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tuxom, to random German
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So, nun geht es in die zweite Runde mit 'n zum

T-Online greift das Thema auf und hat eine eigene Umfrage dort gestartet, was meint ihr denn dazu:

https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/aktuelles/wirtschaft/id_100412754/union-will-mitglieder-zum-verbrenner-aus-befragen.html

yacc143,
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@weit_im_westen @tuxom @SheDrivesMobility @fedibikes @fedibikes_de @fedibikes_berlin @vcoe_mobilitaet_mit_zukunft @mobilitaet @verkehrswende @verkehrswende_bot_wue @parents4future @OmasgR @intermobility
Diese Art von Umfragen sollen als Ausrede dienen, die Bevölkerung ist mit uns. Für Leute, die keine Ahnung haben, was eine seriöse Umfrage ist, so im Sinne der Statistik.

spytfyre, to instagramreality
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From now until the , I'm playing the Benny Hill theme tune at full volume and adopting a Kenneth Williams "oooh matron" voice, because it's now the only way to keep a grip on

This video for the latest fishing hook () helps too

https://youtu.be/u7T-SHu5wi8?si=-bFVY-h1s3HlHbw1

yacc143,
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@NormanDunbar @PaulNickson @TCMuffin @spytfyre @Man
It's not about potentially getting hay fever 50m underwater, it's about what having allergies says about your lung and what diseases can develop (easier).

And diving is not exactly a natural environment for the human body.

It's like testing for being a military pilot. They basically take only the 101% specimens.

jon, to random
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Ah

We’ve got another example of that legendary cooperation between state railways today in Köln

Where the Eurostar* stops at the platform is NOT shown on the screens (while for RE and ICE trains it is shown)

So Eurostar employs a person on the platform to tell passengers where to stand 🤦‍♂️

    • Eurostar is 55% SNCF, 18% SNCB
yacc143,
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@jon
DB is not deliberately difficult, that's their normal level of helpfulness.

clive, to random
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Whoa

yacc143,
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@glennf @clive
And it's technically the swing voters who decide the election.

Safe states are precisely what the name implies, thus “fly-over country” for the candidates, when we are honest.

nixCraft, to random
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🤣

yacc143,
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@nixCraft I'm so happy that some places talk already about LLM usage in teaching maths.

And their biggest worry is that students might cheat with the help of AI.

ernie, to random
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I really don't get how people will put so much energy into removing ads on products willingly knowing that by doing so they're hurting small creators.

Not even on things like aggressive ad tracking. Like, podcasts.

yacc143,
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@ernie
Trivial. Considering that ads are generally at best media files, at worst code & media, injected into a site but sourced from a 3rd party.

Now considering that media files are read and parsed by a surprising small number of libraries, these surprisingly often statically embedded, security relevant bugs in these libraries are an issue.

So I consider ad networks more or less legal malware delivery networks.

And adblockers security software.

It's so trivial.

gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.

Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj

yacc143,
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@gamingonlinux Ah, you don't know that.

That's the beauty.

In general, without special precautions, you never know where the LLM comes up with the probabilities for the next token.

heidilifeldman, to Ethics
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Though not serving as Trump’s attorney when he appeared as a witness today in Trump’s trial for criminally falsifying business records, Robert Costello is a lawyer, bound by New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct. Costello repeatedly showed his ethical unfitness, violating the most basic principles that inform the entire code. I’ve screenshot the very first paragraph of the entire code, highlighting the most pertinent phrases. 1/

yacc143,
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@heidilifeldman And here I always called cosplaying a mob boss.

publicvoit, to reddit
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Pre-warning to my followers: I'm going to leave for good and I'm blogging about the reasons - mostly because reddit management gone crazy (latest: my isn't working any more for reddit) & also because of https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

If you did not already, organize yourself a decent / aggregator and follow good content from there. My blog has also feeds to follow: https://karl-voit.at/how-to-use-this-blog/

I presume you could use Mastodon as a feed aggregator as well: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mastodon+as+rss+aggregator&ia=web

yacc143,
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@saint @publicvoit
Not sure if NNTP would fulfil, especially if it become popular, the DMA/DSA requirements. Or even the copyright directive requirements, e.g. regarding upload filtering.

ernie, to random
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A few years ago, a Reddit user asked for help in finding a “BOTTOM trackball,” which is an anecdote perfect for explaining how completely the optical mouse defeated the mechanical one.

Here’s how it happened: https://tedium.co/2024/05/19/optical-mouse-history-evolution/

new @tedium

yacc143,
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@ernie
Cool you found my first mouse :)

A Mouse Systems 3 button mouse with a grid pad :)

jeffjarvis, to random
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Food writer weighs in.

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Oh it matters.

Especially if he manages to become President again.

What kind of country the USA are.

Trump is way past his “best before” date, from a political hygiene perspective.

heidilifeldman, to random
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He’s going to become more and more dangerous. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/this-is-the-final-battle-trump-posts-incredibly-dark-video-pledging-to-liberate-america-from-these-villains-once-and-for-all/

yacc143,
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@heidilifeldman Can we get him some nice bunker, and some cyanide capsules?

yacc143, to random
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Funny how the Brits cannot understand that a common currency is important to a single market: Just was doing my travel reimbursements, and being holier than the pope, I did take the exact costs that were charged to my card for the train tickets in the UK.

4 days difference, and 6 cent difference. €14.25 versus €14.19.
0.4% in € price difference.

