we truly had no clue what we were doing in those early days. no clue how much stuff might spread from surface contact, no clue what kind of masks would work the best. it was wild.

First of all, I found this community! Brand new to Beehaw, fediverse, everything. Very exciting, very new, very unsure about how everything works but doing my best.

Welcome! We’re happy to have you here! If you know reddit, beehaw is just like our own mini-reddit with mods that are really good at nuking trolls the second they pop their faces up. Lemmy as a whole is like a bunch of other mini-reddits that can communicate with each other. You can go to other Lemmy servers (if they aren’t blocked by beehaw admin) and participate in their communities using your beehaw account.

If you want to be a good community member, just comment on stuff that you see in the community! I can’t speak for others, but when I post links, the one thing i want more than anything is comments, regardless of what you say. We’re all just here to be kind and spark up fun and interesting conversations! If you get in a comment convo with a stranger and they start saying stuff that seems mean (even just a simply “fuck you”), all you gotta do is report it and that loser will be blocked within a day, but usually way sooner.

I also got told that I was successful at a job interview which I’m really happy about. Now it’s just the awful part of waiting for all the official documentation - I hope it happens soon so that my brain stops playing tricks on me about it.

Congrats! Job interviews are so hard for so many people. You’ve passed the hardest part!! Wishing you luck on the rest

Downwards spiral into anxious decompensation. Again. Now slowly climbing out of the hole. It’s so fucking painful, but it gets better.

Sorry to hear it, bud Anxiety is a motherfucker, even with medication it regularly wipes me out. Wishing you the best!!!

to me, the “insane” part is the priest no-scope headshotting the baby from 8 feet away, not the social distancing implications. idk, the picture just makes me laugh hahaha

Ironic that the devs of these patches seem to have more airtight security on their discord servers than major car manufacturers have on their $20k+ products.

that’s cool of you to give it even that brief review! At the end of the day, we 100% agree - Wikipedia is best for surface-level research. But that is what I love it for! Because of Wikipedia, we can all be surface-level experts on almost any topic in minutes. One of the few treasures of living in the 21st century.

Can you give an example of an article with an error that you tried to correct? Not trying to cast doubt on your statements, genuinely just curious what kind of roadblocks you hit. I’m no Wikipedia expert, but I have started to dip my toe into editing in recent months.

I do appreciate the direct link to exactly what Wales said, and the full conversation with his replies and such. It’s definitely a bit heady - Wales points out that editors are overstretched and he gives an example where he used ChatGPT to give helpful feedback to a new contributor. Then, a bunch of editors file in and point out parts of the GPT response that are inaccurate and go against Wikipedia policy. They also point out how LLMs themselves are already making life hell for editors.

If the site is being flooded by LLM submissions, and then Wikipedia starts using LLMs to provide feedback on rejected articles, when does a human step in to clear out the hallucinations? If I was submitting an article, and then I got bot feedback and edited my article with that feedback, and then a human looked at it and told me half the stuff the bot told me was wrong, I would be rightly pissed. If I was a new contributor dipping my toe into the scene for fun, that might just turn me off from Wiki editing forever.

And all of this is without considering the environmental impact of adding yet another major website to the data center load of existing LLMs. But it is clear that there are problems with this idea, even if the environmental costs are a nonfactor.

How many of y’all actually use Usenet? I was on the brink before getting into a few PTs.

Anyone who played Hollow Knight and knows Team Cherry does not need to read this article (but you might still have some fun reading some of the details!). The answer is exactly what you think it is - they are a small team and they made a new game as big as or bigger than the original Hollow Knight. There was never a dev hell moment. They just bit off a lot and never stopped chewing.

Eloquently put 👌

YESSSS I have been saying this for years! I had no clue there was an actual budding philosophical/political movement around this idea. Let’s do democracy the way the Athenians originally imagined, by lottery. I need to read this book, because all of the potential issues are obvious and I am very curious how Guerrero addresses them.

I haven’t personally thought through all the possibilities, but generally my feeling is that this would be a reliable way to keep self-interested people out of politics. Combine election by lottery with a professional government workforce staffed with subject matter experts (the sort of thing that DOGE recently gutted out of the US federal government), and you have a government that is both capable and led by the people that it is intended to serve. Even if you think like “oh that’s terrible, how do we keep psychopaths from getting into office?”, you have to consider that even if one is installed, their term is temporary and they are only one voice among many (Also - have you seen the kinds of leaders we get with actual general elections?). My feeling is that maybe there should be some disqualifying conditions to keep out obviously unqualified people (similar to jury selection), but then I start to think about how that disenfranchises certain people. Like maybe you say people can’t serve if they have untreated schizophrenia or some other relatively debilitating mental illness. But at the same time, schizophrenics deserve a voice in the government too, so how do you balance that against the fact that the individual is literally unable to do the work of governing on most days?

This is why I really gotta read this book.

I don’t think that I agree that they are fun, but I can’t imagine just dumping it all on my partner. It’s like you said, you’re supposed to love your partner and want only the best for them. If you fake incompetence to get out of doing your fair share of chores, it’s like…do you even truly love your partner? Because this is not what you should do to people you love.

uhhh…i already posted a direct link to an article about this 3 hours ago?

hopefully this means the boycott is actually working?

maybe they set the AI to the number of meetings that actually should be happening, but they forgot that the whole of games media is now like 8 people? Very much like a project manager to forget that the CEO just completed a massive downsizing effort.

I’m sorry your living conditions are so harsh, man. You make a strong case for why we need a strong social safety net - you made a couple unwise decisions (something that we all do from time to time), and now that means you don’t get to have a stable home or guaranteed food on the table for a decade or more? That’s so completely fucked. No human should have to live like that, homes and food should be guaranteed full stop. I hate it here.

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The German high court now suggests that if ad blockers manipulate a site’s structure in ways that violate copyright integrity, they could be deemed illegal.

Now, I’m no legal expert, particularly not in the workings of German copyright law. But an ad blocker does not “manipulate a site’s structure”, so copyright seems like very shakey grounds for a legal argument. All adblockers do is block connections to specific domains, and then what you see is what the website’s server spits out without downloading info from those outside domains. AFAIK there is no adblocker that is editing a website’s actual code, but maybe some of the advanced YT adblockers are doing that, idk.

The week is okay! My friend’s elderly cat passed away last week after a months-long health struggle, and that’s been eating up a lot of our emotional space. That cat quite literally saved my friend’s life (from a suicide attempt), so we all hold a lot of love and gratitude for this sweet little lady that we lost. Yesterday evening our friend group had a little tea party in her honor and poured her ashes into a little sugar jar that my friend found while thrifting over the weekend. It’s a hard time, but I feel closer to my friend than ever, and coming together as a group to support one specific friend always gives me a sense of community that fills up my own cup.

Rest well, Dodie