Machinist3359

My most depraved marketing brain thinks borrowing the visual language of Reddit gold would be a good idea. At least in comments.

Partly because it's familiar to most users, but it also draws your attention and highlights well liked posts.

And if someone is boosting a comment, I think that's much more significant than boosting the main post, which is already meant to be shared.

That's simply not how hiring works at most institutions.

For high traffic lower level positions, hiring managers resent getting given these AI tools. You wind up with candidates that are best at manipulating AI, not the most qualified. Their previous method, basic sorting and hitting the first acceptable worker (rather than the absolute best), is much more efficient use of their time.

For higher level positions, networking plays a much more significant roll. Since it's a much more significant decision, companies are also less likely to entrust it to an AI.

Screening out unserious applicants is easier than you think, and can be addressed without a blackbox of potential lawsuits

One of many nice aspects of the fediverse, it's not a software monoculture that can be wiped out by a single exploit.

Hell no, speaking as someone who has actually done a lot of hiring. It is very easy to find the top 20 candidates or so based on CVs. The hard part is actually sorting those folks out, which AI cannot do.

AI offers an unknowable bias and unbounded potentoal for discrimination without consequences. this rubber stamp from NYC is a disaster for civil rights.

AI should not be touching these sort of decisions , all agorithims need to be fully auditable and replicable

I was about to say the same thing. I sort of understand it under networking, but how do I federate my music or video w ith nextcloud?

I'm split on this, on the one hand I think universities should set up instances for official channels of communication. It's ridiculous to rely on some 3rd party service and it's algorithm to, say, tell everyone for is cancelled due to weather. It has done costs but makes these communication lines much more resilient.

Yet, extending this instance to staff, let alone students, is a huge can of worms. Bring in charge of moderation and web hosting opens the school up to so so much litigation. They'll frankly never do that.

It's really impressive how Lemmy/kbin have totally replaced reddit for me pretty painlessly. Any time Ive checked reddit out of FOMO, the content is far worse, and the comments are horrid.

It's an unpopular opinion here, but I truly think Meta joining is being a little blown out of proportion.

The fediverse is simply not valuable enough to EEE. We're a tiny niche of nerds who all have ublock installed. Meta wants a low effort solution to eat Twitters lunch, and saw bluesky do well.

We could even see this as an opportunity to grow. You can join mastodon AND find famous people to follow. Thread users themselves may realize the moderation sucks and go elsewhere.

Defedrating at best makes Threads roll back their activitypub use...and their millions of users are in a walled garden again. We did it fedi!

So much of my job is email and I was forced to use Outlook instead of Thunderbird a few years back. It feels like every day it is actually fighting me over every small task. Moments at work where I'd formally clear 2-3 messages, I'm now lucky to get through one. I've seriously considered finding a new job over it, but I know Office365 dominates my field these days.

If you haven't checked out Ursula K. Le Guin, I highly recommend her. Lathe of Heaven is a great/short taste of her style, but if you want something darker I'd say maybe The Eye of the Heron.

It really needed to be a peripheral device at 1/5 the price. World isn't ready for laptop-goggles.