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[–] flumph@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They're working to improve login.gov to support the level of user verification needed for this service, but it isn't there yet. Hopefully next year when tax time rolls around again.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting article! I can't tell from the post, though, is this due to a limitation on bots in Matrix or that no one has invested to make a similar bot for Matrix?

[–] flumph@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago

It should be illegal to use an AI in the hiring process that can't explain its decisions accurately. There's too much of a risk of bias in training data to empower a black box system. ChatGPT can lie, so anything powered by it is out.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Seems like you're asserting that the article is sponsored content without being disclosed, in violation of FTC guidelines. Seems like a pretty serious claim that borders on libel. Do you have any proof of your allegations?

[–] flumph@programming.dev 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I attended a conference where a former 20th Century-Fox executive talked about the way she meddled in the trailer process with technology. It's all about numbers and metrics -- if enough people, in the right demographics, didn't watch the whole trailer on YouTube, they'd cut the next trailer to cater to that group. Even if it wasn't a great representation of the movie; her bonus depended on people watching the trailer.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

When I first learned of feline tooth reabsorption, I was surprised! Good on you for taking him to the specialist. It's so hard to tell when their teeth are messy beyond having your vet look at them.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Two of our cats recently had to go to the hospital for biopsies. They're both fully recovered.

The oldest doesn't have cancer -- just a chronic inflammation in his nose we'll have to control with steroids.

The other... they suspect small cell lymphoma. We're still waiting for the results of the second round of tests. He'll start oral kemo if it comes back positive. Prognosis is "a few years of quality life"

[–] flumph@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

I'll preface this by saying I'm a huge supporter of eliminating discrimination in the workplace and have been part of many efforts to do so. I'm sure the plaintiff and law firm here are suing for all the wrong reasons.

That being said, if there are literal quotas, that's just a corporation doing the bare minimum to look good. Implementing quotas doesn't eliminate bias in the hiring, promotion, and firing process.

I know it's not this easy in all positions, but we've already seen that "blind" auditions in orchestras increased the likelihood of women being hired by 11-30%. And there's no doubt those women were more talented and qualified -- they were only judged on their performance. That's a much better outcome than requiring 30% more women and the biased hiring panel picking women based on looks, age, likelihood to take parental leave, etc.

TL;DR: Quotas are a lazy way to try and fix bias in the hiring process. Work to actually prevent and eliminate the bias.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because Sweet Baby Inc is known for forcing a narrative and tokens into the writing, for the sake of diversity on the cost of quality of the story and the characters.

Where is the proof of this beyond speculation? I can't think of a mechanism through which a consultant can force anything. Their contracts would undoubtedly have an NDA that would prevent them from sharing which of their recommendations the client acted on or not.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

PETA has ties to a terrorist organization, has previously kidnapped and euthanized pets, advocates for the extinction of domesticated animals, and has at least one executive who used animal-derived insulin despite their campaigns against the very same.

I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt in any of their publicity stunts. Wake me up when a legitimate organization working for animal welfare has concerns.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, it's been two different groups of people in charge! Yahoo! was responsible for removing adult content and then sold it to Automattic for pennies on the dollar. Automattic then went through several rounds of different poor moderation before the CEO himself stepped up to share GDPR violating information on Twitter. Now we're adding AI!

 

It’ll be out in 2026, and Starbreeze are being upfront with the fact it’ll be a games-as-a-service-type game.

 

"Inform users that we might disable this forumula one day given there will be no more version updates in homebrew-core due to the license change"

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