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TheBat , to asklemmy in Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not worried about AI replacing employees

I’m worried about managers and bean counters being convinced that AI can replace emplpyees

lagomorphlecture ,

It’ll be like outsourcing all over again. How many companies outsourced then walked back on it several years later and only hire in the US now? It could be really painful short term if that happens (if you consider severeal years to a decade short term).

Rooskie91 ,

Do you know any examples of which companies that have done this? I’m not asking to be fecitiois, just genuinely curious.

lagomorphlecture ,

The one I work for did this years ago before I worked here. I already have enough personal info about myself out there so not gonna name the company lol I know I’ve seen that at other companies too.

teawrecks ,

Given the degree to which first-level customer service is required to stick to a script, I could see over half of call centers being replaced by LLMs over the next 10 years. The second level service might still need to be human, but I expect they could be an order of magnitude smaller than the first tier.

lagomorphlecture ,

They’re supposed to be on script but customers veer off the script constantly. They would be extremely annoyed to be talking to AI. Not that it would stop some companies but it would be terrible customer service.

teawrecks ,

That’s what tier 2 service would be for. But the vast majority of calls are people wanting to execute a simple order or transaction, or ask a silly question they could have googled.

If your problem can be solved by a bot, and it means you can be done immediatelu and don’t need to be on hold for 20m+ waiting for t2 support, you’re going to prefer it.

Also, we’ve come a long way in just 2-3 years. It will be very difficult for us to talk about how good the experience will be in 5-10 years.

knightly ,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

If your problem can be solved by a bot, then an old fashioned touch-tone phone menu would be an entirely sufficient solution, no “AI” needed.

If not, then plugging an LLM into your IVR will never be worth the expense since the customer will need to talk to a human anyway.

“AI” is a bubble. Sure, it might have some niche applications where its viable, but it’s heavily overpromised and due for disinvestment this year.

teawrecks ,

And yet, we don’t use touch-tone menus, bots that suck are already commonplace. An LLM bot could stand to dramatically improve the user experience, and would probably use the same resources that the current bots do.

Simple things like “I want to fill a prescription” or “I want to schedule a technician” or “do you have blah in stock” could be orchestrated by a bot that sounds human, and people would prefer that to traversing a directory tree for 10m.

I don’t even want to think about how someone would implement a customer facing inventory query using a touch-tone interface, let alone use that.

knightly , (edited )
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

I fail to see how adding an LLM to an IVR could improve that situation. Keywords like “fill perscription”, “schedule technician”, and “do you have [blank] in stock” are already present and don’t need any kind of text generation to shunt a caller into the appropriate queue or run a query on a warehouse database.

Where, exactly, do you think an LLM could contribute other than, like, a computer generated bedtime story hotline or something?

teawrecks ,

I fail to see how adding an LLM to an IVR could improve that situation.

Ok. I’m not trying to convince you of anything, nor am I the one responsible for this, I’m just very confident this will inevitably happen. Only time will tell.

knightly ,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

Oh, no question. I’m sure someone will think it’s a good idea and waste a lot of money on it.

lightnsfw ,

I was a supervisor of a call center up until recently and yea, this is definitely coming. It’s was already to the point where they were arguing with me about hiring enough people because soon we’ll have an AI solution to take a lot of the calls. You can already see it in the chat bots coming out.

Hamartiogonic ,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Copilot is just so much faster than me at generating code that looks fancy and also manages to maximize the number of warnings and errors.

fievel OP ,

Clearly my main concern… But after reading a lot of reinsuring comments, I’m more and more convinced that human will always be superior

teawrecks ,

That will happen. And if they’re wrong, they’ll crash and burn. That’s how tech bubbles burst.

Artyom , (edited )

This is their only retaliation for the fact that managers have already been replaced by git tools and CI.

bjoern_tantau , to asklemmy in How would you feel if Beehaw left the Fediverse?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

I’m subbed to some communities on Beehaw and I would miss them. But not enough to make an account on Beehaw to get them back.

rgb3x3 ,

Beehaw as an instance doesn’t have nearly enough content to justify defederation. It wouldn’t be missed if they moved somewhere else.

That being said, I do enjoy the discussions and would personally be disappointed to see it move or be closed off, but not enough to move with it.

fishos , to asklemmy in What would be a good name for a federated Wikipedia?
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

As it stands now, you can download all of Wikipedia for offline viewing. It’s not restricted in any way. And since Wikipedia is looking for objective truth, not opinions, I’m not sure what benefit federation would do. You want it centralized, not broken up. What happens when two instances decide that their version is the only correct one?

I just don’t see any benefit. This feels like when everyone was slapping “blockchain” on things because it was the current buzzword. What is Wikipedia failing at currently that decentralizing it would make better?

nix ,
@nix@merv.news avatar

It doesnt have to be a federated “wikipedia” it can be a federated wiki. Look at the fandom controversy right now where a bunch of games are now moving to their own wikis. A federated wiki software would let all those game wiki host their own wikis but still contribute to eachother without making an account on each wiki.

