As both an instance admin and a mod of a few communities, I can already tell you those are just expectations of any community already. That’s not new, that’s already the baseline. You have to find something even better than that.

Oh, MyCoolCommunity would require me to pay because it’s on instanceA? Fuck that, hey everyone, come join MyCoolCommunity on instanceB!

This isn’t some guy who has loved their products for years and wanted to express how much joy he’s had from them by writing a comic about them - they can’t just go sue them immediately. This is a corporation, they have to make sure that it’s the right move. Come on, that’s Corpo 101

Maybe they shouldn’t use marketers. From what I see, marketers are the reason for unreal hype. Look at cyberpunk, marketers told poeple that it was going to be basically a real life simulator and then people were upset that it was only a really fun RPG. (Aside from the launch issues this was also a big thing at launch).

All modern games hype is directly because of marketers.

Here’s a novel thing. Just show us what the game is like. No stupid marketing lingo, no flashy graphics, just what the game is like. Give us the opening mission. There, pay me a marketing fee. No stupid high expectations, no lying about features that don’t actually exist, just telling the consumer honestly what they’re buying.

Marketers explicitly and silently rebranded AI to AGI, a term that I think was literally just made up. I think they should have been reversed, llma deserve a new term, but not AI.

But you see that wasn’t the problem. The problem was that they knew some new term would fall flat. They wanted investors frothing at the mouth - so they just changed the definition of AI to make that happen.

Yes that was the joke.

They did, and they gave it to Ubisoft.

K, that’s your opinion…

One thing I’ve been reading is how the younger generations haven’t grown up with what we call traditional technology. There are people entering the workforce who have used iPads for most of their lives and don’t know what a directory structure is, or a file share, or basic word/excel/pp skills. Think about it, iPads made it so easy by showing most recent items that they don’t even really know ehat folders are.

Those are all things I took in my first few computer classes. How to make a word doc. Basic formulas in excel. How to make a PowerPoint do a star wipe. Those are real tangible skills that everyone should know entering the workforce. Then, if people show a talent for it, I would encourage them to pursue something like programming.

People here are suggesting low level things like bash scripting because it’s what we know and think is important, but for most people it’s things like how are files stored, and how do I sum a column in excel?

Agree, hr is more or less a one stop shop to being fired. Op is right, they’ll immediately label you someone who is willing to speak up, what’s the addage? The beach who perks up gets pruned. HR isn’t necessarily there to protect the company, but the status quo. They don’t want anyone making noise, else it is bad for everyone.

Don’t forget that the first one is great because it has to be the breakout to be franchise-able, followed with a mediocre second because the third is now guaranteed.

Yeah people did this in drive thrus and thought they were being cute. It’s real cute until the next person ordered 6x as much as you did.

A nice thing to do is to see a mother struggling to pay for her groceries and offering to step in and to put them on yours. Paying it forwards sets off a weird chain of guilt that is not as nice.

Source checks out.

The fact that they’ll probably still get to own firearms is what gets me. God this country, where you shoot a KID and they still think you’re allowed a gun. Fuck that. You SHOT SOMEONE. Mistake or not that’s on you

Man who is heavily funded by AI research and use continues pushing that AI is necessary.

the bill that was passed essentially said that warrants are no longer needed for data because “save the children”.

I do, and I’ve seen about half and half. Half of the companies are rushing to pay Microsoft gobs of money, the other half are like consumers trying as hard as they can to turn it off.

That’s what annoyed me about minio. Started super crazy simple to set up, but I missed two updates and came back to AWS levels of mandatory configuration. Ffs I chose you because you were simple, not because I needed to replace s3

This is one of those things I stay out of.

It’s not healthy for kids. But they enjoy it. But it’s definitely used by China for spying. But people should know better than to put private stuff on there.

However the bill I’m against, they put a lot of internet spying in there too in the name of saving the children. So…

Yeah we’ll just see how it turns out

I don’t think it’s that simple. Cortana came out too late, well after Google and Apple’s assistants had fully taken over. Their speakers were large and clunky. To compensate they forced it in front of everyone, adding it to everything just like copilot. it’s just their poor approach to marketing, they think shotgunning it everywhere is a smart idea.

I think they’re going to face the same issues with copilot. I think it may have moderate success, but everyone I know goes to ChatGPT, they don’t use copilot. I see a lot of resentment too about it popping up everywhere, and not just from the super techie people here - but average users too. It just feels the same as Cortana. The problem is that it is cool tech, they just don’t understand how to market it well. ChatGPT is simple, it’s cool, it’s right there when you need it. Microsoft makes their products somehow always uncool, not fun to work with, and annoying.