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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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  • This is why privacy, no access encryption services, VPNs, etc, are becoming so popular. Not because anyone is planning to do anything illegal, but because we don't trust the people spying on us not to show up at your door. It's already happening, it wasn't dramatic or unrealistic like everyone says, even just this article proves it. You should be able to exist freely, without someone over-analysing every text.

  • help wanted

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  • In the current state of affairs, sardonic humour often comes across as nonfiction

  • Found in HomeGoods. Are these photos AI? It looks normal for the most part, but the two pictures where the flower pattern dress that is not quite matching is tripping me up.

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  • Bruh chill, I'm only human. I said what I believe is correct based on what I'm seeing. The pictures are really blurry and it's hard to know for sure anyway, even you're just guessing but asserting it as absolute truth. I'm sure if you reverse image search and go full detective you might figure more out but I don't care that much.

  • Found in HomeGoods. Are these photos AI? It looks normal for the most part, but the two pictures where the flower pattern dress that is not quite matching is tripping me up.

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  • Column 2, row 4. Left hand (from our perspective) has 4 fingers, right hand has 6 fingers (notice the lifted one behind the flower)

  • What are your thoughts on fate/destiny ?

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  • It's real; I'd describe it as a series of fixed points in time, though how you get there is up to you. Like the same destination but the roads you take are your decision. You can even change it if you try hard enough, but there's inertia there; you have to really want it and swim against the current. I don't recommend making changes "too often" though.

    Imagine a ball rolling down the hill. You can run down the hill to stop it by hand, or throw a rock with good aim to knock it off course. But by default the ball will end up exactly where it was always meant to be.

  • help wanted

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  • Oh, but the prompt injection attack was me, yes. Sorry it tripped up your “agent.” What? No. Please read the license. It says without any warranty, explicit or implied. I think you maybe implied.

    Do you think that people including prompt injections in their code will get classified as "cyber crime"?

  • Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

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  • Yeah I feel like very few people use desktops recreationally anymore… personally I enjoy just "existing" online on a computer. I like tinkering and just doing random stuff. That's why I use Linux exclusively now, because Windows makes it very hard for me to use the computer the way I want to

  • Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

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  • The people I've spoken to in real life (outside of Reddit and fediverse bubbles) are more interested in France changing their systems to Linux of all things, which rather surprised me. In their minds, that move gave it a lot of legitimacy.

    Linux needs to change from "scary thing that sounds hard" to "easy thing that just works". If more big names adopt it that will help a lot. Projects like ZorinOS are also a great bridge.

  • How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?

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  • In real life, I've found its better to just hold your ground. State your opinion, but make it clear you're not changing it or looking to change others'. Contrived Example:

    Them: "Hawaiian pizza is literally the best pizza in the whole world. Everyone who disagrees is dumb."

    You: "No way, pineapple on pizza is horrible!"

    Them: "You just haven't tried good Hawaiian."

    You: "I've tried it a few times, but never liked it. Just not for me I guess."

    The only thing I'd maybe change is in your first reply maybe say "I don't like pineapple on pizza" rather than a general statement, but I gave a messy example because real world conversations are messy. You can't expect to say everything perfectly all the time.

    Mostly in real life, people just want to have the conversation flow. If you make something a sticking point, it gets awkward. Even if it's something you really really disagree with, like on a moral basis, just say you disagree and why. If people get defensive, just say something like "you do you" and drop it.

    There's this strange thing that happens, where simply the existence of an unresolved competing opinion, that isn't antagonistic, does some magic psychology stuff I don't fully understand. Over time your friends' opinions will often shift to be a compromise. My theory is, it's because they still want to be your friend, even with your different opinion, so their mind resolves the conflict in any way it can, which often means their position becomes more moderate. It's not manipulation, you're just holding your position and others shift around it.

    You don't have to "win" the debate. Just have your opinion survive the conversation relatively unchanged.