I want to subscribe to the minecraft and the terraria wikis from my garrys mod wiki account to get notifications on new pages and i want to contribute to them without making an account on each. Federated wikis would be cool

Also i DEFINITELY want a full fledged wiki page available on lemmy so each community can have a wiki with multiple pages and nice linking and a WYSISWYG editor like wikipedia

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

This isn’t talking about “wikis”. This is talking about an online encyclopedia of knowledge. I don’t want 15 versions of the “physics wiki”. I want one centralized source. So again, what does Wikipedia currently fail at that decentralizing it would solve? No one is stopping you from making an account right now and making edits.

What you’re describing about seeing updates is just an RSS feed.

This is just slapping “federization” on something that doesn’t need it because cool new thing.

lud , (edited )

Agreed, a decentralised wiki wouldn’t make much sense.

How would it even work?

Do you join one wiki and that wiki federated with other wikis to make one bigger wiki?

Would you then have to choose which version of duplicate articles you want to read.

I imagine vandalism would be much easier if moderation is spread over many independent servers.

No, it just seems like a pain.

Someone mentioned a wiki which uses something like pull requests instead of edits and that seems much better.

Because Wikipedia is also so incredibly big, I feel like it would be very hard to get people to use the wiki if you actually want it to have only objective and provable facts. You could probably attract a crowd that likes alternative facts. Like: alternative medicine, flat earth, pseudoscience. Basically, I think it would be hard to attract people unless you make it ConspiracyWiki, which would obviously be a bad idea.

nutomic OP ,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

Wikipedia has very major problems, but almost nobody is aware of them. Give this article a read to get an idea.

lud ,

I don’t have the time to read all of that, but everyone should know that alternative medicine is another word for not medicine.

It’s bizarre that people still believe stuff like that and other pseudoscience.

All the bad conspiracy theories around ADD, ADHD, Autism, and it’s various medications are really getting on my nerves.

And it feels like it will just keep on getting worse. It’s insane how much (at least apparent) movement the anti vac crowd are getting.

Sorry for the rant.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s pretend I agree with the article. You’d still be in the same boat with a federalized wiki. It’d still be hundreds of thousands of volunteer contributors, and that’s where all the corruption supposedly lies. Except now it’s broken up amongst many many many places, and moderation is that much harder now. So, for the upteenth time, what exactly is Wikipedia THE PLATFORM failing at, and why is the fediverse a solution to that specific problem? What part of wikipedias code or implementation is broken and what will the equivalent federated code/setup look like to combat this? Because if you’re just going to point to corrupt people, I have a whole world for you to take a look at. Corruption isn’t a uniquely Wikipedia problem and isn’t caused by their code.

nutomic OP ,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

It sounds like you didn’t read the article at all, because it clearly explains how Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself is involved in many such cases of corruption and manipulation. The code is not the problem, but the fact that a single organization has full control over the site and can decide which contributions get accepted or rejected.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

So, you STILL HAVENT ANSWERED MY QUESTION.

What part of wikipedias code or implementation is the problem? And how will the fediverse solve this?

IF dude is corrupt, what’s to stop the next fediwiki from being corrupt too? After all, since it’s federated, if I don’t like your “facts”, I can just defederate and spread my own “facts”.

So maybe do some reading of your own and answer my question. What’s wrong with the Wikipedia CODE that federated CODE will solve and how? Otherwise all you’re really advocating for is starting your own Wikipedia, and no one is stopping you.

This is just “old thing + new buzzword”.

nutomic OP ,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

I bet a year ago you would have said the exact same things about Lemmy, and yet here you are.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

I understand the difference between a centralized and decentralized service. I WANT Wikipedia to be centralized. I’ve said that since the beginning. Objective truth has no business being splintered up.

nutomic OP ,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar
nix ,
@nix@merv.news avatar

Why are you so heated about this? Wikis are good, decentralized yet compatible services are good. This won’t destroy Wikipedia. you can just ignore it if you don’t want to use it?

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not heated. Just sick of people attaching whatever new buzzword is around to something with no thought beyond that. That’s all this is. Just a rehash of blockchain and NFT woo woo.

dessalines ,

What’s wrong with the Wikipedia CODE that federated CODE will solve and how?

Wikipedia is centralized, and doesn’t allow collaboration by self-hosted servers. Activitypub allows this. You seem to not understand the point of the site you’re using right now.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

I understand the point. I also know that we’re currently defederated from hexbear and a few others. So in effect, there is less openness currently in Lemmy than on Wikipedia. How exactly is being able to do that.going to give us objective truth and not just 500 echo chambers?

dessalines ,

You completely ignored the article, because it answers your question directly.

saigot ,

Those seem to be the same criticism almost everyone levels at the org, and that are more or less intrinsic to an open platform. mainly that anyone can edit it. How does federation solve these issues, seems to me it would make them much much worse.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Dude admitted higher up that it’s not the code, it’s the people in charge who are the problem. So all they’re really advocating for is starting their own Wikipedia. But of course, theirs will be “the real truth” when in actuality we will just end up with another version.

