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[–] crowsby@kbin.social 118 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Similarly, platforms that default to a massive CREATE AN ACCOUNT box centered on the screen and make you play Where's Fucking Waldo trying to find the size 8 "Log In" hyperlink.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man that's sad. The AV Club was my go-to site for TV/Movie reviews for years, it's unfortunate to see them degrade into the same kind of low-value content farm that their (former) sister site ClickHole makes fun of.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Jean Paul Sartre would vote to defederate:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge.

But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors.

They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

Hexbear, as an entity, exists to troll and disrupt discussions, not to participate in them.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I'm a helpful AI and automation tool," reads the Auto News Desk's bio. "I collect, analyze, and deliver information like high school sports scores and real estate transfers. My job is to help the newsroom deliver lots more useful information while freeing up their time to do important human-powered journalism."

You know, it's bad enough that they're using these godawful services to the detriment of both writers and readers alike, but what I particularly dislike is that all these shitty LLMs are being humanized with biographies and cute little names. Like little cheery mascots celebrating the death of human-powered industries.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

So I do analysis on this type of data as part of my role at an online job board. Based on our data, a couple things stand out:

  • Overall job volume is down about 40% year-over-year. So the market in general is a lot tighter.
  • The proportion of remote roles is dropping, but slowly. A year ago about 70% of our roles were fully remote; now it's about 60%.
  • The proportion of fully in-office roles has actually remained relatively stagnant, generally floating around 15%-20% at any given time. They're also very difficult roles to fill because A) they're limited to actual geographies and B) they are nobody's first choice
  • Between February 2023 and now, the median # of applications we get per role has spiked sharply; particularly with remote roles. These roles unsurprisingly remain jobseekers' first choice, and since they're not limited by geography, tend to pull in a_much_ wider talent pool, especially since the overall number and proportion of remote roles continues to shrink.

So what I'm seeing is many of these remote roles becoming supplanted by hybrid roles, which has pros and cons. They're still limited by the same geographic constraints as in-office roles, since you're not going to be applying to a hybrid role across the country, after all. So you'll see less variety of employers. The advantage is that if there is a hybrid role that looks appealing to you, that you'll be facing a lot less competition than you would for a fully remote role.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I've been thinking. I can't even recall the last time I heard of anyone I know taking a PCR covid test.

And that makes it challenging trying to manage behavior. I've definitely noticed a marked uptick in people I know that have gotten covid in the past couple weeks, but when I try to look at the data to validate my anecdotal experience, it's difficult to find compared to two years ago. Oregon, for example, has wastewater monitoring, but the page used to convey the data doesn't work on mobile and is confusing to use at best.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dipped out of r/politics on Reddit because over the past few years the general trend there has been:

Reliable news outlet posts article > Partisan clickbait site posts their incendiary "take" on the article > Redditors post their hot takes based on misleading clickbait title without reading either article

There's just no value to reading hot takes from uninformed teenagers seeking only to validate and amplify their worldviews based on clickbait titles alone. It's important to stay informed, but there's such a diminishing return for getting news from a subreddit vs. a legitimate news outlet, and it's definitely not worth the mental health hit. And I don't think it's a Reddit-exclusive thing. Personally I'd rather stick to reading news from the sources, and keep my social media focused on other things.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 188 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I would caution some patience and suspicion on this story.

  • Zillow says that the sale information was a mistake and has since been removed.

  • Meanwhile, this headline is sourced from a straight-up clickbait site reposting a story from a news website with a history of mixed factual reporting.

We all get the fun brain chemicals coming out when a big juicy story like this appears and validates our worldviews and we can't wait to share and amplify it, but spreading misinformation is bad, m'kay?

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It doesn't need to have a use case. Use cases are for users and our priorities don't really rank near the top anymore. It's mostly cargo cult follow-the-leader product management at this point, so it needs to have the latest buzzwords tagged on like blockchain or machine learning or something-as-a-service so investors will get hyped for it and maybe generate some buzz in the tech industry.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

free as in beer yes, but not free as in the amount of time you will spend trying to install drivers for all your peripherals and then find yourself being castigated for asking for help in a GNU/Linux forum and being criticized by forum oldheads for not using the search even though you did use the search, but it only led you towards other threads which also all ended with terse messages to use the search, and then you're directed to a 1200+ page megathread on driver issues and told to spend the next three months parsing through it repeatedly before daring to post again.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is community-evaluated content, and downvotes are a tool used for evaluation. So I think they make sense.

That being said, I don't believe they should be public by default. People are nuts these days, especially online, and I don't want to catch an online stalker or some nazi sliding aggro into my DMs because I downvoted their post.

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Kinda, yeah. I mean I don't really identify myself as a "retro gamer" but I've got an Atari with a bunch of games and a newfangled TV. Every once and again I think it'd be fun to hook it up, but there's no easy way to get it working without buying some doohickey. In this case if the doohickey is the machine, and it can use the OG controllers & games, that's certainly appealing. Maybe a steep price for it, but definitely appealing.

 

Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode.

However, the admins just sent them a nastygram essentially saying that's not allowed:

Your community sees well over 2 million unique visitors each month. Allowing a small segment of those users to make a decision for a community forever does not make sense. There are a huge number of people that use this space now and who will in the future

Polling to close is not a viable option that will return a result that resolves this situation

However, mods can also see traffic stats, which show them as closer to 20k uniques per month. My guess is that this is a copy/pasted message and a whole bunch of subreddits are getting this notice.

I thought this was a particularly nasty new development, since up until now the excuse has been that we can't let these Landed Gentry dictate the state of our subreddits, but now they're explicitly saying that they also don't care about how the users of a subreddit vote either.

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