This is related another issue too, does lemmy do anything to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack?

Because it’s a good example of why the feature would be useful. Otherwise half the people would have no idea what OP is talking about.

Well he’s not asking you to change it, he wants his client to translate it locally for him only.

On Reddit, joke (usually bad joke, low effort meme or pop culture reference) comments were the absolute worst kind of spam that destroyed the readability of comment threads.

That sort of content belongs in its own space, not polluting places that are still worth reading.

It’s definitely possible, but such an AI would probably be good enough to take over every other field too. So it’s not like you can avoid it by choosing something else anyway.

And the disruption would be large enough that governments will have to react in some way.

They’re the same as any other megacorp, no better or worse.

There are two things (or two aspects of the same one problem) I dislike about them specifically though:

• The Google account bundles together too many disparate services - which means if their bots decide to arbitrarily block you for some reason, that affects your email, photo backup, YouTube account, Drive, phone, docs, etc.

• They have no usable support. Whenever something bad happens, your only recourse is to complain about it on Twitter and hope it blows up enough that someone with power to change things will notice it and manually review the decision. Otherwise you’re stuck in bot support hell. Many such cases.

But it seems like such an easy fix - just add a maximum limit to the indent.

This is very unlikely, because if they did it to more than a handful of people, the pattern would become immediately obvious.

Barely hanging on in the post-AI wasteland.

First step would be tagging posts/comments, to clearly separate ones meant as pure opinion from ones meant as a factual claim. Then tagging for sourced/unsourced/disputed/misleading/omitting crucial details, etc. claims. Then tagging things like how confident the poster feels about what they’re saying (e.g. from “I heard it somewhere” to “I’ve seen it with my own eyes on multiple occasions”)

Then you would need easy to inspect metadata showing the sourcing chain all the way to the origin. And ability to comment on that (e.g. if some source’s claims are misinterpreted and the source doesn’t actually claim the thing).

Then you would need the people to actually care about facts, even if the facts go against their existing beliefs or preferences.

Also people need to be able to think more with varying degrees of uncertainty built-in, not just “this is definitely true”/“this is definitely false” (unless there is enough material to back that up).

Everything that has a store requires an account.

• Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
• iPhone - you need Apple account
• Android phones - you need Google account
• Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it’s just a separate standalone VR-related account.

If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.

Oculus. No way they would have otherwise had the money to make cheap standalone VR headsets like the Quest.