Relevant XKCD

dessalines ,

Dude admitted higher up that it’s not the code, it’s the people in charge who are the problem. So all they’re really advocating for is starting their own Wikipedia.

Replace wikipedia with reddit, and you just discovered the reason lemmy exists. The problem is not just the people, but the code too.

deur ,

Haha nobody needs this and youre too dumb to know.

dessalines ,

What is Wikipedia failing at currently that decentralizing it would make better?

Just like reddit (and many other services), its a centralized US-based service, has a history of scandals and conflicts of interest, has ties to the US state department, and is dominated by a small group of editors (despite its perception as being a universal unbiased knowledge store).

There’s definitely a need to decentralize knowledge, move it away from US control, and allow the collaboration that activitypub provides.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Federation, by it’s very nature, is “if I don’t like you, I can just make my own instance and do whatever I want”. How will you find objective truth when people can’t even agree within their own country? You really think we won’t just end up with LeftyWiki and RightyWiki and CommieWiki and FacistWiki? Because federated code would encourage this. You’re literally adding problems when your problem is people based, not code based.

nutomic OP ,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

There are plenty of Wikipedia articles which are not objective, particularly when it comes to politics or history. Of course federation means there would be many different wikis. That makes sense, for example different countries should have their own independent wikis, instead of using one controlled by a different nation.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, we can have a US wiki, a Russia Wiki, a China Wiki, a North Korea Wiki, and none of them will agree with each other and you will have reduced an encyclopedia into worthless anecdotes and opinions.

ademir ,
@ademir@lemmy.eco.br avatar

you will have reduced an encyclopedia into worthless anecdotes and opinions.

It is Wikipedia then.

peter ,
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

What benefit would federation provide in that case, as people can currently make their own wikis if they want

dessalines ,

Why is having alternative sources of information that can collaborate a bad thing?

Why are you even on lemmy, rather than reddit, if you’d rather have a single isolated source of communication?

jorgesumle ,

I agree, that’s a big issue. The US regime hires people to influence the Wikipedia organization, they choose the “reliable news sources”, mark some news outlets as fake news, and they edit articles about wars and so on to disseminate their propaganda. Also, the PATRIOT Act… As I wrote a couple months ago, we should end digital colonialism.

Scientific articles about math and stuff like that are fine.

Shayeta , to technology in How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?

You do realise that making a post like this makes wired users more likely to reply? I use wired daily, wireless too big and stuffy.

moonleay OP ,

Good argument. But isn’t that always the case when asking if ppl are / aren’t into a topic? A person, who is invested in the topic is way more likely to reply. I agree with you, but I don’t know how I could’ve avoided said issue.

Khanzarate ,

You can’t really avoid it in any easy way. If you could, the field of statistics would get a decent amount simpler. The only way to deal with the bias is with a survey pulled from random people, which you can’t really do easily here.

But this one will have a lot of bias, all the same.

Plum ,
@Plum@lemmy.world avatar

Reducing bias is tricky.

You want engagement from a. Mobile users who b. Use headphones c. With their phone, and the type of headphone connection is the end goal.

“How often do you use headphones with your phone, and are they wired/wireless” is clonky, but gets everything out there without too much leading. People more awake than me can help more.

*I use wired $9 shitty earbuds, daily. The Bluetooth ones are nice, but I lose them and the battery life sucks, and it’s a hassle.

daltotron ,

You know I think the way you eliminate that is less by relying on the frequency of use, and more by relying on the merits of the argument being had itself. A good part of this is gonna be calculated on whether or not the tradeoff of having an aux jack is worth it. For the consumer, this is needlessly stupid and there are like no phones now that have one, you have a limited selection and that sucks, but in terms of the actual core technology I really can’t see why you wouldn’t have one. The idea that it wastes the 2cm^3^ of space is kind of a poor argument, imo, when we’ve been switching from palm sized phones with bezels and home buttons, to phones that now stick out of my sweatpants pockets and have hole punch cameras and like four cameras on the back and somehow have less features. None of the market makes a lick of sense, right now, it all seems like manufactured demand and monopoly to me.

blanketswithsmallpox ,
Anamana ,

Airpods are too big and stuffy?

CrabAndBroom , to asklemmy in What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?

If it counts, definitely the Steam Deck. With that and emulators, it’s like having almost every game I’ve ever owned in one portable machine.

MomoTimeToDie ,

In a similar vein, I love my ps vita. Hacked, it’s an absolutely amazing console, and is able to boast the “actually fits in my pocket” award.

shapesandstuff ,

Such a cool console. Sony butchered it, but theres still so much fun to be had with it. We got a GTA san andreas port by the community ffs

MomoTimeToDie ,

Sony wishing they didn’t make the vita is a double edged sword, because it also means you can be a completely obvious hacker, and Sony doesn’t give a singular fuck. And they still ban people for hacking on ps3, so it isn’t just age.

