Our local park volunteers are 1/5th jerks?! Noooo
(Plausible but hope not)
USA needs love hotels like elsewhere (Asia, LatAm)
“Cross”post there as its own post?
If you’re ever forced to have a debate with him, I would love to know about a (actually, an honest) strategy:
Yeah I want him to have a third term too and be as effective as possible, but how will it work if the deep state gets Obama in for a third term and he sends all Republicans to Turkish prisons? Makes me wonder if we listen to the courts whether we can keep the DemonRats/DementedCraps from being their usual fascist selves 🤔
No opinion to offer on that
But
AI’s bad even when using it to build software for your nonverbal nearly-immobile brother 🧐
Edit: cuz you might be able to code it yourself before he dies
This is an unusual comment I’m gonna make, unusual for me b/c I get phased by violent content and not dark humor
Comic made me a little uncomfortable maybe because it’s actually showing implied child abuse. If it’s just alluded to then it’s just your imagination and you don’t imagine it well enough way it’s painful, but they show it & it’s like “bro that guy’s a child rapist holy shit wtf”
Plus the lowest possible defense, 4chan-esque “akshually ephebophilia” “but in Japan…”, don’t even fly for Sherlock
Edit: also there’s no greater point as you’ve mentioned, like if he wore a Jared Subway mask… potential big change in vibe
Holy cow this might be just the thing!!!
Thanks :D
Starlink leak?!
lol put Linux on old $20 machine that used to only be intended to be used as a viewer?
That’s awesome
Maybe brain drain is the best messaging here.
We can import the shitholers and make them work CHEAP on smart people stuff, but it’s like hunting, make too much noise and you don’t get the kill
Perhaps it would be interesting to chat April 21
all
We have to send monitors to that prison immediately until he’s safely back home
Oh so you just want a president to smuggle another president into the country?
(Disingenuous ass with that BS he unloaded in the Oval the other day, pretending like he was being asked to bring Xi, Vlad, & Kim to Guantánamo)
Didn’t they get free money (they used to invest in our future workforce obvy) all along the way until just now? Or have their speech/activities been chilled along the way too :-/
PS: personal knowledge on this is about 0.5/10
leftist infighting
Backchannel until [super]majority agreement achieved before going public!

Disabled man gifted custom software built with ChatGPT - how could the anti-AI cohort reckon with this not-quite-inverse Robinhood kind of scheme? (corp steals from world, man uses for good)

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(corp steals from world, man uses theft to help brother communicate)
Wanted to ask on /c/fuck_ai but didn’t want to get banned or ruffle feathers and miss a good discussion
Replies are welcome regardless of whether anyone personally finds the “theft“ premise preposterous - probably most useful as a thought experiment here, to pretend you & I are arguing against someone who has always been anti-AI
DDBing (DDG) hates quotation marks, exact match searches, and is slow to crawl. Google’s right quick, impressive.
Thank you 🫡 was interested to see that
And now he’s threatening their tax-exempt status
Hear, hear. Well said.

Thanks Obama (Harvard) rule


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"This is what the Priority Notification interface that uses artificial intelligence looks like in iOS 18.4"
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The Great Grovel: How Trump forced elite institutions to bend to his will | The lessons we can take from how easily institutions have folded to Trump’s remarkable revenge campaign.
Automated Summary (Subject To Error)
• President Trump has launched an organized "retribution campaign" against elite American institutions since November 2024, with most targets quickly capitulating
• Major law firms made deals with Trump:
- Paul, Weiss pledged $40M in pro bono services to Trump-supported causes
- Skadden Arps promised $100M in free legal work before Trump took action
- Some firms (Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block) chose to fight in court
• Media organizations have settled or adjusted:
- ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit for $15M toward Trump's presidential library
- CBS News appears poised to settle for millions
- Washington Post and LA Times adjusted editorial content to please the White House
• Universities have complied with demands:
- Columbia University agreed to nine policy changes to unfreeze $400M in federal funding
- Many hired Republican lobbyists to maintain good relations with the administration
• Key reasons for c

The "Has Apple Ever Responded to Your Feedback?" Support Group


OK, so Apple isn't big on responding to feedback:

Nickkk's numbers eclipse mine: I'm 0/10 on responses/acknowledgments/signs of life over the past couple of years. And you know what...
That's OK. They're telling us they're too big for that. OK.
Accepting this fact, how can Apple avoid hurting their fanboys' little feelings, like through better transparency setting expectations? Could we get some recognition, some social features, automated acknowledgments, a "thanks, archiving" email after 18mo w/o response for a sense of closure... anything?
::: spoiler v Will I do free labor if it fixes annoying bugs in products I use myself, yes.
Will I continue shouting into the void, well even I've gotta put my foot down somewhere.
PS: to open the feedback tool, launch this URL (e.g.

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber | John Gruber's Daring Fireball, Jan '25 -- Siri gets 15 Super Bowl winners wrong in a row; Apple's ChatGPT integration shockingly neutered

Siri with Apple Intelligence gives confident but embarrasingly wrong answers to sports trivia questions, both famous (Super Bowls) and obscure (North Dakota high school hoops).

