A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on What could go wrong? 14 hours ago:
OK, you’re angry. I’m just going to say this: I also have mental health issues and I also don’t live in a city. Still, I just don’t see how a chatbot could help me in an emergency. Sorry.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 14 hours ago:
You’re not the only one who doesn’t live urban and who has mental health issues. I did not want to make it a contest so I did not reply to that.
But.
So.
If I imagine being in such a situation I just don’t see how a chatbot could help me. Even if it was magically available already, possibly as a phone app, and I wouldn’t have to seek it out first.
Sorry.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 1 day ago:
if you remove the very concept of capital gain from your “important point”, I think you’ll find your point to be moot.
Profit or not: How is it OK if your personal data is shared with third and fourth parties? How is it OK that AI allows for manipulating vulnerable people in new and unheard of ways?
- Comment on What could go wrong? 1 day ago:
Another sad aspect of non-socialised healthcare.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 1 day ago:
tl;dr: “Reject All” will not break the site.
Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The choice is recorded in a consent cookie
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 1 day ago:
You’re missing the most important point here; quoting:
A human therapist might not or is less likely to share any personal details about your conversations with anyone. An AI therapist will collate, collect, catalog, store and share every single personal detail about you with the company that owns the AI and share and sell all your data to the highest bidder.
Plus, an AI cannot really have your best interest at heart, plus these sorts of things open up a whole slew of very dytopian scenarios.
OK, you said “capitalism” but that’s way too broad.
Also I find the example of a “mental health emergency” (as in, right now, not tonight or tomorrow) in a remote area, presumably with nobody else around to help, a bit contrived. But OK, in such extremely rare cases - presuming broadband internet still works, and the person in question is savvy enough to use the chatbot - it might be better than nothing.
- Comment on What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling than the Truth? 2 days ago:
Agreed on all points.
Even the blurb tells us that this has been a thing since basically forever, and the arguments why it should become worse with AI are weak.
But the old fakes were time-consuming to create and required specialized expertise.
Bullshit. Every photographer knew how to take a lead pencil and make the lady’s face smoother on the negative.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 days ago:
*crickets*
I think OP is fighting windmills here. They want to keep this discussion completely theoretical, probably so they don’t have to get off their high horse, make themselves vulnerable. I doubt they’ll ever come up with anything constructive 🤷
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 days ago:
I see you are unwilling to answer that or any other question I posed. You want a completely theoretical discussion where people cannot point out to you that you aren’t flawless either.
FWIW I had a look at your posting history and I think you’re fighting windmills here.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 days ago:
The people here tend to lean in the same political or ideological direction, and they’ve become extremely sensitive to any ideas that seem to go against their worldview.
And there it is. I wonder what really triggered your post.
Even taking all that you wrote into account I still think feddit deals with this better than reddit.
Which btw is also a problem in those subs you describe. No mod can afford to be that strict.
Anyhow, be the change you want to see. I’m sure you performed your searches by now and haven’t find anything suitable, so start your own and moderate it the way you see fit!
Or at least tell us which subs you miss.
And another thing that goes for reddit as well as feddit: downvotes by themselves don’t mean that you’re being dogpiled or silenced or whatever. Controversial takes always attract - well, controversy. Deal with it, discuss you’re way through it, after all that’s what you want, no? I still say the number of reasonable people here is far larger than on reddit.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 days ago:
Making the effort to roll your own (totally possible with FOSS)
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 days ago:
There were these subs on reddit. I’d actually love some of that here as well; but otoh what you describe is the (dream of the) fediverse anyhow, and so far it really is a much nicer place to be than reddit, so the need is small.
That said, you can look up what these subs were called on reddit, then search for communities of the same name here.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 3 days ago:
🌈 Enshittification 🌈
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 3 days ago:
Sadly. An example: I work at a small school that does not have an IT department. Staff and teachers are nearly IT-illiterate, and the students can hardly be coaxed to do stuff on a laptop instead of their phones. So installing Linux would add an additional hurdle for both. Probably much smaller than they think, but still: it heightens the threshold to even consider switching to Linux.