GrappleHat ,
@GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

Similar here: Anbernic RG280V. Fits in a pocket. Plays everything up through PSX. I use it all the time!

https://www.notebookcheck.org/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc3/rg280v_02_603x500.jpg

lorty ,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Have had mine for 10 years and it still going. The screen edges are a bit yellow but not a big deal.

KSPAtlas ,
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

Yeah i have a modded psvita, scene is suprsingly active. You got ensō?

MomoTimeToDie ,

I have whatever I set up with when I hacked it tbh. I don’t really do much beyond transfer games onto it at this point

ColeSloth ,

Almost all my gaming is on my SD now. Love this thing.

moormaan ,

I came here to type that, so I’ll just upvote yours instead. Such a versatile device, the Steam Deck!

bnjmn ,

I just got one so reading this makes me hopeful. Fallen out of love with gaming a bit in recent years

Chobbes ,

I got one recently too, and it’s already helping me with this. I hope you find joy in it :). I never buy myself anything so I was worried I’d regret it… but I really like it so far.

bnjmn ,

Omg same, but it’s been a rough year so this is my Christmas gift to myself I guess. Also glad to hear it’s helping you :)

Chobbes ,

It’s been great for getting to games I’m not sure I would have otherwise. Ori and the Blind Forest was the perfect game to play through on it!

I hope you have a better rest of the year and beyond. This year stank a bit for me too, but there’s been some good things as well.

CheesyGordita ,

Check out “Dave the diver”. I’ve fallen out of love with gaming as well and I’ve been dropping a lot of hours into this game on my steam deck. Super unique and easy to pick up and put down. Feels fresh.

bnjmn ,

Will do sir

Thassodar ,

If you like platformers Bzzt just came out and would definitely run on the deck. For roguelikes I’d recommend Darkest Dungeon, Hades, or Rogue Legacy. For a straightforward RPG with 3D models but pixel art I’d recommend Octopath Traveller 2.

I also recommend Dave the Diver as well, fantastic game.

BlueFairyPainter ,

Also just ordered mine. Since I started working fulltime remote a year ago, I found myself not wanting to spend more time on my desk after work. That translated into me almost giving up gaming even though I used to love it. Moving to a place where I can have a second desk would cost me one Steam Deck per month so I just went with a Steam Deck lol

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

I got a retroid pocket 3+ for emulators and it’s fuckin awesome. I feel like a steam deck may be in my near future lol

rubythulhu ,

Along these lines, i’m thrilled with the ps portal as well. was only $200, but the ps online streaming is so good. i used to use it on ps4 on my ipad with an external controller from 1200 miles away at legit decent frame rate and latency.

ps portal’s display is crisp and beautiful, it looks so much more gorgeous than the steam deck (because all the rendering is done on the ps5), and there are some games that i don’t even really want to play on the big screen format that the portal has made awesome because they’re wonderful on handheld format.

best gaming purchase i’ve made in a long while

lolcatnip , to memes in Don't belive big telecom

Signs like that wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t living in a hypercapitalist dystopia.

ZiemekZ ,

Or if people just weren’t fucking thieves. Don’t defend criminals.

Zhao ,

Buddy, if prices keep rising like this. I will be a criminal pretty fucking soon. Shit is bonkers out here.

Tvkan ,

Acknowledging the causes for crime isn’t defending criminals. You will not be able to condemn these effects away.

psud ,

You don’t get many thieves in reasonably wealthy countries with reasonably level stratification

sederx , to showerthoughts in If other countries can afford massive internet pysops why can't I find a job in the states where I get to meme and troll all day for the US military?

Because you are not good at it

Daft_ish OP ,

At least let me apply. Or is this some recruit type situation where they meet me in a dark alley and burn off my fingerprints.

HikingVet ,

Email the CIA. Apply for military intelligence.

Daft_ish OP ,

Hello CIA,

How’s it going?

Stunning ,

We will be in touch.

Daft_ish OP ,

I think I just shit myself.

blanketswithsmallpox ,

… We’ve rescinded our be in touch.

nightwatch_admin ,

Hey, you’re not CIA - you’re the bald guy from the XCOM council!

CIA_chatbot ,

Doing alright, how you doing?

pm_me_your_quackers ,

5 month old account lmao

Fondots ,

You know years ago I heard a recruitment ad for the CIA on the radio, and that caught me a little off guard, I always kind of assumed the CIA personally reached out to specific candidates and hired through shady back channels and such and didn’t really do open recruitment.

I guess it makes sense though, for every James Bond type super spy there’s probably a hundred different random office staff, IT guys, clerks, mailroom guys, secretaries, janitors, accountants, etc. who handle boring day-to-day operational stuff and rarely or never get to see any of the crazy spy craft stuff happening.

