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So, Iâve been mulling this over. I know Microsoft Word web version is free and I suppose thatâs their replacement, but it needs to be more accessible if thatâs the case. Like, for my very Average Mom who buys a laptop, she actually was using Wordpad for years until I got her onto my M365 family plan because it was a built in program and she knows how to navigate the Start menu and open programs.
Assuming a parallel universe where she didnât have access to desktop Word, how does she know Microsoft Word Online is available to her? Is there a shortcut on the desktop, or directly from Edge? Should there be a start menu icon which opens it up directly? Has Microsoft considered this? I would hope they have.
When these things were originally being tested, at least the Waymo ones Iâm familiar with, there was a driver who could manually override in case of issues. Honestly, if these things still have issues with emergency situations (and other unexpected situations), they absolutely still need a driver with the ability to manually override the car. That way, they can still test the self-driving function while being able to actually maneuver the car out of the way of things like this.
Apologies if I sounded flippant. The first part of the article made it sound to me like companies werenât developing this with any real urgency, hence why they had to do it themselves:
They knew that a fairly straightforward piece of software could make their lives much easier, but no companies were developing it quickly enough.
And I suppose what I meant by âbasic medical careâ is more that, at least to the extent I am aware of, the medical community is well-versed in how to manage the issue, and with the amount of people who suffer from T1 diabetes and the rapid rate of technological progression in society in general, these solutions should not only already be available but should be available to everyone, and shouldnât be as expensive to manage as it is. Near the end of the article is the comment:
A team at the University of Otago in New Zealand has run a successful early-stage clinical trial of an open-source insulin pump. The goal is to provide free-of-charge design plans to qualified manufacturers to build pumps for a fraction of the cost of current commercial ones.
I suppose it just upsets me in general that the goal of building low cost insulin pumps isnât a globally shared one across manufacturers.
Hell of a world where people have to build their own open source systems for basic medical care, but Iâm all for it. Itâll help the technologically savvy, and then for-profit med companies will race to catch up to maintain their dominance and the less tech-savvy will also have the improvements they need.
retain control
Notably, in Quarks, every user operation and information exchange that takes part on a channel is carried out via the ledgerâs so-called smart contract. In practice, this means that no-one outside of a channel should be able to send or read messages on it. In addition, all messages on the channels cannot be altered or edited, yet they can be audited, meaning that users should be able to derive information about when they were created, sent, delivered, and so on.
Ah, yes. I definitely want anyone in the world to figure out who Iâm communicating with by checking the timestamps of when various messages were delivered. Much like how the âanonymousâ Bitcoin could be pretty easily de-anonymized just by checking where various bitcoins go and inferring who those wallets likely belonged to.
How about âpositive carbon negativityâ and ânegative carbon positivityâ? As a bonus, this allows us extra terms such as ânegative carbon negativityâ and âpositive carbon positivityâ which can be similarly confused for each other!
(On a more serious note, âcarbon reducingâ and âcarbon increasingâ are good.)
Self-reply because it occurred to me⌠if I had to be illiterate and could never learn to read or write again, Iâm absolutely choosing the no legs option. My above answer is entirely predicated on the fact that Iâm very good at picking up other languages and other alphabet systems, and therefore could re-learn fairly quickly⌠but if thatâs not an option then Iâm going legless and saving money on dress pants. Shorts for life đŠł
I cannot discuss on the basis that I gave up my literacy for legs. 𦵠đŚľ
Seriously though⌠I think I would rather be illiterate. I could learn how to read, and in the meantime there are assistive screen reader apps and apps that let you scan something to read it aloud.
While there are bionic legs and I would love the chance to have tall robot legs đŚżđŚż, I havenât done enough research on the long term effects of walking around with two fully bionic legs, or how much leftover leg is required to attach a bionic leg, etc.
Depending on whether itâs a hardcover or paperback, new books can retail anywhere from $15 to $25 generally (pre-tax). I might say $25 is a good amount for a gift card because it will generally buy one expensive book or partially cover two less expensive ones.
I totally agree with what your family member said about gift cards - if I get money, I just hoard it, but if itâs a gift card itâs not ârealâ so I can spend it with better peace of mind. Thatâs exactly how gift cards get you. đ
People need to feel some sort of pride in their lives. Traditionally this has been pride in their accomplishments or their contributions to the community or to society.
But in todayâs hyper capitalist society, what is there to be proud of? Most jobs are a single redundant cog in the wheel and oneâs absence either wouldnât be noticed or quickly backfilled. And we spend the weekends doing the chores we couldnât get done during the week, or just existing and recovering, so we donât have the time previous generations had to contribute as a member of society, go to our clubs or church gatherings and bring a potluck meal or whatever.
So in an absence of pride based on accomplishments, people sometimes turn to pride based on identity - thereâs no criteria to meet, you were simply born and you can be proud of that. And that can be twisted and mutated into a feeling of superiority over people who arenât the same identity as you.
A widely shared type of video, created by Africa-based Chinese social media influencers, portrays Africans as impoverished and dependent, while Chinese people â often the content creators themselves â are shown as wealthy saviors who provide them with jobs, housing, food, and money.