& Kagi (search company w/controversial CEO) sounds like they're doing something right
Excerpt:
...Paul Kafasis...took it and pursued it thoroughly, asking Siri “Who won Super Bowl __?” for every number from 1 through 60.
His report at One Foot Tsunami documenting the results is utterly damning:
So, how did Siri do? With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played. That’s an absolutely abysmal 34% completion percentage. If Siri were a quarterback, it would be drummed out of the NFL.
Siri did once manage to get four years in a row correct (Super Bowls IX through XII), but only if we give it credit for providing the right answer for the wrong reason. More realistically, it thrice correctly answered three in a row (Super Bowls V through VII, XXXV through XXVII, and LVII through LIX). At its worst, it got an amazing 15 in a row wrong (Super Bowls XVII through XXXII). Most amusingly, it credit

Mahmoud Khalil calls himself political prisoner after US immigration arrest
Courtesy (mostly) XCancel dot com:


Post not federated to Lemmy.World ? Shows on our instance though!
Hey folks,
Made a post yesterday on [email protected]
Here it is on our instance: https://lemmings.world/post/21083652
It shows up whether I'm logged in or not, but I was surprised to see it at +1 after a day - so I checked [email protected] , and it's missing from the New queue where I would expect to see it based on its position as seen on: https://lemmings.world/c/[email protected]
Thank you very much folks!

Attorney General Mayes Condemns Trump Administration's 'Dictatorial and Authoritarian' Actions | AZ AG: "incredibly dangerous moment" as admin "hell bent on undoing 250 years" of rule of law
Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes strongly criticized the Trump administration this past Tuesday, describing its actions as dictatorial, authoritarian, and making a mockery of law and the Constitution.
A.G. Mayes spoke to the importance of checks and balances and the danger of ignoring established law. Mayes alleges Trump has transferred Congress's power to the unelected billionaire, Musk.
Mayes urges all Americans to stand up, speak out, and defend our democratic processes.
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Elon Musk: "Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected."

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President Musk (summarized):
- we were wrong
- it's OK we were wrong because... well, NBD anyway
- Americans ❤️ HIV -> Dead Africans
Transcript / Story below:
Musk questions value of US funding for HIV programmes in Mozambique
"Trump boasted last month that his administration had stopped $50m of “bomb-making” condoms being sent to the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, as part of a wider campaign led by billionaire Elon Musk to cut waste and fraud from federally funded programmes.
Trump provided no evidence for his claims, which caused widespread confusion. It later emerged that the recipients of the contraceptives may be a province in Mozambique sharing the same name, where USAID funds large-scale HIV prevention programmes.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Musk was asked whether he would correct his previous statements. Here is what he

Good job rule
For remaking the funny place (one ninety six)
It’s safe, welcoming, and always a good time

Don't set an iced coffee on the Apple Campus model at the Apple (Park Visitor Center) Store. Immediately without a word, an employee might remove it and place it on the ground.


💩posting after a 5+ year-old memory came to mind. The face of the employee I’d been chatting with (before momentarily freeing my hand) was positively aghast. Olympic contender in no-coaster defense competitions, guarding the impervious exterior of large corporate marketing assets like it’s the Mona Lisa.
“OBVIOUSLY you’re not supposed to put anything on it!” -my friend
(A little context - I would hope to be described as deferential and polite, occasionally even to a fault.) Oops

So telesyncs are still a thing?
Looks like the new Beetlejuice movie was released as a telesync. I thought they were a thing of the past!

Would you sacrifice pro-trans campaigning for a Democrat win?


COMMUNITY/MODS: want this post gone, it’s gone - would remove ASAP.
Please be excellent to each other here. We have to self moderate or I’ll delete without being asked. Assume good intent.
I’m pro human which is why I’d rather have some people in office here in the US than others, and why I’m pro human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
After reading criticism of the dems, this question resurfaced in my mind. I know we don’t have time machines, I know it’s easy to claim a false equivalency is being drawn. So note this question doesn’t represent reality. It represents a curiosity of a hypothetical.
Trans rights are human rights! Thank you.
PS: I hope neither this post nor its comments represent/produce any content that bad people will use to make arguments to further evil causes. Have I already erred? Yes I’m worried, I’m also curious enough to hit this post button here… gulp
::: spoiler alt text of featured screenshot **Imagine you have a time machine that lets

Cheap US cloud computer (VPN minus fingerprinting?): I need a social media account for a contract job, and want to register/login without the account tying back to me. Provider & spec recs?
Hey friends,
I'd like to:
- Register for a social media account under a client's company name
- Research the presence companies in the client's industry have on the site
- Have a reasonable assurance the account will not be linked to my real name nor my network
- Use a VM for 10-30? hr/mo, short term
I am:
- US West Coast based
- Tech savvy but don't code (unless copypasta)
- Price conscious
- Privacy conscious in terms of social media companies linking my account and my identity
::: spoiler Assumptions and Understandings Given the complexity of fingerprinting techniques, I am under the impression logging in to a remote computer and doing all this work from a browser there has one of the highest likelihoods of success. I'd measure success by not getting spammed with work-related ads, whenever I have to disable Ublock Origin at least. It seems likely a social network will know I'm using a remote desktop (based on IP and loading time/delays), but seems difficult for them to und

Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?



So let's say I wanna ping 1.1.1.1... every 5 seconds... forever. Alternatives?


Developers (two dudes) are super responsive and would likely release an IP customization feature upon request. Is there any service that would tolerate this [D]DOS-y kind of behavior that would feel more privacy friendly than Cloudflare?
IsThereNet [for macOS] watches for internet connection status changes and draws a colored line at the top of the screen to indicate the status.
Edit: Thanks everybody!
(1) ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Echo Requests hardly constitute a burden on a server.
(2) There is little privacy concern simply exposing your IP to Cloudflare.
(3) Uptime-Kuma can be self hosted to accomplish this task with more bells and whistles.
(4) There is an appetite for daydreaming of DDOSing bad Alphabetic actors ;) You civilly digidisobedient rascals!