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I've had it for a while actually. Maybe they are rolling it out slowly?
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> This whole rhetoric of the journalist being an "adversary" that is "outing" things is extremely problematic. You should be able to retract statements. It's quite the opposite, actually. As Katherine Graham, the
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> There is an implied agreement The implied agreement is that everything is on the record unless explicitly agreed otherwise beforehand.
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> Users get reduced data consumption, potentially higher quality selection if the bandwidth now allows for a higher resolution to be streamed They also get increased power usage, lesser battery life, higher energy bills, and potentially
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The AI Emperor Has No Clothes
(jeffgeerling.com)
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1y ago
What are the options legally available to them? They have their own experts, but it sounds like you have a novel idea that hasn't occurred to anyone before.
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CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space
(jeffgeerling.com)
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'Competence Is Controversial' – Meet the Strictest Headmistress in Britain
(theatlantic.com)
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> criminal negligence Can we stop with this kind of hyperbole, please? It's an open-source project for a dead game. It does not come pre-installed with any hardware, nor is it required by any employer or government to be installed o
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I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
(jeffgeerling.com)
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It's a feature we like now that we have it, but not one we asked for .
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Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI 'happy ending'
(theguardian.com)
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1y ago
https://archive.ph/53Eay (Warning: NSFW)
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> Does have any physical benefit? Compared to what? Sitting on the couch, snacking on chips? Of course.
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1y ago
> giving birth to nonhuman intelligence Doesn't this incessant anthropomorphization get tiring? > maybe it’s just our ego Indeed...
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> We always encourage projects to go through the process but sometimes they need help understanding that it exists in the first place. Including ingress-nginx? Per OP, it's not marked as verified. If even the official components don
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The Hoodcat Chronicles
(static.xtremeownage.com)
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Remember last year when a Boeing engineer whistleblower urged the company to ground all 787 Dreamliners? [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/boeing-whis...
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> Where it is not the responsibility of the initsystem systemd is not an init system. It's an umbrella project with many distinct tools and services, only one of which is an init provider.
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> If you don't understand, or disagree I understand, and I do agree. I simply answered the GPs question.
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Historically, "safety" referred to protection from physical harm. It has now expanded into psychological, emotional, economical realms. This had the (very much intended) effect of redefining "unsafe" from imminent and p
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Gnome infrastructure is now sponsored by AWS
(foundation.gnome.org)
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This is also an interesting look into how GNOME manages their systems with just 2 SREs!
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Criticism is fine, as long as it's constructive and not to the tune of "these volunteers are not volunteering to my satisfaction".
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GTK is developed entirely by volunteers. None of the "rules" of bug reporting in this thread apply. If it's a business selling something to you? Sure, don't bother if they don't seem to care. But with volunteer-driv
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> Personnel minutia distract from the Orwellian prize. The "minutiae" you so casually refer to are people . The OP understands that: > The “campus” was pretty open and my then-wife visited it a few times; it creeped the Fuc
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Click-V: A RISC-V emulator built with ClickHouse SQL
(github.com)
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The article addresses that: > Of course it also harms real buyers who want to go to a concert with a +1 but do not yet know who they will bring.
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> Taxes fully depend on the current mood of the government. The fee does a bit of indirection limiting the direct influence. Yes. In fact, that was the whole point of various "arms length" bodies - publicly owned, but largely s
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> Why do they need to use this tv license thing for BBC then? Even with horrendously massive cuts to public services and the Civil Service, the government has a tiny headroom in its budget, in the single-digit billions. The BBC cannot
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