Another common type of racist content reviewed denigrates interracial relationships. Black people married to Chinese people are accused of âcontaminatingâ and threatening the Chinese race. Perceived relationships between Black men and Chinese women are particularly vilified.
This isnât just China, it crops up everywhere in different forms, and itâs distressing on all fronts because it speaks to a failure to address a critical need of society - the ability for people to meaningfully contribute and feel accomplished.
I think some of this is the safety aspect, like gay men can joke around with women or exist in her personal space because women wonât see that guy as a predator or think âbut what if he is actually objectifying me or will turn on me in the future for not reciprocating like he wants?â
I find these sort of behaviors uncomfortable, on a personal level. Like, I donât want to call any woman a slur, even jokingly. But different people have different thresholds.
However, as a gay trans man (and smaller than most women), I have noticed that some women are much more comfortable interacting with me than they are with other men. Iâm not seen as any sort of threat or concern. I think thatâs the important part, threat assessment (sounds crazy if you havenât lived in that world, but women are constantly performing threat assessment as they go about their day - what an awful thing for half of the population to have to just live with).
The most important aspect of any relationship, and this includes friendship, is consent. Like, if a woman and a gay man have a sort of relationship where they have mutually agreed this sort of stuff is ok, more power to them. But there canât be assumptions made on this, like a gay man canât think âitâs fine for me to call women slurs jokingly, after all Iâm gayâ because not all women will be ok with that, and vice versa. Each person is an individual, thereâs no group monolith that makes certain behaviors universally okay.
Someone else in the thread linked this article which has just come out as well and seems to be a summary of an ex-employeeâs accusations of terrible working conditions on Twitter. (I canât see the Twitter thread because of no account so I canât link to a primary source, sorry.)
The company my workplace partners with for our IT Helpbot has given a lot of insight into how their LLM system works, and the big thing about it is the langchain and the checks and balances.
Like, you ask âhow fix printer errorâ and instead of hallucinating a response, it first queries our help articles for the correct information and finds the correct snippet to include, along with a link to the source. It also checks whether the user has access to that source material, and if not then it wonât return it but it will proactively tell the user that and ask whether the user wants to open a help request for access to that info. (We havenât implemented a lot of this stuff in our own workplace because it requires so many coordinating integrations - this is a best case scenario.)
Then, before sending, a second AI comes in and double-checks whether the response is going to be truthful and factual and non-toxic, or else the response has to be regenerated.
This stuff is incredibly powerful but itâs not as simple as âtrain an LLM and release it on the worldâ - you need to really think through it as one tool in your toolbox, and how it will interact with those other tools. The only people itâs good at replacing, at least in itâs current state, is L1 Help Desk who only read and respond from SOPs. Otherwise, Copilots can be a good way to assist in coding for example (ChatGPT has given me great insight into my PHP errors for example) but it certainly canât do the actual work for you.
I wouldnât say the hype is dangerous or overblown, because this stuff can be absolutely transformative if applied correctly, but executives see dollar signs and think they can replace real thinking humans and then they suffer the consequences, because they didnât understand the very initiative they directed.
Actual attempt at an answer!
ActivityPub has actors and activities. These are very broadly defined - yes, a user is an actor, but so is a magazine in kbin. A like, a thread, and a microblog are all activities. These come from an actor, and they are sent to and ccâd to other actors in the fediverse.
NNTP, however, is not actor to actor, itâs server to server, to my understanding.
In practice, the way this is implemented here, itâs not that much of a practical difference, but itâs interesting to know.
The other difference is that NNTP servers would forward messages to their other known NNTP servers, essentially creating a distributed network of information. Per the ActivityPub protocol however, no instance is obligated to do that on ActivityPub. The only obligation for forwarding is if a) The values of to, cc, and/or audience contain a Collection owned by the server (e.g. followers is a Collection) AND The values of inReplyTo, object, target and/or tag are objects owned by the server. So basically if I receive something from lemmy.world user actor, to lemmy.world community actor⌠Even if kbin.social hasnât received it and errored out, I have no obligation as the.coolest.zone to send it out to them.
I learned that a jackdaw is not, in fact, a crow.
But more seriously⌠While Iâm struggling to come up with concrete examples right now, I learned a lot of trivia, read some really interesting anecdotes, and broaded some of my knowledge via Reddit. For all of Redditâs many (many) faults, the people who were willing to take the time to converse and share knowledge were never the problem. They were the reason I stuck around for so long.
Two lost media from my childhood.
the lost âSaban Moonâ pilot. Something talked about on Geocities pages back in my preteen years which was almost guaranteed never to be recovered, until someone dropped it on YouTube last year.
Pokemon Live. I desperately wanted to go to this, it was even playing in the next city over, and my parents said no, weâd buy the VHS advertised on the Pokemon website whenever it came out⌠Guess what never came out? I spent years scouring old websites for script fragments, saving screenshots and camcorder bootlegs, audio recordings⌠I would wager that, until six years ago, I had the most complete version of Pokemon Live out of anybody on the internet. And then someone dropped the full version, one of those saved for posterity full stage recordings, onto YouTube.
Both of these are abysmal, but itâs not really about the destination so much as it is about the proof of having taken the journey.