Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst’s commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I’ll paraphrase): “The interesting thing with [Chump] isn’t what he’s going to do next, it’s what he’ll do when it fails” 😂
Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).
Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?
Edit — Never mind, nothing was scrubbed, that was the shortest Google search I ever did 😅
In mother America, car IDE’s you!
Joking aside — how the fuck are they getting away with this shit?! A company with zero armored car experience (fuck you, Cybertruck) gets a 400M government contract out of the blue? While the CEO of said company is employed by the same government, and a personal “friend” of the president?!
Seriously, if corporations are people, when the fuck are they going to start screaming their heads off?! Are none of the American car manufacturers enraged by this?!
America is so completely fucked.
It’s only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.
… wasn’t OpenAI not also …
Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅
“… reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media …” 🙄
We have a Samsung “smart” TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV’s original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.
I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen “keyboard” / text input (we don’t have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we’re happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.
Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung’s interface.
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Is there any indication that they won’t implement this shit at some point?
Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane “features” in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?
Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer’s favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?
I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰
Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.
The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍
(Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)
That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?
I think that would release an awful lot of carbon 😓
Full interface overhaul? Maybe . . . ? 🙏
I mean, fuck Apple, but …
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— Hanlon’s Razor (Wikipedia)
Still, though — fuck Apple.
Background on the Vice stuff for those interested 👍
Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!
Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can’t comment, or maybe it’s just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.
Official site says “Hiking safety GPS”, something to that effect, but all this talk of “local topics” has me confused. What’s your use-case?
Partner killed by a faulty Ford truck? Never signed a Ford EULA? No worries, Ford is a Google Partner™! See you in arbitration, bitch! 😂
No, no! You see, the specific combination of sounds that we use to identify and address a given person shapes that persons body, especially their facial features!
How else would you explain how every person over 50 named Henry looks exactly the same‽ Or why people over 50 named Charles and Charlie look so similar?
I’m 44, and have a friend who is 43, and has the exact same name, and everyone we know always comments on how they’re 100% certain we will look like twins in 7 years.
It’s just science. Get your head out of the sand!
Hell, I wouldn’t be the least amount surprised if everyone over 50 named Gretchen not only look identical, but are also the exact same height. I guess that’s an idea for their next study. I can’t wait to be proven right.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to read how my day tomorrow — and, incidentally, that of the other 1/12 (roughly) of the planet born with the same zodiac sign — is going to turn out.
That’s actually pretty good. And then they’re open to getting sued when caught.
I guess it could be done on an instance basis, although I’m not sure how happy fediverse users will be if their instance has an official policy of open-sourcing (or maybe it’s public-domaining?) all their content by default.
Shit dude, this is a public instance! Think of your family! 😳
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