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publicvoit, to UX
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To all the people designing user interfaces: if you have a select dialog of some sort that only has one option to choose from: think of replacing that useless dialog with a five second notification popup for information.

yacc143,
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@publicvoit Which is great if the user happens to be distracted for the 5 seconds.

Or for whatever reason does not manage to read the text in 5 seconds. (Think: how cool cut off texts are where you need to use UI tricks to enlarge the window somehow to get the complete text, or scroll it somehow. Or puzzle out the meaning. Two common reasons: Translations to more verbose languages, and yes, older users who have used UI preferences to scale up text fonts.)

yacc143,
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@publicvoit Now if the notice is without relevance, the notice might be nicer because you might avoid the popular "popup too big for phone screen to dismiss" game I play on my mobile, which can be annoying.

If it contains critical important information, OTOH it can be rather irritating.

lauren, to random
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Thought Experiment: Could MAGA keep the technological infrastructure of the USA (including the Internet), going by itself?

yacc143,
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@qurlyjoe @lauren
No not really.

You are assuming the "techbros" are all Tech Geniuses. Or at least Business Geniuses.

In reality, most of them are just mediocre people who happened to be at the right moment in the right place. And even a bigger part of them has just inherited their fortunes.

dangillmor, to random
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Boeing is too big, and too vital to US interests, to be allowed to fail. But it's also pretty clear that the rot inside the company goes deep and wide. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/boeing-door-plug-probe-stalled-by-missing-records-overwritten-security-footage/

Update for clarity: I am totally behind the idea of letting this rogue company go bankrupt, and then nationalizing it -- and then firing -- and prosecuting -- senior management.

yacc143,
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@tcely @dangillmor
Now if Boeing was just a commercial plane maker.

Then this would be still a problematic idea.

But they also happen to be one of the bigger US defence contractors.

AnnaAnthro, to uk
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    yacc143,
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    @AnnaAnthro
    That's what you get when you go commercial with running a university.

    Of course the commercial interests of the sales department are more important than irrelevant academic traditions.

    And if a significant part of their customers want “honesty” about the greatness of the People's Republic of China and its spectacular successful humanitarian model, then it's not too much of an ask that you take that into an account when writing your so-called papers, right?

    Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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    His parents don't understand why he (and his three year old sister) say that chocolate milk is so much better at my house.

    "Mommy you don't do it right! Aunt Teri's chocolate milk is better!"

    Certainly. I let them sit on the counter and help. There is something for everyone:

    Buttons for the two year to push.
    An activity for his sister to be in charge of.

    Plus I let them eat it with the measuring spoon and make a big mess

    yacc143,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Not a fair comparison.

    For you, they are "borrowed" kids.

    My parents-in-law literally kept the favourite sweets of our daughter always at home. You know, nothing is as much fun as returning a kid on a sugar high.

    And my father, the traitor, I mean he's an MD, so he should be able to feed a grand kid healthy. He introduced her to eating Nutella with a long cocktail spoon directly out of the glass. It's unhealthy as a breakfast spread, but in concentrated massed form???

    Rasta, to journalism
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    MEMO TO THE MEDIA:

    Give the people the full picture

    via @rbreich

    yacc143,
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    @Rasta @rbreich
    Why should they? Practically all US media is corporate owned, right, as it should be, and how is it in their owners interest for them to distribute anti-corporate messages even if they happen to be facts. The peons prefer entertainment anyway, not news.

    There is a reason why private owned media and the right hate our European style public, independent media. If done correctly, that provides a basic of relatively bias free, trustable news to large parts of the population.

    GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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    1/… As expected

    And it was UNANIMOUS

    Supreme Court rules Trump cannot be kicked off Colorado ballot https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-kicked-colorado-ballot-rcna132291

    yacc143,
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    @GottaLaff @atrupar
    How?

    The GOP state level politicians make sure that they can make sure that only the right votes get counted this time.

    Last time, the GOP was not ready at the state level. This time they will be.

    They literally will suppress votes before the voters can vote, and they'll do it if necessary after the fact with full ballot boxes.

    yacc143,
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    @GottaLaff No, it means you need to continue to fight in all venues. In court before, at the ballot box, and naturally watching like a hawk for any funny moves during and after the election.

    mattwilcox, (edited ) to random
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    Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

    As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

    It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.

    yacc143,
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    @mattwilcox Self driving cars would be nice. They are just a bit more complicated than they were sold to us (especially from certain boy geniuses)

    Public transport, OTOH, works. To be precise, it works, where it works. It kind of stops to work in sparsely populated areas. Kind of, the issue is the spread, not the low numbers, modern electrical trains beat cars in energy use even if only one or two passengers are on board.

    Signs, to random
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    Because of my recent return to wage slavery I am reminded what a horrifically bad email client Outlook is.

    yacc143,
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    @allpurposemat @Signs
    SMTP + IMAP surely you mean.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Maybe, just maybe, Boeing’s Starliner will finally fly astronauts this spring

    The first launch of astronauts on Boeing's Starliner capsule is targeted for April 22.

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/maybe-just-maybe-boeings-starliner-will-finally-fly-astronauts-this-spring/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    yacc143,
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    @arstechnica Do the astronauts check the bolts themselves?

    rodhilton, to random
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    There was a time when people thought this guy was going to take us to Mars and it turns out he literally can't even install Windows.

    yacc143,
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    @rodhilton
    The problem is, he buys tech companies.

    But he sells the story that he is a tech genius somehow when he is just a mediocre business guy who was lucky to be at the right place at the right time.

    His fans like to point out "richest man", but somehow they ignore the special distinction "human who lost the most money ever".

