Olives @olives@qoto.org

Noting that if someone runs an AI themselves, it means it won't be run in a data center with limited possible water sources (a concern someone brought up?)

I think that when Ylva was handed a Big Brother Award from the Dutch civil rights group, Bits of Freedom, she showed up and took it with pride.

The Dutch authoritarian didn't. Didn't show up.

The difference between Stack Overflow and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia is an actual non-profit, therefore you can give them a bit of a pass for not having the best decorum.

They not only have a vast quantity of content, they also provide a very important service without having to resort to a for-profit model.

Stack Overflow shares a lot in common with the jerks who moderate Wikipedia where someone can be brought up on all kinds of silly technicalities and arcane insider rules.

They rely on there being a free labor force who is willing to put up with all these jerks.

Stack Overflow is probably the way it is by design. Harsh gatekeeping.

They figure that there will be someone out there willing to jump through all the hoops, so that everyone else who comes along will just see the final answer.

I can see why it's going down. If someone doesn't have to ask questions there, why would they?

It's not as if it's pleasant to navigate the pedantic set of rules, the internet points system (which is where you get the middle finger for giving this site free labor), the incorrectly applied rules, or the bizarre decisions of which questions are worthy of allowing someone to answer.

It's not just that Stack Overflow is filled with patronizing and pedantic jerks. One of the creators is like that.

To be fair to Stack Overflow though, their predecessor (Experts Exchange, their previous competitor) had problems of it's own, from a humorous URL (the least of it's problems) to a huge paywall.

Stack Overflow was successful because it was an easy and free resource.

It wasn't because it was a particularly pleasant site (you never have to deal with that, if enough people have already asked the right questions).

https://newsletter.devmoh.co/p/the-fall-of-stack-overflow-explained Stack Overflow can be a useful resource, but yeah, I would not sign up to it.

I always thought of it as a hostile environment (maybe, not in all the same ways as this article), and for what, some internet points? Better off just figuring out a problem yourself.

This is such a random idea, lol.

https://truthout.org/articles/psychiatric-incarceration-isnt-treatment-its-violence-survivors-say/ A cage described as "treatment" is still a cage.

If the problem is a lack of housing, and community programs, then surely that is a better (and more humane) avenue?

If you read the Eighth Amendment, it says:

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Is this not cruel?

https://truthout.org/articles/cori-bush-introduces-bill-to-end-moral-catastrophe-of-solitary-confinement/ This bill seems reasonable enough. Solitary is quite inhumane.

https://apnews.com/article/libraries-books-bans-arkansas-758f28c04c573d03b869ad2738e2b06d Arkansas book ban law blocked by judge.

https://reason.com/2023/07/31/minnesota-caretaker-gets-lifetime-ban-for-crime-she-didnt-commit/ What do you think? Should someone be banned as a caretaker (for "adults with intellectual disabilities") for a crime she didn't commit?

Then again, the Dutch Government's instance also had some hiccups.

Presumably, Grammarly is a tool which acts as a spell checker / grammar checker, primarily for private content, so if they're going to get material to train against, they would necessarily have to invade someone's privacy??

Isn't that a huge invasion of privacy?