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▲ 16 r/couchsurfing

Since CS is now TravelTinder, whats the new ettiquette?

So, we all now see that CouchSurfing is slowly rebranding itself into the CockSurfing identity that was always lurking in the dark corners of its ecosystem. The flags are there:

  • Sexual preference questions
  • Personality/compatibility questions
  • Astrology woo woo stuff
  • Introduction of sexually-related color palette elements (purple and orange combination is quite telling)
  • Focus on one-on-one meetups
  • With the appearance of references from previously banned people I assume they're unbanning people that were taken out due to using CS as tinder previously.

The decision financially makes some sense, and CS just threw their old ID aside to get a chance of getting horny travelers to pay them money; as from the safety POV using CS instead of tinder will filter a lot of security risks that the later has when traveling, and might become the default for travel.

Who don't likes it, we move to Couchers, TrustRoots, Bewelcome, Seravas.

For the ones that remain in CS only, or just decide to keep it as an extra dating app to be bundled with Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, etc, the need arises to address the elephant in the room:

What will be the new etiquette on the site with the interactions stemming from it?

Because with where things are heading, stuff that wasn't accepted previously due to the expectations of the interactions stemming from a hospitality/friendship-based platform, the power imbalance in the equation, trust/safety, and just personal boundaries people built when having a CS experience with a host/surfer, etc; will be basically now the new "norm".:

  • Expectations will surround dating/"adventures". Even if its not the main objective of the app, now that they somehow allow it, it will just have the most intense gravity and attract the crowd towards precisely that.
  • Flirting will be the go-to mode people will default to (and probably expect)
  • Advances will be not a rare thing now if someone stays at someone's place. And weird reactions to them will be seen as "you went to a netflix&chill and only expected netflix?"
  • Meetups will not be your friendly gatherings to share some laughs and have some drinks and party. It will be a bunch of people looking for hookups.

And since CS management decided to weasel their way into this and not clearly state the change of audience and mission of the platform to all their users; if we don't resolve this beforehand as a community, the transition will be quite painful for a lot of people that weren't paying attention, that will end up in quite bad situations that will be shitty for everyone involved.

This is a discussion we need to have.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ — 21 hours ago
▲ 13 r/firefox

Whats the deal with the latest updates on Firefox?

The last three updates are really fucking up my workflow. The first one destroyed my profile files and had me importing the ones from my other computer, the next one just lost all my tabs and forced me to do the reimporting again, now the last one from a couple days ago just deleted all my cookies; and when I tried using the backup it just rewrote it, and when I tried importing another profile, it did the same with the cookies.

Like wtf guys?

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u/ReasonablePossum_ — 2 days ago
▲ 5 r/Upwork

Upwork is on the way of becoming an AI echochamber

While I understand the push of AI features for optimization and productivity, this one specifically is one I'm quite wary about: having AI shortlisting proposals.

In the recent paper "AI self-referencing in algorithmic hiring" ,it was proven that AI agents tasked to evaluate and pick candidates based on proposal/cover letters/CVs were considerably favoring the candidates using AI-written material, especially the ones using the same model family as the evaluating model.

>Using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment, we find that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled.

>The bias against human-written resumes is particularly substantial, with self-preference bias ranging from 67% to 82% across major commercial and open-source models.

>Managerial implications: To quantify the operational impact of self-preference bias, we simulate realistic hiring pipelines across 24 occupations.

>These simulations show that candidates using the same LLM as the evaluator are 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes, with the largest disadvantages observed in business-related fields such as sales and accounting.

This will lead the platform to become an AI-agent circkejerk were the freelancers that weren't using AI to send proposals and fine-tune their profiles, will be forced to do so to keep themselves within the filter parameters that the evaluating algo/model (UMA/basically chatGPT) is applying to the clients auto-selection process

This is the furthest you can aim to go from people complaining on receiving mostly AI-slop proposals on their job posts...

You are creating feedback loop that will be very difficult to break and placing a hard barrier between a client looking to pay you to find a legit freelancer, and a freelancer looking to pay you to find him a client.

Im honestly baffled at how dettached from the reality and flying on the AI hype-train are the people taking these decisions. Because they are shortsighted af.

(I posted this on r/UpworkOfficial and it was deleted.....so doubt they gonna change where they're heading to)

As for Clients out here, beware of using auto shortlisting, you will end up risking yourself to hire the kind of people that are prone to send AI proposals.....

u/ReasonablePossum_ — 6 days ago
▲ 2 r/UpworkOfficial

Upwork is at risk of becoming an AI echochamber

While I understand the pushof AI features for optimization and productivity, this one specifically is one I'm quite wary about: having AI shortlisting proposals.

In the recent paper "AI self-referencing in algorithmic hiring" , it was proven that AI agents tasked to evaluate and pick candidates based on proposal/cover letters/CVs were considerably favoring the candidates using AI-written material, especially the ones using the same model family as the evaluating model.

>Using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment, we find that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled.

>The bias against human-written resumes is particularly substantial, with self-preference bias ranging from 67% to 82% across major commercial and open-source models.

>Managerial implications: To quantify the operational impact of self-preference bias, we simulate realistic hiring pipelines across 24 occupations.

>These simulations show that candidates using the same LLM as the evaluator are 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes, with the largest disadvantages observed in business-related fields such as sales and accounting.

This will lead the platform to become an AI-agent circkejerk were the freelancers that weren't using AI to send proposals and finetune their profiles, will be forced to do so to keep themselves within the filter parameters that the evaluating algo/model (UMA/GPT) is applying to the clients autoselection process

This is the furthest you can aim to go from people complaining on receiving mostly AI-slop proposals on their job posts...

You are creating feedback loop that will be very difficult to break and placing a hard barrier between a client looking to pay you to find a legit freelancer, and a freelancer looking to pay you to find him a client.

Im honestly baffled at how dettached from the reality and flying on the AI hypetrain are the people taking these decisions. Because they are shortsighted.

Are you guys aware of the issue? What measures have you taken to fight the AI bias?

u/ReasonablePossum_ — 6 days ago
▲ 6 r/System76

I run a dual OS system, and secureboot/bitlocker update shenegians somehow always end up fucking up PoPOS bootloader, and having to search for the right ssds/volumes, unencrypting, mounting, etc is just annoying when it basically can be done with a simple script or a wizard with simple instructions.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ — 24 days ago