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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

publicvoit, to reddit
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Pre-warning to my followers: I'm going to leave #reddit for good and I'm blogging about the reasons - mostly because reddit management gone crazy (latest: my #firefox 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 #Atom/ #RSS 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.

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/ #LawFedi #Ethics #LegalEthics

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

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 :)

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.)

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.

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.

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.)

kubikpixel, to internet German
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Welcher Internet Browser ist "sicherer"?
Gute Frage und nicht simpel zu beantworten, doch nach meiner Auffassung ist es Firefox und weniger der sehr beliebte Chrome Browser.

So viel ich weiss, gibt es den Firefox länger und hat doch (knapp) weniger bekannte, so wie meistens behobene Schwachpunkte. Weshalb glauben so viele lehre Versprechungen von Konzerne?

🦊 Firefox
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=firefox
🌐 Chrome
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome

—

yacc143,
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@kubikpixel
Weile die Konzerne die Leute zwingen.

Beispiel aus meiner Arbeit: Hintergrund Modifikationen in Google Meet hat lange Zeit nur in Chrome funktioniert. Endresultat, ich verwende am Arbeitslaptop für die Arbeit einen Chrome.

Für das Privatleben einen Firefox. (Nebenbei beim Experimentieren mit meinen Webcams gestern, Firefox kann in Google Meet jetzt auch den Hintergrund anpassen. 1, 2 Jahre nach Google Chrome.)

yacc143,
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@kubikpixel Nicht mein Punkt.

Google hat eine gewisse Tendenz, seine Schäfchen mit der Brechstange einzusammeln.

Dann gibt es ja noch so Dinge wie DRM (Die Leute w3c Leute die EME erlaubt haben, gehören wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit nach Den Haag.). Rate mal, wer Torwächter für das wichtigste DRM Modul ist? Ohne das, kann dein Browser sprichwörtlich Jamaika Kaffee, perfekt zubereitet, gratis vor den PC beamen, und er wird floppen.

gtconway3, to random

The New York Trump Case Is Kind of Perfect

“What the case is really about is Trump’s modus operandi—lying. He’s a matryoshka doll of mendacity. He lies, usually lies some more, and then often lies about the lies he’s previously told.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/stormy-daniels-on-stand-trump-trials/678373/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f7wXdPmgGKSkJ0gd9Bsg8PE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

yacc143,
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@mastodonmigration @gtconway3
Well, his voters seem to love his lies?

craiggrannell, (edited ) to random
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UK folks:

  • Publisher states a payment has been made + sent remittance.
  • I have not received the funds (after six weeks now) and my (UK) bank’s customer services, fraud and international teams have all stated they cannot see any payment and that I do not have a block on my account.

Any advice on what to do? I’ve never been in this situation before, and the amount of money is not insignificant. But also, the publisher appears to be very much in “we’ve paid so nothing we can do” mode now.

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell @ellneal
Consider one thing:

Your relationship is almost certainly already f%cked up.

Why?

Because if you do not fix it, chances are good that they will again use the wrong way to pay, and you won't get your money.

So chances are you'll end up fixing this via the legal department.

We had it once the other way around, when our ISP was swallowed by a bigger one, the new accounting Dept was incapable of assigning payments correctly. (Yes we have a complicated address.)

baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

yacc143,
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@baldur Worse, at some point the “trusted people” might want to retire, and will sell.

And then the vulture capitalists will be waiting.

br00t4c, to random
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Medical Students Staying Away From Abortion Ban States In Droves

#reproductiverights #students

https://www.wonkette.com/p/medical-students-staying-away-from

yacc143,
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@br00t4c Job accomplished.

The GOP is on a time journey into the good old colony days, and surely, you don't think that the colonists had that many doctors available?

TechConnectify, to random
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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

yacc143,
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@TechConnectify 🤷 Did we ever?

jeffjarvis, to random
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California just came out with a new bill and it's worst than the last, demonizing data as if toxic pollution. Yeesh. I have a post about it--and offer yet another alternative:
https://medium.com/whither-news/news-legislation-from-bad-to-worse-c32d9fc34670

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Sorry privacy invading data is not exactly about making an enlightened society happy.

Although many have opinioned, that the GDR's Stasi would have reached continuous new levels of happiness with the level of data collection and privacy invasion that the US surveillance capitalism practices.

But then the GDR was as a huge open-air prison.

Now don't let me get started about US news (IMHO, you basically don't have news, you have news entertainment).

dangillmor, to random
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Can Big Journalism connect some dots please?

Trump vows to effectively nationalize local police into a migrant deportation force -- stopping people on the street and herding millions into concentration camps, supposedly before dropping them off somewhere south of the border.

That's grotesque, and terrible, in every way.

But you are naive if you imagine that this national cops squad would be disbanded, or the concentration camps closed, after the mass deportations.

Vote.

yacc143,
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@dangillmor One central tenet of Trump's plans is that he decides who is a migrant and who is a citizen.

E.g. he plans to ignore “citizenship by birth” as the constitution contains via an executive order.

Now, just as a hint for further thought, what is the primary document US citizens use to prove their citizenship status?

🤷

dangillmor, to random
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Our corrupt Supreme Court is NOT going to rule during the current term that presidents have immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. It will send Trump's case back to the lower court in a way that ensures he isn't prosecuted before the election.

After that, who knows?

yacc143,
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@dangillmor Then it's good that the NY DA is nailing him for his crimes before he was elected. Based on NY laws. Yes, at some point Donald's paid for buddies at the SCOTUS might get to rule on these laws and/or on the verdict, but all the polls suggest that any verdict will ruin it for in the swing states.

LindaCollins11, to random
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218905101

yacc143,
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@LindaCollins11 🤷
I, personally, find it funny if people speaking a foreign language assume that they are talking privately in public.

Which can backfire. Other people speak these languages too.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am going to answer this question for everyone:

https://mastodon.social/@timothyjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org/112349635246409685

My answer is here:

https://mastodon.social/

Remember:

There were possible crimes, but tax and reporting crimes are not election interference.

There is also a circular thing with Cohen and Pecker telling the court that they expected Trump to pay back the hush money payments.

If they expected to get paid back, it was a loan to Trump and not a contribution. Right?

yacc143,
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@Teri_Kanefield

“”” As you likely understand by now, falsifying business records is normally a misdemeanour offence in the state of New York. But it becomes a felony when committed to further or cover up another crime. “””

“Jurisdiction-specific stuff”

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-conspiracys-the-thing?r=1zr8b&triedRedirect=true

Just like, the civil fraud judgment relies on a NY-specific law and fraud definition. Thus driving legal commenters from all over the US nuts because the NY fraud is different from the common one they learnt in school.

yacc143,
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@Teri_Kanefield Ah, but he is not indicated under the Federal statute, but under a NY statute that has some funny “if you commit a crime to cover up election manipulation, this is a severe aggravation factor and makes it suddenly a felony” language.

Again, we've got NY specific law, in this case criminal law, that is different in the fine print from other jurisdictions.

(E.g. the statute the civil case in NY was tried on seems not require injured parties for fraud, does it?)

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