The Michigan Republican Party was deep in debt when a longtime party donor who had given more than $1 million over the past decade asked for a meeting with its chairwoman....
The "free ride on public transport" is something I only knew from Japan. Although I would not profit from this, I'd prefer they would use this method here, too.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan declined a request to grant a stay after a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million for defamation....
Isn't she already working on pulling him into court for a third time? He didn't stop talking shit about her after the first and this verdict. I seriously hope they have some "third time" laws laws there.
As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do....
One of the most common problems of government or other big organisation software is that they don't scale, either "not well" or "not at all".
Some guy hacks up a demo that looks nice and seems to do what customer wants, but then it turns out a) that it only allows for (number of open ports on one machine) users at the same time, and b) it only works if everything runs on one machine. Or worse, one core.
He said he has no idea how but they made him try anyways.
Uh, I've been present when such a thing happened. Not in the military, though. Guy should install driver on a telephone system, despite not being a software guy (he was the guy running the wires). Result: About as bad as expected. The company then sent two specialists on Saturday/Sunday to re-install everything.
In a way, this happened to my daughter. She is studying in a foreign country, the courses are in English (not our native language), and of course she is writing all her papers in English, too. Which she is very good at, so the texts are usually perfect from a language point of view. She had already been rated "native speaker" in school although she actually isn't, and worked as an editor on an English language story website back then, fixing American and British native speakers' spelling problems).
Other students actually asked her what AI she was using to write her papers. Guess who was seriously pissed...
There are tools with which you can drive out the pins. They are only good for straight bands, not the tapered ones (unless you don't care for the looks).
You see this shit SO much more often than you would think. And the infuriating thing is, it seems to be most common among programs that are INCREDIBLY complex and sophisticated....
Reminds me of my chemistry teachers problems with thermite. I have to say he was a more theoretical guy ;-) He managed to mix the worlds first fire-resistent Thermite. He even stuck a strip of magnesium in the heap and lighted it - it burned down to the Thermite and suffocated...
And this guy just takes some soda cans and river sand and makes it work. Hats off!
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
Dueling pro-Trump factions in Michigan throw the swing state's Republicans into disarray (apnews.com)
The Michigan Republican Party was deep in debt when a longtime party donor who had given more than $1 million over the past decade asked for a meeting with its chairwoman....
I see.... finally vim has other purpose than being text editor (lemmy.world)
I browsed to the first website ever (info.cern.ch/) with Lynx, on Cool-Retro-Term (programming.dev)
You can do it too:...
How to sack your boss: a worker's guide to direct action (libcom.org)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7071166...
Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge (www.rawstory.com)
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan declined a request to grant a stay after a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million for defamation....
Vietnam all set to pull the plug on 2G phones - VnExpress International (e.vnexpress.net)
UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn (www.theguardian.com)
What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?
As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do....
Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat shortage (www.newsweek.com)
Legislators in Florida are considering a bill that would help retired teachers return to the workforce....
Tommy Tuberville, village idiot, applauds Alabama IVF ruling before finding out he has no idea what it actually does (www.vanityfair.com)
The senator did not seem to understand that the ruling on embryos would lead to fewer children being born, not more....
The greatest insult of our time is to accuse someone of being an AI chatbot.
The number of times I’ve seen this accusation in the last year is astounding.
[Solved] How do I resize this band (infosec.pub)
https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/493a4b80-a148-48b6-b491-c23172272b4e.jpeg...
If you're making software for actual end-users, you HAVE to give it a goddamn GUI, or else you suck, your software sucks, and nobody is going to use your damn software.
You see this shit SO much more often than you would think. And the infuriating thing is, it seems to be most common among programs that are INCREDIBLY complex and sophisticated....
Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Burning 50lbs of Thermite Made From 400 Soda Cans (www.youtube.com)
Cody Reeder makes thermite and has a nice “campfire”.
Texas nationalists rage at power grid plans (www.newsweek.com)
Missouri Republican candidate torches LGBTQ-inclusive books in viral video (www.nbcnews.com)
"Trump is out of money": Republicans fear Trump will drain RNC funds to pay his own legal bills (www.salon.com)
Tech firms sign ‘reasonable precautions’ to stop AI-generated US election chaos (www.theguardian.com)
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok outline methods they will use to try to detect and label deceptive AI content
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.