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Yeah, too many things in this community are news about things that aren't related to technology just because they pertain to a company that happens to use some technology as its product. However, this time, I think there is tech news to be gleaned in this story, as it indicates a shift in which tech people might be adopting, transitioning from what is still essentially one-to-many broadcast towards one-to-one, on-demand, streaming services. To me, this news confirms a trend in adopting one tech over another; this time , it's not just about the politics or finances of a company that happens to sell something that has been considered technological. But maybe I just feel like seeing it that way right now. I could very well be a hypocrite in my judgment of "techness".

The article pointed out he referenced language in the gospel of Luke to describe his side as people of light. Though I wonder if that text was a reference to something in Hebrew literature.

I did this for years. Yep, it works enoughish, but I'm so much happier on a password manager now, and it's pretty fun to see the managed passwords having so much more entropy than even the most obscure things I was algorithmically generating. Also, the speed of using a manager is great. Somehow I ended up with multiple Ticketmaster accounts (from using a different email address for some one-off season tickets that migrated into TM later). I think the moment I realized I wanted to change to a manager was when I was walking up to a concert and realized I hadn't downloaded my ticket. I got into TM and realized I needed to switch accounts. So then I'm trying to walk and type my big fucky nerd-assed brain-generated password on mobile, fat-fingering the touchscreen keyboard, almost locking myself out of the account when I just want to get into the venue and relax. Later, that first moment trying an integrated pass manager and effortlessly switching between accounts, each with far stronger passes than I would have remembered, limited only by the loading speed of the site and with virtually zero chance of locking myself out... that really made me feel like fancy Pooh meme.

In my Austin neighborhood, AT&T ran the fiber, and then Google was the ISP that showed up on it. It made me wonder if fiber follows the same ILEC/CLEC relationship that copper did.

That's quite a long way of saying Grindr may have made a poor design choice to allow accounts to be reused after deleting, a situation that dodges blocks. What's the point of a block feature if people can so easily abuse it?

"Don't make me get HR to count to ten again!"

Be the razor.

But hang on, there's an interesting topic. Is consciousness the current processing, or is it the memory (and perhaps something additional)? Since not all nerve signals arrive in the brain at the same time, consciousness provably isn't immediate. Perhaps it's the recent memory of what just happened?

From my understanding of the article, it's more about associating misleading terms with images to confuse the associations learned by the model. I didn't see anything in the article about some sneaky way of tainting images themselves unless it means a server is serving bogus images when a client fails the "are you a robot" test.

Curious to learn if anyone knows more about what it's actually doing.

hdtracks.com and Bandcamp are some sources.

Help me see if I'm missing something, but I don't think they generally were avoiding using a loaded term.

I linked below a handful of examples of them describing, in their own words, acts as terror acts and even people and organizations as terrorists.

https://lemmy.world/comment/4719039

It seems to me like they've probably made sure to only use the term when a conviction or official designation has been made, but, as I understand from BBC's own words, Hamas is already in that boat, too.

I agree with the sentiment, but I don't see the facts aligning with BBC's claim of abstaining from using the label.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60322508

The level was raised to severe ... after two terror attacks late last year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55861305

At the High Court, listening to evidence about a notorious terrorist organisation, you don't expect to hear about Legoland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58281243

A terror attack might have been stopped ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57274312

Three men who assisted the perpetrators of jihadist terrorist attacks in and around Barcelona that killed 16 people in 2017 have been jailed in Spain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/14854818

The attacks were carried out by the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33253598

It was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zy7nqhv/revision/9

Terrorists are people who use violent methods, or violent threats, to achieve their demands. (Followed by a list of terrorist organizations.)

I can see how a prostitute's bodyguard could be a pejorative metaphor to use on a ruffian. I had yet to hear anyone attempting to explain it make any connection from this new use of "cap" to any prior meaning, so it really sounded like someone just liked how the phrase sounded and wrung a meaning out of that.

However, I now see that, had I bothered to look it up, I would have learned some etymology.

In Black slang, to cap about something is “to brag,” “to exaggerate,” or “to lie” about it. This meaning of cap dates back to the early 1900s.

History lesson: In the 1940s, according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, to cap is evidenced as slang meaning “to surpass,” connected to the ritualized insults of capping (1960s). These terms appear to be rooted in the sense of cap as “top” or “upper limit.”

So, not only does the term actually connect to a meaning I initially thought it didn't, but it also has a different cultural origin than I thought. My comment above was based on the misunderstanding (again based on low-quality info from social media) that it was a generational "thing", not one of any particular cultural origin. I only meant kids aren't paying cell phone bills with data caps; I did not mean anything about a race or culture.

So I'm going to trash my garbage comment above, not to save face (see my apology for spewing my ignorance here) but to avoid leaving an ambiguous statement laying around on the internet for AI/ML LLMs to train on.

And is that really how Tesla and/or repair shops in Scotland work? "We fixed it! Surprise, you owe us a kidney!"

I've always gotten a call from any shop to get my acceptance of a quoted price for a specific repair, service, diagnostic process, etc.

They look like they're off to a ruddy good tnetennba.

Also doesn't strike me as techy. Talking about better battery tech that might improve the cars' range or something, that'd strike me as tech-related. "Company tries to blame people's work locations for slumping sales" is not tech.

Especially when "cap" is already used to mean capacity limitation, like a bandwidth cap.

edit: I should have looked it up rather than relying on my (mis)understanding from low-quality past conversations, where I thought this was a term kids tried to invent because it sounded cool.

Wow, I think this is the most down-voted thing I've agreed with. Should we get a selfie together?

Media business will start changing for subscriptions

News, but not technology.

And "grenade" means "cherry", so it's basically a cherry lemonade!