Thrilled. I recently started trying LibreOffice thanks to a friend of mine and I admit that as someone used to Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, I feel like a total idiot always searching up "how to [do something] libreoffice" for things I know how to do already in Office/Workspace (or am confident I could figure out by fooling around in them for a few minutes).

I try to click on something and it doesn't react.

Is this because I failed to execute the click (has happened, especially on laptop touchpads), or because the site is unresponsive/buggy?

As a person not too familiar with hardware or what goes into mouse creation, I have always taken the "click" sound as something that can only happen when I actually successfully execute the click. That I made those two connectors touch. (Of course, the OS might drop it and the software part does not work, but I do take it as I made all the physical things that need to happen to make a click happen.) So if I get to hear the "click" on a mouse I know for sure if I clicked or not, if it's human error or not in the problem I posed. If I don't I'm going to be clicking a lot more times to ensure I got a real click through, because I am not sure if I actually managed to click.

Hey, I missed that caveat, thank you for pointing it out!

Oh yeah, you are absolutely right, that is another thing that bothers me. (Obviously I still believe listening to minority voices is important.) Me bringing that up is specifically directed at the type of person who might dismiss opinions from people because they are white males, especially if the opinion is about not liking the way majority demographics sometimes get spoken about. It is me saying to that type of person that they cannot dismiss my position of disliking punching up at demographics by going "of course you'd say that, you are the demographic being punched up at!" I am from the non-male, non-white demographics that they are trying to empower with this "lol white man bad" stuff.

And yes, fully aware speaking ≠ the many harms that went way past speaking done to minorities in the past. But also this kind of stuff is what I think contributes to some more people being funneled towards alt right perspectives. "Yes, white men bad is a hypocritical stance" video -> more "silly stupid liberals" videos (whether they do actually point out legit problems with social justice or not) down into "The world is actually completely stacked against white men, who are just better than the other demographics which is why women are only good for breeding and men of color are too stupid for anything besides manual labor. Structural/systemic oppression, biases, and other genders don't exist, that's woke DEI nonsense. Also, the stupid liberals telling you otherwise are also telling you lies that vaccines work and climate change is happening."

I never even thought of using Stack Overflow to cheat when doing my homework. Still heard of its reputation during college and decided I should never ask a question there (even now after I've graduated so it absolutely would not be homework help), lest someone, yes, be mean to me.

I'd rather focus more on the people pushing AI or consuming it uncritically (which does include Baby Boomers, yes, but also people all over the age spectrum), and less on age groups we are unable to get out of.

!programming_horror@programming.dev and !software_gore@programming.dev if you were not being facetious

I have been specifically thinking about how big tech keeps manufacturing consent for AI, having it on by default and counting accidental undesired uses for "95% of people adopted our AI features!" and all this… glad to see an article that has a title reflecting my thoughts. Looking up manufactured consent for AI usually brings things on how people can use AI to manufacture consent or change narratives, not on "consent to AI" being manufactured itself.

Social proof is a hell of a drug. Getting off Instagram was always a "yeah they suck, I barely use the app, but I do not really want to spend the energy" for me; then I saw a real life friend do a post about how they were getting off Instagram. I promptly did the same.

That's always the problem when deciding whether to post something you did you think is good and that you want others to do more. How much would I possibly influence others to do the same (because my nobody ass followed my nobody friend in getting off Insta, we clearly do not have to be mega celebrities to put our small drop of influence in the proverbial bucket), vs how much backlash will I get in the vein of "why do you have to announce it and have a public privacy tantrum, you're not that special boo" and "humblebrag much? nobody cares". (I'm special to the group of people that cares about me, as I am sure everyone is to the group of people that care about them! And social media makes it easier to announce it to them instead of texting everyone individually, and if you don't have a giant group chat… I do wonder what standards you have to meet before you can post online without being told "nobody cares".)

I think as long as there are 2 people on earth who do not have perfect trust in each other, there will be politics.

!crochet@lemmy.world would like this

Except, how do you convince all the other engineers the tech stack is both shitty and that switching off is worth the switching costs? That your data is empirical and also not the "lies, damned lies and statistics" thing where you cherry pick data in your favor so you can look empirical when you are actually just going off your own vibes and ego? Even if your intentions are pure, others might not think so (whether because they have ulterior motives of their own or not).

Unfortunately, that is politics.