DigitalDilemma

Anyone throughout time?

Disraeli?

Abraham Lincoln again?

Muhatma Ghandi?

Arnold Schwarzenegger. He would be already if he was allowed.

But honestly, at this point, anyone who wasn’t entirely evil.

I understand having a dislike for a medium that encourages shallow, gimmicky, reactive content

That’s all social media.

And Reddit has a huge amount of reposting/karmafarming bots as well as a lot of political/troll botfarms targetting it, and a lot of human trolls. And if you don’t have an adblocker, a sometimes miserable user experience. But Reddit also has the biggest userbase by a huge factor, a lot of really interesting subs with some really good content and people.

You can find positives and negatives about any platform or, really, anything anywhere. At least with social media platforms we have a choice as to whether we engage or not. That’s how you avoid the trash if you think the pool is full of shit - don’t swim in it.

Honestly, if someone genuinely believes “everything is shit” then maybe the problem is with them.

That’s like saying “I read a book once that I didn’t like, so all books are shit”

Tiktok is like all other streams - there’s a huge variety of content and it includes a lot of good and innovative creators. Yes, there’s a lot of utter shite, just lke reddit, facebook and even Lemmy.

But there’s also people who spend time making something good, sharing interesting things about their day and teaching what they know.

Throw a dead cat on the table.

Ask for specific examples of where you failed to deliver work as per your contract.

Username checks out.

I’d probably cut it off.

25 years ago I got into playing Unreal Tournament.

I still talk daily with some of the people from that community across several countries. We’ve never met, never will, but we’ve shared stuff that our real families don’t know.

Honestly, time to talk to HR who I’m sure would have a quiet word with this manager.

This sounds like bullying, triggered by racism/xenophia/paranoia or just plain bigotry. And yelling at people? That’s terrible too.

Uh, the algorithm is what stops random crap. Tailoring just the right balance of stuff that does interest you, might interest you and fits the supplier’s aims is why Tiktok is so popular.

Given the content far outweighs your ability to view it, how would you imagine things would look without any algorithm?

More control to the tech bros.

Indeed, why not? Temugin was the GOAT at this game.

Global domination isn’t a new thing.

I agree. People are people. The racist tone of the original question and the judging of history by modern standards just underlines that.

but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn’t sail around the world killing natives for the craic.

The Vikings had a fair go at it - and they came from what is now Norway, Denmark and… Sweden.

You can’t properly hate somewhere until you’ve lived there…

If you think you’ll be safe, then go. Travel broadens the mind, even if you go with preconceived ideas.

Just built a new pc, the first for a few years but probably the 20th or so I’ve made in total. This one’s a home server, replacing an HP ML110 Gen 9. It’s running proxmox with a dozen linux vms and is performing very well so far.

• Ryzen 5700X
• ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS, AMD B550 (Full linux compatibility)
• 48gb of ddr4 (32 new, 16 re-used)
• 2tb nvram (I have a nas for bigger storage)

Cheap PSU, half a case nailed to a wall (seriously. I keep it in a cupboard). A fanless gpu just to get it booting. Stock cpu fan and that’s about it. Idles at around 50 watts, which is less than half of the ML, and is almost silent.

Not sick, no. But if I know it’s AI, it does have less value to me. It can still be an amusing distraction if it was cleverly prompted, but there’s no thought gone into the generation.

Real art reflects not only the technical skill of the artist, but the effort they put in, their life experiences that made them look at something in a particular way, and their soul. No matter how good AI gets technically, it’ll never have that. But maybe it will be able to fake something that’s almost indistiguishable, like how lab grown diamonds can only be told from natural diamonds by someone with many years of experience.

Why do you view it with such horror? Do you see it as the start of AI taking over everything and the end of humanity?

I’m not a developer at any of these sites, but a couple of guesses:

1. They genuinely think relative dates are a more user friendly experience.

2. They know they serve old content, but want it to appear relevant. I’ve seen social media do this on several platforms where they obscure the date entirely on content that is not very fresh. This can be frustrating when you’re searching for an answer to a technical question and do find advice, to only find out after trying it that it refers to a version of the software that’s now very out of date.

3. SEO. Tricks like this might help the page rank higher in search engines. (I don’t know, I’m not an expert and SEO annoys me, but it feels like something designers might do to trick the engines)

Neither is a technical reason, it’s going to be about design, marketing and aesthetics.

Ublock will block what’s displayed, but not show you the actual. Something like UserScripts would allow you to extract the dates from the html and display them, or perhaps some css tweaks to change how things are displayed. But these would need tailoring for every single site you want and be liable to break if they change anything on their end.

Alternatively, you may wish to search sites for their Accessibility settings, or explore software that tries to do this for you - or even contact the sites and ask them to make the dates more readable on accessibility grounds.

Nice. It’ll be good for most of the world to not have to rely on an increasingly unstable US export market for cpus.