I mean. Maybe?

I’ve been wrong about stuff before. I’m sure I’m wrong about some stuff now.

I comment! Sometimes!

And then there was last night where someone called me “brain fucked” for (allegedly) not understanding what conservatism is. Ah, internet discourse.

It does, but not everyone sets up their 2fa, or uses the least secure forms. Then passwords get hacked, and those lists get shared so when the next hack comes along, they have that many more tools to try and break the encryption (assuming there is any) on a bigger site, compromising even more people.

It’s a whole systemic shit bag. Passkeys were meant to solve a lot of these problems, and they would, but Big Tech is botching the execution in favor of yet another thing locking you into their ecosystem.

Jesus Christ, dude, that is exactly it.

We’re trying to implement passkeys at work and the testing has been an absolute nightmare. Literally have no control over the onboarding experience because each tech giant is clamoring over each other, interjecting into the process to be the “home” for your passkeys. It’s bananas.

When it’s all set up, it’s kinda great! But getting set up in the first place is an exercise in frustration.

Holy shit. I knew the painting was about manifest destiny. I knew that was the face of the streamer Destiny. I somehow completely missed the pun. I’m ashamed. I kept thinking there had to have been some sort of weird online drama I just hadn’t heard about. It’s a pun. I LOVE puns. My shame is immense.

I… do not know what is being referenced here. If anybody wants to help a bro out, please and thank you in advance.

Neat!

I don’t know what the next thing after Reddit would be, but if anything fediverse wants to be that thing it needs to be prepared in advance of the next exodus.

That means developers need to work on smoother onboarding, from account creation to in-app guidance to help users find what they’re interested with as little effort as possible. On the backend, we need the ability to handle a huge influx of users. I don’t know shit about either of these things, but it’s what tech startups ALWAYS focus on to build their user base, to my knowledge.

Here’s an important bit from the actual journal article abstract

This lower literacy-greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI’s capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes.

It then goes on to say you should target ads for AI to people who don’t know anytime about AI, since they’ll see it as magical and buy in. Kinda gross, if you ask me.

Ah. Got it. Thanks!

This community still shows as “196” to me instead of “oneninetysix” is that just my app being weird or what?

Comparisons to users on other social media networks would be useful, yeah.

I don’t think I ever learned how to properly source information from primary works until college. I didn’t really get it until grad school.

Kinda the same for the scientific method. In high school it was just a thing you learn and memorize, but barely ever applied, if at all, in the actual curriculum. I wish it had been impressed upon me at a much earlier stage of my life why the scientific method is so useful and how it led to the sheer boom in our knowledge as a species. Like, they do tell us… but we didn’t really get it. I’ve heard others had better teachers… But it really would be better if the system didn’t have to rely on winning the teacher lottery.

I think you’re hung up on how Big Tech has designed feeds with the express purpose of keeping you there for as long as possible, or even more perversely, as enraged as possible.

But algorithms can be made to serve other purposes, and I think the fediverse could do with a curation algorithm. Or even better, multiple choices for algorithms to suit your preferences and needs. From what I’ve heard, Bluesky offers something along those lines, which has contributed to its adoption rates.

I think if Lemmy devs wanted, they could probably come up with some great starter options. Heck, maybe they make it easier for everyone to customize their own algorithms. Not sure how far you get without knowing how to code that sort of thing directly, but even a little would go a long way, I bet.

YouTube may be a mental illness, but it’s my preferred mental illness.

Wooooow.

Not wrong.

But woooow

OOOOHHHHH. It’s a sincere thankfulness meme!

I was looking for a joke and coming up empty.

Thank you very much.

I almost exclusively shit indoors. I don’t get it.

Is there a long-sighted way to implement blocking?

Unfamiliar with this particular discourse. Are they opposed to it because it’s illegal? Or are they worried that it’s dangerous because even most of us who did well in chemistry and biology in high school probably wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it ourselves or trusting unregulated strangers?