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  • Corngood@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy I am not impressed by A.I.
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    3 days ago

    Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

    How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

    If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

    I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.














  • Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue

    It’s great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.

    On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you’re interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.

    I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.





  • So, should I start hassling my ISP about my missing 350 Mbps? Is there some other obvious thing I should test before I hassle them? I certainly don’t want them to say “have you turned it off and on again”?

    My ISP will treat anything under (I think) 90% of advertised speed as a technical problem, assuming it shows up on the modem speed test.

    I had a problem recently where it was consistently slow, but only in the evenings. I was pretty sure it was a neighbourhood issue, but I still had to go through the whole troubleshooting script, replace the modem, get a tech out to check everythting, etc.

    After none of that helped, the regular tech support didn’t know what else to try. Luckily there was a form on their site to escalate an issue. That put me in touch with an actual person with an email address, and they were able to get the issue sorted relatively quickly.

    There’s actually a whole escalation process up to making a complaint with the regulator, but this is in Canada, so YMMV.


  • Corngood@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    I’m in Canada, and I sent a cbc.ca news link to someone in instagram chat. It showed a preview of the post with a picture and summary, but when the link was clicked it went to a page that said:

    People in Canada can’t view this content.

    Content from news publications can’t be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation.