You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
‘Job security’ has been a myth for more than half a century. A career for mostnpeople is nothing more than a job that you’re enmeshed in, and can’t easily leave if you want to.
For a while, there was a sense among the robber baron class that loyalty to employees would pay off with loyalty returned. Consider industrialists building towns for their employees and families, complete with schools and arenas.
Regardless of how cynical the reasoning may have been, the result was a degree of mutual loyalty and job security.
I’m sure it depends on the country. Here in Canada, you are gambling between safely importing an illegal firearm vs. an indictable offense which can lead to three years in jail (for the first gun). And that’s assuming the firearm is otherwise legal in Canada.
Obviously it happens - most handguns used in crimes in Canada are illegally smuggled in from the US. Just understand though, that you’d be setting yourself up for a world of hurt.
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
Usually three companies will end up owning an imdustry. It’s far easier to manage a collusive oligopoly than a pure monopoly; and the governments are more likely to leave you alone.
I saw the headline and was thinking “He’s probably going to say HP, because that’s always been true; or maybe Oracle because they’re almost as bad. But he’s wrong, because he’s probably not seen Broadcom’s site.”
He nailed it.
Like this article, I went to download my free copy of VMware Workstation Pro. Excitement!
I spent two hours bouncing around between VMWare and Broadcom pointing at each other, saying “it’s in the other castle.” Finally - FINALLY - I found a note that said I’d need to login.
No problem. I have a VMWare account.
Nope. Sorry VMWare customer, you’re SOL. You need to create a NEW Broadcom account. And we’re not going to tell you how.
Fuck you Broadcom. You have made the worst site in 35 years of the www. Congratulations.
In each episode of this riveting new podcast series, co-hosts Robert Jago (Kwantlen First Nation and Nooksack Indian Tribe) and Angel Ellis (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) reveal unbelievable stories of audacious fraudsters and investigate the complex phenomenon of Indigenous identity fraud. Coming soon. Hosted on Acast. See...
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
I got an email from Leadnow recently and they used this phrase about Poilievre “flipping a kill switch” on the constitution. I usually trust their emails, but this is one of those instances where I wanted to double check this one. I copy pasted the phrase into a search engine and came across this video....
I’ve often wondered why, after a century of innovation, modern bicycles look so similar to the ones that people rode in the 1890s. After all the innovations in the world since that time, why haven’t we improved on the bicycle?...
Cool video, fellow Albbertan! (And at the end, I thibk you were riding along beside Deerfoot north of 32nd, so fellow Calgarian.)
I’d love to see a breakdown of the true innovations that draw the line from Singer to modern day. Surr materials have improved, but that’s incremental. The freewheel and the derailleur are fundamental new innovations. Rim brakes improved over a century, but weren’t really new. Disc brakes might qualify as a true innovation. And of course, pneumatuc tires - every few years an attempt to replace them fails once again, because they were an absolute miracle.
I’d also love to see a discussion of what might be, if it weren’t for the UCI’s punitive rules.
In January, the Federal Court found that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to respond to the protests of the self-styled freedom convoy in 2022 was not properly justified — a decision the federal government is now appealing....
Harper went as far as he could in the era. Trying to pull Trump-esque fascism would have gotten him removed by his own party.
But now we have a party of psychopaths who actively court that sort of behaviour, and a leader who will happily drive the country straight off a cliff to cement his own power. Meanwhile, Harper is still gleefully pulling the strings from his apocalyptic evangelical church.
The only real difference is that Poilievre/Harper are clever enough (and noy senile!) to keep their actual mechanics away from their bombastic noisemaking.
What he SAYS about it come election time may require pandering, but once he is in power he will use the notwithstanding clause however and whenever he wants.
Nobody promises to be worse than they are. Nobody campains on abuse with the secret intent of being restrained and compassionate. When someone tells you that they intend to be horrific, you can guarantee that that’s the LEAST bad they will be.
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?
Any platform(s).
Scotty keeping it real. (lemmy.world)
I give the side-eye to people who call it “A New Hope” or “Episode IV.”
Microsoft's new Recall AI will take screenshots of everything you do - freaky [Mircosoft: "capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds"] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Federal judge blocks Biden administration rule requiring dealers at gun shows to run background checks (fortune.com)
Canada is out of control (lemmy.world)
Corporations are buying local vet clinics — raising questions about price, choice and quality of care (www.cbc.ca)
The big companies, known as consolidators, have bought hundreds of clinics from 2012 onwards, according to records and reports, across the country, because pets and vets are big money....
I still remember (lemmy.world)
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. (lemmy.world)
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing (www.techradar.com)
The Worst Website In The Entire World (matduggan.com)
The Worst Website In The Entire World is owned by Broadcom
Pretendians (link.chtbl.com)
In each episode of this riveting new podcast series, co-hosts Robert Jago (Kwantlen First Nation and Nooksack Indian Tribe) and Angel Ellis (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) reveal unbelievable stories of audacious fraudsters and investigate the complex phenomenon of Indigenous identity fraud. Coming soon. Hosted on Acast. See...
Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Will Poilievre flip a 'kill switch' on Canada's Constitution? | About That (youtu.be)
I got an email from Leadnow recently and they used this phrase about Poilievre “flipping a kill switch” on the constitution. I usually trust their emails, but this is one of those instances where I wanted to double check this one. I copy pasted the phrase into a search engine and came across this video....
130-year-old bicycle vs brand-new modern bike (www.youtube.com)
I’ve often wondered why, after a century of innovation, modern bicycles look so similar to the ones that people rode in the 1890s. After all the innovations in the world since that time, why haven’t we improved on the bicycle?...
Just how far is Pierre Poilievre willing to take the notwithstanding clause? (www.cbc.ca)
In January, the Federal Court found that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to respond to the protests of the self-styled freedom convoy in 2022 was not properly justified — a decision the federal government is now appealing....
Handgun violence: Taking aim at which gun control strategies work and don’t work (www.thestar.com)