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ThermiteBeGiants, to random
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Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:

yacc143,
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@thefathippy @ThermiteBeGiants
Ah, that so great:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

These idiots used a bullsh$t generator to replace a live chat operator on their website, and now have to pay for it.

Now we need some US courts enforcing the $1 binding offers some car chatbots have offered and the whole AI hype wave will scale back to sane proportions.

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.

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.

FluentInFinance, to random
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The wealthy avoid taxes using the “Buy-Borrow-Die” strategy:

Step 1: Buy assets and hold (to avoid capital gains taxes from selling)

Step 2: Borrow money from Banks for living expenses using assets as collateral, at low interest rates (while assets appreciate)

Step 3: Interest paid on borrowed money is a tax write off

Step 4: Wait and repeat. The long-term gains on assets outweigh the short-term cost of borrowing money

Step 5: Pass assets to kids, tax-free (with stepped-up basis) and repeat

yacc143,
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@FluentInFinance So how do they avoid estate taxes?

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.

JamesGleick, to random
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A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.

Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.

And he remains attorney general.

Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-texas-plea-deal-securities-fraud.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.8BHi.hUSHim_e5rvK&smid=url-share

yacc143,
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@peachfront @JamesGleick
Well, surely legal ethics classes will help him in his job as AG?

And at least he fulfils his GOP politician entry requirements now, as a criminal.

RickiTarr, to random
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Trans people are "forever patients"?

So is literally everyone!

Fuck off.

yacc143,
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@RickiTarr One pill would be for starters. (Actually, I managed that as a teenager)

Nowadays, it's a bit more than a dozen per day, sigh.

So yeah, I'm a natural anti-prepper. My medication supply ends, and so do I.

yacc143,
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@RickiTarr I can see how that looks crazy to Americans because most Americans would go bankrupt on what my family just swallows daily in medications (I prepare the weekly pill doses, so I know), it will be easily 3 dozen different medications between us, but medicines are a) cheaper here b) paid mostly by public healthcare.

Literally for a small samples it looks like private insurance copay in the US is higher than what our public health system pays in total for the “same” pack of medication.

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.

davidzipper, to random
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Wow. Carmakers are going to hate this, but I think it's great:

A new California bill would require all new cars to contain speed governors that prevent them from going 10 mph+ over the speed limit.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-speed-governors-bill-18624126.php

yacc143,
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@davidzipper In the EU actually, AFAIK, it's been mandatory for all new car types for the last 3 years or so, but from July 2024 all new cars registered for the first time for road use will require this (and half a dozen other gadgets).

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.

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?

selzero, to random
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It's Friday night, no school tomorrow so your parents don't care what time you sleep. They are not home and Pizza delivery just arrived. You filled your fridge with Dr Pepper, have Ghostbusters on VHS, and Earthbound on SNES.

It doesn't matter that you are 46 years old and it's 2024, what is stopping you living this feeling...

yacc143,
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@selzero
A working device to play VHS tapes?

A working SNES? (well there are emulators)

Do you know how much pain it is to connect SCART cables to digital only TVs?

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.)

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

raymondpert, to cryptocurrency
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    yacc143,
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    @raymondpert Well, bankruptcies are like that.

    Any business that you had in the n months with the bankrupt business (n depending upon the jurisdiction) before they filed for bankruptcy is open for review and cancellation.

    And as there have been people who have profited from in the year before it collapsed, these people are all open to demands to return their profits, and get their "fair" share of the quota like everyone.

    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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    That's what you get when you run public transit as a business.

    It's a public utility, thus it shouldn't be strictly run by bean counters. Things like how much of the population does not need a private car or can get away with car sharing should be also important criteria.

    Remote work is straining public transit — and many agencies are stuck https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/public-transit-office-workers-00094999
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    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.

    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 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.

    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.)

    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?

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