Goodhart's Law strikes again!

The article does mention that it was "fine-tuning" the code base. But it does remind me of a colleague who once bristled at the mention of Line of Code metrics of developer output with an established codebase as removing lines is often the mark of the superior software engineer.

The findings here seem like they match the pre-AI reality that good code review is a cognitively expensive task. Where writing code allows for focusing on one piece of the puzzle at a time and when the written function / section of code works as part of the larger project is a rewarding experience. Likewise reviewing the code requires understanding the entire context to know where the code fits. Added to this is the lack of attachment and pride with the success of the code working. For the review doing a good job and being successful is often finding bug, which is antithetically rewarded by frustration.

Just like an other "Quality" focused role, the auditor slowly becomes the villain, one annoying finding at a time. Unsurprising that there are no good feelings left by the end of the day.

Let's be honest the political echo chambers are basically at the top level service already, that ship has already sailed.

But the real power of what these filters are bring to the table which is targeted feeds on a topic. Want to keep up to date with the latest metagame in a trading card game, find the creators of strangest neon colored fantasy dildos, connect with nature photographers obsessed with macroscopic raindrops on tree leaves, find mechanics that work on late century steam and gas engines, or local school politics of a remote Northern Canadian community. And then have that segregated to a single feed that doesn't clutter up the usual things you care about and are following.

The moderation is also customizable. There's also community moderation and you could subscribe to your own moderation service.

As for the default moderation service which does skew left, the default setting on the "Intolerance" moderation category is "Warn". So even when moderated, those views aren't blocked and you can turn the settings on that category.

So again with a very few minor tweaks, you could use the service in the way you desire. Unless that conduct is rising to the level to that violates the Anti-Harassment Community Guideline.

Oddly enough, the feed and filter system being discussed also allows for an equally echo-y right wing experience, if you desire that. Their may be less right wing voices but they aren't absent and could be filtered for.

RSS feeds never went away, here's even the link to the Slashdot RSS feed. There's some RSS feed aggregators, but just like you pointed out with Slashdot the RSS sources aren't some sort of neutral panacea. Because no matter who is producing information will have a bias.

Bluesky is oddly better than most in that regard because the open protocol with the feed and filter system allows to pick feeds or create your own in order to have control over your own experience. And with that power comes the same power as other social media to live in the echo chamber of your choice. But in addition to that, there's also the ability to filter out the political echo chambers and just get a feed on a fandom, hobby, or obscure topic. Won't even have a CEO forcing their politics into your feed.

It's not like this stops you from relying on the default feed or relying on what some other megacorp Machine Learning algorithm is pushing at you. Extra tools on an open protocol that empowers some extra choices in what to filter out seems fine, but since everything is already open you could rely on other feeds people have made (which was the selling point of BlueSky in the first place) or tie in your own filters or even make your own ML algorithm to generate you suggestions.

The previous custom feed first party custom feed generator was a pain, but there's already third party tools that are already pretty easy to use without needing the AI buzzword. Skyfeed and Bluesky Feed Creator are pretty nice.

Taking the measurements locally is logical. The calibration check in to a cloud service also makes sense since these sensors aren't "for" the people using them but for the protection of the public. So normal concerns like loss of privacy pale in comparison to the risk of people already established to be untrustworthy attempting to disable or interfere with the interlock and has the upsides of not having to check in as at a brick and mortar as often for the people trying to get their life back together.

How could I forget the flag suit also used to march to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic complete with sexual thrusts, sex tape clips, and AI generated clips of officers with rat tails...

Was it really rogue or working as designed? (With that design being hasty and poor in order to chase the latest fad.)

The whole saga is just wild. Spent only a little time watching but from what I could gather it had everything I would expect out of a rural Ohio LEO run-in with a rapper:

• Missing money without investigation
• Videos from "the informant" that lead to the wild goose chase kidnapping raid then accusing the officers of drug fueled sexual encounters after conviction for other crimes
• A convicted pedophile officer whose sibling can't identify what they were convicted of under oath
• Hiring adult film workers to parody a straight and cisgendered officer as lesbian and transgender in very graphic poses
• Selling Hunchback of Notre Dame style merch of an officer who is ignorant of the character
• Divorce / infidelity sagas
• Unhinged incompetent depositions / testimonies that completely undermine the case.
• And Mama's lemon pound cake.

Been a while since I used my G13, but the software programmed the device so that the keys were just standard keyboard or mouse button inputs. And the stick could be analog game controller style or 8-direction d-pad mapped to key presses. I think some of the modern competitors only do D-pad style, so then everything is just standard keyboard presses. And if using Steam with anything game controller like, Steam can do controller profiles for mapping inputs as well.

I shudder at the thought of what would then emerge next, steamy thrillers about RMS, Torvalds, and CowboyNeal?