There's a lot that's alarming in this article, but perhaps the most alarming part is the NYC spokesperson assering that the problem can be fixed via upgrades:
@emilymbender It's the end result of decades of writing code with an eye to "beating the turing test", where "beating the turing test" explicitly requires fooling the judges. It's not a surprise that they have gotten really good at writing code to fool the judges.
When you're writing code to fool people, fooling people isn't a bug, it's a design feature.
Work chat turned to discussing metric versus imperial measurement, so I got to roll out pictures of my first lunchbox, dating from the sunset of the Carter administration. Friends, it was an exciting time. https://www.ebay.com/itm/305119371827
It would be nice if you didn't have to quit ubuntu-software and manually kill its background job and update on the command line when ubuntu-software tells you it needs to update snap-store:
@lproven Life Expectancy at 30 and 40 and 50 was not nearly as dramatically lower before modern medicine as LE at birth, because most of the increase in LE has been reducing infant and child mortality.
Like from 1850 to now LE at age 40 has only increased for men from 67 to 77. Women from 68 to 80.
At age 60, for men from 70 to 80, for women from 74 to 83.
Just noticed that Chrome now has a new native "reader mode" that displays pages with everything except the text stripped out, and lots of options for how you want that text displayed. Having this native in the browser is definitely a win.
I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.
@TomSwirly@w7voa It could work harder to keep you in your instance, like recognizing links to other instances and replacing them to local links that present the same page.
Updating Windows and it's been sitting at "You're at 0% there" for half an hour, so I go to take a photo of it for yucks and it's jumped to 30% by the time I pull my phone out. Dude. Really?
I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.
Tories - rumours of a plot to oust Sunak and replace him with Margaret Thatcher. “Yes, she’s dead, but that makes her more relatable to our voters,” said one.
Labour - Starmer announces that Ferrets are anti-woman and anti-Semitic, and that supporting them will be grounds for expulsion from the party.
When my eldest was in kindergarten, they came home one day with an assignment to count something in their house.
We got a note from the teacher the next day, which I will paraphrase (because it's been 12 years): "Your child is very bright and clearly knows how to count, but you should probably explain that you don't actually have 15 computers in your house."
Our response: "Oh, you're right, Z missed a few in the basement server rack, it's actually closer to 25."
@norgralin@jernej__s@katre Definitely mouse, a modern USB optical mouse has at least a 12 MHz embedded processor to handle the USB protocol, plus a probably 20 MHz or better DSP for the image processing, either of which is probably faster than any of the early mouse-based computers in the '70s.
