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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
A Labubu in Louboutin heels sounds just like the kind of mash-up which would at least sell a couple of T-shirts. (T-shirt punch line: Louboubou. Coming to fast-fashion textile dumps in Lagos soon.)
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
Cause of Death: > Scalded in a Brewer's Maſh, at St. Giles Cripplegate, 01. That's… quite specific. And then there is the joker who entered 'suddenly' as the cause of death.
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
There is no obligation at all (my comment did not include any must beyond that being a requirement for broadly accessible text either). Merely the observation that if you want to write accessible text in any chosen language, following con
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
The author obviously has this as an acquired habit or affectation, possibly for stylistic reasons. It's interesting that some people can read this just as well as normal prose, but to others it feels as if someone is pouring sand all o
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
> Remember that if someone Googles this person for a newer job, it might show up. Not to sound too harsh, but this is a person who rudely let AI perform a task badly which should have been handled by just… merging/rebasing the PR af
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
> I wish they would go public. I wish that they'll just keep on running a good profitable business without going public, or getting bought by Amazon, or otherwise shifting focus to providing shareholder value.
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
Location of Hetzner's Falkenstein data centre, for the curious: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/606528332#map=13/50.46220/...
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
Yup, that works.
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
Is there a word for that feeling of relief when someone else fucked up after initially thinking it was you?
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
In this case there is also the telling reaction from one of the authors (Johnson): “Instead of talking about my book … and what the inspiration was, we are talking about bloody AI, which I hate.” While it is generally well-known that author
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
They are both award-winning authors, so it seems debatable that this is necessarily wanted attention.
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Authors dumped from New Zealand's top book prize after AI used in cover designs(theguardian.com)
6 points by Freak_NL 11mo ago|6 comments
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
Could you actually buy those parts? Miele started locking down their parts to just registered Miele repair centres a few years ago, making a mockery of the right-to-repair movement (and slipping a big middle finger to business which repair
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by Freak_NL 11mo ago
> It’s an application which detects people looking at your screen. The aim is to keep you safe from shoulder surfing, utilising your webcam to give you the power to prevent snoopers. When is this ever a problem that cannot be solved by p
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Jelly's back Here are three worth making – and three that should wobble off(theguardian.com)
3 points by Freak_NL 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
There does not appear to be an app requirement after all. You are required to check-in online before heading to the airport though. See: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa...
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
This announcement is a load of bull. See this page about the new system: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa... > But what if, and what if, and what if? > If you have alrea
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
The announcement says no downloads and required use of their app, but the dedicated help page says otherwise: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa...
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
With Ryanair. Something to be avoided if at all possible, but a very bad precedent in any case.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Especially since their own licence for this project's data (the Roman roads), is CC-BY. Itiner-e: the digital atlas of ancient roads © 2024 by Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Perhaps we can finally figure out the exact location of that one stubborn village which was never conquered. It should have a visible ring of roads linking the surrounding Roman outposts around it…
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
This is partly the fault of the researchers themselves for not including any attribution to OpenStreetMap, even though they are using OpenStreetMap data to render everything but the Roman roads.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
This project uses OpenStreetMap to render the (present day) natural features and (if enabled as a setting) the current road network. Unfortunately, Brughmans, de Soto, and Pažout neglected to include the legally required attribution for thi
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Besides, they would still need to choose between Apple and Microsoft. I'd rather teach my kid the essentials of using a computer (how to find information, how to create documents, how to use tools like Inkscape or Krita). Those skills
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
My six year old had some good fun exploring GCompris, but it feels like it desperately needs an overhaul and some cleaning up.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Yeah, Youtube for my six year old son is restricted to us looking up stuff for him to watch. Want to know how pencils are made? We'll look up a good video. Recently, that's not often either. CocoMelon and its ilk on Youtube are ab
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
That lost bit of sample HTML below the body is cute too: <a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Link Text</a> It gives the site an artisanal feel.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust. I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but a
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
He should at the very least ensure that there was some kind of liaison person at Meta for these not quite as rich (and certainly less obnoxious) Mark Zuckerbergs to reach in case of trouble with his service. This lawyer Mark should just hav
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> You want a CI pipeline, so the junior developer can't just break prod because they forgot to run the tests before pushing. Make them part of your build first. Tagging a release? Have a documented process (checklist) that says &#x2

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