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If you're thinking about buying a new car, and privacy means anything to you at all, you should be aware that every new car is basically rolling spyware.
The only answer to this right now, is to buy an older car.
https://youtu.be/7kUJhWUm3JA?si=E17ldU14VCDKbt44
Cars are collectively a ‘privacy nightmare’ that has gone unaddressed for far too long, according to the Mozilla Foundation. A 2023 report from the group say...YouTube
I found a great reality check was "tell me five fun facts about Charlie Stross" (me, visible on wikipedia). First five facts were broadly accurate. But then I asked for "five more fun facts about …" a couple of times. The truthiness of the answers degraded steadily and seamlessly and by the fourth round Google's bot was spouting total nonsense.
LLMs have no theory of mind to support a concept of truth and so deliver utter rubbish with absolute certainty.
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thinking about kink gear... fursuits... watches..... things things things
to be fair latex can be had for MUCH cheaper than that
aren’t fortune cookies supposed to make predictions about an uncertain future?
This is merely stating facts, by no means a prediction.
Any request a browser initiates without the (explicit or implied) consent of the user is a privacy breach.
If your definition of privacy rejects that axiom, then it needs updating.
Question: has anyone else here heard of this movie? Somehow the first I heard of it was today (despite having trailers for the past six months)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCNBAmse04
The Wild Robot - In Theaters September 27From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 N...YouTube
Everything leaks eventually. You know how your navigation software warns you of traffic jams? It recognises that all the phones it's tracking in real time are bunched up closer together in the jammed area than in the normal flow.
With a copy of the last twenty years of location data, and a throbbing sense of curiosity, I ask my query agent: correlate locations of serving polititicans with locations of people with prostitution charges where spatial and temporal overlap occurs in a hotel room.
ahem.
Capturing the browser's back button/gesture to "wait before you go" a visitor is absolutely hostile and will never result in any volume of positive "conversions" you absolute fuckwads so knock it the hell off.
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A colourful proto-buddy ! 👾
Original art will be for auction ; will you consider adopting this li'l guy ? 💕
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VAT laws be like:
is zero-rated, but woozies are standard rated (e.g. 
and 
), except googly-woozies (e.g. 
) but only for those that have two (2) googly eyes.
but for any that is served hot you need to charge standard rate unless there’s also a 
being served at the same occasion, unless either or are used as cake decorations, then they are zero rated
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Oh, as a topic wanderer myself (I don’t like the word “generalist”), I love and endorse this comic.
(via @simondlr’s newsletter).
Young people: We’d like to buy a house.
Capital: Pfft. Are you rich?
Young people: Uh, no? Ok. We’ll rent an apartment!
Capital: Great! Rent has increased 300%.
Young people: We can’t afford that! Sigh. Where’s the public housing?
Capital: According to the new zoning laws, public housing is illegal. Luxury condos are all that can be built.
Young people: Fuck. I guess we’re homeless, then.
Capital: Sorry, homelessness is also illegal.
I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die — let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".
Social media & email may be part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.
I want someone to make a nice simple monitor with like 7 inputs (2xDP, 2xhdmi, DVI, VGA, and composite) and then to have mechanical radio buttons on the front to switch between them.
NO AUTO SWITCHING EVER
Living in Texas, where we've had multiple summers of continual 110F+ heat and humidity, I think I have a pretty clear idea of what climate change entails and it's not more backyard barbecues.
It's people cooking to death in their homes because the grid failed. It's people dropping dead trying to work outdoors in extreme temperatures. And it's a government that doesn't care as long as they and their business patrons keep on making money.
The “Cashless Society” is a Horrible Idea
Phasing out physical money may be convenient for some, but it leaves a lot of people worse off.
You know what I keep noticing, both in real life and online? Nobody approaches their friends asking stuff like "What do you make of this?" anymore. The whole concept of "I have no opinion so I'm going to ask someone I trust and believe to be more competent in this field" appears to have vanished from our culture completely.
I sometimes do this with my friends IRL and they're dumbfounded because it seems no one else is doing this anymore. I don't know, perhaps this is a me problem. Perhaps my ego just isn't big enough for this culture. Perhaps humility and willingness to learn are weird and old-fashioned ideals that have no place in it.
Every career path in tech:
"At this point in your career, your only possible promotion is to management, where you will stop doing the work you love and use a skill set you don’t have and we don’t teach."
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a27374
“At this point in your career, your only possible promotion is to management, where you will stop doing the work you love and use a skill set you don’t have and we don’t teach.”The New Yorker
Updating my astro 101 lecture on satellites and holy crap... there are 1738 more active satellites in orbit today than 1 year ago, and 1690 of those are Starlinks.
62% of all active satellites are now Starlinks, up from 55% 1 year ago.
As long as Starlink doesn't make a single mistake in orbit, it's all fine, I guess. Which is cool, because SpaceX never makes engineering mistakes, like dumping hundreds of pounds of "fully demisable" space debris on other countries... whoopsie.
Can we just take a second here to recognize that the spam / scam calling issue in the U.S. is so bad, that someone lost for 24 hours on a trail wouldn't pick up the phone when rescuers tried to call them.
Because they didn't recognize the number.
A hiker in Colorado, who was missing for 24 hours, ignored rescuers' phone calls because "they didn’t recognize the number," Lake County Search and Rescue said.Elisha Fieldstadt (NBC News)
