maegul

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I got the general or vague impression that this was reminiscent of their initial maps roll out.

  Are any heads gonna roll for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is Stifling Tech Adoption.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And it’s a point well made.

  To me it all comes down to the consequences of 1) wanting the work to not just be easier but literally not involve thinking, and 2) how little attention people are paying to where these tools come from: just training on the whole Internet, not some intelligent analytical task specific tooling.

  Big and obvious consequences fall out of these I think, and I’m a little frightened how little people think and talk about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is interesting! Thanks for the tip!

  Also, it’s their icon a community reference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D 🤣⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That works way too fucking well I’m in stitches!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m not talking about general conditions or labour rights, which certainly make any historical comparisons in this particular issue difficult or meaningless. But rather how an ordinary office job was managed and conceived. And the nature of work too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any one with insight on how this compares with recent or even not too recent times?

  My immediate thoughts on this are that business may have become simply more active and noisier. That is, there’s always something to tend to, whether it be an immediate demand or working towards something in the future. Basically business practice growing and accelerating without accounting for what limitations people may have. I’d also wager it’s also noisier, as in full of meaningless stuff. Communications that mostly fluff, planning that isn’t actually thought through but closer to empty ambitions, requests for help or explanation due to not trying hard enough to work out them selves.

  But then they get into a positive feedback loop. Too distracted to do anything well? Then just forward the cruft and minimally viable product down the line, or, produce an easy to make communication or plan that looks like productivity but really isn’t.

  In the end, we run into Kessler syndrome, but for time and concentration rather than space. Everyone is burnt out and so passes along some distraction to the next person and so on until no one can get anything meaningful done as that would require uninterrupted time and concentration. What’s more, people adapt to their environment. If you expect to be interrupted, then you’ll never bother to work in a way conducive to longer periods of work. Instead, to seem productive, you’ll come up with our look for small and easy pieces.

  Which gets to productivity culture. How mindful are we all of having to constantly prove our worth and productivity? If so, and given the above, how much are them inclined to do something that signals productivity rather than something that actually is productive? And much distraction is that likely to cause for others, both short term and long term? How much is that then going to encourage others to signal? Seems like Kessler syndrome again to me.

  I’d wonder if in the recent past there was more of a sense that you had your job and that was that. It was fine. Don’t fuck it up and everything will be fine. Nothing urgent to do right now, go to the doctor it will be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The interesting dynamic is that it seems like they’re making things that could lay lots of foundations for a lot of independent decentralised stuff, but people and devs need to actually pick that up and make it happen, and many users just want something that works.

  So somewhat like lemmy-world and mastodon-social, they get stuck holding a centralised service whose success is holding hostage the decentralised system/protocol they actually care about.

  For me, the thing I’ve noticed and that bothers me is that much of the focus and excitement and interest from the independent devs working in the space don’t seem too interested in the purely decentralised and fail-safe-rebuilding aspects of the system. Instead, they’re quite happy to build on top of a centralised service.

  Which is fine but ignores what to me is the greatest promise of their system: to combine centralised and decentralised components into a single network. EG, AFAICT, running ActivityPub or similar within ATProto is plausible. But the independent devs don’t seem to be on that wavelength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, it would seem the embrace from those “who should maybe know better” is based on it being the appropriate compromise to make progress in this field.

  BlueSky is not just another centralised platform. It’s open source (or mostly), based on an open protocol and an architecture that’s hybrid-decentralised. The “billionaire” security, AFAICT, is that we can rebuild it with our own data should it go to shit.

  This thread from Andre Staltz is indicative I think: bsky.app/profile/staltz.com/post/3lawesmv6ik2d

  He worked on scuttlebut/manyverse for a long while before moving on a year or so ago. Along with Paul Frazee, a core dev with bsky who’d previously done decentralisation, I think there’s a hunger to just make it work for people and not fail on idealistic grounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add to the many responses here with a simple quip on this issue (which I’m taking from one else)

  The fediverse presumes people care more about independence than socialising. For most it’s the other way around.

  IE: it’s about the socialising “stupid”.

  Even for us techy types happy with the system here … it means we get to socialise with like minded people. The independence we have here is often secondary, I’d wager, to what we all get out of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I hear you (we’re both here after all), but honestly, I think this is a bad take and approach (if getting more users is a goal.

  It’s not the 90s anymore. And even email services are given to you by your employer or selected from the closest big brand provider (Google etc).

  All of which is a far cry from “nerdygardeners.io” administered by some rando anonymous account you’ve never heard of before.

  For mainstream success, the instances thing was dead on arrival. Just was and is. Which is fine, the Fedi can be and arguably should be something else.

  IMO the success of BlueSky is good for the Fedi. It can take the “let’s be the next mainstream thing” monkey off of its back and just be itself.