bcrab

joined 1 year ago
[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know why ppl cannot figure this out. What we are calling “AI” is just a machine putting words together based on what it has “seen” in its training data. It has no intelligence and has no intent. It just groups words together.

It’s like going into a library and asking the librarian to be a doctor. They can tell you what the books in the library say about the subject (and might even make up some things based on what they saw in a few episodes of House), but they cannot actual do the work of a doctor.

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

💯 I used to work for a company that sold a product literally for this purpose.

During Covid, and all the hybrid working that came from it, we pitched it as a way to conduct contact-tracing and to monitor how many of your employees are in the office at one time, what floors they are on, what offices they are using…we even had an app that would track your movements throughout the office (for your safety, of course)

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol. Monitoring badge swipes…like this wasn’t happening before

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your hard work and willing to stay at it. Memmy is, and will remain, my top choice!

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, it’s a nickname. We all know it’s “A.C.D.C” but we say Acca Dacca cause that’s what Aussies do.

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This was my question too 🤔

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Let’s get through the current financial crisis before we start planning the next one

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Language filtering would be damn helpful

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This wouldn’t be about small businesses accessing Amazon’s market - although the original point was that Amazon is becoming a monopoly and is taking advantage of that position with ridiculously high fees and commissions. This will be new regulations created and forced on every business (or ones that grow to a certain size).

Amazon will say, “don’t break the company up, we welcome increased regulations to keep us honest” acting like that is a good compromise that solves the problem.

The intent of the regs will be to stop Amazon from gaining an even bigger monopoly, but the affect will actually be smaller businesses will not be able to manage the increased red tape and change of laws (whereas Amazon has an army of lawyers to find loopholes, and waste time in the courts and not change a thing).

This will stop small business growth and eliminate Amazon’s competition, further cementing the monopoly.

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They will settle for increased regulation, knowing their army of lawyers will be able to manage it all while the little guy will get snowed under.

So we’ll see even more small businesses fail while Amazon will continue to grow because the gov’t was lobbied into killing the competition.

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It needs to be easier to block those communities.

I hate having to tap into a community in order to block it. If I don’t wanna see that shit, I definitely don’t want to have to see MORE of it in order to block it.

We should be able to long press on a post or community name from the main feed, and be able to block the community from that popup menu.

[–] bcrab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Would also like to increase the zoom amount, too. Apollo has the ability to double tap and hold and then slide up or down to zoom in and out. That was pretty sweet (but I realize it’s still early days for Memmy. No pressure)

 

The link to the discord has expired, but I’ll delete this if this isn’t the place for suggestions…

As I’m scrolling down All and looking for communities to join, instead of tapping on the community name, and then tapping subscribe, then tapping out, it would be great to be able to long press the community name and have a contextual menu that shows up giving me options like subscribe/unsubscribe, block, sidebar, etc.

Likewise for users: long press their name to send message, block, or (when the feature gets added) follow.

I know you’ve got a lot on your list, I appreciate what you’re doing. This app is great!

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