"big data" runs the content recommendation algorithms of all the sites people use which in tirn have a massive influence on the world. It's crazy to think "big data" was just a buzzword when it's a tangible thing that affects you day-to-day.

LLM powered tools are a heavy part of my daily workflow at this point, and have objectively increased my productive output.

This is like the exactly opposite of Bitcoin / NFTs. Crypto was something that made a lot of money but was useless. AI is something that is insanely useful but seems not to be making a lot of money. I do not understand what parallels people are finding between them.

Just decent quality content for various topics which aren't politics or tech. For the good of increasing the size of Lemmy, I think everyone ought to find a couple things they're interested in as hobbies and just dare to make content about them.

Lots of niche communities have the problem where no one posts because no one posts. At some point, you have to just pull the ripcord and start the darn thing, even if it takes a while.

Why make it a right vs left thing at all. Can't we just discuss things going on as they are without pigeonholing certain opinions as "right" and "left?"

I don't think x y z thing is true because I'm "on the left." I think it's true because it's my best understanding of reality, and that understanding of reality is generally described as "left." If you falsify my arguments, point flaws in my understanding, or present me with a set of premises that corroborates reality better, I'll align myself with that in a heartbeat. When you see something you disagree with, don't just think "oh that's leftism I don't agree with that," instead, try to figure out what you think the flaw is with it, and then offer that up in good faith. Worst case scenario, someone learns something.

Counterpoint: watching little green checkmarks appear when my PR passes a pipeline step gives me dopamine

It would be better for you to leave the original comment, use markdown to strike it through*, and create an edit showing that you realized it was wrong.

It shows humility and reflects positively on you, but it also allows the history of this conversation to remain preserved.

~~*not sure if this is possible on Lemmy yet~~

Edit: it is :)

Ok but even more super-honestly, the bitching about the bitching about the bitching about the bitching is worse. Why did you make this comment? Why not just downvote that asshat's content about that other asshat's content and move on? It doesn't contribute, so why comment to complain about complaints about complaints about complaints?

We should not do this as any more times probably....also google en passant.

They come out on the same day

Literally everything. I hate living under a system where my options are

1. repeatedly consume products which cause death and the destruction of our environment
2. move out into the woods and live as an isolated hermit
3. die

I'm...I'm just so tired.

One of my favorite movies is Robin Williams, the one who flew into the birdcage, or whatever it's called

I hate to say it but some of this is hilarious.

Shame that thus person's wild rant about allowing all kinds of content equally is straight up false given the clear preference for alt-right content.

I think we should only defederated instances that are actively harming this instances community in a way that cannot be handled any other way.

We all have personal block buttons that can be used to handle communities and individuals we don't want to see, and we have other less extreme tools at our disposal to handle a lot of things like this.

Tbf Mozilla needs money to keep doing good work, and I don't mind "paying" for Firefox like that when the only alternatives are "paying" by letting Google track and sell my personal data.