Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently

Hotmail just evolved into outlook, I know a few people who still use it

My dad is the only person I have come across in at least a decade who still uses his AOL email address

An independent NGO or watchdog kind of regulatory body staffed by psychology and technology experts with the legislative teeth to issue cease notices with meaningful fines to back them up (take the GDPR penalties as inspiration) should a media platform implement a harmful user experience.

It would be important that the organisation is protected from lobbying interests and direct control from the elected politicians. Though obviously its existence would hinge on the corresponding legislation being persisted.

The result will be a couple of big fines and then everyone else will play ball

This article gets so close but it feels like it goes right past the actual point.

Profit motivated tech companies are weaponising psychology to dominate your time. There’s nothing stopping them from turning your reward system against yourself. Plus given this time is generally being spent on passive consumption, of course people are gonna end up dumber—brains need exercise just like the rest of your body.

Regulation is basically the only way to remedy this (beyond actually nationalising these organisations) and unfortunately it’s gonna have to be American regulation for the most part, which I’m not gonna hold my breath for under the next administration

This.

“Don’t just copy and paste from Encarta” was commonly recited by my teachers when I was younger

That’s a good feghoot

Do we have a community for them somewhere here?

Good work Lemmy, I came in to make a baptism of fire or a friar joke and they’ve already been made

I think we’re gonna make it

My local area group is pretty much the only thing I remotely use it for and that’s a rarity

I’ve not posted anything about myself in getting close to a decade now

Gotta be honest, that’s literally what outlaw means

I see where you’re coming from but then you could easily headline this as “Teenage con man scams $50k”

Just because some people are gullible, and even if they’re also often shitty people, it doesn’t mean they deserve to be scammed

Pretty useful for software engineering, particularly helpful in writing a test suite, you still need to actually check the output though ofc

Also made use of it for writing my end of year review to solve the blank page problem, I find it a lot easier to edit down than starting HR stuff like that entirely from scratch

Through what mechanism am I being teleported?

Can I be teleported to the origin of it?

“my father is a cringelord”

A large number of Americans generally seem to grow up with a main character complex thanks to all the individualist & jingoist propaganda people get bombarded with over there.

The search for something “exotic” as you put it is just an ego-driven search for the piece of evidence that they are, in fact, more special and unique than everyone else.

A modern text editor with language servers running absolutely will take up 1GB+, I know I can easily get neovim to go past that with typescript projects.

AI “tools” like this are an absolute piece of piss to create, and they are also the kind of thing that bro investors love to throw money at currently

I’m in the UK where we’ve got the NHS and cheap medicine, so that might be why I’m hard on the “just give me the medicine” side of things.

I can’t think of any situation when I’d pick an alternative herbal medicine over the medical solution from a chemist if I actually had a problem I wanted to resolve.

The next head of state for the USA famously is allergic to the truth, why would we hold American companies to a higher standard?

Huh, didn’t know I understood German

Edit: oh I just made OP’s joke again

A lot of popular YouTubers use the same couple of libraries too

That would make the site look a lot less popular and tank the share price

Hell, I’m of the opinion that they run some of the bots themselves