remington
@remington@beehaw.org
Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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- Comment on Jimmy Wales(Wikipedia's founder) Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 days ago:
I agree. I grew up using hard copy encyclopedias at libraries. It is incredible now to have all of this at are fingertips at home.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales(Wikipedia's founder) Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 5 days ago:
Can you give an example of an article with an error that you tried to correct?
This was 6 years ago so I cannot recall precisely which pages. However, I just skimmed over about 15 pages that I thought would be riddled with errors. To my surprise, I only found one instance where there was a ‘citation needed’ mark and could find no major errors…maybe a few little splitting hairs examples but nothing serious.
So, it appears that improvements have been made over the past 6 years. On the other hand, I only looked over roughly 15 pages.
Probably the same caution would be true for any encyclopedia. Namely, these can be pretty good starting points but not for serious scholarly research.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales(Wikipedia's founder) Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 5 days ago:
My self and others in this field tried for about 6 months to no avail. We gave up…they didn’t want to hear it.
- Bay Area tech titan [Cisco] announces mass layoffs just after soaring revenue reportwww.sfgate.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on Jimmy Wales(Wikipedia's founder) Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 5 days ago:
I have studied academic biblical scholarship for over 30 years. All of Wikipedia’s biblical pages are riddled with errors. IMO, Wikipedia is a decent starting point but that would be it.
- Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisorwww.thepinknews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
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This doesn’t belong in this community (i.e. Technology). Next time post this in Ask Beehaw or Chat. Thanks.
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I’m in the exact same boat as you.
- AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showerstechiegamers.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 24 comments
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- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 5 weeks ago:
…no mention of iOS 26’s new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring.
Nice! Thanks for pointing this out!
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- Comment on A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us 1 month ago:
This is such an incredibly important message for us to understand. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I can only hope that more and more people learn this.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 1 month ago:
Thanks. I appreciate the info and effort.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 1 month ago:
OK. Fair enough.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, archive.is has moved behind Cloudflare, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
How do you know this?
What about ghostarchive.org?
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 1 month ago:
Would you edit your post and add the following archive link to the body, please?
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date brokers
I believe you meant ‘data brokers’.
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