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AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

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  • Unfortunately that just isn't something you can really sue for.

    You can sue the administration putting the rules in place, but you can't sue someone for saying something that's then picked up by another person, and another, and so on until the president happens to hear about it.

    It's why, for example, financial sites will always have the disclaimer "this is not financial advice, seek the advice of a licensed financial professional, etc, etc", because financial harms are often covered, (while other things affected by lies are not in most circumstances) when that lie is something you took action on, and that action caused you harm (e.g. "this stock is going to double tomorrow", you buy it, it crashes)

    But you can't sue when that lie caused someone else to do something that indirectly caused you harm. (e.g. "this stock will crash in a week", billionaire sells a ton of the stock, your retirement portfolio drops in value) In that case, only the billionaire would be eligible to sue the person who lied to them.

    You might be able to sue Nick Shirley if you ran a daycare business and his false claims about your daycare caused your daycare to get attacked, but you couldn't sue him if he lied about a daycare down the road and mobs started attacking every daycare in town because they just assumed all of them were at fault, and you certainly couldn't sue if the claims he made then got to the social media feeds of some locals, which then caused local food banks run by those locals to stop offering food because they thought there's a chance it could be obtained by scammers instead of those in need.

  • don't worry, they have concepts of a plan

  • Seconded on Framework. I've got the more performant (but more heavy, large, and expensive) 16, but for most people the 13 will be perfectly usable. The newer 12 model also seems pretty decent and is a bit cheaper.

    They've kept their RAM prices relatively stable too, but if you already have other RAM lying around you can just bring your own and save yourself the money. Same for the SSD.

    The main downside is they're gonna be quite expensive upfront compared to alternatives, so I wouldn't recommend them to someone price-sensitive, especially in the current economy.

    The main benefit is that since they're so modular and upgradable, you'll save money down the line on repair services, replacement parts, or just the cost of buying a whole new device because one component broke that they don't sell replacements for.

  • Honestly it's probably just how easily accessible things that are normally hard to reach for humans becomes.

    If I want the upcoming weather, I can access a distributed network of government satellites, local weather monitoring stations, and independently operated weather monitoring relays, all combined together into an alert saying "It's gonna rain in 15 minutes" 3 seconds after I open the app.

    If I want to talk to an expert on a subject, the author of my favorite books, a politician, or simply my friends, I can just send them an email or often a DM.

    If I want to know about practically anything, there's either gonna be a site out there with someone tirelessly writing a 20 paragraph article about it, or a Wikipedia page contributed to by thousands of volunteers to make sure people like me could quickly find the information.

    And if I want to share information I know about with other people, I can also go to Wikipedia, not as a viewer, but as an editor, and keep other people informed the moment they go to Wikipedia trying to answer a question of their own, or just feed their general curiosity.

    This type of thing is way slower through books, live broadcast stations on TV, (though I suppose that still counts as "technology", just more legacy), having to meet up with your friends in person before you can talk to them, having to travel to a research institution and schedule a meeting just to talk to an expert, etc.

    It just feels magical to have a question, look it up, and just get an answer. Just like that.

  • Not to mention that being Jewish is not inherently bad, and doesn't require you to do anything bad to be that way, while choosing to extract surplus value from workers to hoard it for yourself absolutely is.

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  • It depends.

    Tiers based on age, disability, or ability to pay (e.g. child/senior tickets, lower prices for people who might not be able to fully enjoy an activity due to a disability, low-income people getting cheaper bus fares, etc) are all generally okay, because they expand access, tend to make things more affordable for those who actually need it, but don't cause massive unjust increases in pricing for others.

    Personalized pricing however should be illegal in most cases. (e.g. you order McDonald's through the app and they charge you an extra $0.10 on every item compared to the in-store menu just because you got your paycheck recently.)

    As for all the discount/reward/loyalty programs, I'd say it depends. If my small local grocery store gives me coupons in their email newsletter, that's fine. Hell, even if larger chains do it, if the discounts are on a specific selection of items, and are probably designed to get you to spend money on stuff you otherwise wouldn't have purchased, it doesn't really matter to me if I can get them or not by giving my email, and isn't that unfair.

    If your rewards app is akin to a punch card like the one at my local ice cream place where if you buy 10 scoops, you get another one free, that's also fine. It's just a way to keep track of how loyal you are to the business so they know when you're allowed a little bonus, and they benefit from you coming back to them instead of another place, because you're betting on that free scoop.

    If a place prices everything higher than they would normally do it should they not have an app, then requires you giving up sensitive personal details to lower it back down to a reasonable rate, that's unfair, and should be banned.

