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Typing speed measured in flops

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It doesn’t need a punchline because the NACC is a joke

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Context, presumably

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It’s a true story

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I understand SBS’s desire to avoid potentially platforming misinformation, but the story is pretty meaningless without this context.

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That’s a completely different statement

Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)

In the wake of the pandemic, schools in the European Union have increasingly begun to implement digital services for online learning. While these modernisation efforts are a welcome development, a small number of big tech companies immediately tried to dominate the space – often with the intention of getting children used to...

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This article seems to have a bizarre assumption all the way through that the schools must use Microsoft 365.

Obviously Microsoft is failing morally and probably legally (what else is new), but the schools also have a moral and legal requirement to choose software which protects the rights of the children. Microsoft is sort of right in the way they surely didn’t mean; schools have the responsibility to not use Microsoft 365.

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If it doesn’t fulfill the requirements it’s not any kind of solution

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If you like chunky and portful check out the MNT Reform

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From the article

The company said the client was then moved to A O’Hare Funeral Directors at Leichhardt where doctors and perfusionists, who operate heart-lung bypass machines, worked to pump a liquid, which acts as a type of anti-freeze, through the body to help preserve cells and lower the body’s temperature.

It’s a pretty crude description for an audience not expected to know anything about this, but even so it’s obvious they’re not just shoving a body in liquid nitrogen and calling it a day.

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My best guesses are this is poorly translated or AI, but neither of those explain this

And that’s because the solar system’t make sense without it.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “odd bunch” veggie that i wouldn’t be happy to pick off the shelf, but I’ve seen plenty on the shelf I wouldn’t pick

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Banducci is set to retire from the Woolworths Group in September 2024. The announcement occurred days after Banducci made national headlines for walking out of an interview with the ABC’s four corners as part of their investigation into price gouging by major supermarkets in Australia.[3]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Banducci#Career

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If anyone is considering how to avoid this on their own site: indieweb.org/URL_design

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AI isn’t being watered down, quite the opposite.

Path finding, computer vision, optical character recognition, machine learning and large language models were all unambiguously considered to be vAI technology before they were widespread, and now the media and general public tend to avoid the term for all but the most recent developments.

It’s called The AI Effect

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DuckDuckGo uses Bing’s results

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Just in case you’re not just satirically listing things that are already awful;

Supermarkets increase their “retention” by limiting signage to keep you wandering and avoid “just get that thing and go” shopping. I don’t know how common this is, but when I was a kid the major supermarkets had long lists of what items were in each aisle, plus highly visible signs in the aisle to show exactly where each category was. Now days at the major chains those in aisle signs are completely gone, and the categories have been whittled down to a few major categories; most products aren’t represented on the sign at all e.g. you have to assume “cake mix/decorating” are in the same aisle as “flour”.

Unskippable ads on all pumps are absolutely a thing that are getting more popular. Mobil is particularly bad for it in my experience.

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There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn’t have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.

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Lojban

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Electron applications are notorious and prolific, and resolutions are very specific to versions and details of the program’s build process.

Steam can be a big old flashy boi

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There are multiple ways depending on the version of electron the app was built against

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I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein right after Manufacturing Consent and I think that worked really well. It’s got some overlap in content that helps solidify concepts, but it’s a bit more modern and a much easier read (less dry)

Other recommendations

If you have any interest in economics:

  • Debt: the last 5000 years by David Graeber
  • the Defecit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

If you have interest in digital freedoms and copyright law:

  • Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
  • The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
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Image macro of a goose chasing a person, shouting “what was it replaced with?!” in an increasingly fervent pitch

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And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

It’s not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.

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