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"Oh yeah, are you sure about that? Then why does my AirTag say it's already landed on Jupiter, hmm? I'd like to speak to your manager."

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You can't prove there isn't!

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Yeah, I'm not so sure it's your Lemmy client that's causing your downvotes.

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    The amount of people eager to see a sexting thread with a child is fucking absurd.

    Chozo ,
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    Yeah, and there's a much different context. Those aren't real children on the show. Those text threads are with adults on both ends. The entire interaction from start to finish is mitigated by professionals.

    We're talking about a situation involving a real child, not a sting operation where there isn't an actual victim. There's a real child whose identity would be put at risk of being exposed by releasing the logs.

    This isn't primetime TV drama. This is a real situation involving a real minor. You should take a step back from the screen for a minute if you're struggling to see the difference.

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    I'm 100% certain that if he actually didn't know the kid's age beforehand, that he would have said so in one of his responses. If the situation was anything other than what everybody is already suspecting, he would have put it out there instead of letting the internet speculate wildly. He wouldn't just be sitting on that little nugget of information if it existed. He was too specific in his responses to have left that out unintentionally.

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    On surface level, sure. But the consequences of this drama will be seen across the industry. Google and Amazon both appear to have worked to have kept this quiet, which raises a lot of important questions about how the business of video streaming will handle child safety.

    Even though it may seem like drama, there's an important story here, and it directly involves the futures of some key players in the tech sector so it's relevant.

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    No wrongdoing was found!

    Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads | Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google." (arstechnica.com)

    Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months the widely used ad platform has been abused to infect web surfers....

    Chozo ,
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    It holds up about as much as those "Not responsible for broken windshields" stickers on the back of dump trucks. Which is to say: not at all.

    Chozo ,
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    Video source for those who don't feel like clicking around.

    They don't go into detail, but I'd be real interested to see a breakdown of how this was made. It looks almost entirely like actual Sora output, with the exception of Geoffrey and the TRU logo, which I think are comped-in renders. But the rest of it all looks like genuine AI output, all the way down to a bit of R'lyehian text in a few places.

    It's honestly a little scary how good this looks. Granted, this was made by a professional media team who understand how these tools work and know how to use them better than anyone else, so of course it's going to be good. But it won't be long at all before this becomes the baseline.

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    Those mailer coupons are the only reason I ever order a pizza delivery anymore. The cost of delivery fees, tips, and the food itself keeps going up and it's becoming harder to justify the purchase unless I'm getting a significant discount somehow.

    I used to order pizza fairly frequently, too. Like once every 2-3 weeks or so. But it's just so expensive now, I think it's been probably 3 years since I've ordered one.

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    Wordle 1,101 4/6*

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    I did. Because it was free with another service I'm already paying for.

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    Wordle 1,099 5/6

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    This one was kinda nuts, I had a letter that I tried in every possible wrong slot before finally getting all of them in one go.

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    Yeah, I would genuinely use one for the virtual screen capabilities to do my normal Salesforce-and-Slack job, if not for the price.

    Chozo ,
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    Harder to monetize on Peertube.

    Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time (arstechnica.com)

    In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...

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    Technically, nothing we ever see is in real-time.

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    Wordle 1,092 2/6

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    Holy shit, I legitimately thought the game bugged out on me when they all showed up green.

    Chozo ,
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    The Turing test doesn't factor for accuracy.

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    Wordle 1,091 4/6

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    This was a fun one! Had me tripped up for a minute.

    Chozo OP ,
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    Unfortunately, this is as granular as you're able to get with the notification controls for the Play Store app.

    Chozo OP ,
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    Good find, I just disabled that in my Play Store settings now. Thanks for that!

    Chozo ,
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    I believe that "demon" and "daemon" both share the same pronunciation. "day-mun" is technically incorrect, though still widely accepted.

    Chozo ,
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    Instead, TMOS researchers used metasurface-based upconversion technology, which essentially provides an easier pathway for light photons to be processed. The photons travel through a resonant metasurface, where they mingle with a pump beam. The non-local lithium niobate metasurface boosts the energy of the photons, and draws them into the visible light spectrum without the need to convert them to electrons first. It also doesn't require cryogenic cooling – which reduces 'noise' for sharper images in traditional night vision – so can do away with even more of the bulky night-vision goggle mechanics.

    This reads like a Turbo Encabulator script.

