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Excuse you. I may be stupid, but my underwear is soft and comfortable.

I think some of this is the safety aspect, like gay men can joke around with women or exist in her personal space because women won't see that guy as a predator or think "but what if he is actually objectifying me or will turn on me in the future for not reciprocating like he wants?"

I find these sort of behaviors uncomfortable, on a personal level. Like, I don't want to call any woman a slur, even jokingly. But different people have different thresholds.

However, as a gay trans man (and smaller than most women), I have noticed that some women are much more comfortable interacting with me than they are with other men. I'm not seen as any sort of threat or concern. I think that's the important part, threat assessment (sounds crazy if you haven't lived in that world, but women are constantly performing threat assessment as they go about their day - what an awful thing for half of the population to have to just live with).

The most important aspect of any relationship, and this includes friendship, is consent. Like, if a woman and a gay man have a sort of relationship where they have mutually agreed this sort of stuff is ok, more power to them. But there can't be assumptions made on this, like a gay man can't think "it's fine for me to call women slurs jokingly, after all I'm gay" because not all women will be ok with that, and vice versa. Each person is an individual, there's no group monolith that makes certain behaviors universally okay.

Someone else in the thread linked this article which has just come out as well and seems to be a summary of an ex-employee's accusations of terrible working conditions on Twitter. (I can't see the Twitter thread because of no account so I can't link to a primary source, sorry.)

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The company my workplace partners with for our IT Helpbot has given a lot of insight into how their LLM system works, and the big thing about it is the langchain and the checks and balances.

Like, you ask "how fix printer error" and instead of hallucinating a response, it first queries our help articles for the correct information and finds the correct snippet to include, along with a link to the source. It also checks whether the user has access to that source material, and if not then it won't return it but it will proactively tell the user that and ask whether the user wants to open a help request for access to that info. (We haven't implemented a lot of this stuff in our own workplace because it requires so many coordinating integrations - this is a best case scenario.)

Then, before sending, a second AI comes in and double-checks whether the response is going to be truthful and factual and non-toxic, or else the response has to be regenerated.

This stuff is incredibly powerful but it's not as simple as "train an LLM and release it on the world" - you need to really think through it as one tool in your toolbox, and how it will interact with those other tools. The only people it's good at replacing, at least in it's current state, is L1 Help Desk who only read and respond from SOPs. Otherwise, Copilots can be a good way to assist in coding for example (ChatGPT has given me great insight into my PHP errors for example) but it certainly can't do the actual work for you.

I wouldn't say the hype is dangerous or overblown, because this stuff can be absolutely transformative if applied correctly, but executives see dollar signs and think they can replace real thinking humans and then they suffer the consequences, because they didn't understand the very initiative they directed.

Actual attempt at an answer!

ActivityPub has actors and activities. These are very broadly defined - yes, a user is an actor, but so is a magazine in kbin. A like, a thread, and a microblog are all activities. These come from an actor, and they are sent to and cc'd to other actors in the fediverse.

NNTP, however, is not actor to actor, it's server to server, to my understanding.

In practice, the way this is implemented here, it's not that much of a practical difference, but it's interesting to know.

The other difference is that NNTP servers would forward messages to their other known NNTP servers, essentially creating a distributed network of information. Per the ActivityPub protocol however, no instance is obligated to do that on ActivityPub. The only obligation for forwarding is if a) The values of to, cc, and/or audience contain a Collection owned by the server (e.g. followers is a Collection) AND The values of inReplyTo, object, target and/or tag are objects owned by the server. So basically if I receive something from lemmy.world user actor, to lemmy.world community actor... Even if kbin.social hasn't received it and errored out, I have no obligation as the.coolest.zone to send it out to them.

I learned that a jackdaw is not, in fact, a crow.

But more seriously... While I'm struggling to come up with concrete examples right now, I learned a lot of trivia, read some really interesting anecdotes, and broaded some of my knowledge via Reddit. For all of Reddit's many (many) faults, the people who were willing to take the time to converse and share knowledge were never the problem. They were the reason I stuck around for so long.

I miss the heyday of Something Awful. It was an experience that was great while it happened and should never come back given current sensibilities.

If your social security number is stolen, it's a huge fuckin deal but at least you can get the government to issue a new one.

What happens if my eyeball wallet is stolen? "Sorry, you need new eyes?" Am I locked out of the Orbconomy for the rest of my life? 👁️👄👁️

The image doesn't appear to show up in lemmy so hopefully this link works.

The problem is that there are a million logos from the 90s that have the same stylized "separate head". I'm attempting to attach an image to show off some examples. While I absolutely feel like I recognize the logo you've posted, I think it could be an amalgamation of many of them.

At my old job we had a system of first initial + last name, or if that was already taken then the first two characters of first name + last name, etc. A ticket came into us from an Lo[...] Li who had some concerns about being [email protected]. We obviously gave him an alias.