This is apparently why some modern words like love or come are spelled with an o instead of a u. The o is much easier to read when followed by a v, n, or m, so the scribes changed it sometimes and the spelling stuck.

I just recently learned that this is the historical reason why eyes have dots.

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I’m more expressing frustration that they have been approached multiple times about fixing the broken blocking by either renaming it muting (what it actually is), or creating an actual blocking feature. The excuses they provide are nonsensical.

Blocking protects users. Why would a federated platform not want to protect users?

Well, the devs are also the major community moderators and admins on the ml instance, which was the largest for a long time.

They still treat it like their private walled garden.

I may be overreaching with my assumption about their motivations, but then again I may not.

Blocking on Lemmy is really just muting, and it should be called that.

A real blocking feature would be nice (it exists on other fediverse platforms).

The devs have said that blocking wouldn’t do anything because everything is public, so the blocked user could still access the content they are blocked from but frankly that’s bs. If that were true, then there would be no point of banning either, right?

Devs want a monopoly on the power to block people they don’t like through the use of bans (and they claim to be all for the people).

I’ve found radicale more stable in my implementation, but both are very good and are pretty similar to use.

If you already have NextCloud/OwnCloud it would be a good to use the Calendar that is already built in, but it doesn’t make sense to install those for a calendar when there are better options available.

Cancel culture run amok /s

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Well, some spots whose chemical makeup and arrangement cannot presently be explained other than by living material.

FWIW this was always an ideological choice, not a technical one. Masto users saw how quote-posts were used on other platforms to generate harassment, doxxing, dogpiling, etc. and chose not to include the feature. It’s hard to say whether it has had a cooling effect on those, but it seems like most people on Masto consider the benefits to outweigh the costs.

Oh no! That is so scary. I hope that whoever it is doesn’t have decades of experience in working and traveling anonymously around the world while performing illegal acts of guerilla artwork while evading both the legal authorities and an adoring public fanbase!

Neither of those articles have anything to do with this. He is not immigrating to Belgium.

He was invited as a member of the Munich Philharmonic, then the invitation was rescinded because the organizers didn’t like the optics of a Jewish Israeli conducting at their festival. I personally find that problematic, and a standard that other artists are not held to, despite war crimes or atrocities committed by their Governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

I can see a use case when it comes to search - like you said. If the question is relatively trivial and slightly obscure then a LLM summary is probably adequate (maybe problematic for other reasons).

But this is being marketed in Productivity software! I really and genuinely want to understand why it seems so popular.

That has sorta been my experience so far. LLMs are great at producing output as long as the quality of the output doesn’t really matter. Maybe there are a lot more tasks than I realize where this is the case - in my work there are not many.

Yes, actually that’s fair. A German Philharmonic was canceled from a Belgian festival simply because the conductor is Israeli.

Based on the comments and vote, it seems that most people here think that is justified and appropriate.

What are people actually using AI for in office programs? I spend almost all day working on email, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Every time in the past that I have tried to use AI tools, it has either failed to perform the task, done it poorly/incorrectly, or taken longer than using traditional tools (requiring multiple prompts, editing and correcting, etc.)

Am I just a dinosaur? Are there people who really use these tools productively?

It’s not sealioning. People are claiming that he refused to condemn genocide, despite nothing of the sort in the article. It is fair to ask someone to explain or defend something that they specifically claim is factual, which has no basis in reality.