And I guess once you land one of those jobs, maybe you can get your foot in the door for eventual promotion to International Man of Mystery.

intensely_human ,

You’re not supposed to talk about such messages. They’re only for you.

Finite ,

The CIA has an internship program for college grads

aidan ,

I looked into it, and honestly compared to most private sector internships it seemed terrible, one of the alphabet agency internships I looked at was unpaid maybe all of them. And it was the most stereotypical intern stuff. Organizing files and the like.

electric_nan ,

They recruit from college students studying Chinese, Arabic, Russian…

Agent641 ,

At my university my whole class was invited to a seminar about how and why to join the Australian secret intelligence service as an intel officer.

knobbysideup ,

If you have the background and get the right head hunter, you can get sponsored for your TS/SCI. I used to work for a place…

I will tell you, however, that working in a SCIF is not as awesome as it looks on TV.

flamingo_pinyata , to asklemmy in How far back in time can a modern computer be reversed engineered

The biggest issue would be microchips which require some really precise machinery to manufacture.

1930s - complete reverse engineering
By then they had both an understanding of semiconductors and computational theory. Using semi-conductive materials to compute wasn’t yet a thing, but there wouldn’t be much surprise at the concept. Some kind of reproduction is likely, probably not a 5nm manufacturing process like modern chip factories, but they could make it.

1890s - eventual understanding, but not able to manufacture
Measuring devices were sensitive enough by then to measure tiny electrical fluctuations. They would be able to tell the device functions due to processing of electrical signals, even capture those signals. Biggest missing piece is mathematical theory - they wouldn’t immediately understand how those electrical signals produce images and results. Reproduction - no. Maybe the would get an idea what’s needed - refining silicon and introducing other stuff into it, but no way they could do it with equipment of the day.

1830s - electricity goes into a tiny box and does calculations, wow!
This is the age of the first great electrical discoveries. They would be in awe what is possible, and understand on a high level how it’s supposed to work. Absolutely no way to make it themselves.

1730s - magic, burn the witch!

TonyToniToneOfficial ,
@TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml avatar

1730s - magic, burn the witch!

Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?

Peasant: More witches!

ColeSloth ,

The novel ways that we’ve come up with to make processors and circuit boards over the past 40 years has been pretty amazing. I believe you’re giving people of the 1930s too much credit here. Just for instance, the entire industry has known making chips smaller with more transistors will yield better performance for the past 40+ years. It’s taken coming up with manufacturing “tricks” this long to get down to what we have today. Same thing for ram and hard drives.

And the code that programs it all to run would be completely unreadable. Much less the understanding of all the code for stuff that wouldn’t have been named, created, or thought of, yet. Or how to program and read anything off the a solid state hard drive or the ram.

The first “digital computer” was made in 1945. You would bump that up a bit sooner by giving them a laptop in the 1930s, but most things since then have been just trying to refine the manufacturing process. They wouldn’t be able to recreate the laptop at all. Not even in the 1980s would they be able to create it.

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  • TonyTonyChopper ,
    @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

    I looked it up, the first first SEM was 1937, then commercial ones in 1965

    wabafee ,

    10,000 B.C. - UgA BuGa!

    Smokeydope ,
    @Smokeydope@lemmy.world avatar
    jedibob5 , to games in Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

    I wonder how much it has to do with how much of a shithole the Fandom network is. Between the godawful UX, aggressive SEO to bury competing wikis in search results, and scummy business practices that effectively prevent wiki admins from migrating to other hosts, the idea of maintaining a game wiki probably isn’t all that appealing these days.

    I miss Wikia…

    Illecors ,

    Would you care to elaborate on what’s preventing wiki admins from migrating?

    jedibob5 ,

    They don’t actually let admins shut down their wikis or remove content from them. They can leave and start a new wiki, but they have to leave the old one in place (for which Fandom could potentially just find new admins), and they can only link to the new wiki from the Fandom wiki for a period of two weeks. With Fandom’s SEO, there’s a good chance the Fandom wiki will still be ahead of search results of a new wiki even after migration. Source

    ono ,

    I wonder if this could be mitigated (or even nullified) by a cooperative game developer, through DMCA takedown notices sent to Fandom. There is a lot of art on these wikis, after all, and I imagine the copyright holder has some say in who is allowed to distribute it.

    Illecors ,

    Thank you. I’ve been dabbling with the idea of establishing a non-profit for my lemmy instance. I’m not a user of game/movie/etc wikis, but I do love looking after my servers. I wonder if a non-profit owned wiki site bear any weight over time.

    DrQuint ,

    Man this was an issue already some 10 years ago when touhou wiki went self-hosted. It took a whole year for google to get memo and link the new one above the old.

    Nowadays I assume it’s pretty much impossible to reverse the flow unless if your game is huge and highly sought after.

    EnglishMobster ,

    What are they going to do? Ban them?

