I’m part of a coalition trying to prevent a private equity firm from buying out a local nonprofit hospital and using AI to “Improve efficiency” is one of their plans that we’ve had to study (done by people much more competent than I).

The main thing they plan to use AI for is filling out paperwork - nurses will record their introductory interviews with patients and the AI (basically, speech recognition + knowing what fields to fill out for certain information) will automatically fill out that patient’s chart.

I’m sure they’re planning on using AI for other purposes as well, but this is the most prevalent use - speech recognition and filling out charts automatically.

One thing that people seem to take for granted is that these government-hosted instances would be open to the public for account creation, while this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Not everyone can get a statedepartment.gov email address. Not everyone needs to be able to get a @statedepartment.mastodon.gov handle. Just leave it to public officials only.

Using words like “Abnormal”, “Weird”, or “An Aberration” don’t really have the same connotations as “From another planet.” It’s not a negative thing. More often I’ve seen it used in a positive way, like when someone does something good that most people wouldn’t.

I am an Authoritarian. “Authoritarianism” as a pejorative is a liberal buzzword, and I am not a Liberal. Any Marxist who has actually read a book will say the same.

What system do you believe in, oh politically enlightened Redditor? Or are you just a South Park Libertarian who believes that caring about things and having opinions is cringe?

Yes

Gommunism is when no food, iPhone vuvuzela

Stalin and Mao were glorious and the tankies are correct.

I think you might have just missed the joke.

The exterminator was using cheese as bait for the mice, but Heathcliff ate the cheese instead.

I am not going to go into whether it's right or not, but using the term "B*tching" may not be a slur, but it is still considered misogynistic in many cases, because it is comparing a negative action (complaining) with a misogynistic stereotype (the B*tch).

R*tard is a slur, but if you called something r*tarded, that would still be ableist and be rightfully removed. Many people believe that the same logic should apply to misogynistic slurs.

Whether you agree or not is up to you, but the developers' logic for the filter being in the state it is is sound.

Bomb Palm Beach

It does feel kinda weird asking someone out at their place of work and I don’t want to put her in an awkward situation.

While I get that things are different across genders, my first date out of high school was a girl who asked me out while I was working (in fact, I’ve never dated a person I met outside of school or my or their work). My dad asked my mom out while she was working. Everyone meets people at work, it’s where we spend the vast majority of our time out of the house; and the same people who say you shouldn’t approach women at their place of work say the same thing about the gym, the store, and public transit.

I find that when (many) young women say “I don’t like it when men do X” (such as, “ask me out while I’m working”), they really just mean guys who are (1) way too old, (2) overly persistent, or (3) complete strangers. If you roughly fit within the “half your age plus seven” rule, and she’s spoken to you longer than she is contractually obligated to by her job, you’re probably in the clear to offer to give her your number and to let you know if she wants to grab lunch sometime.

Speaking as a Lemmygrad guy. He’s a Lemmygrad power poster. I honestly don’t know how the guy does it. Not only does he have the articles, he’s got the sources to back up his claims in the comments. It’s truly admirable. I’d love to meet him sometime.

While most Socialists let Reactionaries shame them into silence, Yogthos posts the truth despite negative criticism.

Make an account on an instance that does not federate with porn instances, like Lemmy.ml or Lemmygrad.ml.

That way, nsfw posts will show up (crisis photos, raunchy memes, etc.) but literal porn will not.

Most general-purpose instances don’t allow porn so as long as your home instance blocks them, you’re good.

Agreed, but I think the opposite point is more poignant: Yes, you are owed things. Take them.

For example, what should be shown when you subscribe to a video hosting service through a Lemmy instance? An aggregated list of thumbnails? A list of videos? What is a video hosting service to a link aggregator.

While I agree with the general premise, this is actually something a link aggregator would handle well. Translating, say, a YouTube video to a Reddit or Lemmy post is just title to title, video as the link, description as the text, replies as comments. Despite being shown very differently and used for different purposes, they’re about as similar on the backend as any two formats. Converting Tweets to Reddit posts and vice-versa is more difficult.

Good, I'm a Tankie too.

As far as I’m aware Lemmygrad has been federated with lemmy.world at least since the Reddit flood.

When you rotate an image in your phone or on your computer (by right-clicking or going into the image options and selecting “Rotate Right” or w/e), the device is not editing the image to rotate it 90 degrees. It’s just adding a little metadata tag that tells devices loading the image “display this, but rotate it 90 degrees”.

Lemmy scrapes off metadata as a privacy concern, since this also holds personal and location data. There have been a few medium-profile events of internet stalkers getting location data off of women’s selfies and going straight to their homes.

I’m not sure if there’s a simpler solution, but opening the image in an image editor and saving it again should remove the metadata tag and save it as an actual, upright image. However, this is a problem that the devs should fix - platforms like Discord also shave off metadata, but know enough to leave the orientation data intact.

I thought I read somewhere that other local users can also see your comments?

I wonder if that applies to other federated instances as well. Like if my home instance (lemmygrad.ml) is federated with lemmy.ml, and I make a post on BeeHaw (which is not federated with either), could lemmy.ml users see my comment?

There are far easier, more secure ways for people sharing, say, child porn to do so than hosting a Lemmy instance. The only real benefit of a Lemmy instance would be the ease of use.

A Lemmy instance is just a website, possibly running on someone’s basement server rack. There’s no way for any authority to stop them from hosting child porn on that server, unless that authority is (1). Their ISP or (2). The police.

Lemmy (or, rather, ActivityPub) is just an internet protocol, like Email. You can’t stop someone from hosting child porn on a Lemmy instance just like you can’t stop someone from sending child porn over email. This is not a reason that Lemmy should not exist in the same way it’s not a reason for secure, encrypted email to not exist. Enforcement falls to traditional, (supposedly) accountable authorities, which is much better than it falling to administrators of a private company.