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skisnow

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  • Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry at new banner asking them to pay

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  • for a moment I thought you meant just do [enable backups]

    I wonder if there's a way of creating a file that doesn't actually exist on disk but if Onedrive tries to read it it outputs 5Gb of random binary?

  • Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry at new banner asking them to pay

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  • Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff.

    But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There's only one button on the screen that's styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I've already said no to them dozens of times already, including once three seconds ago.

    It's like they're actively campaigning to get me to switch to Linux.

  • Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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  • Wow there's a lot of people in this thread defending the LLM. “They just didn’t set it up right” gtfo

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • a data analytics tool that will help advance the agency’s modernization objectives for aviation safety.

    SMART will cost $12 billion, and will supposedly help flight controllers schedule flights weeks in advance to cut down on delays.

    “This software will say, ‘well, listen, we can see this 45 days out. Let’s move some of those flights a little bit later, or five, seven, 10 minutes earlier, and we can resolve the issue. And so then you are not delayed,'” Duffy said.

    Nothing in any of the facts as reported there suggest the use of language models, except for the editorialising in the summary about how LLMs hallucinate things, which makes me wonder about how competent Futurism's tech journalism is.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • Yeah it's not great how far I had to scroll to find someone pointing out that "AI tools for planning" and "Putting an LLM in an air traffic controller's seat" are not the same thing.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • I’m not optimistic on this one, since one of the features of huge corporations is that the institutional shareholders that own them appoint the person they think will deliver the best YoY growth and Earnings Per Share. For a company that’s mostly saturated its market, this means enshittification and thumbscrew-tightening on its existing customers.

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  • Yeah, I think this is a lot more plausible than the wall heating theory that someone further up got way more upvotes for.

  • RFK Jr cut off dead raccoon's penis on family vacation 'to study later'

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  • Imagine being 18 years old and this kind of insanity is all you’ve ever known.

  • First AI Model From Zuckerberg's Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals

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  • An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all

  • What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

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  • Stuff for classroom walls

  • What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

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  • If you want to make a big poster by printing smaller sheets of printer paper, all the first page of Google results is sites that let you upload your image and then make you sign up for an account. So here’s https://bigspread.niy.ai/ instead

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  • recency bias

    lol, by that argument you're a bedwetter who suckles on your mother's breast and doesn't know how to read or write

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  • dude spend two min googling ‘Chinese atrocities from 1900’

    Ok, I did that exact thing verbatim, and the entire first page of results are things that happened before anyone here was born.

    I'm not about to claim they're saintly in any way, for sure they have lots of well-documented internal issues with civil liberties, free speech, and oppression of minority groups, but the fact that you're going so far into the past to make your case just makes it a case in support of the opposite view.

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  • not to get all tankie on you, but China has thus far managed to restrain themselves from bombing other countries' civilian populations.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • One thing I don't think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app's users on a server that isn't even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.

  • Map Lie

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  • Fun fact, Mercator would in principle be even more distorted than it is, but almost every map that uses it crops at least the top and bottom 5 degrees to hide it. Mercator's original cropped to 66°S - 80°N, which shifts Europe towards the middle.

  • Map Lie

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  • Nice. What did you use for that one?

    https://niy.ai/worldmap lets you reproject Mercator to put any landmass you want in the middle by clicking on it, but it doesn't have that overlay thing.

  • Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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  • Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?

  • Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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  • I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.