It’s a bot reposting from reddit as-is.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sycophant

In this case, either:

One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer

or

One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential

Not if encrypted traffic with no state-sanctioned backdoor is forbidden.

These posts (the bad ones) are likely posted by bots, and swarm the popular/hot topics randomly. Following what’s most likely already hindered content, weirdly enough, protect about that.

Ubuntu: also now coffee is replaced by soy milk and rat poop. Rejoice.

Yeah. Basically, we get a pre-filled form with most of what can automatically filled in, already filled in. Of course some stuff like donations (which are deductible) and other stuff that are not automatically linked to you have to be added by hand, but for a vast majority of people there is no such thing.

So basically, open the pre-filled form, check that the incomes and your current situation is correct, send it back, then you basically get the amount (which can be either automatically collected through direct debit at a given date, split monthly, or paid manually).

We usually argue about why and how much tax we pay, but I never had any heated discussion about the tax system itself.

The overlap of people that will not remove the initial bloat (even if it’s a button displayed prominently on first start) and people inclined to use Linux in the first place is not that great.

It’s supposedly containerisation, but not really docker. After all, docker itself merely presents the OS’s underlying feature in a somewhat more accessible way (keyword: somewhat).

Snap is more like a big ecosystem around that idea that breaks everything that should work in that context, is a security nightmare and is sold as “work anywhere” but really only work in one place, which developers could have targeted in the beginning without having to rely on Snap to begin with.

It’s probably not about that, but Bing is actually integrated in the start/search menu by default.

You can Ctrl+R, type “ls”, then keep hitting Ctrl+R until you find one without arguments if you need them. Efficiency at its finest.

But if we show a full-sized scrollbar all the time, we lose all that space that we could have left completely empty otherwise!

Yeah, losing function over form is annoying.

Some people fail to see that, it’s a matter of how you value the service. I still think the current price is a bit high for a subscription, and I have some issues with how these subscriptions end up being split between youtube and content creators.

But, should youtube go all out and make ad blockers unusable? Sure, I’ll probably pay. The content on youtube, assuming a fair share to creators, is way more valuable than ten-ish buck a month. I’ll still fight to the end to make ad blocking work though.

They all do now. MMS, iMessage, any other messaging app, also require an active data connection to actually reach your phone.

The only thing that did not require an active data connection in place is real SMS, with all its limitations.

Yeah, after burning down something popular, he get off without any repercussions (aside maybe a big bag of cash) and is likely to go find the next successful thing to burn it down, to get another big bag of cash.

Can we purge these people out once they failed everywhere?

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Not with a good enough model, no. Not without some ridiculous expense, which is not what this is about.

if trained right, way more knowledgeable that the human counterparts

Support is not only a question of knowledge. Sure, for some support services, they’re basically useless. But that’s not necessarily the human fault; lack of training and lack of means of action is also a part of it. And that’s not going away by replacing the “human” part of the equation.

At best, the first few iterations will be faster at leading you off, and further down the line once you get something that’s outside the expected range of issues, it’ll either go with nonsense or just makes you circle around until you’re moved through someone actually able to do something.

Both “properly training people” and “properly training an AI model” costs money, and this is all about cutting costs, not improving user experience. You can bet we’ll see LLM better trained to politely turn people away way before they get able to handle random unexpected stuff.

We’ve been permeated by the idea that “you have to be financially productive to be a decent human” for so long, even people against excessive/useless work still sometimes miss the point of this crazy race toward making more benefit regardless of anything else.

Sometimes, reaching the “it works” point is enough, but higher ups never stops there. It always have to be “better/more”.

I think you’re talking about actual support, that knows their tools and can do things.

This article sound more about the generic outsourced call center that will never, ever get something useful done in any case.

I really hope it’s a surprise to no one. Having full control over the access to any media is the core principle behind any online-only, DRM-based service.

Dying doesn’t turn your past actions into good deeds.

On one hand, this can be seen as a signal to allow shooting shitty people, which is bad for a plethora of reasons. On the other hand, shitty people.