What do you think has happened over the last decade? I remember it being pretty good when it first came out, but there's a lot of spyware and adware that's frog-boiled its way in over the years.

3w ago

LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking

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smeg @feddit.uk 3w ago

You don't even need to jailbreak LG ones, just enable developer mode, install webosbrew, and install things like youtube adfree and space cadet pinball

4w ago

Cats can have a little slommy.

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smeg @feddit.uk 4w ago

Wow, I even looked at the picture of some salami and didn't consider that's what "slommy" was meant to mean. Sounds like an urban dictionary entry.

1mo ago

Because Google cares about us

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smeg @feddit.uk 1mo ago

That's the one I was thinking of. It's a slow process, but it does happen.

1mo ago

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smeg @feddit.uk 1mo ago

The hairy frog is also notable in possessing retractable "claws", which it may project through the skin, apparently by intentionally breaking the bones of the toe.[5] These are not true claws, as they are made of bone, not keratin. In addition, there is a small bony nodule nestled in the tissue just beyond the frog's fingertip. When sheathed, each claw is anchored to the nodule with tough strands of collagen. When the frog is grabbed or attacked, it breaks the nodule connection and forces the sharpened bones through the skin.[6][7] Although a retraction mechanism is not known, it has been hypothesized that the claws later retract passively, while the damaged tissue is regenerated.
This type of natural weaponry appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, although the Otton frog possesses a similar "spike" in its thumb.[8] An alternative hypothesis is that the broken bones could provide a better grip on rocks.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_frog

Yep, pretty horrifying, accurate name.

1mo ago

This country that we all live in? The country of Lemmy? I know the EU have been pretty good at slapping down Google's anti-competitive practices recently (though it's a long and slow process and I've not heard any news about this particular one yet).

1mo ago

Cat causes a 2-day flight delay

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smeg @feddit.uk 1mo ago

Three passengers had paid for an extra piece of hand luggage, that's a million quid in lost fees for Ryanair

2mo ago

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smeg @feddit.uk 2mo ago

We can rebuild him, we have the technology. But I don't want to spend a lot of money.

2mo ago

Programmer humor

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smeg @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Your mum's so bloated hackers are considering supply chain attacks on her dependencies

Your mum's so old support for her architecture is being removed from the kernel

Your mum's so easy I recommended new users switch to her instead of mint

etc, etc

2mo ago

“Sloppenheimer:” Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack

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smeg @feddit.uk 2mo ago

The problem (well, one of the many problems) is that "AI" is a meaningless buzzword slapped on everything by marketing drones. I'm sure there are some real advances that could be made by what five years ago we'd have called "machine learning", but the chatbots that everyone's currently obsessing over don't have anything to do with that.