Snide comment that achieves very little. Word has done the dash —> em dash transformation since the late 90s.

Many writing tools automatically transform dash to em dash when used as an em dash.

I use em dashes all the time and I’m a real person, at least last time I checked.

You understood “remember the human” wrong.

I wouldn’t ban. I would make it liable for anything that gets written on it unless it can positively identitfy the user writing it. The supply it with the identify framework that allows it to anonymously identify the users and require it to only show identified users. I guarantee it that 99% of the bullshit, bots, AI slop disappears overnight and real people might actually be able to interact with each other again.

Russia Today commenting about X, the EU and Musk, posted by jackeroni.

It’s a turducken of misinformation.

Love them both for who they are and never compare them.

In the EU framework, the certifying authorities are the same that issue your passport, your driving license; the state. I fail to see the issue with allowing them to issue another proof of who I am.

The risk is tracking. The way the EU mandates this framework is built requires zero knowledge built into the system. Then you can definitely say “they lie”, but if you believe your government would lie about this, then you already believe they would lie about all the other million ways they could track you, if it wasn’t illegal for them to do so. You’re really not giving up anything you haven’t already given up when the national state was formed as a concept. And in this case we gain a lot, namely keeping profit and “engagement” out of having a conversation online. Eventually you have to trust someone - I’d prefer my democratically elected government (but I acknowledge that I live in places where I have that luxury).

What you’re describing would no doubt improve matters.

But fundamentally, we are shirking around a ground truth that the kind of things that stir in male biology aren’t terribly useful in today’s modern world; men biologically need to feel useful in their physicality, to have something to protect and something to provide for.

The terrifying slide towards all the bullshit hyper masculinity or Jordan Peterson style “self improvement” is all a reaction to the fact that, with where we are heading, many of those traits can’t find a natural home in how we’ve structured the world.

I’m super calm about this. This is based on rational analysis and technical knowledge about how the framework for this can work.

I wish to clip the wing feathers of every single US tech giant spewing their right wing, authoritarian bullshit straight into the eyeballs of every democratic citizen in Europe. I wish to do it calmly, and I am convinced it can be done.

There is 100% a route to verifying identity without privacy invasion. EU’s framework mandates ZKPs and the trial states are building it accordingly. No one will know who is verifying, where they verify, when or what they verify. The site itself will simply know “this is a legit person”.

I’m giving you an upvote, of course, because I believe in rational debate even if we disagree.

I’m not willing to sacrifice our democracy and the health of our children (I’ve got four, ages 4-18, I see the impact amongst them and their friends) on the altar of tech giants’ profit.

We hold press accountable. We ourselves are held to account for what we say IRL. Why does all that look different on social media just so Zuckerberg and Musk can line their pockets and enable platforms for non-democratic actors to involve themselves in our democracies?

It’s now official US policy to undermine European unity and support right wing nationalists.

I say bring those US tech giants to heel. We don’t have to turn into another America here, by making the same mistakes.

If Musk is against it, I’m almost always for it.

You made the dreadful mistake of saying something positive about LLMs. We shall now proceed to downvote you accordingly.

“MetaAlphabetAmazon once again refuses calls for universal basic income: ‘if people wanted handouts they should have stolen the world’s IP like we did’”

Point taken. Thank you for the reminder. I was probably being harsh. Appreciate the feedback.

Man, I luckily upgraded to 64GB (when MSFS 2024 said “that’s preferred”) before all this.

In a personal context, agreed. In a business context, I completely disagree. Analysts, finance, operations etc all have much more complex requirements.

Google Sheets is competing with Excel. Proton Sheets is competing with Google Sheets. So Proton Sheets is competing with Excel.

I used Word as a comparative example to say that parts of the office/docs suite are easy to compete with (there’s only so may things a word processor can do), while others (like Google Sheets or Excel, whichever order you prefer) is incredibly difficult to compete with; a formatting error on import of a Word doc is acceptable. An unsupported formula ruins the entire thing.

Agreed. The EU ain’t perfect, but I’d take it over any alternative.

Does if have FILTER, array formulas, spill zones, MAP, data tables, query engines, SQL engine etc etc?

To compete with Word: Easy. To compete with Excel: Very, very difficult (pretty much only Google Sheets have managed).

Fortunately I live in a country where the government can (broadly) be trusted.