    If the place prices items down just a little lower than they would normally price items even if they didn't have an app/newsletter, because apps/newsletters are generally just a good way to keep customers around and increase sales, that's fine by me. (e.g. if my local grocery store just sends me an email saying "hey, we now have X item in stock" and it interests me, they're gonna get a sale they otherwise would not have gotten had I not been signed up to their newsletter, and that offsets a small discount on everything else I buy there)

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  • It's like saying "I want everyone to be equal" and saying both men and women should be given a 10% pay raise to account for the gender pay gap.

    Sure, you raised women's wages to cover the gap... but now the gap remains because you also increased men's by the same amount.

  • You don't believe him? But he's got the only squatter removal business with a Yelp account! /s

  • “I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.

    These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. "theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️"

    You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.

  • Executives are often the most smug, overconfident, easiest to bullshit individuals. You're the easiest to fool when you believe you can't be fooled, and you're most likely to make a bad management decision when you're put in a position that says "you're allowed to decide stuff because you're incredibly smart and correct."

    A company doesn't have to convince everyone who works for a company, or even just the people who are going to get fired. They just have to convince one dude who has power at the organization, and suddenly 4,000 people get fucked.

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  • The zip archive is protected by a password, and I'd appreciate being able to verify if my data is actually in this breach as I'm a WIRED subscriber. If anyone has the password to the breach file, please let me know. (the only other way to acquire the password is to quite literally just pay the forum user who posted the breach, and I'd rather not do that.)

    My email doesn't show as breached on common sites used to check for that, like Have I Been Pwned, but I've seen many instances of only some password managers/dark web scanners seeing someone's data in a breach, while others won't even with the same data on the user being checked.

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  • I don't believe card details are in there as they use a separate payment provider. (If I go to my account management page and attempt to modify my payment method, the page begins making many requests to Stripe)

    But hey, it's still got names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, all that jazz.

  • I have no clue. I usually watch a good bit of LTT but I don't recall watching a video when they did this, though I'm sure I could have just missed it.

    Does seem like something they'd do though.

  • It is. As Salem Techsperts tested on their YouTube channel, you often have to downclock the RAM for it to actually function without errors.

    However, with the prices for RAM still being so high, you could save a decent amount of money with this if you're willing to keep your speeds a little lower.

  • Nobody. That's the answer. Absolutely nobody does. They're doing this shit of their free will.

  • The Millennial Snowflake called it the "Freudian slip of the century."

    Freudian Slip of the Century seems like an accurate description 💀

  • And then on top of that, since a ton of people were then connecting to cell service since their WiFi was out, that meant the cell towers were so overloaded they couldn't send data to operators that the car requires to be started up again, like multiple camera feeds, a 3d scan of the surroundings, etc.

  • That's exactly the point I think anyone reasonable would make.

    It's not necessarily how they got the money, it's that they keep it. If I won the lottery, and got a multi-billion dollar payout, I could wire most of that money to a DAF, tell it to distribute the money to 200 different charities I like, and it could be done within the week.

    Keeping that much money is a choice. Continuing to spend it all on lavish expenses while the poor suffer is a personal choice, not one they're forced to bear the consequences of due to their fame.

  • They don't use local models yet, at least not for their existing AI chatbot sidebar feature. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

    When you use a chatbot, you are agreeing to that provider’s privacy policies and terms of use. Each chatbot provider has their own terms of use and privacy policies. View the privacy policies and terms for providers in Firefox.

    Some chatbots are more privacy-respecting than others.

  • The problem is, it's not unobtrusive.

    When I right click and I instantly get an option silently added to the list that sends data to an AI model hosted somewhere, which I've accidentally clicked due to muscle memory, it's not good just because there's also the option there to disable it. When I start up my browser after an update and I am instantly given an open sidebar asking me to pick an AI model to use, that's obtrusive and annoying to have to close and disable.

    Mozilla has indicated they do not want to make these features opt-in, but opt-out. The majority of Mozilla users do not want these features by default, so the logical option is to make them solely opt-in. But Mozilla isn't doing that. Mozilla is enabling features by default, without consent, then only taking them away when you tell them to stop.

    The approach Mozilla is taking is like if you told a guy you weren't interested in dating him, but instead of taking that as a "no." he took it as a "try again with a different pickup line in 2 weeks" and never, ever stopped no matter what you tried. It doesn't matter that you can tell him to go away now if he'll just keep coming back.

    Mozilla does not understand consent, and they are violating the consent of their users every time they push an update including AI features that are opted-in by default.