BearOfaTime

joined 1 year ago
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Snikket seems to be it for iOS. But it does work pretty well, I haven't run into any issues with it.

For Windows well, nothing does voice as far as I know.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

Chrysler has had shit electrics/electronics for as long as I can remember - the late 70's at least.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

What, now you disagree with both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, so you want to have a revolution?

You crack me up.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago

I'd say get back in the shower.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Rockauto.com

But parts quality can vary a bit. Still, it's so much cheaper than anywhere else it's worth a little risk.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Inattentional blindness". You simply can't see what's not on your list of things to look for. It's why there have been campaigns about seeing bikes and motorcycles for years, to just get the idea that they exist into people's minds.

It's not completely incorrect to say drivers "choose to not see them", just more accurate to say they don't have cyclists on their active-looking-list.

Then again, I'd bet these kinds of drivers have fuck all on their active-looking-list, and are completely self-absorbed, only focusing on the 10 feet of road directly in front of them.

One thing I can credit to riding a motorcycle - my head has been on a permanent swivel since my first class, on the bike or in a car. And I can say many, many, drivers are oblivious to what's going on around them - I can see it in their face in their side mirror that they never look into (or isn't even adjusted correctly). They're looking straight ahead, at nothing.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Wow, very well put.

OP: I'd like to recommend a book - "Your Erroneous Zones" by Wayne Dyer. Available on Amazon and used bookstores for a couple bucks. He essentially outlines how to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to alter our own mis-thinking, and to develop more effective communication.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

I think it did.

But I grew up watching the TV show, and others like it (Get Smart), and appreciate the style of humor.

I think the divide on this is knowing what that genre is about, and some people just don't appreciate that kind of humor.

I get it, I like these movies/shows, but don't like the 3 Stooges.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Er, uh... wow.

The writer must've been on some serious hallucinogens! Haha

(off to find a copy...)

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tailscale has the Funnel feature, which can funnel traffic into your Tailscale net for you.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Open Floorplan is enough to get me looking for a new job.

It's not just how it makes me ineffective, it's the ignorance it reflects in upper management.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So where's the line defining malicious downvotes?

Someone who downvotes 60% of a community's posts? 75%? 90%.

Youre setting yourself up as vote arbiter, telling users they can only vote the way you want. That's just as problematic, maybe more so.

Yea, there are people who consistently downvote stuff, but isn't that how votes work? Like another commenter, I too downvote a lot of AI garbage, because it's garbage. Am I a malicious downvoter, no longer permitted my opinion?

The last few weeks I've consistently downvoted any political posts in communities where they clearly don't belong (my opinion). Am I a malicious downvoter for that?

 

Cross-posted from Health

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Project Liberty (www.projectliberty.io)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by BearOfaTime@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

From their About page:

Project Liberty is stitching together an ecosystem of technologists, academics, policymakers and citizens committed to building a people-powered internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.

I just heard Frank McCourt on a podcast plugging his book "Our Biggest Fight".

It was great to hear someone with a voice talking about the problems we see with user data and social media, especially the problem of the Social Graph (the map of all your social connections, which includes weights and values).

Their solution to this problem was to develop a social networking protocol that enables any compliant app to use (think how email works - a standard protocol, SMTP), but encrypted and user data controlled by the user. They call it DSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol.

I see both sides of their approach, I'm kind of ambivalent, lots of concern here long-term.

They've already acquired MeWe and have converted some users to this protocol. He wants to buy the US side of TikTok (if it becomes available) and convert it to DSNP, which would encrypt about 30 million US accounts.

I'm always cynical about stuff that sounds promising, but I don't have the tech background to really dissect what they're doing. Anyone understand this better?

 

I have no idea where to even start to combat such things. Healthcare professionals must appease the masses of their peers.

I've seen this first hand in the corporate world, where it's called a 360 review. It's a popularity contest.

While there's value in the idea of such reviews, they're ripe for abuse. It codifies an environment of dishonesty - where people who are good at masking (err, sociopaths anyone) excel.

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