Recent content by Mendalla

As I understand it a lot of universities and school systems subscribe to software (AI driven itself, ironically) that they can run papers and such through. Whether that's cost effective for a forum site is probably questionable. Going back to in person exams and banning use of personal devices...

Yes. Sorry, lapsed into work jargon. Right now, AI is mostly a development tool but adding AI transcription for charting is being talked about.

Good question. The mods on my writing site use various tools and techniques to detect stories written with AI (which are currently banned on both of their sites) but I've never seen anything done with forum posts. I have seen some posts that had me going, "Hmmm" though not on my site yet. We...

Exactly. For our project at work we have two of my team plus a couple engineers from our corporate group's AI team.

On the other hand, being able to build a site that is tailored to your users, perhaps with input from them incorporated into the process, would help with that belonging, wouldn't it? That's part of why we are building our own EHR at work. We can precisely tailor it to how our users work and what...

This would be why I would consider doing it. We are a small site that uses only a fraction of the newer features from 2.2 and later. We could run on a fairly simple forum system and I have eyeballed things like phpBB but dread the work of importing. Vibe coding something that uses the existing...

The Canadian province of Alberta holding a vote on whether to hold a vote on independence from Canada. It failed even more miserably than we expected (76% voted to remain in Canada without a second referendum).

Yeah, it should just say "to the email currently on file" or something, not the actual email (or mask the email as some sites do).

Will there be protocols around flagging or removing unmaintained apps? How would you define that? After all an app that is not getting updates inevitably becomes a security risk in this day and age.

Xenforo's XFRM has always seemed to be enough for me. Could it be improved? Sure, everything can. But I have a level of trust with it that I would not have with this proposed project. Is there going to be clear rules and standards with swift removal of any add-ons that fail to meet the standards...

Just out of interest I tried with Firefox on Android (my usual) and got the same result. When I tapped the "Prefix" list, a pop-up with checkboxes opened and I had to manually uncheck Any. So it's not just iOS devices. I think the first option, a warning that it may not work as expected on...

And I have seen Chris override the bot's call at least a couple times so that is happening. This is actually one of the things that AI with proper training can handle fairly well. I imagine we will eventually enable the agent on the help desk at work to help with triaging.

Most of what Adobe does wouldn't be copyrightable, just the specific way they implement it. So as long as they aren't copying Adobe's code and make things different enough in the look and feel, they could be okay on that front. That's my understanding anyhow. A lawyer would know better.

Interesting. I like the idea in principle but have never really used these tools in a serious way so am probably not the best one to judge. We have an excellent and extremely Adobe conversant graphic designer at work who I call on and I use GIMP (in very amateur way) for the bit of image editing...

In some ways, that's not entirely a bad thing for a site that has limited storage (e.g. mine) but, yeah, I uploaded three or four images yesterday myself so needed. I might give this a whirl in my dev eventually, but for now I am watching the ongoing waves of bugs and fixes to see when it feels...