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Kinky

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Ngl dipping the fries into their breakfast butter is so delicious and bad

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Yep, they're called hubless bikes.

Reevo's ebikes do this and use the space in the middle for possible luggage.

Reevo - Reevo Bikes - https://www.reevobikes.com/reevo/

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Techbros were pitching how we'd invent self replicating carbon capture nano machines in the future

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You use Linux because of your superiority complex and need to be seen as cool.

I use Linux because I'm broke.

We are not the same.

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Japanese government announces plans to welcome AI innovation

The AI innovation:

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While certainly not the majority, feature phones (known as garakei) enjoy a cult following in Japan.

Bear in mind that feature phones in Japan were a literal decade ahead of smartphones in terms of features. They already had features such as GPS, email, internet browsers latest 90s and early 2000s.

The Mysteries of Japan-Only Phones — sabukaru - https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-mysterious-early-world-of-japans-cellphone-culture

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I have good news for you! The income distribution of OnlyFans creators like many other platforms follows a power law, where the top 1% earn 33% of all revenue, and the average creator only earns $150-180 each month. Don't think young women doing it tough are likely to be coerced by that.

Most of the high earners are those who already have an established audience, e.g. ex porn stars.

OnlyFans Income - How Much Do OnlyFans Creators Make? - https://supercreator.app/academy/guides/how-much-do-onlyfans-creators-make/

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Been a while since I experienced malware, but they typically forcibly change your browser's default search engine to a shady one with more malware, even after you try to change it to something else. Even for somewhat tech savvy users, this can be somewhat difficult to overcome.

Sounds like Microsoft is somehow overriding this with Bing.

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Which makes it better than a bus because then I don't have to sit next to poor people /s

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This only applies to discount brokers, all of which are licensed, regulated brokers.

You do, in fact, “own” the stocks you buy.

The internal plumbing of securities clearing, settlement, and registration is not a concern to retail investors.

Stop buying into juvenile conspiracies.

And if for some reason you are still not satisfied, you can always opt for a "full service" broker or ask to register the shares in your name, both of which are much more expensive.

Do I own my shares? – Trading 212 - https://helpcentre.trading212.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008702918-Do-I-own-my-shares

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Drag Queen Amanda Tori Meating has talked about her day job as a minimum wage Onlyfans writer. There's an entire industry involving talent agencies representing low wage gig workers that pretend to be the model you're paying $X per month to interact with.

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My Blahaj Can't Be This Cute!!

俺のブラハジがこんなに可愛いわけがない!!

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When you become disillusioned with being a corporate slave, and decide with the help of your grandfather's inheritance to exploit the natural resources of a tiny remote community, enslave a native race of spirit animals, stalk the locals and bribe them with gifts, push out an international competitor under the guise producing local "artisanal" goods, all for the purpose of expanding your huge vertically integrated agri business empire

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Don't you know? The music that normies listen to is as low as their IQ

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Non alliterative sports drinks are unholy, got it

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f12fed3b-1289-4c93-b109-6abeca6ff02e.jpeg

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Wendy Carlos. One of the earliest trans icons who basically invented the genre of electronic music.

She maintains a personal website that's straight out of the early 2000s.

Wendy Carlos HomePage - https://www.wendycarlos.com/

https://youtu.be/Z3cab5IcCy8

Jellyfin: Can I disable HEVC playback on ONE device?

So, the issue at hand is, I have a Chromecast 4K with Jellyfin Android TV on it. And most of my library is x265/HEVC. But, whenever playing from this specific device, it will natively take HEVC, but with exoplayer library it plays kinda like a slideshow, at about 5-10FPS. Choosing VLC should be ok, and forcing a transcode will...

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You can try to make an additional "user" that the TV uses, and set user specific transcode options.

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The precedent was already set back in 2020 when the US government forced Kunlun to sell Grindr

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Smeagussy

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Tbh at some point it's just the incompetence of people at filling out their own profiles that's the problem. Case in point: Hinge actually tries to encourage people with basic prompts, but as it got popular most profiles are basic clichés.

You end up with the situation where the person's stats (Bank manager at 33 yrs old, college educated) is more interesting than their love for dogs, tacos and travel.

