Current Lemmy will circlejerk about the end of any company or product with the smallest nudge.

Every slightly negative post above a certain threshold of views will have comments about abandoning whatever thing it's about.

There's different teams doing different types of work.

Like the claim system might have it setup so X codes in Y situations can't be automated. Then someone looks at the claim, determines based on their written guidelines that this one needs to be reviewed so they look to see if there are notes attached. If there aren't they request the notes, maybe by sending a letter. If there are, they send it to the team that reviews notes and makes these decisions. Those people probably also have written guidelines on what is allowed or not and if it's more complicated they (should) have someone qualified that can review it. Then the claim is probably sent back to the other team saying "Hey, deny that code and allow this code", where they then just do whatever that says.

They probably also have situations where X code in Y situation is "never" allowed and the first people reviewing it just always deny it. Then, as mentioned elsewhere here, the provider has to resubmit it and then it's allowed on "appeal" by another team. This brother you mentioned is probably doing very little decision making beyond applying already decided guidelines to each claim, if he even processes them.

Yes, that's the same thing every time Firefox is mentioned here. It's like people here WANT to be angry.

And it also was never all or nothing. I keep my goal at 6000 just because 10k (i didn't know about 8700) isn't realistic for me. It's still better than what I would walk normally.

Only in that direction.

You got an open source alternative to Google home/Amazon Echo? I'd buy it.

Is there an ebook service like GOG is for games? DRM free so you can keep the books regardless of what happens to the service?

(I know it's easy enough to remove it, but I'd rather support a service like that if I can)

uMatrix

I used uBlock origin and have for years but I've never heard of uMatrix. I see from the description kind of what it does, but what's the benefit here?

All good. I think we're thinking of this from different aspects anyway. I'm thinking a company just subscribes as part of their office subscription and Microsoft is doing the heavy lifting of the cost and hardware. I don't know how OpenAI makes money besides their little subscription.

(which you seem to do and keep on posting here)

I've only made the comment you're replying to. I'm not whoever you're thinking.

You keep mentioning cost, and in the grand scale of "there's no such thing as a free lunch" there's a large cost but for users, they're just paying for a license from Microsoft to have copilot in their visual studio software or in M365 apps, etc.

So for helping with development, it's really not that expensive for the users. Also, "they" make lots of ridiculous claims, and i don't know who said it, but no developers in 5 years is a wild claim that no one should've thought was real.

Considering you're a hobbyist and probably don't have marketing, it's too soon to say it's a flop. Many games like that pop off later once it gets seen.

Yes. Since the mascot is an elephant, it's Toots instead of Tweets. To the other person's point, toots are fine for what I showed, anime type channels, but less legal things like piracy, onlyfans leaks, etc. wouldn't be great there, since it's not a private group of just the interested parties.

I'm always concerned about google maps because the alternatives suck, but google is making their services awful, one by one. I'm waiting for the day that google maps becomes terrible too. I do have openstreetmaps (using organic maps on android) and I fixed a few things about my local area there but it doesn't have some of the features I'd like and it doesn't seem like they have plans to add them.

Just as an example, business reviews. I can use yelp but it is nice that it's right there. Also, the user submitted things like speed traps, accidents, etc.

Yep, one shape is paid for, the other shape is not (I forget, circles or squares), and to actually see the non paying businesses you have to zoom way in now.

They say it doesn't affect search

Way bigger. You could have many thousands.

It's definitely not. You can pirate things on nearly any running home computer. You can find an app like Flud and do it on your Android. You can pay like 8 bucks a month for a seedbox and just copy the file to where you want it after.

If you just want to save some money over subscriptions, but not keep the files, you can setup something like real debrid and stremio for around 15 dollars every 6 months.

You should use a paid VPN but they're all far cheaper than any of the subscription services you'd stop paying for by doing this. (That I know of)

(USD)

Well, they did it just out in the open in some dusty warehouse. Comments I've read say that's a pretty big deal.

Right, HR is there to protect the company. Your manager is (almost always) not the company. So if the manager is doing something fucky, that's what HR is for.

If an argument is being made for one thing, Fahrenheit, it's not relevant to bring up a different thing. Why is feet a useful measurement? Maybe it's not, we're talking about temperature.