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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

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If you base something on facts, it will be left leaning. Right leaning has a higher value in loyalty, authority, respect, and spirituality. They will deny facts if they have to in order to prioritize their other values. Right leaning people tend to be more likely to be on time, have cleaner desks, and speak more formally to someone they deem a "superior". Left leaning often could give a rats ass about authority, and respect is only given once it's earned.

All that to say, facts and reality are more left leaning by nature. Given many religious folks will deny nature's history for their spiritual beliefs.

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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

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This headline isn't a bad headline. The article seems to be pretty well balanced, and leaves plenty siding with Wikipedia. It even mentions another news article that DOES have a bad headline:

Sanger has spent more than a decade criticizing Wikipedia for what he claims is an ideological, left-wing bias on a variety of topics, and on X has framed this recent ban as further proof of everything that’s wrong with Wikipedia. The New York Post took that bait and last night published an article with the headline “Left-leaning Wikipedia blocked founder from editing site—after he campaigned to make it more balanced.”

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Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store

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I don't really agree with the original comment, but your response is worse than what you're responding to. What does what you saw in the modlog have to do with this comment? He really wasn't that mean, and raises a valid point at least. You could've just said "We should've checked but it's still a fun topic" or something that acknowledges the mistake but moves on anyway.

Also, if it costs money for people reading it, why would you share it? I assume you shared it because the cost is worth the price of sharing something you enjoy, but if that's true why bring up cost at all?

Btw, it's a bit cliche to respond to criticism with the sentiment of "I'd like to see you do better" rather than accept it for what it is (assuming there is validity to it).

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This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability

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A major problem is backwards compatibility. There is so much infrastructure that would break if they wanted to redo portions of code in a more correct fashion. They have a massive variety of systems, and they're all integrated. Any time they want to do something, they're scared of something breaking. This time, AI is finding a shit ton of the vulnerabilities that are in these systems, and at least in part fixing them. It's unclear how much of the code is written or review by humans. But they're making changes to try to fix these vulnerabilities, and things are breaking. The Microsoft code is a giant fucking spaghetti mess, which means it's bloated, slow, insecure, inefficient, and overall shitty. It's not profitable enough to fix all of this, too. Fixing shit you already have doesn't get shareholders attentions. So it's AI in everything instead. New shiny stuff to keep the adult babies with all the money happy

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Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?

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This is an online forum. Most of these comments are sent from the toilet. If we wanted perfect sentences, we'd use AI to rewrite our thoughts. I'd rather clunky imperfect writing that doesn't flow well than have something even partially, let alone entirely, written by AI. That's not so say all well written text is AI, but imperfections are human

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This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability

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Are you suggesting the patches are fixing issues the AI caused? If so, that isn't what's happening. AI is finding vulnerabilities from old human written code at a pace unlike anything before. Not because humans couldn't technically find them, it's just that they never did. That isn't me marketing or shelling out for an AI company, there are many different models accomplishing the same thing, and more to come. It's not just with Microsoft, though Microsoft has a lot of vulnerabilities to find. AI is causing chaos for just about every major tech company with all the vulnerabilities being found. And they have to find and patch them before someone else uses the AI to find and abuse the vulnerabilities first. The long standing match of cat and mouse is much faster than it once was