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OhNoMoreLemmy

@ OhNoMoreLemmy @lemmy.ml

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  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • Yeah but parking has always been bad.

    You had to carry change. Meters were always out of order or would just eat your change without issuing a ticket, and the people checking never gave a shit and would give you a fine anyway.

    My only complaint is the app, everyone should offer a website or an app, but if you're going to park there a few times an app does make sense.

  • Why can't we go back to small phones?

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  • Because they're fucking stupid.

    I can pick up a phone in either hand and type on it using only that hand, and I can play games using both hands at once. If I'm using a bracer, it means I can't do anything else with either hand or use my off hand to interact with it.

    The only problem a bracer solves is not having pockets, but even then you still need to wear a bracer.

  • Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

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  • Then you wouldn't need to tell people to work more hours.

  • Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse

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  • Most of America is "at will", so yes you can fire people for blinking. It gets more complicated with unions and companies internal policies, and you'd still need to pay severance.

    But basically you can always do a musk. Pretend the firing was a resignation and let it drag slowly through the courts, and refuse to settle.

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian

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  • Same with OneDrive.

    It's just a folder of markdown files, basically anything should work.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Tor browser is not Tor.

    This is Tor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

    Tor browser is an additional piece of software built on top of it. Using the network(what everyone else means when they say tor) is unfortunately not enough to prevent fingerprinting.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • No it isn't.

    And this is really important. If you go on Google tracked websites without tor, Google will still know it's you when you use tor, even if you've cleared all your cookies.

    Tor means people don't know your IP address. It doesn't protect against other channels of privacy attack.

  • Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?

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  • Just asking questions makes it harder to sue under English libel law.

    Look at the difference.

    Elon musk is a Nazi.

    A clear factual statement leaves room for disagreement. Maybe he's just an edgelord fascist radicalized by 4chan but doesn't have enough fashion sense to be a Nazi.

    Elon musk is a Nazi?

    Perfectly safe.

  • A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

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  • Hash tables are super efficient when they're not nearly full. So the standard trick is just to resize them when they're too close to capacity.

    The new approach is probably only going to be useful in highly memory constrained applications, where resizing isn't an option.

  • If I bought a house with a parcel of land, and a local concrete company owned the mining rights to that land; is there anything I could do that would prevent them from ever using those rights?

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  • The general recommendation is to plant endangered plants on your land or get rare animals to nest there.

    That can make it really hard to develop on. Bonus points if you can get it to spread to your neighbors.

  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • Wasting other people's time.

    If you want to use an LLM that's fine, but if you're cutting and pasting it into a discussion you should warn other people that it's not human generated.

    And most of it isn't wrong, it's just a giant wall of text that's largely irrelevant to the conversation.

  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • As a heads up, the person you're arguing with seems to be using an LLM to generate text.

    I would down vote and move on. It's not a real discussion.

  • Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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  • Oh that's good.

    I've often wondered how could I make my instant messaging less instantaneous, while giving a new app access to my banking emails.

  • Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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  • Also pretty much any noun can be used as a form of neo pronoun, so to be safe all Federal employees should only use verbs.

  • Costs to thee, but none for me!

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  • Reviewing is on average about reading bad papers that won't get accepted in great detail to try to figure out what's actually going on.

    At best, it tends to be reading solid work adjacent to your subfield which you can respect but aren't really that into.

    It's pretty rare for it to be as useful to me as actually choosing something to read.

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  • And if your grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.

  • What are some of the most unhinged (good or bad) password requirements/rules you've seen?

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  • A university I worked at had a similar policy to the first one.

    They wanted a single username and sign on across all IT systems but also had some really old legacy systems that didn't support long passwords.

    So they'd force everyone to use passwords that were exactly as long as the maximum legacy password length.

    For me, the worst system is the Microsoft authenticator which locks me out my account for five minutes if my fingerprint doesn't match the first time I try.

  • Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say

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  • The irony is that if he'd just looked up how to build a fertilizer bomb on YouTube he'd have got much better advice.