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‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you win?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was intrigued by this point:

We replied saying that there's a lot of scam apps on the App Store, and that there isn't an easy report scam button. We should have clarified that the relevant button only shows after installing an app, as well as being located at the bottom of the page - a text link saying "report a problem".

And Apples reply?

Gary … replied with what sounded like, and hallucinated like, a Gen AI answer: "it's on every single product page for every single app that's available on the App Store, very prominently".

No it’s not. The button does indeed only appear on installed apps, which is a problem if you’re already aware of issues with the app.

And it’s not prominent - it’s placed right at the bottom and in the small text like the privacy of policy link above it. You could easily miss it as you could just perceive it be part of the privacy/terms links - and who has time to read those??

Are there more? in c/adhd

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The seed - it’s a small thing, but it grows - gradually replacing the original things you were doing. It then consumes you. You can’t stop it. You can’t do anything about it.

It can be someone just mentioning a random thing, a snippet of a memory, or even just seeing something can cause this.

I hate it.

Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Aww. Please celebrate - don't give the orange turd the satisfaction of destroying yet more American culture. Also, I won't be happy posting my favourite annual meme:

AI boom drives explosive demand for leading-edge process nodes — 7nm and below nodes set to expand by 69% in three years in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

69%? Nice.

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ding! Any gains in productivity will mean more work for less people.

Anyone who can’t see this coming - I have several bridges for sale.

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting that the article never cites or states how much AI has improved productivity - but rather focuses on the 4-day work week. Kinda strange to only look at the end outcome and ignore the cause of expecting that outcome.