RememberTheApollo @ RememberTheApollo @lemmy.world

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Reactionary Car Guys: look at the performance numbers on this ICE car! Fast! Acceleration! Wow!

EV proceeds to beat all those metrics

Reactionary Car Guys: Performance doesn’t matter!

Fuck the private restaurant business. Just tons of fuckery on taxes and wages. From underreporting tips to working off the clock to writing off trips to France as a “business expense”. Glass of wine or 3 at a vineyard and now it’s a wine-buying-and-research trip.

Windows 11? Ads. New outlook program? Ads. Old outlook iOS app? Now injecting ads there too.

Ads are a cancer on the internet.

Nice letter.

You coming in today or what?

A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of its chief financial officer ordering money transfers in a video conference call, police said.

Everyone present on the video calls except the victim was a fake representation of real people. The scammers applied deepfake technology to turn publicly available video and other footage into convincing versions of the meeting’s participants.

Police said they were highlighting the case as it was the first of its kind in Hong Kong and involved a large sum. They did not reveal details about the company or the employees involved.

Ted Cruz wants to intimidate people so he doesn’t have to listen to them calling him an idiot in public places.

Ask the people at the counter if there’s any place you should avoid. You’re a foreigner in an unfamiliar place in the case of this article.

My point was the that labeling certain areas as “bad” can create problems, even if it’s an area known for carjacking tourists. What defines a “bad” area? Petty theft? Drug arrests? Violent crime? Homelessness? How much crime does it take to be labeled “bad”? Unfortunately a lot of those areas are tied to poverty, and all too often poverty is tied to minorities. So say we start labeling areas, now traffic is reduced and maybe it even starts impacting local businesses because people are now checking the box that says “avoid bad areas” and routes people around a place that maybe got drive thru traffic at the coffee shops or gas stations.

You can easily see how difficult this is a policy to make. I’m not dismissing the problems these people encountered, but implementing this in popular guidance apps isn’t going to be easy.

Thanks! A kindred soul!

I think I’ve been desensitized to the point of not being surprised when police use inappropriate force and too little reason in the course of their jobs.

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.

(Yep, it’s the former Reddit app)

Edit: it is offline, but it only pulls in the first paragraph or whatever. You can read a snippet, but it’s not really an offline reader that pulls in the full article to be read.

Thanks for the rec, but unfortunately I’m on iOS.

The sheriff’s office said the teen created several accounts on websites offering swatting services

Now this is the real story. You can hire out to swat people? This is fucked up.

I loved RSS feeds. But I’ve given up on them. And it would seem so have many of the sites I used to frequent. I read RSS offline, so right there I have a problem as the vast majority of RSS apps expect an internet connection. Sites used to write content in such a manner that it was easily readable in RSS, now they don’t. The decline in popularity of RSS has meant that after I get comfortable with an app it stops being updated and no longer works as the developer decides it’s not worth keeping up. Sites make RSS feeds harder to find, if they even have one.

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Cutting to profitability. A tired and true way to make the books look good.

(Not a typo)

Yeah, but if you start labeling neighborhoods as “bad” on a mapping program you have a different set of problems.

People need to be aware of their surroundings and not cluelessly follow programs like this.

Just a scam to grab investor and preorder cash, then bolt. Repeat.

You don’t say…

My job uses 24h/UTC time a lot. Love the 24h time, everything I can set to it that I use is on that format. Can’t set the coffee machine or microwave to 24h time.

UTC? Hate it. Too much math that changes with the time change and your time zone to get to UTC. Thankfully wearables and phones will often let you have multiple clocks visible.

I could keep going. And I did. Eventually I ended up with a PDF that Preview claimed is larger than the entire universe – approximately 37 trillion light years square. Admittedly it’s mostly empty space, but so is the universe.

So yes. It can be done.