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OldWoodFrame

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OldWoodFrame ,

I'd like to rent your home for a weekend, I've always wanted to try living under a rock.

OldWoodFrame ,

But they're black so HOAs hate them.

OldWoodFrame ,

I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal.

I'm sorry, why? Microsoft basically owns OpenAI and has begun integrating it into their products. Apple doesn't have any AI capabilities beyond Siri.

OldWoodFrame ,

Anarchists: Famous for their willingness to listen to someone else.

OldWoodFrame ,

The Earth isn't a closed system. The Universe might be but I feel pretty confident we'll have moved on from any currently recognizable economic system by the time we fill that up.

OldWoodFrame ,

What does it even mean "one less account to track?" The money is still coming from a bank account, if you track the money in your account you would still have to account for a check, and it would be even worse if the check isn't cashed right away.

Is it that you don't have the monthly credit card bill if you send a check? But you're spending the same amount of money regardless, checks are more like one-off credit card transactions, that don't confirm payment like a credit card does. Checks are worse for the payment-neurotic. That's maybe an argument for debit cards, it's not an argument for checks.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

OldWoodFrame ,

I really like my job but if they started monitoring my data like that I'd absolutely quit. There's already a monitoring mechanism, it's called your boss needing you to complete tasks on time. If you're doing that, the only thing data monitoring does it falsely call out people who are doing their work.

OldWoodFrame ,

If by "they" you mean Elon himself then yes and it sure is getting dumb.

OldWoodFrame ,

What is this about?

The main RCS benefit is sharing videos between Apple and Android that don't look like potatoes. Can't imagine what is being shadily blocked there.

OldWoodFrame ,

Videos that don't compress to hell when there's both iOS and Android in a chat, that's the main feature.

OldWoodFrame ,

Makes me wonder if we could get an open source Google-style ad platform that only works in the fediverse and directly funds whoever's server is being used.

OldWoodFrame ,

For money. Whoever buys it has to pay you for it. Shutting down just means leaving a gaping hole in American social media that some other company will fill and you'll be in the same position but with less money.

OldWoodFrame ,

It's very funny that the workable compromise between "this is important for national security" and "this infringes on basic liberty" is "maybe we just do it for 2 years and see how we feel after that."

OldWoodFrame ,

We forced the sale of Grindr and nobody even brought it up.

OldWoodFrame ,

It's literally the exact same thing being done to a different app. It's not a wild comparison.

OldWoodFrame ,

I think bad reviews can kill companies. If they are objective and honest, the review is not the core issue, the bad product is the issue.

But it is possible to have biased reviews, or dishonestly framed reviews. MKBHD is honest and objective, but you can't take for granted that every reviewer is.

OldWoodFrame ,

I always feel obligated to reword so it doesn't seem like I'm reading off the slide. But then people are reading the slide and listening at the same time and I'm not sure it's better.

OldWoodFrame ,

I'm apparently the only person who didn't like Conan on Hot Ones. Felt so forced to me. Conan is so good at the long form interviews and conversations and he doesn't need prepared bits, I wanted a deep and delving conversation. Wonder if Conan was insecure about being on the receiving end of questions for once.

OldWoodFrame ,

The app has 100% ruined porn accounts. Every third post is trying to redirect me to AmIOverreacting or similar and I keep reading wondering when things are gonna get sexy.

OldWoodFrame ,

That's uhhhhh not what money laundering is.

In so far as it's being used as described it would be a highly inefficient way to do that so I think the much simpler explanation (Trump just wants money so he put his name on some random garbage for a cut of the profits just like Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Airlines, etc) makes more sense.

OldWoodFrame ,

Black and Blue are OP everyone should take them.

I pick the water thing (pink) but totally get if you want to talk to cats or have a tail or whatever.

OldWoodFrame ,

Take a look at Apple stock over the last 12 years the company is worth literally 10x what it was worth when Jobs died. What a dumb framing.

OldWoodFrame ,

I think it's cyanide but honestly I've never checked.

OldWoodFrame ,

Went to my glass door app to check and the first question was "what is your name? First last?"

OldWoodFrame ,

If that's Rupert Murdoch, he had to get US citizenship to be allowed to own Fox.

OldWoodFrame ,

Broadcast news is one of the exceptions:

Under federal regulations an alien may not own more than 20% of a broadcast license.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-04-mn-23112-story.html

OldWoodFrame ,

I don't see why we have to have these debates. It did not literally, historically happen. Conundrum solved. It's a story that can still have religious, ethical, spiritual meaning. Aesop's Fables didn't literally happen either, they are still meaningful stories.

Even like Maus did not literally happen as written (the holocaust did happen, to be clear, but it happened to humans), the point is a level of abstraction to get at deeper truths.

Some people think everything literally happened but some people think they are literally married to Severus Snape. Nobody's getting through to those people, least of all with a Lemmy comment or a cartoon. Don't worry about them.