    Honestly if I was migrating away from Fandom I’d do everything I can to burn every bridge. Go through and edit every page to have every link redirect to the better wiki. Ignore their 2-week period, and don’t inform the Fandom overlords that the wiki is being shut down (it’s not like they’re going to check without being prompted).

    I’d make them ban me, and then good luck finding an admin.

    jedibob5 ,

    It’s not too hard to roll back changes on a wiki. Any attempts at sabotage wouldn’t be very difficult to undo.

    AlexWIWA ,

    I am forever grateful that halopedia rolled their own wiki and was spared from the fandom plague.

    deranger ,

    Another stark comparison is UESP vs. Fandom for elder scrolls lore. Fandom is absolute cancer, poor UX even with an adblocker.

    AlexWIWA ,

    Yeah I find it completely unusable. I can’t use wookiepedia anymore because it is just awful to use. Like you said, it’s awful even with an ad blocker

    bionicjoey ,

    UESP is such a gem

    GrammatonCleric ,
    @GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Wikidot was the shit for Dark Souls games 😙👌

    SharkEatingBreakfast , (edited ) to asklemmy in What have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you?
    @SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works avatar

    P×dophiles are flocking to churches because they’re unregulated by the government. They’re becoming a safe haven for these sick fucks because they often attempt to handle conflict and scandals within their own walls. Also, due to a high need for childcare, often no background check is needed!

    A “scandal” is bad for business attendance numbers, so they like to keep it quiet, if they can.

    My family has gone to so many churches throughout the years, and at least 5 or 6 have had the sexual abuse of a child come to light within church leadership.

    I am dead serious about this: KEEP YOUR KIDS OUT OF CHURCHES!!!

    EDIT: I forgot to mention that most clergy are not bound by laws that would make them mandated reporters for child abuse.

    rikudou ,

    Even better, stop going to churches at all.

    SharkEatingBreakfast ,
    @SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I mean, yeah, that’s how I deal with it.

    But even some non-church-going folks with drop off their kids at “youth group” essentially for free childcare and debatable “moral development.”

    Bitrot ,
    @Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Even when it does come out, church people often rush to support the perpetrators. They do the “I’ve had a beer with them and I like them so they couldn’t be a bad guy” thing that I do not understand at all about people.

    Urbanfox ,

    This is true, they try to hide this type of activity, and if you fight it they’ll take you down too. Source: personal experience.

    JackbyDev ,

    It’s true. There will be some volunteer that has inappropriate behavior with a minor that gets kicked out then just does the same at a different church. No one tells the police because of the intense sexual shaming and stigma. This is when you’re lucky enough to be somewhere where the church doesn’t outright protect the abuser and force the abused out.

    UziBobuzi , to nostupidquestions in Can I ask this girl out?
    @UziBobuzi@kbin.social avatar

    It's not appropriate to ask a woman out when she's working. Service staff get hit on all day and they're just trying to work.

    You can slip her your number if she shows up at your place of business and leave the ball in her court though. If she doesn't contact you then there's your answer.

    ThisIsMySecretAccount OP ,

    I was thinking about something similar, but I’m of the opinion that straight up talking to a person is always better than just leaving a number. But yeah, I can totally see why it would be inappropriate hence why I’m asking for advice in how to handle this situation. It’s difficult, but I know I’ll regret it if I don’t ask her out somehow at some point

    UziBobuzi ,
    @UziBobuzi@kbin.social avatar

    I'm speaking as a woman who's been hit on at work. We're paid to be nice to the customers and too many customers take it as some sort of come-on. It's uncomfortable to be put in that position and you should be thinking of her comfort at her place of business above your own desires if you're really into her.

    ThisIsMySecretAccount OP ,

    That’s what I’m trying to do here yeah thanks for the advice

    UziBobuzi ,
    @UziBobuzi@kbin.social avatar

    Good for you for listening, and good luck.

    Mistymtn421 ,

    Just wanted to say I agree with everything you said. As a woman who has worked with the public for 30+ years I have never said yes to someone who asked me out while working.

    Ilikepornaddict ,

    You will regret it if you don’t take your shot. It’s probably best to do it at your work if she’s planning to come there anyway. That would eliminate the issue where she’s trapped by her job, and let you be more comfortable, as it’s your environment.

    However, despite everyone’s aversion to it here, it is perfectly ok to ask a girl out at her place of work. Just read the signs, if she’s pulling away, or turning sidways to you, looking around the whole time, just walk away. But if she maintains eye contact (within reason), is smiling, leans in, or makes any attempt at physical contact, then you’re good to go. It’s possible she’ll still say no but you won’t be doing anything wrong by asking.

    Everyone here seems to be suffering from a case of terminally online syndrome.

    captainlezbian ,

    Nah I’m against it because being hit on at work fucking sucks. I think you’re confusing being terminally online and things women have been saying for years but you only see online.

