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aleph , to Lefty Memes in Protestation
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I prefer the original version with the Rupert Murdoch allusion.

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqtuqzy10r8g61.jpg

aleph , to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents
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Or the EMF generators they carry around with them in their pockets, A.K.A their phones.

aleph , (edited ) to Fuck Cars in This could be humorous… but it’s actually tragic
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They didn't have crew cabs back then, which is kinda the point.

Edit: correction - they did, but it wasn't until the mid-2000s that they became common.

aleph , to Fuck Cars in This could be humorous… but it’s actually tragic
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The Maverick is new and while it does buck the trend of "bigger is always better", all it signifies to me is that Ford are diversifying their range of pickups now that they don't make any small cars or sedans in the US any more, which is kind of emblematic of the whole problem.

aleph , to Fuck Cars in This could be humorous… but it’s actually tragic
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That's not an average representation of the increase in the size of pickup trucks, though.

Just look at the Ford F150:

F150 in 70s versus today

Even if you compare like with like, pickups are around 30% heavier than they were in the 90s, and around 10-15% taller.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-weight-safety

aleph , (edited ) to Fuck Cars in This could be humorous… but it’s actually tragic
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Sedans were the default back in the 80s, now SUVs and pickups account for around 75% of all new sales (in the US, at least).

So, in terms of what the average car looked like then versus now, it's a perfectly valid comparison.

aleph , to Technology in Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient
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Mastodon has a major engagement problem and I'm not sure why.

It has significantly more users than Lemmy but also manages to feel a lot less social, somehow.

aleph , to Antiwork in show the system exactly the respect it shows you
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While hiding a bunch of likely keywords in the resume to increase the match rate is a good idea in theory, it's a fairly well-known trick by now, so some ATSs may already be programmed to watch for it.

Also, some of them apparently export the text of your resume into a recruiter-friendly spreadsheet, which could get screwed up if you've hidden a few hundred extra words in there.

aleph , (edited ) to Antiwork in show the system exactly the respect it shows you
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It also assumes that the recruiter is even using ChatGPT, when the majority aren't. Companies use tailored ATS to compare the criteria of a job posting to information and keywords contained in a given resume.

Furthermore, AFAIK, these systems do not take inputs or instructions when scanning resumes, so this seems highly unlikely to have any impact whatsoever.

aleph , to Selfhosted in Best Audio Format for Storage?
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I use FLAC for long-term storage, 256kbps Ogg when transcoding for mobile devices.

Opus is the best lossy codec in terms of efficiency, but many devices/apps don't properly support it.

aleph , (edited ) to Technology in Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper | Coffeezilla
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In the video, the CEO specifically claims that the device contains a proprietary AI that can do all sorts of things, when in fact it appears to be ChatGPT with a bunch of hard-coded scripts slapped on top. If that's indeed the case, then it would be an obvious scam and most likely fraud.

aleph , to Privacy in Privacy alternatives ChatGPT
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I use https://huggingface.co/chat/, which is an open source alternative to ChatGPT.

Their privacy policy is here.

aleph , to Interesting Global News in Baltimore bridge blown up in controlled demolition
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Grace Ocean and Synergy filed a petition on April 1 in Maryland federal court to limit their liability from the crash. If the court grants it, the companies’ liability could be limited to the present value of the ship, which they estimated to be $42.5 million, according to the petition. Source

Which would leave the tax payer footing the bill for the remaining $1.46B cost of reconstruction. Classic.

aleph , to Free and Open Source Software in Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system
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Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

aleph , (edited ) to linuxmemes in What is your experience with btrfs snapshots?
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Also, for people on distros that don't have an OOTB solution like OpenSUSE have, I recommend snapper and btrfs-assistant. You just install both packages, open the assistant GUI and create a profile for your root partition.

You can then also install a snapper plugin for your package manager, if one exists (I know DNF and pacman have one), which automatically take pre/post snapshots like OpenSUSE does, so you can quickly roll back if something goes wrong after a particular update/install/removal.

I've been using the above with EndeavourOS for a year now and it's come in very handy on a couple of occasions.

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