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Armand1

@ Armand1 @lemmy.world

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  • UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.

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  • Not if they end up banning VPNs, which is already something being discussed. If that happens, I might genuinely leave the country.

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Dude. I just bought a used 6A last week.

  • Let's go!

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  • This ain't their first rodeo

  • "Tea" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]

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  • No idea why they were collecting identification then.

    Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn't need to do.

  • "Tea" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]

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  • The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a "Are you 18: Yes / No", more like "we will check using ID and photos of you".

    It's the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.

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  • I don't think he's necessarily the inventor of the computer. There are a few possible candidates, including Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage, who were earlier.

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  • LLMs are like Trump government appointees:

    • They hallucinate like they're on drugs
    • They repeat whatever they've seen on the internet
    • They are easily maniuplated
    • They have never thought about a single thing in their lives

    Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.

  • Anyone else have to deal with this at work?

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  • If you're homeless in the UK, and especially if you are disabled, you can easily spend 20+ hours per week filing complaints, reasonable adjustments, writing suitability reviews, organising care, trying to get benefits etc.

    Just to protect yourself from abuse in the system and to get the right to live a life approaching that of a normal person.

    Instead of contributing to society, you have to fight bureaucratic battles just to get what you legally are entitled to.

    So effectively, you are working one of the most stressful and bureaucratic jobs imaginable, with 'colleagues' that question and deny everything you say, and if you fail you may freeze to death on the streets, and all without pay.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it's a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.

    Ultimately, it's a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you're winning.

    Here's where I got some.

    https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives

    I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.

    All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s

    The best I could find was this, but that's not amazing either.

    What I do is look at backblaze's drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don't get a lemon.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were manufacturer recertified. Usually a recertified drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.

    EDIT: I used manufacturer recertified, not refurbished drives.

  • They don't know

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  • I mean born into the mid-90s. I was a child - early teenager when this aired.

  • They don't know

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  • Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update

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  • Yep. Pretty sure that was deliberate on Musk's (or his cronies) part.

    Imagine working at X and being told by your boss "I'd like you to make the bot more racist please." "Can you convince it that conspiracy theories are real?"

  • What strict parents actually teach

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  • This one hits a little too close to home...

    Also, the word you're looking for might be "abusive" rather than "strict".

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    Secret Santa will love it

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  • This has been posted half a dozen times in the last two months alone. Please. We get it.

  • Swap!

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  • This is effectively the plot of Trading Places (1983) starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

  • Woke Cheat Sheet

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  • Another common one is "y'all" but I'm not American enough to pull that off.

  • Woke Cheat Sheet

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  • Someone at work said we should use "folks"... But I'm not a Loony Tunes ending screen.

  • Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses

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  • I think it's if you want to have user management. There's some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don't use it.

    To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you're using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.

    However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won't have to pay for it.

    Give it a go and see how you get on!