Honestly I am thankful all the time that people are able to find jobs that suit them best. I am a graphic designer by trade, and working from home has basically been the greatest creative boon I’ve ever had in my life, lol. The routine, access to nature, and just general lack of distractions has been incredible.

I mean I was referring to having a shop in your garage so you can build furniture, but you’re not wrong. Construction carpentry is one of the more intense trades I’ve seen.

It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

Me, Local Fact Checker (who is also very tired and lazy): “seems fine”

Honestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.

It’s nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.

Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an “unsolved problem” and not, y’know, perfectly solvable by the same ol’: ya hire people to do it.

Seriously, when are these bourgeoisie fucks gonna realize that any system designed to coerce or manipulate is inherently corrupting its own ability to be trustworthy, ethical or qualitative.

moreover, i think it’s just weird that everyone expects generative ai to be as open and useful and free as it has been. it’s all to get us to trust and use it unknowingly, then they’re gonna start jacking the prices up. we’ve seen it before with cable television, internet, consumer goods like shoes and computer parts, and more. open source efforts have gone a long way, but it’s still all a tinkerers’ hobby, not a viable alternative.

:sickos:

Yeah, honestly, the way things are set up isn’t perfect. I maintain a few accounts on different instances just to fan out what content I get. The Fedi is always gonna have issues with moderation and federation, I just don’t see it as a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Spez loves Elon. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was bending the knee to try and get Elon to buy Reddit.

Well, I did that on my own to be honest. Not anymore, though, lol.

Yeah I’ve been wondering if I actually got banned because I used old.reddit and a hacked Reddit mobile app.

I’m so glad to see lemmy.world so active.

I knew a Reddit admin IRL for a year or so back in 2010 or so. I visited him in the hospital when he was diagnosed with leukemia. I got my marrow tested to try and be a donor for him, and that bitch still doesn’t remember me.

I got banned after 15 years for asking why we can’t organize to cyberbully Trump’s current head of social media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)?wprov=sfla1

This was in response to the White House calling Garcia a terrorist on their Twitter account.