    Chozo ,
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    The fact that the US allows companies to flat out steal your device during a repair process is insane.

    The US doesn't allow it. Google won't keep your phone; they'll just refuse to service it. They had that line in their TOS for their own protection for weird scenarios, but they're not going to keep your phone. Why would they? It's broken and full of parts they can't use; they're not going to just let it occupy space in their warehouse, they'll send it back.

    This whole thing is an absurd overreaction to a poorly-written line in a TOS that has never even been enforced.

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    Why should they do that? If they decide it's a better use of their resources to swap the entire device than to repair the original and ship it back, why would you be opposed to that? You're getting an entire new device out of the deal and coming out ahead with new hardware (and possibly upgraded hardware, if there have been manufacturing revisions since your original purchase).

    If it's a matter of your data, it should always be assumed that you will lose 100% of your data when you send a device in for repair, no matter what the repair is. There's always a chance that they need to replace a component containing the storage, that your device has to be reset to defaults after a part has been replaced anyway, or that it just straight-up gets physically lost in the mail. Backup before sending in anything for repairs. Why anybody would put an un-wiped phone in the mail in the first place, is beyond me.

    Chozo ,
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    That's what Rossman would like you to believe, but that's not what actually happens. They send it back to you.

    Chozo ,
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    You're asking me to prove a negative?

    Chozo ,
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    Yeah, not how this works.

    Chozo ,
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    I hope you get more chances to do so; you explained the situation in a much better way than the article and convinced me to reboot my phone.

    Chozo ,
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    a reboot is a reboot

    Not always. Some phones will do a sort of "soft" reboot, which doesn't actually go through the entire boot process, but is more like logging out of the active OS user and back in, reloading some of the OS but not all.

    Pretty sure a system update would trigger a full reboot, though, but I've seen the option for this sort of partial reboot in the power menu on some devices in the past.

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    Google: "Thanks for your feedback, we hear you loud in clear. In response, we've launched 5 new messenger apps (only 3 available in your region), changed the names and branding of 3 other messengers, and completely discontinued 8 other messenger apps. We hope you enjoy playing our little game of Three Card Monty trying to figure out which messenger actually works now."

    Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

    Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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    They don't need to "find" a workaround. They put this there. This isn't some sorta "hack", it's literally a feature Google built into the page. This feature will exist for exactly as long as Google wants it to.

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    People still use [most popular product/service in its industry]?

    Chozo ,
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    I had no idea ICQ was even still operational. Good on them for making it as long as they did.

    I was never an ICQ user, but it's always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.

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    Discord: "Then we will define it."

    Chozo ,
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    The only thing they've ever done on accident was make their logo look like a ballsack.

    Chozo ,
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    Given what we've seen of the current trend of generative AI chatbots, it'll continue to be useless.

    Chozo ,
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    This is something that Nintendo should have had a better fix for years ago. With my PS5, I can access my screenshots and video clips from the app and save them directly to my device. I can't believe that Nintendo hasn't managed to do something as simple as this, they're just so unwilling to make a modern product.

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    For PS5, the last ~2 weeks of screenshots are accessible directly from the app, as well as video captures under a certain size (I think generally a 3-5 minute max). The console automatically backs them up to your PS cloud account.

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    It's a troll account, disregard.

    Chozo ,
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    He did the test wrong because he's experimenting with "safety" algorithms that the manufacturer has provided little-to-no documentation on and is having to come up with answers on his own. Maybe he wouldn't be "doing it wrong" if Tesla hadn't over-engineered every aspect of their piece of shit truck in the first place. This thing is a solution in search of a problem, and it'll chop your fingers off until it finds it.

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    By and large, women on Bumble don't make the first move. Opening with "Hi" isn't a move, which is what many women on Bumble do to qualify the app's requirement that the woman speaks first.

    I've lost track of how many matches I've had on Bumble where they didn't quite get the point of the app, and would open with something like "Impress me". Like, there's a hundred other apps you could use if you don't actually want to make the first move, why use the ONE where you're supposed to if you're not going to do it?

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    Archive link, for those who can't view the article.

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    We might even get pants videos in 2025.

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    This is an absolute W for flamethrowing robot dog enthusiasts everywhere.

    Chozo ,
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    verb. gamed; gaming; games. transitive + intransitive. 1. : to manipulate, exploit, or cheat in (a system, a situation, etc.)

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