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nucleative

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  • Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

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  • 15 years is too long, it doesn't match the state of the industry or technological progress.

    If anything this slows down innovation which leads me to suspect the 15 year idea was though of by someone who dislikes any technical changes.

  • Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app

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  • To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.

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  • States have always been able to do these things.

    Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well...

  • AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

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  • Wire is pretty much never removed once it's laid out and I'm sure a lot of DSL based internet connections still run over same twisted pair that would have carried POTS lines.

    But you're probably right that there's a VoIP device keeping these up and working, maybe just more than 6 ft away and instead in some Telco box down the street.

    I think POTS installations will remain for decades more in niche cases - emergency backups in elevators, security systems, hospitals, fire departments. And evidently Grandma's AOL internet connection up until this month haha

  • ordering stuff online

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  • On sites where people tend to sort by low price, keep shipping separate.

    On sites where people buy based on emotion, give free shipping to improve conversion rates and close the deal.

  • YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

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  • I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don't live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.

  • Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”

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  • On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?

  • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

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  • Thanks for posting this take. The topic of AI taking jobs seems to garner a lot of emotional response but not much of a technology discussion.

    There were people who were negative about using websites to place orders in the 90s in part because e-commerce killed order processing jobs and the need for phone reps at mail order catalogs.

    In this case AI is being used as just another e-commerce UX, so it's really just a continuation of what's happening already.

    People used to do things like put 18,000, or -1 and all kinds of other garbage in the fields on website order forms as well. That's just a programmers job to fix with reasonable input validation.

    It wouldn't surprise me if drive-thru like Taco Bell started doing license plate recognition and reputation checking. So if you order and dash more than a couple times they might not take your order from outside in that car anymore.

    On the upside they might be able to greet you by name and recall your last order:

    Hello Mr Smith... Nice to see you today, would you like 10 cheesy gordita crunch tacos and 1 large diet Pepsi again?

  • Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction?

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  • A more sophisticated query system would be interesting.

    For example if I want to see every picture with Joseph in it, that's really easy. But what if I'd like to share those with Joseph along with the albums he's in?

    Similar to that would be a query by location and person. Or a query that includes two people.

  • VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

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  • I was thinking the issue maybe nuanced like this as well.

    It's also possible that a higher performance significantly increases wear and tear and to keep the warranty activated Volkswagen trades a bit more cash in return for unlocking some of the limitations.

    That being said I didn't read the article so don't really know. And I really hate the idea of paying subscriptions for things we already own, especially because it feels like we don't own anything anymore.

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • Their policies, verification systems, KYC/AML processes, risk aversion, and customer support leave many PayPal users with unmet expectations, especially when there is an issue with the transaction and PayPal is asked to assist.

    The company has found ways to avoid some of the regulations that banks are held to which is partly the reason for the issues.

    If you search the web for PayPal experiences, you'll find concerns such as their 1.3 star rating with almost 35,000 reviews on Trustpilot.

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    Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

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  • Some of us really hoped cryptos would forever solve this issue but for some whack reason... Meaningful progress at a wide scale doesn't seem to be happening on that.

  • How do you deal with the left over fat/oil in your pan?

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  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • This stuff terrifies me. I'm de-googling as fast as I can and reviewing all my local backups plus add encryption to what stays in the cloud.

  • 'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0

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  • Does quicken still sync well with most American banks, investment accounts, and credit card companies?

    I used to be a power user as well but then moved overseas where is syncs with nothing.

    Now I use gnucash with a ton of custom python scraping and importing scripts. It isn't perfect but as close as I have been able to find.

  • Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition

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  • I was traveling internationally recently and returning to the USA I didn't even need my passport to clear through immigration. They had a camera which recognized me and gave me the green light to pass as I approached.

    The agent had a few questions and I was on my way.

    It was convenient as hell, but the fact that their system can link me to whatever data is stored with my passport records based on a second or two of recognition out of all the faces that must be in there...

    actually kinda blows.

    It means they can definitely put a street camera system in place and see oh, there's /u/nucleative. Wonder why he's at the protest, bank, with that person, driving that car, near a crime scene, or anything else.

    Somehow we have zero privacy yet the enforcement hides behind numbers and masks.

    I expect that this will just continue to go further and further.

    Kids, this is why we needed to push back hard on privacy, random cameras, and facial recognition 20 years ago.

    The metaphorical horse is already out of the barn and removing or disabling these systems will probably never happen now.

  • Dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife asked daughter to create AI deepfake of mom asking for chemicals

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  • Yep

  • Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket

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  • On the one hand we seem to currently have some of the cheapest air tickets the world has ever seen. If you're willing to travel like cattle.

    On the other hand it feels like air travel is now like getting on the city bus and there's some guy vomiting in front of you and a screaming kid pissing on the seat behind you, all the while you're getting herded around like a cow, your stuff is at high risk of getting stolen with no recourse, and the airline is playing mind games about the best time to buy a ticket after sneaking in a bunch of clauses designed to get you to pay more later.

  • these names change quickly

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  • Impressively, one can get the other