OldWoodFrame ,

Spoken like a real android user. All my iPhone friends (and especially family) refuse to download any other app, they just complain that I physically can't download iChat.

OldWoodFrame ,

Yeah it would actually be kinda freaky if they finished rolling out an upgrade and just declared they were done.

OldWoodFrame ,

LinkedIn influencer is an oxymoron.

OldWoodFrame ,

I believe this was the company made up of old Vice reporters.

OldWoodFrame ,

As a former user this kinda makes me feel weirdly proud. Like I knew the whole time I was releasing the text for free to everyone, I'm not pissed about this getting monetized any more than I was pissed about the ads on Tumblr and (free) WordPress sites.

But to whatever extent my personality came out through my text, I pushed to whatever small degree the subsequent LLMs to respond like me. I'm one small part of the AI just like I am one small part of humanity, but it's not nothing.

OldWoodFrame ,

I've been applying to some jobs and the remote jobs are getting so many applications while the Hybrid/on-site in my area are not. Obviously the talent pool is larger for the remote jobs, and that means better candidates.

Kinda crazy that people are picking worse candidates they can see every day over better candidate further away.

OldWoodFrame ,

Hmm is removing internet access to your AI girlfriend considered abuse?

Alabama IVF ruling: Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after ruling deems embryos ‘children’, three fertility clinics pause services in state (www.theguardian.com)

Alabama IVF ruling: Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after ruling deems embryos ‘children’, three fertility clinics pause services in state::Nationwide services say they will cease transporting embryos in and out of state following court decision deeming them ‘children’

OldWoodFrame ,

The Daily had someone call in who was 3 days away from an implantation, the surrogate had been taking shots for weeks to get ready, and the company called it off because of the ruling. And transport companies won't move the embryos because of the ruling. So literally the only legal option is to spend a year and $30,000 starting over in a other state and hoping the far right don't come to power / have a similar judgement in that state in that time.

OldWoodFrame ,

But if they fought I'd bet against the pointy stick guys and the syphilis guys.

OldWoodFrame ,

Smallpox?

OldWoodFrame ,

Yeah. Israel is copying that?

OldWoodFrame ,

Yeah when there are world spanning consequences like buying Twitter or helping Russia with Starlink, I'm listening.

When he...has a second Twitter account, I do not care.

OldWoodFrame , (edited )

$60 Million or $60,000? Sometimes people use MM for Million and M for 'Mille' aka thousand. Other times people use M for Million and k for Thousand. Not a great article if they can't clarify that.

Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 (www.yahoo.com)

Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000::Lucid Motors is lopping thousands of dollars off the price of its most affordable electric sedans as it looks to boost demand after a disappointing year of sales. The rear-wheel drive version of the base model Lucid Air Pure will now start a $69,900, down from...

OldWoodFrame ,

Boy I'd hate to be the last person to buy the car before the price drop. That happened to me with the PS2 back in the day and it sucked, that was like $200.

OldWoodFrame ,

I'm not the target demographic obviously but I used to have a PS2 and I was loosely following news, thinking of getting a PS5 during Covid but couldn't find one. Then I just stopped thinking about it until right now.

I bet there were a lot of people like me. Sales could have been much higher.

OldWoodFrame ,

The paradox of tech right now "we are going to build the most complex technology known to man into our product in the next 12 months. Are we hiring record numbers of people to get it done? No. We fired a bunch of people and everyone else will just have to be extremely hardcore."

OldWoodFrame ,

Maybe my math is wrong somewhere but I converted to dollars, multiplied the monthly amount by 12, and divided by 2080 (52 weeks*40hrs) and got $7/hr.

If they're excited about the "millions" being helped by a 5% increase to $7/hr their economy is probably not a good comparison to the US.

OldWoodFrame ,

$1 in January of 2018 has the same buying power as...$1.24 in December of 2023. "The price of everything" did not increased 100%, it increased 24%.

That also sucks, and you don't have to lie about it to make your point.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=201801&year2=202312

OldWoodFrame ,

I am currently telling you that, and your response is to shift from a claim of a 100% increase to a 200% increase which just about proves my point.

OldWoodFrame ,

One fast food chain might have increased the price of one sandwich, that doesn't mean "the price of everything" has "at least" doubled. The price of everything weighed together has increased 24%. We monitor these things scientifically and consistently across time to get as accurate a number as is possible.

You can't refute that by extrapolating the price of one sandwich from one chain in one cherry picked time frame.

Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’ (fortune.com)

Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’::Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job, but the way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever.

OldWoodFrame ,

Because over hiring is not a fireable offense and it wouldn't make sense that it would be? Say you have a manager of 10 programmers and company sales projections day you're getting 20% more business that year, so you get approved to hire 2 new programmers. Turns out you only increase by 10% and more there's nothing for 1 new programmer to do.

Do you fire the hiring manager? They were just going by the corporate plan and moreover you still need a manager. You still need sales guys. The only one not doing anything is the programmer. Doesn't have to be the new person fired but the worst programmer needs to be moved somewhere where they're needed, or fired.

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