One might argue that this is irrelevant, but with margins in many industries being way below 5%, these currency fluctuations are major.

dangillmor, to random
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Just a reminder that if New York law enforcement had been doing its job decades ago -- among countless infuriating what-ifs -- the world would have been spared his malign presence in the past decade.

yacc143,
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@dangillmor 🤷

We don't want to go too far.

Generally speaking, the Rich are informally above the law in the USA. Seems like even many of the non-rich agree with that policy.

Trump just managed by running for President to put himself under a magnification lens, despite all tries by the media to be Pro-Trump.

Which led to the ugly discovery that Donald “The Mobster” Trump has the typical arrogance of the rich of being above the law.

craiggrannell, to random
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Update on the weird payment issue, from the publisher that said I’d been paid and the payment totally definitely went through and this is clearly all your bank’s fault and please stop bothering us:

The payment was today confirmed as rejected. Because of course it was. Although quite why it’s taken over a month and half a day of my time on the phone to my bank to reach this point, I’ve no idea.

Anyway, movement is movement. Fingers crossed I might have the money soon.

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell Just a side remark, it's extremely unlikely enter a valid IBAN with a typo, they do have two positions that are used for a checksum. Possible. Yes. Probable, no.

Now a mismatch IBAN/BIC that's an option, or a wrong BIC, but I'd expect at the latest the sending bank to spit out an error message about that. (We had a truncated BIC on our invoices for some time, till a customer forwarded the nice message from their bank with the corrected one. And sure, it was one W more.)

yacc143, to austria German
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Ohne in die Details zu gehen (leider indirekt betroffen, und ich wurde gebeten nichts zu sagen), scheint sich ein neuer Abmahntrend bei uns Österreich zu entwickeln, laut unserem RA:

  • ist es leider schon aus judiziert das Retweeter mithaften für den Tweet.
  • Das coole ist, dass man als Retweeter aber absolut nichts mitbekommt, dass wegen des Originaltweet Zivil- oder Strafverfahren laufen.
  • und wenn der Orginaltweet sich als üble Nachrede, etc also illegal herausstellt,
Green_Footballs, to random
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If the US becomes a fascist state, it will differ from other historical examples because all of the steps toward it happened right out in the open in front of the whole world, with media coverage.

yacc143,
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@Green_Footballs You mean like in Nazi-Germany?

I know it's not completely trivial, but have a look at the history lane, and look around at newspapers from the 1920/1930s.

And while we await the verdict of possible the sole criminal trial of the orange monster in NY, might I remind my readers here, that Adolf spent ~1 year in prison of his 5 years for treason (Funny, he tried to revolt against the legal Bavarian government. 5 years for a capital charge. But hey, he had a RW judge.)

yacc143, to random
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Considering the AI-hype @pluralistic

People tend to forget, that in the 1960s, non-techies were fooled by Eliza. And spent hours with the psychotherapist telling Eliza their personal problems.

So the current psychosis with ChatGPT is not completely new.

yacc143, to random
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So Broadcom, the new VMware owner in less than a quarter changes the licence model to subscription only, and kicks out most service and sales partner, informing them on the quick that their contracts will be terminated and not renewed. Or perhaps, nobody exactly knows.

That literally screams build your business on closed source products, doesn't it?

They call the anti business , but somehow the mainstream is quite okay to overlook unacceptable behaviour from the big players?

campuscodi, to random
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Microsoft not saying a peep about the Recall privacy scandal is a huge tell of how much the company is focused on security

We should have had a statement by now that Recall is either re-engineered or removed

yacc143,
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@campuscodi Or at least a pinky swear that it's safe.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Gee. People are misinformed about the economy and crime. Think that might be the failure of the institutions charged with informing the public: journalism? You'll never see journalists reflect on that.

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis
But they are not charged with that.

They are mostly employees at private businesses.

Their OKR are set for the benefit of the business and their owners.

Sorry, that myth that “journalists” have some function beyond earning their owners a good return (either in money or influence) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how, especially, the USA works in the past couple of decades.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Trump Rants All Night — Wild Fantasy Biden Tried To Assassinate Him Now Includes FBI-Secret Service Gun Battle https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-rants-all-night-wild-fantasy-biden-tried-to-assassinate-him-now-includes-fbi-secret-service-gun-battle/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

yacc143,
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@realTuckFrumper 🤷 According to his lawyers and what they are arguing at SCOTUS, if Biden really decided to do so, it would be 100% legal. So I'm not sure why the Orange Ape did not simple stand like a good patriot and let himself be executed?

yacc143, to random
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FULTON COUNTY INMATE NUMBER

What a career.

yacc143, to windows
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Sorry, 11 needs and a NPU to search for system settings? How come that & manage with a simple text search box?

Tom's Guide: Windows 11 vs macOS in 2024 will be a mess, so I'm learning Linux

https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/windows-11-vs-macos-in-2024-will-be-a-mess-so-im-learning-linux

> 2024 is the year I finally learn Linux, I swear

jeffjarvis, to random
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I switch over to Fox while awaiting the verdict, and already they are complaining about "so much unconstitutional thumb on the scale by the judge." They are institutional insurrectionists.

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis 🤷 Correct me, they are clever state rights advocates but only when it's convenient.

Trump was convicted in NYC in state court, using a state statute that has a bit more bite when it comes to electoral interference than the federal one.

Sucks to be a criminal politician who lives in NYC, and who relied on his donations to the DA to keep him untouchable, when a new DA comes in who isn't concerned with the donations.

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