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sculd,

Ah…the good old wikipedia drama. I remember some said wikipedia is playing an MMO, and I completely agree.

I used to do translations for pages until I realize there is so much drama going on.

sculd,

Oh I agree with you.

I will give some more info on what I saw at wikipedia, which arguable is common knowledge.

After I translated pages, I noticed people coming in to make small edits. I don’t mind those, but is baffled that people seem to be making meaningless changes all the time. Not to mention I am pretty sure I am more knowledgeable on said subjects than those “editors”.

I later realized that the number of edits and the number of edited pages count towards some arbitrary numbers which people can use to claim and move up the ladder of admin rights. It all made sense on why there are so many minimal edits performed by individuals. They are looking for low hanging fruit.

It soured my feelings toward wikipedia. I thought of it as a good volunteer project. Turns out some people play it as a numbers game. And they have enormous influence on the site.

Those people than use their power to suppress whatever they don’t like to see on wikipedia, similar to what OP posted.

By the way, to understand how absurd wikipedia’s system is, please take a look at the following news:

Why Emily St John Mandel asked for help getting divorced on Wikipedia

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64033028

sculd,

People will fall in love with AI because AI does not reject human. That doesn’t mean AI will love them back or even understand what love means.

sculd,

No, because:

  1. Content creators want to monetize their videos, even if it is shit monetization.
  2. Users and content creators want discoverability.
sculd,

That would be like saying Patreon is monetizing video.

No. I mean ad-supported income that automatically comes with YouTube. Not to mention members subscription and Superchats which are also built in functions and represent significant part of content creators’ income.

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Thank you for taking the hit so we dont have to

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Good riddance

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Please destroy these unethical app! They can be used for so many bad applications: scams, misinformation, identity theft…

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What I don’t understand is why governments don’t try to fund open source software.

Cyber is increasingly becoming an attack vector on key infrastructure and it would be so helpful to have a group of developers to be at government disposal while understanding what software is being run on.

I understand that China and a few other countries use Linux but this is not enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

Honestly any nation not named the United States should move to FOSS if they care about security. Imagine the keys to all important infrastructure being held by foreign companies.

sculd,

Wow! Good for the Germans!

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TIL

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free credit report?

I never thought about getting one nor the people I know… What are they used for?

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Thanks for the answer. Guess thats a US thing then.

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It must be noted that this evaluation is only an internal estimate approved by the bigot.

The true value is very likely to be even lower.

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Amazing stuff from Vox

This kind of project would not be possible without serious dedication.

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Maybe not for Buddhism or Shinto.

But Abrahamic religions do seem to have that tendency.

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Same. Every time I hear people being scammed millions of dollars, I would be like, “why are these people falling for scams so rich?”

sculd,

I am well aware of the Rohingya genocide. I am only saying they are not “doomsday” as they don’t seem to think the world is ending.

That is closer to ethnic cleansing which is completely wrong but is another issue.

sculd,

Tome of the Stilled Tongue? …wikidot.com/wondrous-items:tome-of-the-stilled-t…

Btw, love your comic

sculd,

In the article quoted by Ars (mobilegamer.biz/fuck-you-were-not-paying-inside-u…)

“I truly don’t think it was done maliciously,” our Unity insider said. “Ultimately Unity has lost a lot of money over the last 18 years – billions of dollars – and they need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there.”

Using anti-competitive tatic to try to eliminate a competitor is literally malicious.

sculd,

There are plenty of information and even research onto the deliberately addictive design of Facebook.

Link: sciencefocus.com/…/trapped-the-secret-ways-social…

There are more and better articles out there that I have read but this is one that I can find right now.

sculd,

Congratulations!! You have really good friends!!!

sculd,

This is what happens when an organization gets sufficiently large. And this is not necessarily a bad thing.

“Surplus” staff is very important when a new project comes and the organization needs to scale up. Instead of suddenly hiring a lot of people with no understanding of organization culture, the staff can be mobilized to work on new things without affecting existing project and structure.

There is a reason why governments around the world don’t suddenly fire their staff when it is apparent a lot of them are not working at max capacity. Redundancy is a kind of safety.

Do we live in a computer simulation like in The Matrix? Proposed new law of physics backs up the idea (phys.org)

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws governing our reality are simply algorithms. The experiences we have are generated by the computational processes of an immensely advanced...

sculd,

This “theory” is something that cannot be proved or refuted. Basically pseudo science.

sculd,

And I fully expect it to.

As legacy religion fades, this kind of pseudo science has a strong potential to be the basis of cults.

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...

sculd,

Agreed. It will be Twitter for me till it die.

sculd,

Even Digg is still running!

sculd,

This is one of the fighting games that people should give it a try. Incredibly well balanced and its free!

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I don’t think they can.

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Agree that Mastodon is good but…

Not difficult to sign up for

Yeah…about that… The choose an instance thing is confusing for a lot of people. It actually made me think twice before signing on, which is not a good thing for a platform looking to get more people on.

Not difficult to use

Well if they make it easier to follow people on other instances, sure.

Also, content discovery is not easy on Mastodon. I have to go to directories (yes, remember those?) to find out the interesting accounts on there.

sculd,

I really want to get off Twitter for good.

But the reality is my favorite content creators are still there and the niche community that I like are still there.

It doesn’t matter how good the platform is. If the content creators are not there it is very hard to move.

sculd,

Thats a nice change!

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I actually didn’t know that when I opened this thread!!!

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LOL They knew the problem existed for a long time and decided to do nothing because more reviews = more sales

Only when people started discovering the issues then they pretend they are doing things

sculd,

This is what we imagined what robots would do for us. The hard labour work. Not the generative AI bullshit.

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports (niemanreports.org)

Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of...

sculd,

My understanding is clickthrough on Twitter has always been pretty low as compared to Facebook or Reddit.

People generally don’t go to Twitter to click on articles.

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Google easily, because they control so much of information inflow, the potential to do harm is much much greater

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Thank god we have people working tirelessly to prevent Google’s greed

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Always felt bizarre that people who brand themselves feminists can be anti-sex work, or even anti-porn.

It completely goes against the notion of body autonomy, encourages policies that are harmful to women, and seems much more likely to align with conservative politics.

sculd,

IMO splitting the party makes for very fun story telling but too many campaigns require players to stick together otherwise they would die.

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What…even a lot of niche games support Mac because there is a market there. But I am not playing a shooter on Mac anyway so whatever.

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Looks fun!

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Thats why it is so important for everyone to make recommendations! Cheers!

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Looks interesting!!

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Agreed on AC but Division is a pretty fun shooter. Not playing the new one anyway.

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