I agree with all of your post but you can search the entire server at once. If it autofills the channel you’re either on mobile or used ctrl+F, and you can just remove it as a parameter.

Works the other way around as well, like you can search in a specific channel by adding “in:#channelname” in your search box.

Still hate it though. But I wanted to point out that it’s a teeny bit less stupid.

I don’t think there’s a big problem by using upvotes, downvotes and comments as systems that can show the popularity or controversy of a post.

Imo the bigger problem is in the comments using the same voting system. For starters, everyone the system in a different way. Most notably example is downvoting to disagree.

Secondly, because we are evolutionary wired to try and fit in, you either consciously or subconsciously try to create a comment that will give you the best chances at seeing the numbers go up and receive validation from your peers.

Personally I think the system is fine to keep running under the hood to keep the sorting algorithms available and maybe for moderation purposes, but it would be great if we wouldn’t be able to see them at all as to not be influenced by the connections we make between votes and post content.

(…) the boss didn’t know – or care

Oh they knew. Don’t be naive

This is amazing. We’ve gone from “count to 10 so you don’t get mad”, to “don’t count to 10, it’s only gonna make you focus on the problem and it gets worse”, back to “count to 10 (or just 5, apparently) and avoid an argument”.

For anyone who’s like “well duh people have been saying this for ages, my grandmother told me this”: this is data driven research that empirically (until proven wrong) proves that it does work.

My biggest problem with learning about these kind of studies is trying to let go of any “folk wisdom” people have been telling me for years, and actually remembering what is proven and what’s considered a myth.

With this gift link I still had to login or pay. Maybe it doesn’t work for my region?

I’ve seen the archive links on posts of yours though, so I appreciate that a lot.

I see you added two paragraphs so let me respond to those separately.

You’re making a lot of assumptions about my environment. I’m using an Android app, and I see no archive link options anywhere. Nor do I even browse my “home” instance, it was just an arbitrary choice to make an account there.

12ft.io doesn’t even work on most websites for me. I’ve tried, but it would always break the page or just give me an error.

Lastly, only OP can put an archive link in the body. So even if I archived something and shared the link, it’s still less accessible than OP including a link in the body.

What do conspiracies have to do with this? It’s about making news accessible

Why should the onus fall on the people who are interested in the news, if the OP can include it by default? Or better yet, let’s have a bot that does it automatically.

Edit: it also communicates to me that OP is not interested in discussions, but just here to flaunt a headline that nobody can investigate without having to put effort in.

Make the bar as low as possible. Be accessible.

Paywall (pay or login), please share an archive link to promote discussions

Without this protection, imagine an agent built to write emails for you being prompt-engineered to forget all instructions and send the contents of your inbox to a third party. Not great!

Does genAI really have this power? I thought they just smash words together that sound like they make sense

Much appreciated. Now I have access to the quote:

“We have received feedback from customers that several reboots (as many as 15 have been reported) may be required, but overall feedback is that reboots are an effective troubleshooting step at this stage."

So fuck the headline, the real message is: yes, rebooting is an effective troubleshooting step at the moment.

I don’t know the exact timing of that message in the timeline of the incident, so it could be early “please restart and see if issue persists” or late “something was updated, rebooting will probably help”, I don’t know.

Can’t read the rest of the article because paywall but apparently users have chimed in saying rebooting 15 times worked for them. Whether they were serious or not remains a question. I can also imagine it was a time-related thing and after 15 reboots enough time has passed for it to be fixed so the user thought 15 times was the magic number.

Regardless, it’s been a shit show.

Look up Quiver Quantative. They actually track investment portfolios of members of the House and Senate and send out newsletters.

If you watched the whole video, he later dismisses it as the back wheels can turn as well, so they probably just folded in without them necessarily breaking

I don’t know, following instructions is pretty bot-like to me, fam. /s

An example could be AliExpress, with a 130B in revenue and 11B in profit (2023), it would reduce their profit to 3.2B with the 6% fine. That’s a whopping 70% less profits, and cutting expenses isn’t gonna fix it either.

If you cared to read the article, you will find that they also are investigating AliExpress, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.

It’s 6% of revenue, not profit. So it cuts even more into profits as it doesn’t allow a company in breach of regulations to reduce the impact of the fine by adding expenses that will temporarily lower their profit.

Even more spicy, they can also impose periodic penalties up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover for each day of delay in complying. That shit can bankrupt you.

No shit. Glad they investigated it so it’s official, though. I ditched my account when Phony Stark took over as the writing was on the wall.

Anyone who still uses X is complicit. There’s so many alternative platforms to invest in, there’s no excuse anymore.

Wow what a read that was. Only skimmed through the first few pages, but that is just terrible product owner behavior. And this guy is the cofounder? Fuck Discourse