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  • Mr. Moneybags here with 6 kids, each with their own Nintendo Switch

  • The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

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  • Yeah I was looking at that. But I have prediabetes / insulin resistance, and in my local area, nobody cares until your pancreas completely kicks the bucket. Prevention of disease isn't really a thing here. That's why I went out and bought my own sensor, just to see what was going on. It was useful for seeing like, wait why did my blood sugar spike after breakfast? Oh I didn't realise overcooked oats were high gi. I changed it to raw oats in warm milk which is much smoother on the graph. But I would never qualify for that device because my problems don't show up on the 3 month A1C test. And after I optimised the 3 foods that were more spike-y than the rest, I had no use for the inaccurate glucose monitor.

  • The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

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  • I used one for a while. It kept waking me up saying I was dying from low blood sugar at 2.4mmol (43mg/dl). Turns out if you sleep on it, it stops working, but the location means sleeping on my left side or my back causes it to fail.

    Then, during the day, it says I'm at 9mmol (162mg/dl), but when I finger prick test to confirm it's only 7.2mmol (130mg/dl).

    I just took it out after 6 days because it was completely inaccurate in my case. Maybe it's just incompatible with my biology or something, either way it was a waste of money for me. Makes me wonder if it has a similar problem as those finger pulse monitors, where it only works for certain skin types?

  • What's a better feeling?

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  • In my experience, "sleep experiments" are practically impossible if you live with any other humans. Your schedule kind of has to follow everyone else's, otherwise you end up lying awake in bed for hours with a eye mask and earmuffs while everyone else is stomping around lol

    Humans slept twice in history because it made sense at that time. During winter, it was dark for 14 hours, which is way more sleep than what most people need. It also made sense to wake up and tend to the fire etc.

    Humans in other situations, even modern hunter gatherer tribes, are very flexible with sleep. Some sleep through the night in one block, staying up later. Some wake up very early. Some take shifts or wake up multiple times during the night. It's a relatively modern concept that every person must sleep exactly 8 hours in one block; the reality is everyone's circadian rhythm is different. This was a beneficial trait for most of our history; it helped survival if a few people were awake during different times of the night.

    The problem is, that we now all have clocks in our pocket, and time-based obligations. You can't go to bed at sundown, because you're probably still at work at that time, and haven't even eaten yet. You can't sleep in, because you have to get ready at 5am. If you wake up during the night, it's just a loss of sleep hours, there's no fire to tend anymore. As a society, we've also decided that sleep is a waste of time, and tried to replace it with caffeine.

    I dunno what the solution is, but it's definitely a problem.

    https://www.sleepjunkie.com/history-of-sleep/

  • It's our fault for having shins, really.

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  • Mmm directly at fart level

  • Have you even considered the sacrifices?

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  • Your double-down sarcasm is too powerful for us

  • This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content

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  • I always used to quietly rebel against my boss when I did web development work. I'd spend the time making the pages actually accessible to screen readers and tab navigation and such. Even fixing my coworkers' code to be compliant.

    I always thought it was a fun minigame, and it didn't even take that long. Little things like, icon buttons also need a text label, tabbing needs to follow a logical layout, shortcuts to jump to different parts of the page, actual tables and description lists.

    I used to get in a lot of trouble for "wasting time" because "no blind people are using our software." Years later an audit happens and my boss is shitting himself. We get a passing grade for accessibility. I never got any recognition for it, but he stopped yelling at me for wasting time after that and just let me do my thing.

  • As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

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  • I think at the time, nobody realised how valuable a written transcript of 14 years of verified human conversations would become. "It's just internet comments." But it grew into so many people with unique problems and solution and discussions. Sometimes I imagine if we could somehow read and search that many people's conversations from 1000 years ago

  • Adult life in 2026, so beautiful

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  • But we need to take into account that the folded 2 ply becomes an effective 4 ply, so you're getting more ply per penny

  • This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content

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  • That sounds nice. Wish we had an ADA, wouldn't even need to change the acronym lol