There’s a few people who know that Linux is just as valid as Windows, but who would they trust to make the switch safely. Me? I’m not a professional. So they’d have to pay someone, properly. And then it all comes down to money again which usually comes down to “let’s not change anything”.
So for now I’d just be happy if they used LibreOffice instead of MS365.
The same goes for “Google Business Suite” or some such. Making the effort to roll your own would require to pay at least 1 person, and some sort of transitional period. It’s cheaper and easier to pay none and just blame it on Google when things don’t work as desired. These people just don’t see it as a priority. Don’t understand the dangers.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 3 days ago:
I use evolution! It has some advantages over thunderbird but afaik it’s *nix only.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 3 days ago:
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 4 days ago:
Yet I’m sure they exist.
From some random article:
Naming a daughter after a mother isn’t a modern phenomenon; in some cultures, the tradition of matrilineal naming goes back centuries. In Ireland, and several other European countries, it was commonplace to name the first daughter after the maternal grandmother, the second daughter after the paternal grandmother, and the third daughter after the mother.
The practice is also prevalent in several Spanish-speaking countries, where it’s common to carry on both parents’ last names as well.
And then there’s Iceland.
- Comment on If darker coloured materials get hotter in the sun faster, will a display with the screen on or off change how quickly it heats up? 4 days ago:
Isn’t it important if the surface is reflective or not, regardless of colour?
And something (vague and uninformed) tells me that emitting bright pictures isn’t the same as “being brightly colored”. Also that LCD/e-ink displays are significantly different here.
Good question, I will remember to come back here and see who has the best answer (none satisfy me 100% so far).
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 4 days ago:
Funny how some commenters immediately assume that you are excluding yourself from that.
Because what you say goes for so many things, it affects us all invariably. And it reaches very far into time. I mean who still knows how to make their own tools from sticks and stones.
But OP said that this is not what this video is about!
Teflon residue from the pan isn’t the problem, it’s the chemicals needed in the production process to get the Teflon onto the pan, leaching out from the factories into the environment.
- Comment on self hosted browser sync? 5 days ago:
The Arch Wiki used to have some elaborate tricks on Firefox profile syncing, and some software to support it, maybe you should check that out (but the actual software FF uses is or used to be FOSS as well).
- Comment on Good TV Shows gets cancelled prematurely, while Boring TV Shows run on for too long. 5 days ago:
I also like shows that follow a story arc that has a beginning and an end. A show that comes to a natural end. Bam, done, that was great entertainment, moving on.
Instead they try to retain viewers with dumb (and I really mean dumb) cliffhangers, never committing to actually killing a character so they can bring them back if need be etc. …
There are exceptions of course, but not many shows deliver (lasting) quality beyond two seasons.
- Comment on Klarna CEO says AI helped company shrink workforce by 40% 6 days ago:
Weird, I just read somewhere else that they re-hired real people for phone support (presumably because the AI shit didn’t work properly).
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 6 days ago:
Oh, another cult?
…anyhow - Comment on The Westminster Chime is mostly played on crappy speakers. 6 days ago:
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 week ago:
Just to clarify, you put $1800 into this and are now hoping to get $1000 out of it before turning your back on the pyramid scheme called cryptocurrency?
- Comment on Of all the vegetables beets is the most metal 1 week ago:
They are. Taste and color.
- Comment on Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job 1 week ago:
How do you prove a negative?
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 1 week ago:
Obviously let it dry first, then use fixative spray? Not that I’m an expert. Or make finding the preservation part of the artistic process. Alcohol? Lemon juice? Ashes? Lime?
- Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls) 1 week ago:
This is the important question. On my blog software It’s just one short page written in the blog’s templating language, very easy to create from scratch.
If the blog is a collection of plain HTML pages, you’ll somehow need to collect the pertinent info first (e.g. the ten newest pages, their titles, a short summary).
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
You remember the video where someone filmed the rainbows a sprinkler made in the sun, and claimed it was proof that “they” are poisoning our water?