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Cid Vicious

@ CidVicious @sh.itjust.works

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  • Voicemail should be banned

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  • Playing back a message when you hear someone pick up? No, they've been doing that forever. But trying to determine whether you have a human on the line or just their voicemail recording? That's something that could start to require more sophisticated language models, and the fact that the message didn't just start rattling something off as soon as something picked up suggests maybe they're using it. Actual phone scams using AI? Well, if they're not doing it yet, they will be soon.

  • Voicemail should be banned

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  • It's AI, I'd be willing to bet. Waiting to detect a human before responding with whatever scam they're selling.

  • Voicemail should be banned

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  • See, for me, if you call me and don't leave a voicemail, I'm going to assume it was unimportant (or spam) and I won't call back. Businesses, which are most likely going to an unknown number, should leave a voicemail if they want any action on my part. I mostly don't want businesses texting me because they tend to spam the fuck out of you. And I'm sure as fuck never going to pick up the phone for an unknown number.

  • JavaScript

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  • I think I'm on the side of "if you do this in your code, you deserve what you get."

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  • First one I used? Either a ][e or ][gs at school. First one our household owned? A 286 (not any particular brand). First one that was "mine"? A mac LC2. First one i paid for with my own money? Uhhh I just remember it was a Dell, probably a pentium 4?

  • Craig's list

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  • Well the "list" part comes from classified listings

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    What the actual hell, Microsoft?

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  • Yep exactly. Luckily I'm not longer working at one, so I can uninstall it.

  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • It's definitely iterative but the newer eInk screens are higher res and color. Dunno how refresh rates compare on the color screens.

  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • They were subsidizing them to establish an ebook marketplace. They're no longer doing so.

    I still have my Kindle Keyboard. It still works but the front lighting on new ereaders is a big upgrade. The software was pretty primitive back then too.

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    What the actual hell, Microsoft?

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  • I've worked places where they required specific TOTP apps. That's the only reason I had MS Authenticator on my phone

  • Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables

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  • For anyone thinking of investing into Luckey's company, I invite you to consider the fact that this man has access to the most expensive stylists in the world, and yet he chose to do that to his face and hair. Is this a man whose judgement you trust?

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    FBI reveals there's video to prove Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

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  • Yep, people jumping to conspiracy theories when the real lesson to be learned is "the US does not give a single fuck about the safety of prisoners."

  • The Decline of Battery Life

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  • What's surprising to me is how much battery life dropped on new iterations of old systems, like the game boy micro. Not at all sure why the evercade was thrown in.

  • The Decline of Battery Life

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  • A sorted bar chart seems like a shitty way to present this if you're trying to show a trend.

  • I'm not sure some of you could handle it.

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  • Not stealing the pie.

  • Egg Substitutions

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  • Yeah uh...if a recipe calls for eggs, you should use eggs. You are not going to get the expected results just subbing these. If you're trying to make a vegetarian version of something you will be much better off finding a recipe that was designed that way than trying to modify a non-vegetarian recipe.

  • Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Says He Will Die Soon from Same Cancer as Joe Biden

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  • I think a thing you get exiled to when mainstream media kicks you off their platforms

  • [LoadingArtist] The Clone

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  • Yeah see this is why you don't really want a clone, you want a half-lobotomized body copy that can complete tasks for you and understand reasonably complex instructions but doesn't have that pesky free will. Then you can just make them sleep in the closet or something.

  • Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Says He Will Die Soon from Same Cancer as Joe Biden

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  • The 67-year-old Adams first gained fame as the creator of “Dilbert,” the satirical comic strip that focused on corporate office inanity, in 1989.

    Adams has written dozens of books since then, and has become more outspoken about politics in the last decade, sharing views that are mostly pro-Donald Trump and critical of Democrats, on social media. His Rumble show has 38,000 followers, and on X, he has 1.2 million followers.

    They seem to have skipped some key things in that biography.