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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Let's say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You are describing Real Time with Bill Maher. People continue to watch his show. At least, I think you are, because I'm not sure what a "questionable guest" even is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My (red) state is one of those that changed the law to make it illegal for pornographic websites to be seen by children. To view them, you'd have to have some kind of central ID to prove that you are over 18. This is absolutely a precursor to having to have an ID to use the internet at all. Every bad thing that has ever happened on the internet will be used to convince legislators to enact a law like this. It's only a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the choice of SIlverstone for the case. I got one of those for my proxmox server. It was compact, but not so compact that I left a lot of skin and blood behind after mounting components. I will say that other manufacturers (like Fractal Design just seem to understand how to design an interior a lot better, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have never been so glad that I talked myself out of buying the new iPhone this year! Siri is the primary input method I use for my iPhone. I would say I make around 20-30 vocal requests a day. It will be so nice to be able to do things like create a meeting on a calendar with a conversation instead of having to frame the request in a single sentence! I hope they do this rollout well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

In 2005 or so, I got a tip about an application called LaunchBar, which would later be copied by Apple to replace the Sherlock search tool, and later by Microsoft in its PowerToys suite. The machine learning LaunchBar used to tailor its responses based on my previous behavior was life-changing. Instead of configuring an application, I just had to use it to change how it behaved.

This is how language models and AI are going to improve your products. Subtly. Behind the scenes. Slightly improving a thousand different use cases, only a fraction of which your regular usage patterns are going to intersect with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for posting this! I thought I had been banned.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I thought it was just me! I woke up one day to find that I was logged out, and I couldn’t log in via my apps or even via the Lemmy UI. I thought I had been banned!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Full results from the study, presented at the American Heart Association annual scientific meeting in Philadelphia and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest the drug has other beneficial effects beyond the known health benefits from losing weight.

The heart risk difference between patients who received Wegovy, known chemically as semaglutide, and those on placebo began to appear almost immediately after starting treatment, researchers said.

So it’s not just from losing weight!

The associated risk factors include inflammation, blood pressure and blood sugar control, all of which can impact heart health.

Patients on Wegovy experienced decreases in C-reactive proteins, an indication of inflammation, similar to those reported with cholesterol lowering statins, which are known to significantly lower heart risks, researchers reported.

That is really promising!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. That's what I get for having a ton of tabs open!

 

Ignore the article's over-sensational headline. This is actually a great look at how and why opinions on sensitive cultural issues have changed over time.

 

I’ve come across other articles from EFF that describe how to take advantages of the DMCA safe harbor provision. This is the first article I’ve seen that directly addresses the Fediverse. If you have a Mastodon, Lemmy, or other Fediverse server, this will probably be of interest to you.

 

The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It's making for an engaging show that also feels modern.

 

This is the state where cannabis is legal and shrooms are decriminalized. NOW it makes more sense!

 

They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.

 

Greetings, ~~programs~~ -- er, ninjas:

Server Upgrades

We've been hard at work analyzing our analytics and tuning the site. If you've been watching our user growth, you would have noticed a dramatic increase in users last month corresponding to the Reddit exodus. Well, we certainly noticed. We started watching the server very closely and tuning it to give you the best experience. I won't go into too much boring detail, but I will say that the server has substantially more resources. We hope this will help speed up your Lemmy-browsing experience.

Software Updates

We continue to keep Lemmy as up-to-date as possible. We're now on Lemmy 0.18.4, which is the latest stable release. We work hard to upgrade to the newest versions as quickly as we can. If the inconceivable happens and we miss a major release, you can help by letting us know about it in this community.

Admin Actions

We've also been hard at work monitoring our connection to the rest of the Fediverse. Our philosophy continues to be to maintain connections to as many instances as we possibly can. This means that we focus our administrative actions on users rather than communities or instances. We've banned spam bots and bad actors from other sites. If you see someone breaking the rules here or elsewhere, please report them so that we can investigate and, if necessary, take action. We like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt as much as we can, and we strive for a permissive application of the rules. On the same token, however, we don't want to let a real problem fester and create serious issues for other administrators. So please help us keep the instance a friendly place by using that report button. It just brings the issue to our attention. No corrective action is taken automatically when you use it. And of course, thank you to everyone who has already helped us identify problems.

One of our tasks right now is to open more channels of communication between ourselves and the admins of other instances. This will help us better understand threats as they arise, and to deal with them before they impact your experience here.

Rules Updates

Speaking of rules, we have again removed some rules we felt were duplicative. Re-evaluating the rules and pruning excessive restrictions is an activity we revisit frequently. We want to make the rules easy to understand and remember. That usually means shortening them and keeping them simple, so don't be surprised if we shorten that sidebar even more in the future. We haven't added any new rules. If we do, you'll hear about it here.

Moderators Needed!

We don't have that many communities here at lemmy.ninja. But if you are subscribed to one and you don't mind acting as a moderator, we could really use your help! Reach out to me or to @[email protected] to let us know you're interested and we'll see about adding you to the team.

Our Roadmap

We plan to continue to improve Lemmy.ninja iteratively. Some things we have been considering are:

  • A mobile interface for the site
  • Alternative front-ends for you to use
  • Live site analytics
  • Collaborations with other instances

A lot of these things depend on how the site evolves and where we need to put our efforts. Nevertheless, these are some of the things that you might be seeing in the months ahead!

Wrapping Up

That's all for now, ninjas! If you have ideas for the site, feel free to comment below. Questions, too!

 

You'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the profusion of AI-generated images on the internet. Some are beautiful, some are unsettling, but most of the ones people take the time to post are interesting. If you like the occasional artistic image to flow across your timeline, Stable Diffusion Art will make a great subscription for you.

Now, this is not to be confused with Stable Diffusion, also at dbzer0.com. Stable Diffusion Art is the showcase community, whereas Stable Diffusion is a discussion community about the generative program.

What I like the best about Stable Diffusion Art is that it has themed contests. Someone will post a theme (such as "zombie apocalypse"), and everyone is free to submit comments with the art they generated along that theme.

Go give it a look. We can all use a bit more art in our lives!

 

This isn’t terribly long — maybe 6.5 minutes. It compares and contrasts traits of fascists and authoritarians to see where Donald Trump fits best. I’m curious to know if you agree with Reich’s conclusions.

 

Searching through communities can be a daunting task. At latest count, there are over 15,000 communities to choose from. In addition, it’s common to pick communities that you are already interested in. This forms a bit of a bubble, where the content you are exposed to is the content you already agree with and like. So how do you push those boundaries and find new and diverse communities?

One way is to visit a random community. Lemmy-Discover makes this easy by giving you an interface that will show you exactly one community. You’ll see its statistics as well as a few posts and their associated comments. If the community isn’t for you, you can press the big red skip button and see another random community.

(Those of us who are of a certain age will recognize this immediately — it’s just flipping through the channels on the TV to see what’s on. How many great shows did you discover this way?)

It looks like Lemmy-Discover is designed to be an alternative front-end for Lemmy communities. It provides a “Follow” button that, if you create an account, is like subscribing to a community. But for our purposes, it makes a great Community discovery tool.

 

Because … why not? It’s the OCHO!

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