    @martincrownover @rayray @bamboombibbitybop

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Far-right Texas, Florida extremists want to impose their noxious speech on platforms and citizens. This is a critical case for freedom of expression, which inclues freedom to moderate:
    Supreme Court to decide if states can control fate of social media https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/25/supreme-court-social-media-free-speech/

    yacc143,
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    @jeffjarvis Careful, or lefty states will moderate Truth Social for them.

    rooster, to random
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    yacc143,
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    @WiseMagic @rooster No, actually they are not, that's the one weakness of this brilliant joke.

    Eggs in mass production do not get fertilized. End of story.

    Now eggs from a small organic farm, sometimes can be so, 🤷

    StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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    “ 'Two of your former colleagues not at the same network personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,' Biden told Katie Couric. 'He embraces political violence,' Biden said of Trump 'No president since the Civil War has done that. Embrace it. Encourages it.' ”

    The American corporate press is full of MORONS who clearly know NOTHING ABOUT HISTORY. Keep it up and you'll see what happens.🙄

    https://www.salon.com/2024/02/24/joe-biden-gives-the-media-a-desperately-needed-lesson-about-donald/

    yacc143,
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    @StillIRise1963
    Well, don't overdramatize.

    It's trivial to avoid.

    Just write nice things about the greatest leader in human history, Donald Trump (but be careful not to irritate his boss, the greatest ever leader of humanity, Vladimir Putin, Russian punishment poisonings are painful), problem solved.

    It's not as if US journalists produce that much “news” anyway, it's more “entertainment” stuff.

    selzero, to random
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    It's Friday night, no school tomorrow so your parents don't care what time you sleep. They are not home and Pizza delivery just arrived. You filled your fridge with Dr Pepper, have Ghostbusters on VHS, and Earthbound on SNES.

    It doesn't matter that you are 46 years old and it's 2024, what is stopping you living this feeling...

    yacc143,
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    @selzero
    A working device to play VHS tapes?

    A working SNES? (well there are emulators)

    Do you know how much pain it is to connect SCART cables to digital only TVs?

    selzero, to random
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    We colonialised half the world over centuries for spices, and this is what we eat.

    yacc143,
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    @fzer0 @selzero
    And technically has stolen a surprising amount of its classical cuisine during the Imperial days.

    Sure we can discuss this in detail over a classical English Curry?

    ThermiteBeGiants, to random
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    Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:

    yacc143,
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    @thefathippy @ThermiteBeGiants
    No reasonable living in a metropolitan area.

    Cars are not really reasonable for the general population in an urban environment.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Knoflacher

    yacc143,
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    @thefathippy @ThermiteBeGiants I wouldn't know, Vienna has decent public transport. And my flat complex has its own underground station (admittedly, that far in the outlying districts, the "underground" goes on stilts in open air).

    Funny, met yesterday at a birthday party one of the city traffic planers whose job it is to prioritize public transit traffic over private traffic. You know, additional bus lanes, traffic lights that give way to buses and trams, and so on.

    yacc143,
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    @thefathippy @ThermiteBeGiants
    Ah, that so great:

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

    These idiots used a bullsh$t generator to replace a live chat operator on their website, and now have to pay for it.

    Now we need some US courts enforcing the $1 binding offers some car chatbots have offered and the whole AI hype wave will scale back to sane proportions.

    isotopp, (edited ) to random German
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    "Matrix nervt und wird immer nerven"

    Ich habe nach dem https://blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13/the-matrix-trashfire.html neulich noch einmal ein wenig über das Problem nachgedacht, ohne jetzt irgendwie in die Protokoll-Spezifikation oder die Doku einzutauchen.

    Matrix ist ein verteiltes Chatsystem mit Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung, und ich glaube, den meisten Menschen ist nicht klar, was das für eine Problemklasse ist. Sie sehen nur "selbstgehosted" und "verschlüsselt", aber die Implikationen sind total unklar.

    Matrix ist Ende-zu-Ende…

    yacc143,
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    @isotopp Also, wenn du Metadaten nicht kennen dazu nimmst, bewegen wir uns langsam Richtung Onionrouting oder eben wie du es gesagt hast, Usenet.

    mimsical, to random
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    X's massive bot problem, in one chart, made by @o_simardcasanova

    https://o.simardcasanova.net/data-illustrates-that-x-formerly-twitter-has-a-serious-bot-problem/

    yacc143,
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    @mimsical @o_simardcasanova
    Well, Elon likes robots.

    In hindsight it should be clear that his problem with Twitter was not too high a level of bots, but a too few bots on the platform.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    "Yes, but" is the basis of bothsidesism and the philosophical underpinning of modern journalism and the worldview of The Times...
    After Testimony in Atlanta, Willis Receives Both Praise and Condemnation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/us/fani-willis-case-trump.html?smid=tw-share

    yacc143,
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    @jeffjarvis Wonder why these bothsidesism cultists don't apply their method to reporting, say, on paedophilia? Or it's totally unfair to take the side of the victims of a serial murderer, why not give the perp enough space to explain what important job she/he is doing for society?

    parismarx, to ai
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    ChatGPT does not have “a memory.” It does not “remember” anything. OpenAI is just storing data about you and your engagement with its product.

    I’m begging the media to stop repeating tech companies’ misleading framings of their products.

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    yacc143,
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    @eyrea @IvanTheBlue @eibart @parismarx
    By its very nature, there are limits to how much “memory” (or let's call with a different word, hmmm, “context”) a network can consider.

    But I wonder, when will people stop demand for statistical bulls$it generators? When a US court rules that companies using chatbots have to back the claims these chatbots make? (As happened to Air Canada, funny how fast the Chatbot disappeared from their website. Like a supernatural flash.)

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