stankmut

@stankmut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto was an annoying bubble. If you were in the tech industry, you had a couple of years where people asked you if you could add blockchain to whatever your project was and then a few more years of hearing about NFTs. And GPUs shot up in price. Crypto people promised to revolutionize banking and then get rich quick schemes. It took time for the hype to die down, for people to realize that the tech wasn’t useful, and that the costs of running it weren’t worth it.

  The AI bubble is different. The proponents are gleeful while they explain how AI will let you fire all your copywriters, your graphics designers, your programmers, your customer support, etc. Every company is trying to figure out how to shoehorn AI into their products. While AI is a useful tool, the bubble around it has hurt a lot of people.

  That’s the bubble side. It also gets a lot of baggage because of the slop generated by it, the way it’s trained, the power usage, the way people just turn off their brains and regurgitate whatever it says, etc. It’s harder to avoid than crypto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a typo for one of my employment dates while filing the background check. Caught it right after submitting it and then asked around and everybody told me that they’ll call and ask about it if they can’t figure it out from just looking back at my resume.

  Next morning they called me and said they had to close the role because of budget cuts. Two months later I got an email saying my hiring was being paused because my background check was flagged and I had 10 days from the check to dispute it. I decided to call the company and they told me that they had already hired someone else for the role.

  So yeah, getting the dates right can be important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I taught my mom to play by using a couple of starter decks, giving a short overview of the objective and what the parts of the card meant, and then played a couple of matches with our cards revealed to each other. You just need to be patient, willing to explain anything, and be generous with allowing take backs and reminding about any rules they missed. And remember that if you want someone to keep playing with you, they need to be able to have fun too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This press release is from 2023. Not sure it was posted like it was news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Allowing Google to run an ad campaign targeting their members wasn’t the benefit Blue Cross was talking about, that’s a side effect from them not turning off the data sharing option in the Google analytics settings.

  The analytics data is used for prioritizing development work. If a tool they have on the website relies on a library that isn’t compatible with a new version of React for instance, do they know how many people use it? Having analytics allows you to decide what’s worth spending the development time to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The analytics would be for the web development team to see which pages/features are used. Usually a product person uses that data for setting priorities on what gets worked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you turn the disc over, you can actually count the rings without needing to cut into it! This lets you skip having to glue the disc back together after checking the age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to do this to get the factory oil filter off my motorcycle. Went through 3 different oil filter removal tools and all I achieved was rounding off all the edges of the filter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The news feed can have ads, but the poorly designed feature itself isn’t about showing ads. It’s just showing the top item of the news feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a survey. They weren’t gathering data without consent.