Hey let's just make it explicit and have a sociopath convention, we can give out badges.
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Adding the narration from the GPT-3 story is easier than automating background music and sound effects.
I don't like this world at all. I really really don't.
Wow. I can't imagine contracting work from people (and giving them access to commercial-in-confidence data) and yet not knowing with 100% certainty 100% of the time that the people I'm talking to are the people I'm contracting with, you know, the ones I background-checked, the ones I can hold accountable in court.
You know what happened with remote schooling? Teachers didn't demand that pupils turned on their cameras because of the same 'it'll make them uncomfortable' excuse. Result? Kids turned their computers on, their cameras off and played minecraft all day for 18 months.
Don't be odd about this. Nothing at all about face to face contact is uncomfortable for adults. That shouldn't be something that's normalised and it's detrimental to society to allow for it. You are literally reading an article that outlines all the negatives about your 'cameras are uncomfortable' mindset and you still haven't twigged?
Keep doing it your way, but don't be surprised when you've had your entire company's data exfiltrated and sold to a competitor by the 'person' you were too uncomfortable to ask to appear on video.
And don't for one microsecond retain people who mysteriously only produce quality work when 'unsupervised' or 'overnight' or when they're 'on the phone all the time.' Fire them! You have no idea who they're talking to or who's really doing the work. They're not an asset to your company, they're a bullshit artist!
Thunderbird users? I'd say ~100% of them use imap, probably ~75% of them use calendaring. I don't know whether Thunderbird uses ical or imap-type calendars behind the scenes but it works with gmail, zimbra and apple type shared/hosted calendars which account for basically ~100% of the non-exchange type calendars in common use. It probably supports exchange-type calendars too though I've never tried that.
I'd wager less than ~2% of TB users use a non-slack non-discord non-irc chat.
If you thought Spiderman V Elsa was bad just wait until you see this lot.
OH GREAT.
As a parent I'd 100% ban.
'It supports XMPP' that's great. ICQ support would arguably be more useful.
It was a lovely mail client. It seems they're repeating all the mistakes that firefox made. Firefox added pocket, everyone disabled it and eventually the feature was removed. Firefox added chat, everybody disabled it and eventually the feature was removed.
Now Thunderbird has added chat, that's great. What does it support, Slack? no. Discord? no. Oh. That's not great, then, that's useless. They're intending to jumpstart a chat protocol with a client that's used by like 0.8% of users? Sure.
The last update made the context-menus and dropdown-menus white backgrounded menus with literally no border, so you had no way to determine where the menu background ended and the email background started. That was the update that pushed me over the edge and prompted the rollback and push of whatever 60-ish version I chose. My staff need imap and calendaring and consistency. That version delivers.
I have absolutely zero interest in playing the 'what spurious UI change will throw my staff into confusion today' game with a basic productivity tool.
>I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.
Can you give me a specific example related to that, as in, name a minority that hasn't yet had their 'civil rights' granted?
I wear my FAANG tshirt out to bars all the time and it gets me mad pussy. Maybe that's because they think I'm loaded but it works better than a Rolex. shrug
>I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.
Can you give me a specific example related to that, as in, name a minority that hasn't yet had their 'civil rights' granted?
Because my take on what's going on kinda aligns with the guy above, there's been a mass push for stuff that isn't any kind of accepted by the general populace (and affects fractions of a percent of people) and it's caused a blowback effect when people get sick of having micro-minority issues make daily headline news when their lives are getting measurably worse.
If you were talking about extending basic civil rights to groups that were measurably disenfranchised I don't think you'd be seeing the same pushback.
Instead we see 'drag queen story hour' repeat x 10. You don't have to be any kind of conservative to realise that drag shows and culture aren't well understood by the mainstream population and that a lot of people are going to get the wrong fucking idea and be annoyed as hell but the left just keep hammering it over and over again, like, it's NOT HELPING YOUR CAUSE. I can see it isn't helping. I can see it's going to create resentment and increase divisiveness. Why can't they see that? Are the walls of their bubble that thick? Do they have that much contempt for the average person?
Maybe I'm just biased but I think it should be the job of the BBC to ram culture down people's necks whether they think they're going to like it or not, because otherwise they'll just listen to the same old crap for their entire lives.
Why try and read people's minds when you can just make it an option? Half the problem (with so much modern tech) is algorithms trying to 'figure out' stuff like that. Just ask the user. And stop feeding back so much user behaviour into algorithms, it always converges to zero.
I think the issue is with the discoverability of those communities. When they're so small and niche and there are so many of them, discoverability suffers. There's a curation element that's missing and that algorithms driven by / manipulated by commercial pressure don't provide.
I don't think we have a modern day replacement for John Peel, for example. We have tons of content (soundcloud etc) but the few people sorting the wheat from the chaff don't seem to be able to muster an audience. The art/talent of curation is much undervalued.
There's a true point being made that a lot of social media content is incredibly badly written and the brain 'teaches itself' to fill in blanks that you don't have to fill in when reading literature, though.
If you go from reading books (any books, really, anything that's been published) to reading reddit you have to go through an adjustment period as so much of what's on the screen looks like gibberish as it's so un-edited.
That's a nice theory, and until a proof has been constructed, presented and validated it'll keep being a nice theory.
Basically it's an opinion - from a person that's completed the process - that the process is too complex and involves unnecessary (in their opinion) bureaucracy. That's the gist of the message and that's the intended takeaway. Debating as to whether or not there's a 'correct' number of steps is kinda adjacent to the point being made.
The complaint is obviously not about the number of pages. Printing the booklet in a smaller font is trolling.
'Why did they complain about the number of pages then' argumentation is also trolling.
Semantic argumentation is great for making yourself look clever on the internet but achieves little else.