    Ilikepornaddict ,

    If a random dude decides to start hitting on a girl out of nowhere, I’d agree. But this sounds like a scenario that has developed over a period of time, which significantly changes the narrative. I met my gf because she hit on me at work, not all people are the same.

    phillycodehound ,
    @phillycodehound@lemmy.world avatar

    Totally agree don’t ask her out at her work. But if she comes to the restaurant why not ask for her number or give her yours.

    Corkyskog ,

    Here is how to be extra. Tell watier/waitresses what she looks like. If she comes in, bring out the food yourself and introduce yourself, assuming you haven’t already. Then have the waiter/waitress just write down your name and number on the check.

    You get a personal interaction so she knows your interested and the ball is all in her court. No mixed signals.

    eestileib ,

    This person seduces.

    Zippy ,

    Yes and do it when she is in the bathroom. Super romantic.

    Tiritibambix ,
    @Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml avatar

    Elegant and efficient 👍🏻

    evranch , to asklemmy in Has anyone installed solar panels? What has been your experience? DIY install extra appreciated.

    I’m an electrician, I found my own solar panels incredibly easy to install. The job is 90% racking and I would recommend buying a racking package if possible which includes all mounts, rail and fasteners.

    Take care as solar panels are ALWAYS LIVE. This is why they use the shielded connectors that they do. Do all the rest of your wiring first, then plug the panels in last.

    Make sure you have appropriate disconnecting means. If this is going to be grid tied in any way, make sure you’re familiar with the code as it will be inspected. If not grid tied you may be exempt, but this is no reason to just slap it up, still follow the code as it’s there for your safety.

    I recommend grid-interactive systems over grid-tied if you actually want to be power independent. Microinverters seem great until the power goes out and your panels are good for nothing. I would recommend a power blending transverter type system that allows 3-way power flow between panels, battery and grid. They have come way down in price and allow seamless integration of your loads compared to a charger/inverter system like I have.

    Run a string voltage as close as possible to your battery voltage to avoid conversion losses. It’s tempting to go for high string voltages but roof mount distances are usually really short and conversion will likely be most of your loss. I started with 140VDC strings and my charger ran hot, dropping to 70VDC made it run cool and boosted my output by over 10%.

    Depending on your utility it may not be worth selling power and the hassle or extra fees and regulations that come with it. That’s the case here - I just have automation set up to burn excess power for heat in winter and cooling in summer.

    Best of luck with your install, for sure it is way cheaper to DIY and not hard at all.

    z3rOR0ne ,

    Thanks for this extensive reply. Not the OP, but I’ve been slowly doing my research on this, and this gave me a good base of things to look into. Cheers!

    mosiacmango , (edited )

    An example of of “grid-interactive” system is the ecoflow smart home panel. It’s the front runner I’m looking at right now for my own system. It will dynamically balance where power is coming from based on your batteries/solar/grid state. Easy to expand battery packs, and ties directly into up to 10 circuits.

    ikidd ,

    What kind of charger are you using that needs to voltage match the batteries? I’m running 500V strings on a Luxpower 18K and it’s not an issue with the chargers in that.

    evranch ,

    Schneider MPPT 150. We sell a lot of Schneider at work and I got a good price on it. However it’s totally a piece of crap. It’s the only “150v” device I’ve ever seen where 150v is the do not exceed voltage rather than the operating voltage, and it will trip offline at 140v which causes a huge issue here in Canada where OCV can rise greatly below -20C.

    Wouldn’t recommend Schneider in general as they require their own proprietary CANBus mod to get telemetry out of any of their equipment.

    ikidd ,

    That’s been my impression of Schneider, great on AC but their solar stuff is a placeholder for “nobody every got fired for buying Schneider”. I thought they ran Modbus on their comms, pretty sure I’ve seen the modbus maps for them around the Homeassistant forums. Maybe it’s just some equipment, but the Conext is modbus afaik.

    I wouldn’t say the “150V” should be operating voltage by default, most SCCs I’ve used put that as the “do not exceed” number, just like the current. I’ve smoked relatively expensive charge controllers by being slightly over either of those numbers. Though Victron seem to be able to take it for a while without cratering.

    evranch ,

    Conext series support modbus BUT only through an overpriced gateway unit, the actual devices speak Xanbus unless they have updated them. There have been reverse engineering efforts that I think found it to be a polarity flipped or bit flipped CANbus but at the time nobody had a reliable translation layer. I believe Schneider bought Xantrex and rebranded their inverters and chargers as their Conext solar line.

    The “do not exceed” nameplate ratings may be more typical in solar, but in the regular electrical world when I buy a solid state device like a 480 volt VFD, I expect it to run at 480VAC, and in fact to have a fairly broad operating range from probably 450-500VAC. Likewise I would expect the current rating to be full load operating current, hopefully with at least a 10% service factor and 20% safety margin on top of that.

