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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by bena »

scrollaway wrote: post #202
dustedcodes wrote: post #132

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> I think if you equate "helping Ukraine defend itself against ethnic eradication" with "support an awful war" your judgement on what is a balanced debate is not reliable. I said I support the Ukraine, but I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is telling us. What you said there is quite a jump from what I said and exactly the type of nonsense that people would say in order to silence any meaningful…

> I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is telling us You're being super vague. Just say what you don't believe, out loud. You don't believe that there's people out there calling for eradication of ukrainians? Just go on Twitter, my dude. There's even american personalities calling for it. Do you see this shit? https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/164670071474641305... You don't believe "what's…

Because he is of the belief that if he doesn't explicitly say something, he can never be called out on it. He wishes to engage in criticism of others while never having to invite criticism to himself. He will sit there and tell you every single problem everything else has and why he is so rational and correct in these opinions, while offering no real solutions. Also, despite being so clear of vision and prescient of problems coming down the pipe, he's only moderately successful in that "is able to keep down a decent job and live an upper-middle-class" is successful. Which, it is, but it's hardly the resume of a world-beater.

But, as always, we tell on ourselves even with how we use language.

He always refers to Ukraine as "the" Ukraine. That itself speaks to someone who is considerably older than the Russian Federation or someone who likes to parrot the opinions of that Federation. Because Russia sees Ukraine as its territory. It is a region of Russia. But it is not. It is its own sovereign country. We don't say "the" Japan or "the" Germany or "the" Ireland.

The guy is the quintessential "enlightened centrist", finding the prevailing opinion of a place and then putting himself squarely on the opposite side "to provide balance".

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by [deleted] »

tomaskafka wrote: post #180
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #39

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From the Wikipedia page for SwiftKey: "In September 2022, Microsoft announced it was terminating support for the iOS version of SwiftKey. The app was removed from the App Store on October 5.[15] In November 2022, Microsoft announced a reversal of its decision to discontinue SwiftKey for iOS devices. The app was relisted on November 18, with Microsoft promising future updates for the app. The company cited "customer f…

My $10 says the cause for reversal wasn't "customer feedback", but LLM/LM part of Microsoft realizing that they just shut down the only system-wide text-based touchpoint Microsoft ever had on iOS, just as they want to start integrating Bing/LLM everywhere.

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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Gordonjcp »

sd9 wrote: post #204
toyg wrote: post #126

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Being Scottish technically makes you British, at least until independence comes. I'd argue that, even then, it will remain the case - as long as we accept that Scotland will continue to be part of the British Isles, and in particular of the island of Britain.

I recognise Gordonjcp's autonomy to choose their own preferred identity. Nationality is a social construct that can be perceived differently in various contexts. If someone prefers to identify as Scottish rather than British, at least in informal settings, I believe it's important to respect their perspective instead of insisting on a particular label. Of course, they might _technically_ be British from a legal stand…

I mean, it says "United Kingdom of Great Britain" on the front of my recently-issued taking-back-control-of-Britain blue passport, printed in Poland by a French company using Spanish presses and software, Italian ink, Finnish paper, and equipped with an RFID tag made in Turkey, all of whom beat out a company in Sunderland for the contract, who have since gone bust.

Yay for Brexit.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jevgeni »

phpisthebest wrote: post #246
tokai wrote: post #242

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Great you omitted the big spenders, and picked France and Germany who have been stepping on the break from the beginning. If you don't like per capita we can do % of GPD where the US doesn't even break in to the top ten. Unsurprisingly the biggest member of nato (by far) has given the biggest bag of money. But US is nowhere near being the most committed nations.

I picked the top spenders of NATO. Who in NATO has given more than US, UK and Canada? Show your sources

Estonia is 300 EUR per capita.

https://vm.ee/en/estonias-aid-ukraine

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by [deleted] »

scubbo wrote: post #280
lukeschlather wrote: post #244

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We evolved to wear all sorts of clothing. And really when you think about it the brain is probably the descendant of some parasite which crawled into another organism and used the exo-organism as a puppet, so in a sense it's exactly what a brain was originally adapted for is glomming on weird new appendages.

> when you think about it the brain is probably the descendant of some parasite which crawled into another organism and used the exo-organism as a puppet I haven't heard this claim before - any specific reading I should look for?

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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by ROTMetro »

dustedcodes wrote: post #132
jevgeni wrote: post #118

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> I think if you equate "helping Ukraine defend itself against ethnic eradication" with "support an awful war" your judgement on what is a balanced debate is not reliable. I said I support the Ukraine, but I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is telling us. What you said there is quite a jump from what I said and exactly the type of nonsense that people would say in order to silence any meaningful…

Russia doesn't believe a country called Ukraine exists. Instead they believe a region called 'the Ukraine' does. Funny your choice of words.

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Post by Frondo »

brookst wrote: post #267
wasmitnetzen wrote: post #199

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Is there a meaningful difference? Having a lack of resources is a decision.

It's a huge difference. It's the difference between negligent homicide and murder. Both legal and moral thinking distinguishes between these two concepts. It's fine to note that they are both bad and both mean culpability and liability, but pretending they are literally the same thing is the worst kind of rhetorical device.

They had been warned by locals in both Burma and Sri Lanka for many months that violent rhetoric was spreading like wildfire through users in those countries, and did nothing about it -- seldom even responding to the people pleading for them to do something.

When Sri Lanka pulled the plug on Facebook as violence was starting to erupt, Facebook did then reach out...to ask why their Sri Lankan traffic had dropped off.

This is documented in a variety of places, but for an excellent write-up of these tragedies I'd recommend The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher.

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Post by that_guy_iain »

kevviiinn wrote: post #287
that_guy_iain wrote: post #230

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I would say comparing it to Musk buying Twitter is about being terminally online. Like someone bought Twitter and basically made improvements. There are a whole bunch of things he did which don't really affect how many people use or interact with the app which people hate but it's really just internet drama.

Amplifying right wing extremists is an improvement?

Has he? Is there evidence of this? I believe when the former head it safety left he said they were removing far more stuff than before. For example, I heard there were some child porn hashtags that got wiped out. I haven’t seen any more right wing extremists.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by tazjin »

muyuu wrote: post #260
rvba wrote: post #258

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Reddit is not public yet. But in the push to become public the site becomes worse and worse. First they created the "new" reddit, which is picture and ad driven. This might bring in stupid people, but kills usability and long term harms quality discussion. Then they started to not so subtly push the new reddit: you need to go there to setup cookies, the site "accidently" turns it on like once per month, things dont w…

This is what lack of competition in a given niche makes even possible. They can afford many explicitly anti user patterns because for a bunch of usages, they have no real alternative. When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.

> When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.

This is definitely just a matter of time, they're slowly moving there by killing off things like `i.`. They'll lose a bunch of "us", but overall it's probably not going to affect their bottom line. Some specific high-quality discussion subreddits dying out means nothing if there are dozens of multi-million user subreddits with generic memes or TikTok-reposts.

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