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Brisbane, capital of QLD

Bluey Locations to visit in Brisbane - Brisbane Kids - https://brisbanekids.com.au/bluey-locations-to-visit-in-brisbane/

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train AI Chatbot to behave like human business consultants

AI Chatbot starts behaving like human business consultants

😮

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Its specific speed/accuracy tradeoff made it a very good fit for news which you need to know quickly, but had low stakes if it was incorrect. A great example of this transit delays/cancellations, where you probably don't care about the specific reason why a train is delayed and just want alternative options asap.

It was often much more effective to directly follow transit agencies and/or workers for info, rather than use their official website.

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Brother has already started to enshitify, Kyocera is an alternative company that does simple laser printers, with easy and cheap to source generic toners

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The M1 macbooks only support 1 external monitor natively lmao

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I prefer the term lobotomize

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You could try to convert it to a "headless" laptop.

Some cash savvy people have been buying M1 macbooks with broken screens and converting them into headless laptops. For the price of a broken MacBook and some tinkering, you can get what is essentially a Mac mini with a touchpad and keyboard.

https://youtu.be/uOigVjqW7hc

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AI generated medical research can't make it past peer review, it can't hurt you

AI generated medical research that made it past peer review:

Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)

Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.

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Bus seat couture

Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

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Maybe you only do an "odd bit" of mundane writing and the image/music generation is a gimmick, but a lot of the modern world is mundane and pays people lots of money for mundane work. E.g. think of those internal corporate videos which require a script, stock photography and footage, basic corporate music following a 4 chord progression, a voiceover, all edited into a video.

Steve Taylor is most famous for being the voiceover for Kurzgesagt videos, but more generally he's a voiceover artist that features in lot of these boring corporate videos. This type of content has such high demand there is an entire industry dedicated towards it, which seems well suited to AI.

https://youtu.be/vDb2h1-7LA0

This does raise further ethical/economical issues though, as most people in these creative industries actually require income from this boring work to get by.

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Milk and other raw foods generally won't spoil any faster unwrapped Vs wrapped in a fridge. Wrapping is mostly to stop odour transfer and other physical contaminants. The lid of a milk jug would be functionally similar to wrapping a glass of milk with plastic wrap.

storage method - Uncovered Raw Meat or Milk in Fridge - Seasoned Advice - https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/35900/uncovered-raw-meat-or-milk-in-fridge

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Because they broke lol. A night out is expensive, and can easily cost over $100.

Public transport to club: $5
Dinner/pre drinks: $30
Club entry: $25
Club drinks: $18 x 2 = $36
Uber home: $30

Sure you probably save money by going for cheaper drinks etc, but then you spend a lot of effort worried about costs for what is meant to be leisure time.

Tbh I didn't really understand paying for online events like twitch donations, but then realised that a night in with supermarket liquor + sub donations is much cheaper than going out.

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Don't have to imagine. Microsoft Tay already happened

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist (www.msn.com)

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist::A make-up artist says she lost her job at a leading brand after an AI recruitment tool that used facial recognition technology marked her down for her body language.

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This isn't new. Recruiting firms such as HireVue have been pushing out "AI" interviewing platforms which automatically judge your body language, fashion choices, tone of language etc since at least 2018.

Companies are using AI to stop bias in hiring. They could also make discrimination worse. - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvq9ep/companies-are-using-ai-to-stop-bias-in-hiring-they-could-also-make-discrimination-worse

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The ASMR and meditation community sometimes embrace a specific colour aesthetic for videos. They're also all pretty similar in terms of audio level etc so I can see this working well in that niche.

E.g.
https://youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A

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https://youtu.be/bgJD9x3zQ-0

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Seems exactly what the KickStarter that's trying to commercialise this to bike tubes is set out to do. Very interesting tech, but their attempt to appeal to reduce rubber waste falls kinda flat (pun intended) when these new tires require "retreading" their rubber rings

Space-Age Bicycle Wheels Using NASA Technology by The SMART Tire Company — Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smarttirecompany/space-age-bicycle-wheels-using-nasa-technology/

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7/10. Real people are much uglier than what AI generates, e.g. more skin texture, asymmetrical features, odd face proportions etc. Unfortunately makes telling apart edited/filtered images of real people very difficult from AI generated ones.

IIRC people find "average" looking faces much more attractive, and if AI is essentially mushing many different faces together this would make sense.

Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’ (edition.cnn.com)

Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’::Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence, warning that the new technology risks causing a “technological dictatorship” which would threaten peace and democracy.

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Atheist calls for treaty regulating religion, warning of potential for "theological dictatorship"

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