It’s a real shame then that I’m a complete idiot.

I AM A MAN… WITH FIVE TOILETS

Alright, you do have a point there. Reading docs and asking questions is a skill too, and if you haven’t learned them yet then chatgpt can stunt your growth there, i agree with that much.

I still think that chatgpt, if used correctly, can be a huge boon to your education. Knowing how to interact with those bots to avoid their shortcomings and not use them as a crutch I think is also a skill worth learning.

Know what, that’s stupid and reductive and not even accurate to what I said, but fuck it, yes. Yes actually. Because i value my time and sanity and other people’s time and sanity. Just because i eat out every now and then doesn’t mean I can’t cook.

No, learning is there part where you have to think. That’s not when you use the robot. You use the robot when the documentation is trash and unusable and every answer you find is out of date. You use the robot when you know exactly what you want to do and how to do it and you don’t have time to trawl through the docs for the next 2 hours. You use the robot when the only gimp 2.10 tutorial on earth for how to write plugins tells you to use this funny program called gimptool but you’re new to gimp dev so you look online to see what that is only to find that there’s no mention of it literally anywhere besides your current tutorial and a disjointed man page where you can’t find the source anywhere, and the devs are all on irc and you don’t want to bother them and you’re worried that they’re just going to tell you to read the tutorial you already came from and you’ll leave empty handed. That’s when you ask the robot. It has a use, you don’t have to substitute your thinking to use it.

and there are so many cases in programming where you can save hours asking a really simple question that should be easy to figure out on your own but actually isn’t.

We live in a society

A rock would probably run the USA better than either. At least it couldn’t mess anything up.

… Are you arguing for or against things getting worse?

Well I’m not trying to argue against one being written, just that once it is written, it will still not be what it was made to be.

LinkedIn is defined by its user base of recruiters and corporations, which draws in professionals seeking jobs. It becomes a cycle, but importantly for this conversation, it is controlled by recruiters.

This is in contrast to any other social media where regular people draw in more regular people. A FOSS LinkedIn will not only have the network effect to fight, but it will also be up against the will of corporations, not just the slow buildup of users.

I guess another way to put it is a FOSS LinkedIn cannot grow with a few users joining here and there. You have to convince Amazon to move over first.

I think that because of the heavily corporate nature of what it’s used for and the fact that it requires certain corporate users to be on it, there will not be anything close to a FOSS LinkedIn for a very long time.

From an implementation standpoint LinkedIn is more or less just social media. I don’t think hiring managers will switch their tactics over to a FOSS platform without a very strong push over a long period of time. while corporate nonsense may be pushing us that way, that same bs is a boon to them if anything.

Not criticizing the website design. I don’t expect them to have an expensive flashy website. I am criticizing you for equating the snipping tool with having an unlimited budget for designers like adobe does. It does not take a team of designers to add a screenshot to your website showcasing a feature.

they don’t have the unlimited budget for designers that Adobe does.

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It’s not so much about the asphalt as it is about the humans being paid to put the asphalt down. There are lots of potholes to be fixed and not as many speed bumps that need to be made, so the speed bumps get finished before the potholes do.

I peeped the horror. It wasn’t funny.

You have no idea what’s happening here, do you?

I hope so. Traditionally the fascist way is to pick off small groups so they don’t have to frog boil as much. Hoping they overstep their bounds and people get pissed and do something.

You know, i really underestimated how much Lemmy users operated on kneejerk reactions with my comments here. I guess there nothing i can do about that though. Seeing this kind of reaction to a perfectly reasonable opinion is just kind of exhausting.

I have a Twitter account that i haven’t posted on in years. I only use it to view posts that my friends have sent me. I keep telling them to stop using Twitter but they won’t listen. My usage, if anything, is costing Twitter money to serve me the content on my browser that does not allow for ads or tracking.

So then tell me, how does it make you a dunce if you have an account and don’t use it, or if you have to use it for business? Consuming content on there is pretty stupid because every alternative is better and not run by Nazis, but just having an old account?