[-] harmonea@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Okay but....

There's really no reason not to unless you just give zero shits about the damage a loose cart can do.

That's exactly the kind of sign you want: it's a person who thinks "it won't affect me because I'm leaving, so it's not my problem."

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

This part is my favorite:

"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."

Sounds like the issue is people wanting to avoid a talking to by HR for being "uncooperative" to me, but what do I know, I'm not the CEO of a company actively portraying the company's product as bad at its sole purpose of existing.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago

Out of date tbh - It's never a labyrinthine phone tree anymore, it's a "natural speech" based menu that can never help with more than the most basic inquiries like "how much is my bill?" and still stubbornly refuses to put you in the queue for a real person.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You deride the hobby by equating it to working for free, then you deride it even harder upon finding out it's paid. You're not asking these questions in good faith, and no answer I give you will satisfy you, so I'm not giving you one. Suffice to say I'm very happy with my compensation.

I enjoy the game, so it's money I would be spending out of my own pocket that I now don't have to. And at least half the time I enjoy the wiki editing - note the fact that I called it a hobby (hobbies are things we do for fun). I just miss the collaborative aspect of it all and have days when I feel down about being alone on it.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone's pointing out that this is specifically about admins (not editors) and the general difficulty of wikipedia editing specifically due to its rules and reversions, but I really feel compelled to offer a counterpoint: this applies to wiki editing in general.

I've been editing mediawiki-based game sites since the mid 2000s - before Wikia became Fandom, before it was evil, before it started gobbling up smaller wikis with tempting financial offers. I took a decade+ off and only recently found myself drawn back into the hobby in the last couple of years when I found a game I loved that had a burgeoning wiki that seemed to need help.

I was handed admin privileges within a month because an extension I wanted to use (ReplaceText) was locked behind admin. Two years later, I'm still there because I hold 85-90% of the edits on it. And I. Just. Can't. Get. Help. Not even from the site owner that handed me admin. I've gotten interest from I think seven whole people in all that time, and all but two dropped off within a week or two; the remaining two have a page or two they each maintain but leave the rest of the site to me. And this is a live service game, so it's a neverending stream of event pages and new content that I, and only I, keep going. (Worse: the live service content follows predictable formats, so most of my new pages start by copying another page. This would be so easy for anyone to learn.)

No one wants to learn how to edit wikis anymore. It doesn't have to do with the high position or the rules of a specific site. It's a dying hobby viewed as too hard for content consumers to wrap their heads around.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago

Stuart Fergus, the husband of James Bulger’s mother, said that after he reached out to one creator asking them to take down their video, he received a reply saying: “We do not intend to offend anyone. We only do these videos to make sure incidents will never happen again to anyone. Please continue to support and share my page to spread ­awareness.”

He really tried to take down his wife's dead kid's deepfake and got the creator responding "no offense, so like share and subscribe lel"

Using the likeness of another person without that person's express permission should be a jailable offense.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Regarding your image rotation: When you rotate an image, it's often not done as an actual movement of data, but as an added EXIF tag. "Take this image and display it at this angle."

EXIF tags can store a lot of malicious shit like the GPS location of your photo, so lemmy aggressively strips them out. Better take your photos the right way from the start and/or use a robust photo manipulation software that will actually rearrange the data instead of adding a tag.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 63 points 1 year ago

Did you just call Hydrox an Oreo knockoff

My dude, the better-entrenched brand is not always the original.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 79 points 1 year ago

The phrase "what's stopping you" implies we're all interested, but hesitant.

This is a really, really bad assumption.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 65 points 1 year ago

Most of the comments here seem to be arguing whether it's better to get help now from SO or ChatGPT, but this is a pretty short-sighted mindset.

What happens when the next new standard comes out that ChatGPT hasn't been trained on? If SO tanks and dies, where will you go?

I'm not saying use a lesser resource, I'm saying this is kinda tragic and I hope they can sustain themselves; AI is propped up by human input and can't train itself.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I miss what it was. But it's dead now, and there's a corpse walking around in its skin, and when I'm away from here and among others who haven't made the switch, I feel like the only person at the party who noticed there's a slimy CEO in an ill-fitting snoo suit pretending to be our friend (sometimes).

Like any other dead thing, I can't bring it back, so I have to move on.

I notice I'm more productive now. That's nice.

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got tired of everything taking so much effort. I was almost always able to eventually wrangle what I wanted out of the OS, but every change I wanted to make and thing I wanted to try needed so much searching and learning. I wanted stuff that just worked, even if it was "dumber."

That, and some parts of the community I ran into were really prickly. One that was especially memorable: I was asking for help on a big-ish project with a lot of followers and helpers and didn't expect the lead dev to answer my question, but when he did, he felt the need to make a snide as hell comment about how I have no business being there if I'm going to forget to start a service. On top of the exhaustion I was already feeling, I had a massive moment of "okay my guy, I guess I'll just fucking leave then."

Anyway, it just feels better being a poweruser on windows. I know enough to keep it clean, safe, and slim (like using powershell to disable the bits they don't expose to a settings UI, for example) -- to truly admin my machine -- without having to work so hard for it day in and day out.

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