useful.

“Copilot, please create 3 charts of the most important data and create a Powerpoint with animations to present it.”

Until it can do things like that, it’s useless to me.

Honest question: what do people actually use this for?

I’m a little skeptical about the “10 years of absolute secrecy”… It sounds a lot like “we can’t tell you how it works, just trust us bro.”

These are normal reactions that a lot of people experience. It’s not easy to put yourself out there.

I think it’s healthy to spend time finding your “tribe” and putting as much effort into that as you put into interpersonal relationships. Find something to be your third place away from home and work/school.

Clippy

Cortana

Bing

Copilot

This is a band-aid on a broken dam. Pretty worrying.

I started out with an old laptop then eventually “upgraded” to a refurbished office surplus desktop. I highly recommend starting out on a project PC as a sort of proof of concept before investing any money into it. Even hosting the family media libraries, I have never had an issue with streaming video, etc. even with pretty dated hardware.

For years I was a big fan of Roku. It represented a better value alternative from the big corporations pushing their own agenda like Google, Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. They made products that were intuitive and user oriented and carved out a very nice and stable market share for themselves because of it. Now they’re just leveraging their hardware relationships to transform the software into something terrible.

I used to look for tvs with Roku built in. Now I’ve disabled Roku features from my smart TVS and use a separate streaming device.

I accidentally replied with my Social Security number. What kind of luck will that bring?

Also maybe microdots would be more effective. Not exactly pen and paper, but still analog. Hard to crack a code you can’t find.

Maybe something akin to a book code, although machine learning may be able to crack those by that time.

I am not a cryptographer so I have no idea really.

The Navajo did pretty well in WWII

Some people will have this on their phone and be irate when a FOSS app includes a crash report tracker.

Just not engaging with foolish arguments.

Who are “the colonists?” Should we boycott Christian Palestinians who were part of the colonization of the crusades? Should we allow companies to do business with Jews in historically Jewish areas like the Old City of Jerusalem or Hebron, even though they are are on the Palestinian side of the Green Line? Do colonists include Palestinians who came to the West Bank from Jordan between 1948 and 1967? Are all Israelis colonists, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Palestinian, Druze, etc?

It seems like the comment was either a cowardly way of avoiding saying “yes, boycott the Jews,” or else it came from a place of astounding historical ignorance. Either way, it’s not worth my time to continue.

Will the reply to this be a thoughtful, informed response, or a zingy one-liner designed to dunk on an unpopular opinion?

Would you also ask airbnb to delist homes in East Jerusalem owned by Palestinian Israelis? Or is it only Jewish Israelis that should be boycotted?

If the issue is stolen land, then shouldn’t we be boycotting these platforms until they are out of non-native USA and Canada? Doesn’t that make up thousands of times more of their business?

At least in the US, protest falls under protected speech and has additional legal protections beyond ordinary speech similar to satire. IANAL but this is not a legal matter. It’s clearly an internal policy issue.

This is the problem with any social media being centralized.

BlueSky is just as centralized as Twitter or Facebook.

That’s not actually how DEI works.

DEI initiatives provide training to help people in organizations make less biased decisions and be more respectful and inclusive of people from various backgrounds.

For example, instead of hiring someone from the boss’s alma mater, they might hire someone from a HBC who is equally qualified and helps bring a different perspective. Or hire a native Spanish speaker for a bilingual position instead of someone who spent a year abroad in Barcelona.

I’m happy to show studies about why it is necessary to correct hiring biases, and how organizations benefit from the efforts.