    I was honestly pretty disappointed when a 150VDC unit tripped offline at 140VDC, not even making the “nameplate rating” but if this is standard for the industry I guess I can’t pick at Schneider for that at least.

    ikidd ,

    140 is a little light but yah, it’s definitely a solar thing only. It’s possible it bounced over the 150 for a very short time to trip the cutout, and the 140 number you’re seeing is a time-smoothed average in your reporting system. If you’re using something trustworthy like a Smartshunt to get that data, then yah, tripping 10V short isn’t great.

    evranch ,

    I checked the manual and it’s actually documented to trip at 137V and open its fault relay, and won’t reclose until the input voltage drops to 134V. This is hidden in the fault section and not really advertised in the specs.

    Obviously in a cold weather overvoltage situation this loss of load causes immediate runaway, which resulted in many full days of lost generation until I rewired the array down to 2s strings.

    This issue was actually what resulted in me building the first dump load for the system, because as long as I kept the array loaded enough it wouldn’t trip out. No way I was breaking the connectors or my fingers off during several weeks at -30C!

    ikidd ,

    Yah, I’m in N Alberta and a farmer, fixing things at -30 is never fun. Those MC4 connectors are a pain in the ass when they’re cold.

    jocanib , to asklemmy in Is there a business in your town, which you are 100% sure is a front?

    I used to live round the corner from a strange little place that sold cassette tapes (what we used for music and sometimes even data before CDs, for those too young to know). Everyone was convinced it was a front but it turned out it was a world famous tape supplier. Just happened to be based in my quiet little back street.

    The newsagents next door to my last place have to have been a front though. Shelves were half bare, only ever stocked with stuff that doesn’t go off. Always two or three guys hanging out in the back room, looking slightly surprised if you wanted to buy something. Cash only, no cards (not that unusual round here but they usually have a minimum purchase rather than just no card machine at all these days).

    They were absolute sweethearts. Took loads of deliveries for us, always really nice about it. And that’s more evidence that it’s a front. Proper criminals are the best neighbours anyone could ask for because the last thing they want is complaints bringing the police to their door.

    grabyourmotherskeys ,

    I used to get my hair cut buy these two dudes that owned a little barber shop and every once in a while some shady looking guy would come in and they’d stop mid haircut and go into the back for however long they were gone for. Eventually, the random dude would leave and I’d get my haircut finished. I was working as a cook so I’d show up on line a Tuesday at 11am. Place would be dead otherwise. I grew up around there and I’d been going for a long time so they weren’t worried about me.

    One thing that was crazy about this place is the only magazines were like guns and ammo type magazines. In Canada. Highly unusual. This was back when a barber shop was still likely to have a few “gentlemen’s magazines” lying around. Not them, just guns. :)

    verity_kindle ,

    Super sus, but you make it sound like such a cool place. What happened to it? Vice squad raid? :(

    Remmock , to nostupidquestions in Why do Americans answer the phone with "Gopher"?

    It's commonly used when you pick up a radio on a public band.

    So if you have a jobsite where there are 100 radios, and someone needs to reach Ted, they'll page the radio and say something like "Hey Ted, do you copy?" and Ted will respond with "Go for Ted," which means yes, Ted is here and he's listening, go ahead.

    It was used in a small way some 40 years ago and never really caught on.

    darcy OP ,
    @darcy@sh.itjust.works avatar

    ok thank you 😃

    emberwit ,

    And what is Ted supposed to copy?

    Dyslexic1922 ,

    Signifying that he received a good copy of the message

    4am ,
    @4am@lemmy.world avatar

    And, if you’ve reached Gopher Ted, you might respond with “Go for Gopher Ted”

    Roger, Roger! What’s our vector, Victor?

    Tower to radio clearance, over!

    That’s Clarance Over!

    What? Huh? Who?!?

    Lazylazycat ,
    @Lazylazycat@lemmy.world avatar

    Ooooh thank you! I’d always wondered about this too.

    superkret , to technology in to prevent undeletion, dont delete your posts, tamper with them.

    Want to truly let reddit die and walk away?

    Just walk away bro, and stop flooding lemmy with posts about reddit.

    LexiconDexicon ,

    👍

    duffman ,

    Uhh, some of us would not like to see a cooperation profit off of our contributions. This is a perfectly fine place to discuss our exit strategy of a service we have contributed content for for years.

    Most people are brand new to Lemmy and this will be the case for a long time. It’s inevitable for information to be repeated for a while.

    Wabbitsmiles ,

    I’m in your camp, and don’t want to look back.

    I thought about these other strategies, edit comments, link to Lemmy/other fediverses, but it’s too much work for something I want to walk away from.

    It’s as if breaking up with an ex for his/her toxic behaviour, and choosing to burn him/her even more, or just stfu and move on, I’m choosing the latter.

    Mentally, I think it’s better for me, rather than carry this grudge passenger longer than it should.

    Same for twitter, meta/fb. I’m fine with seeing posts as long as it’s ‘news’ and not being salty.

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