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

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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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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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Image macro of a goose chasing a person, shouting “what was it replaced with?!” in an increasingly fervent pitch

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These things are not related. Git uses the system default editor, which is exactly what a cli program dropping you into an editor should use. If that’s Vim and you don’t like that, you need to configure your system or take it up with your distro maintainers.

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www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/…/100008377

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I didn’t realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity

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Schouldn’t

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I try my best to make my IDEs follow the principal that I should be able to type without looking at the screen, but apparently IDEs are really invested in return accepting completions to the point it’s often nit configurable when every other key is.

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Are y’all referring to native plants as weeds? I use it pretty much synonymously with “invasive species”

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Avoiding spyware doesn’t mean you’re opposed to labor-saving technology

Neither does being a Luddite

They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

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The agency’s operational control director Andrew Page-Dove says action was being taken to “close the gap between how drivers feel and what the safety statistics show”.

This sounds like a threat

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The corporations in Wall-E were short sighted and misguided but ultimately well intentioned. We’re way off track for Wall-E

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I assume less custom configs are better, but I’ve seen Ansible yaml files that are just convoluted bash scripts written in yaml, which makes them even more convoluted.

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I’m looking to replace my freestanding gas stove/oven right now, and my options seem to be $800 for coil electric and $3000 for induction.

I’m probably going to end up with the induction anyway but damn.

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aussie.zone/post/8630436Unfortunately Australians largely disagree somehow

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