Even here, Lemmy. How long before the replies you get are from bots, and you're posting for bot users? Will there even be a point to continue wasting time on that?
When you see news being reported, at some point, you'll have no idea what's real or fake. And it will be so ubiquitous that you'll need to spend a considerable amount of time to even attempt to verify whether it's true or trustworthy. At what point will you simply stop paying attention to it?
Maybe (?) thiat’s controversial but “human connection” is not the first thing that comes to my mind when I consider whay I’m currently online.
What I mean by that is when you looked back at content from 5+ years ago, you know that a real person wrote, drew, recorded, thought of, put effort into it.
We had interconnectedness, and as human beings, we really should do what it takes to not lose that.
There will be no more looking at photography, artwork, music, or movies as a marvel of human effort, skill, and talent. To me, that's a huge loss.
When you read a blog years ago, you were reading another person's experience, and that had value.
Information from a resource was researched and had input from an expert human being, and/or a team of them. That had value.
So losing the humanity of the internet sucks but I can find way to work around it.
Online? If so, how long do you think you can sustain it? If the majority of the internet or digital content you see becomes AI generated, with no way of knowing, what then? Will you invest time to use a future Lemmy where your interactions are probably all with bots?
My wife is the Kobo user, so I don't know what tools are available.
But seeing how there's already a self-hosted sync service available, I'm sure it's not impossible for Pocket (or something like it) to be developed in the open-source community.
I also don’t understand why people insist on Street parking when they have a garage.
I'm in Ontario, and can't begin to tell you how many people will keep their driveway and garage empty so they can park on the street. It's like their own personal problems manifest in some bizarre parking territory claim.
I guarantee you most garages are not empty, even if not used for vehicles people store stuff in them.
Their storage problem shouldn't be everyone's problem, though.
When I look, I see garages + driveways, and the driveways are empty. Also, how many cars would each of those homes have? The residents are all apparently elderly and/or disabled, so it would be unbelievable to me that they would have 3 - 5 cars per home.
Regardless, public roads are NOT the place for them to be parking on a permanent basis.
And filling the driveway with a car in the garage is dumb because then you have to shuffle vehicles if you need to use the one in the garage.
Again, this is a self-created problem. The personal inconvenience of one shouldn't be the inconvenience of all. If front-entry parking is needed, the homeowners should be allowed to convert their lawn into a driveway (via by-law).
Those “traffic calming” measures suck donkey balls. Unneccesary concrete islands and out juttings that prevent people parking, and the city expect the homeowners to mow/shovel those spaces
Funny, because this would have come up during the city's extensive public consultation rounds, and alternatives would have been provided for feedback.
Also, why don’t the cyclists use the alley ways? There is little car traffic there.
Those alleys are designed for residents to be able to access their parking area, and not as a road for transportation. While I'm sure you could take a detour through those alleys on a bike, it would be inappropriate to assign them as "bike lanes". Also, it would create conflict for people who actually want to visit the front of homes, forcing them to use the road anyway. Not ideal for anyone.
because those rentals wouldn’t include a parking space, typically.
All the more reason to flesh out the cycling and public transportation network.
The point is, taxpayers should not be paying for these residents to have on-street (public) parking, while they leave their (private) garages and driveways empty.
For residents that absolutely "must have" parking at the back and front of their property, by-law provisions should allow them to be able to create a second driveway on their front lawn.
Just the sight of those streets with cars lining both sides of the curb just screams entitlement.
I wish this report made mention of the fact that all the residents on the affected roads have their own garages and special access road to those garages behind their homes.
They are against bike lanes because they are selfish individuals who want to park on public property instead of on their own property.
They'd rather have this:
Instead of using this:
There should be zero need to have on-street parking on both sides of a residential street, when garages and driveways remain empty! If they end up cancelling these bike lanes, the city should be charging for parking at a rate of $100 per day per resident.
Traffic calming measures, also being opposed by the residents
This makes no sense. At all. No matter how big of an asshole you might be.
Carney must be the first PM that I can remember, who actually fleshes out answers, rather than avoiding them. Impressive, to say the least, as it shows a clear understanding of the subjects he's being asked about.
While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.
JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.
Great to hear!
There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…
Are these currently in place? I don't see links to them on the homepage, or during the sign-up screen.
I like the idea, but it needs a privacy policy. If someone answered 100 of those questions, the insight into their behaviour would be incredibly valuable to bad actors.
Guaranteeing anonymity would make this much better.
Yes, of course. I'm not talking about that.
Even here, Lemmy. How long before the replies you get are from bots, and you're posting for bot users? Will there even be a point to continue wasting time on that?
When you see news being reported, at some point, you'll have no idea what's real or fake. And it will be so ubiquitous that you'll need to spend a considerable amount of time to even attempt to verify whether it's true or trustworthy. At what point will you simply stop paying attention to it?