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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • That’s not true, it makes me more efficient!

    ChatGPT, write a thoughtful response to this article that proves that AI makes people smarter. Make it multiple paragraphs. Find a way to include Microsoft requiring all its programmers to use Copilot (or else they get fired) in a positive way.

    Also please give me a summary of your response, because I don’t want to bother reading it all.


  • Fair point, but many photos are not edited to the point of fundamentally changing them. I wouldn’t call a touched up wedding photo a “fake”.

    edit: I guess I was distracting from the point. Yes, “AI” already implies “fake”. Guess if someone were to look for “how to spot fake photos” this would help them find this video?







  • As long as you understand that your own opinion does not dictate how language ends up being used by others. Some NB people call themselves trans, others don’t. I hope you won’t go around implying that people who identify as both trans and non-binary are wrong identifying as such. That’s arguably gatekeeping, and could make some people very uncomfortable.



  • Presumably this is because a block is different from the content being removed. It simply means the servers stop communicating with each other regarding new communities, posts and comments. This could allow the instance to be unblocked and the old content to continue existing – say for example when an instance has been acting badly, but it gets fixed some time later.

    Blocked instances should probably not show up in search, but if you have a direct link to an old post, perhaps this should still be available? Not being able to block a community when its instance is already blocked makes sense, and probably doesn’t matter if you mostly check for new content, but I can see it being a bother when its shows up in other situations. One could call this a bug, or an oversight, but I suppose it depends on what the intended result is.



  • Is providing a number of commands to use that require user input really that bad? When people start tinkering with the command line, first of all they shouldn’t trust just anything on the website blindly, which at the very least requires a basic understanding of how to enter commands, and respond to the terminal asking for input. The following “bad” example…

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install software-properties-common
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
    sudo apt install python3.9
    

    …is instead turned into this single command with even more confusing syntax for beginners:

    sudo apt update && \
      sudo apt install --yes software-properties-common && \
      sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
      sudo apt install --yes python3.9
    

    Sure, it’s convenient, but if you just throw blocks of code at people to run, are they really learning anything?

    A better approach would be to have a quick tutorial on how to use the terminal and what the $ and # symbols mean (though they could be CSS decorators that can’t be copied), what sudo is and warning people about running untrusted commands on their system. Then you just link to that at the top saying something along the lines of “if you’re unfamiliar with running commands, and the following seems confusing, check this quick summary”, behind a question mark icon connected to each block of commands, or similar.