WagesOf

bigzaphod, 23 hours ago to Ds9

They should put seatbelts on the Defiant. #ds9

bigzaphod, 1 day ago to random

This https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devices-photos-resurfacing/ is kinda bad, but it's probably NOT actually a bug anymore - it's probably only happening now because they fixed the original bug that prevented the originals from actually being deleted in the first place.

At least... I hope so!

They really need to comment on this, though.

Edit: Okay, I mean, obviously it's still a bad bug, but maybe it's on the server side now. Which is especially bad. But they could fix without an update.

They need to comment on this.

britt, 2 days ago to random

Ever purchase something again because you swear you lost it and you swear you looked everywhere 5 times?

… only to buy it again and find the original a short time later?!

.. … that’s happened to me TWICE in the last month. #ADHD

¯_(ツ)_/¯

WagesOf, 3 days ago to Youtube

#today I'm going through my YouTube feed and not interesteding 50% of them because, while I am interested in them, I already watched them.

Hey #youtube, I never EVER want to see a video suggestion for something I JUST WATCHED YESTERDAY.

Oh, and stop trying to make shorts a thing. Your bullshit Instagram clone attempt will never be a thing.

Why the hell can't I have a setting option in the feed to turn off shorts and turn of already viewed suggestions?

darwinwoodka, 3 days ago to random

How is this not a violation of Trump's gag order:

“in court yesterday, actually, I was sitting close enough that I could look over Trump’s shoulder and see what he was reading. at one point, he was actually reading the quotes that these individuals were— and going through and making notations with a pen, on the paper, while testimony was going on. while Michael Cohen was testifying against him, he was actually going through and editing and annotating the quotes.”

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1790555738969952703

tess, 3 days ago to random

Ran into google's new LLM search answering system today; first time I've seen it so far, which I guess is impressive?

I did some poking and it seems like specific keyword searches - especially esoteric or technical ones - tend to not get LLM-generated answers, while "can you..." "how do you..." "does a..." "what is the..." questions do.

Which I guess makes sense; the goal appears to be to distill the hundreds of questionable link farm "answer" sites into a single (questionable?) answer 😅

yosh, 3 days ago to random

Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.

HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.

WagesOf, 4 days ago to random

You'd think that the most bad ass monsters would be at the TOP of a dungeon.

Random pikers should be killing all of the low level mobs meaning the pip squeak rats and goblins would have to live deeper down behind the cover of the bosses.

No?

WagesOf, 4 days ago to random

#today I got my SO, who flat refuses to read ebooks, to try a gasp graphic novel on an OLED tablet.

I think I'm making inroads!

It helps that it's one of the most engrossing graphic novels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locke_%26_Key

WagesOf, 5 days ago to random

#today I'm loving the speed of my laptop. Yesterday I reset my SO's laptop, which is a Windows 8 era slowbox w a 720p screen and 2g of ram.

ZOOM!

cordelya, 7 days ago to random

It's always a good day when your solar panels generate more power than you use, resulting in negative grid usage 😁

The electric company won't pay me for it but anything I put into the grid I don't have to pay for when I take it back out later.

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

Fun Fact: The USPS doesn't forward mail to Canada.

WagesOf, 7 days ago to random

sigh can we please hurry up and make cybernetic eyes already? I'm very tired of my floater/web filled meat eyes with no ability to change focus.

bigzaphod, 7 days ago to random

My new soldering iron has a 32-bit RISC processor and 132KB of RAM because why not? https://pine64.org/documentation/Pinecil/

britt, 7 days ago to random

What’s everyone up to this weekend?

mcc, 7 days ago to random

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to random

'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees immense shift twd the old ways

“Generations of Catholics who embraced modernizing tide sparked in 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe church has been twisted by change…

..molded by plummeting church attendance…reshaped parishes across the country, leaving them at odds w Pope Francis and much of the Catholic world.”
https://apnews.com/article/7638fa2013a593f8cb07483ffc8ed487

lizzard, 7 days ago to random

Omg, finally saw the #aurora from San Francisco! So profound, so lovely. I am forever changed #NorthernLights

FluentInFinance, 8 days ago to random

My credit score dropped when I paid off my car.

My credit score dropped when I paid off my student loans.

The system punishes you for not owing any money.

They told me: "You should get more loans to increase your credit score."

The system is predatory and wants you to be in debt.

Credit scores are one of the biggest scams.

WagesOf, 8 days ago to ramen

Hmm, I dunno about this new shin stir fry flavored #ramen.

It's very sweet in the bbq style and the noods are chewier.

Maybe I need a second pack to give it a real opinion. 😅

WagesOf, 9 days ago to random

After a month delay and a unilateral conversion from "purchase" to "prepurchase" in the initial transaction and a second copy paste of the initial purchase invoice when I asked "when will they ship" rather than an actual answer. I've told #shenzhenaudio to give me a full refund on my Moondrop Dusk #iem.

Maybe I'll get a MIAD01 as a backup phone.

Naw, I'm done dealing with these guys. They have no idea how to interact with customers.

WagesOf, 9 days ago to random

#today I'm looking back on the face on Mars silliness fondly with Art Bell.

Man, I miss the harmless conspiracy theories that weren't designed in a lab to divide and destroy our cultural unity in the USA.

https://pca.st/episode/58a48962-53ac-49cb-9daf-e9492c60fe5f

CultureDesk, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to television

Amazon Prime Video subscribers are about to see even more ads. In January, viewers who didn't pay an additional $3 a month started to see commercials. Now, Amazon has announced that it's adding what it describes as shoppable carousel ads, interactive pause ads and interactive brand trivia ads. Here's more from Ars Technica. We want to know, have you, or will you ditch streaming services as they start to add commercials?

https://flip.it/1.wzac

#Television #Entertainment #TuneIn #Tech #Amazon #Poll

TechDesk, 10 days ago to ai

A new study from Microsoft and LinkedIn has found that AI usage in the workplace has doubled in the last six months.

The data comes from a survey completed by 31,000 people across 31 countries, which found that 75% of workers are now using AI as part of their jobs. Over half are using it for their most important tasks, but don't want to admit it out of fear it makes them look replaceable. Here’s more from CNBC.

https://flip.it/A-Y94_

#AI #ChatGPT #MicrosoftCoPilot #Tech