At least part of the drop in users is because AI is being used to moderate posts and then use that "moderation" to temporarily and then permanently ban users, in the process completely deleting ALL posts on all pages. There is little to no human/personal moderation now - just AI makes the decisions and users have to suck it up. How do I know this for a fact? It's happened to me and I was given no opportunity to delete or argue for the "offending" post. This has happened to several friends as well for various reasons. You'd have to pay me to have anything to do with meta ever again.

One of the counter arguments - that I don't agree with by the way - is that if people are allowed to even try to repair stuff that they will "wreck it". My response is that if they do, that's on them as the "right to repair" means that it is repairable, not that anyone and everyone can do it.

At Gadget Review https://www.gadgetreview.com/s...

I was "fact-checked" by FB a couple of months ago when I posted on an amateur astrophotography group an article about the Bortle light pollution scale. For those not sure what this is , it's a 1-10 scale where 1 is no light pollution at all (mostly this means high altitude or very remote sites), and 10 is inner city sky - ie virtually no astronomical sights/sites can be seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... My post was too much for the "fact-checker" and I was prevented from posting anything to any page - even those I am an admin of - for a week. Heaven help us if the new process is "better"

Yes. In summary, here in Oz panels are cheap and there are financial incentives to install them, but batteries are expensive, so people don't install them. Governments and planners still haven't got their heads around the need for "community batteries" for example, or the need to subsidise house owners to actually buy them.

I'll comment on this, second hand from my wife who was the Nurse Unit Manager of a palliative care ward for over 10 years. When she started VAD was virtually non-existant, but when she retired it was becoming more available. She was and still is a supporter of VAD, because she pointed out that when someone was in extreme pain, they were often so "drugged up" with pain killers to the point where their bodily and mental functions shut down that they died anyway. She sometimes asked if this was akin to murder/manslaughter, because by the time this extreme medication was being administered, they had no say in what treatment they were prepared to accept - because they couldn't say anything. I certainly want the option if I need it and will fight tooth and nail to get it.

According to Bhavish Aggarwal - founder of Ola Cabs - we should be working 70 hour weeks, and claims that he works 20 hour days, 7 days per week. Quoted as saying "The younger generation today wants a little bit off – I don't agree with this work life balance concept," https://www.theregister.com/20...

Meta using AI to identify AI ......

Perhaps I didn't read the fine print, but my win 10 PC started doing this without notification. What really pissed me off is that any files in odt were deleted and not transferred at all, as were some pdf's - only macrorshaft office files were uploaded. So if I hadn't been backing up all my files regularly to an external hdd, hundreds of hours of work on my family history would have been lost. As it was, I had to get some copies from my sister to who I had given them, and some had to be re-created from the remaining pdf's. So, lesson learned - all documents, downloads, photos etc are on separate disks to "drive C", and I continue to back up regularly. - fuck you macroshaft. Why am I using win instead of unbuntu? Very good question that I've asked myself several times since then.