Buncha wet blankets on Lemmy. JFC.
I know there is a ton of hype around AI, but at least there is actually something there (unlike crypto).
This is the most exciting thing to happen with computing in a while and if you read Lemmy you'd think everything is bleak and hopeless.
There is so much opportunity to change the way we interact with computers and innovate.
F is for felon
When I read your post I was expecting something much worse than what you linked to.
It wasn't really all that bad. Imo, it was 1 or 2 emails too many.
Maybe I'm a little biased because I love the product so much. It's a fantastic search engine again and all of the AI extras add value and aren't obnoxious like everyone else's.
I am still happily paying for kagi even if the CEO emails people that write shitty blogs about them.
The article even states this is a thinly veiled ad for some other "method".
The agile manifesto is fantastic. Scrum can work wonders as a means for providing a framework to hang "agile principles" onto.
Most organizations don't do "scrum" well or quickly lose sight of the "why" behind it.
Companies are gonna company at the end of the day. Process + bureaucracy + buzzwords + ill-informed management + vendors promises + shit customers/product owners = late projects.
Agile done right, works. The benefit agile has over waterfall(the process it replaced in a lot of places), imo, is that it's predicated on working software, responding to change and working collaboratively/iteratively.
Yea, but they also do some great journalism and if you can, support them.
We don't have many decent journos these days and they need to eat.
Normalize paying for things that add value to your life.
Also, it's a bit ironic that people might be concerned about privacy but unwilling to pay for something. The alternative is usually privacy invasive ads/tracking/selling user data.
Yea, I definitely understand what you are saying. I dont get those people either. Its frustrating and even heartbreaking because they are so misled--but are also so easily "misleadable". Its hard to not fault them for it; its hard not to call them dumb.
I guess historically we called those people "suckers" or "rubes" -- which still may not accurately reflect that they can be very smart people (or even critical thinkers) in most other aspects.
"in custody deaths" means deaths while under the supervision of ICE. That could be detained at an ICE facility or in a hospital "while being detained".
If you got arrested by your local police for something and were in jail, but got sick so they send you to the hospital (with a cop escort usually)...then you died there. That counts as "in custody".
So don't conflate in-custody with "not being sent to hospitals".
Bots in the build up to the election here in the states?
There are certainly very dumb people that support trump. There seems to be a willful ignorance amongst his base. That said, dismissing them all as "dummies" hides the really scary problem: they aren't necessarily dumb; they are brainwashed.
Imagine if all you heard was how great Trump was, how much he's accomplished, how badly Democrats want to bring him down, how they are setting him up,that Biden is the reason for these prosecutions, and never hearing any of the facts about the cases or anything remotely negative about Trump.
If you lived your entire life main-lining conservative talk radio, YouTube conservative conspiracy theorists, Fox News, news Maxx...and then have social media magnifying those views by feeding you all the things you already want to Believe (because you've been listening to this shit for years). Now Facebook is saying all of your friends think this way too.
Then you have republican "leadership" lying to you or misrepresenting almost everything because they can't afford to lose their clicks or have news Maxx call them a Democrat plant. They are doing everything they can to stay in power even if it means they have no ethics or values. So they'll sit there and weasel out of having any sort of backbone against obvious corruption or criminal activity.
And because of all that, people who grew up believing the news wouldn't straight up lie or that their party has integrity, ethics, and values...they end up believing what they hear. It's what their friends say on Facebook. It's a massive groupthink.
When people say it's like a cult, it truly is. They need to be deprogrammed. You know how hard it is to break people from their religion? That's how hard it's going to be to reel back Maga people.
But from their absolutely misguided, misinformed foundation, they are acting rationally. If everything they hear on a daily basis is true, of course they are fired up.
This trick is: how do we reach them? How can we even start reeling them back in?
We need things like this guilty verdict. We need actual leadership in the Republican party to stand up for what's right and admonish his behavior. A group of them need to do it together so they can't be picked off like injured gazelle by news outlets whose business is outrage.
He's actually been surprisingly effective at governing. He's low key been the best president we've had in decades.