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JoBo,

This is a pretty good article. A little light on the problems of ‘AI’ not understanding the question you ask it nor the answer it gives you, and making shit up. It undoubtedly is a powerful tool for some tasks, for others it takes longer to correct than it would to start from scratch. Vague acknowledgements that it is good at some things don’t do much to help people work out what it is really, really bad at, or why.

JoBo,

They do. Which is why you never point a gun at someone, let alone pull the trigger. It’s an entirely implausible excuse because what she did has nothing to do with teaching gun safety.

It may or may not have been an acccident but it happened because she was bullying the child. Whether proving that level of intent is enough to prove murder (in the US), I don’t know. But at the very least it is an extremely serious form of manslaughter so the difference is probably negligible in terms of conviction and sentencing (unless they can prove that it was an entirely deliberate and intentional murder).

JoBo,

Grew up in the middle of nowhere. No bus. No shop. No pub. It was hell. Left home for the city at the first opportunity and will never go back. I don’t want to be dependent on a car ever again.

JoBo,

You’d be much better off going to one of your local food banks, speaking to the volunteers there and seeing if they’d be prepared to facilitate introductions to some of their users, if they think you smell right.

If you do so, pay for their time. A proper pay for their time, not some token gesture. It’s not a fucking game.

JoBo,

His lawyers filed a counterclaim earlier this year, saying his accusers were taking advantage of the movement

Uh, the fuck do they think is about? He’s a serial rapist who has never been charged despite multiple complaints.

Archive link for Europeans who cannot access the article without a VPN.

JoBo,

Archive link for Europeans who cannot access the article without a VPN.

JoBo, (edited )

For duvets, the day after I bought a duvet, from the retailer that sold me the duvet. You have all the data in the world, steal all my data to target me personally, and that is the best you can come up with?

For [acronym] the day after I was emailing someone about a completely different thing that used the same acronym. That one was more creepy than strange, tbf.

JoBo,

I use Firefox on high privacy settings but that breaks some sites so, when necessary, I use Iron. Iron is a less spy-y version of Chrome which has all the same apps (and a handful of its own).

JoBo,

I wasn’t suggesting the OP should use Iron instead of Firefox. I was pointing out one drawback of (locked down) Firefox and noting a slightly better alternative to Chrome which has all the functionality and less of the spying.

My choice is to use both because a very small proportion of sites won’t work with Firefox on high privacy settings. Sites which force me to use lower privacy standards are used (quarantined) in a separate browser.

JoBo,

Vilda (the team manager) is despised by the players, who have been trying to get him ousted. Rubiales is responsible for his still being in post. I would guess most of them are extremely reliant on his patronage. He wasn’t even that good a footballer in his day. It’s just a boys club where he uses RFEF money to throw orgies and they like beng protected from any fallout from their ridiculous machismo, I guess.

But the RFEF are starting to turn on him, at regional level at least: Luis Rubiales: Regional Spanish FA bosses call on president to resign over kiss.

Awful for Hermoso but ultimately good for Spanish football, I think. It’s gone beyond ridiculous and the inevitable fall will be glorious.

JoBo,

That’s amazing, thanks. It’s been hard to track down the details due to the language barrier. Very much appreciated.

JoBo,

It’s a Twitter link in the article. Hence not linking to it direct.

archive version

JoBo,

And yet you can bring yourself to post. Funny old world.

JoBo,

This is either a very funny parody or a very sad soul.

JoBo,

Read to the end of the article.

JoBo,

My chemistry is nowhere near good enough to evaluate the claim. And scientists do get it wrong but I think he’d likely know. And it makes sense. They’re not using it to make an abrasive soap, they’re using it to make a surfactant. Which is liquid, not solid AFAIK.

That’s not to say the product won’t still be problematic, but possibly no more problematic than existing surfactants used to make soap.

I don’t know, and I think your general concern about releasing things that were once plastics into the water supply is reasonable. But the plastic is going to end up polluting the earth in one way or another, in one form or another. At least they’re using up the old stuff not generating any new.

JoBo,

12ft.io may be blocked by some people’s ISPs. A VPN may get you there but it’s not working for me right now, else I’d add an archive link.

JoBo,

They must believe they have enough evidence to charge. Although, I’m in the UK and am perhaps forgetting how rare it is to actually get a trial in the US… But, if the guy does not take a plea deal, it will come out in court.

If they are right, he was willing to have the 18 month old live the rest of their life believing they killed their sibling. I hope it’s provable beyond reasonable doubt. Awful case.

JoBo,

Because the point is not to look, it is to double-check you did not make a mistake the first time you looked.

If you drive, please tell me you do the double-check when you’re changing lanes, despite not understanding why you would do it when crossing the road.

JoBo,

Check for a space, start signalling, check again.

Signalling when there is no space available should only be done when you need a car that has space to move over to know what you want to do so that they can move over to let you do it. Signalling when no one can give you the space is just asking for trouble (confusion).

JoBo,

Signal your intention before you take any action

Signal before action, not signal before checking that the action is possible.

JoBo,

If they’re in a fast moving traffic jam and braking to let you in would fuck everyone up. If they’re going faster than you and heading into the gap you need and braking to let you in would fuck them up.

Use some common sense. Signal without an immediate space available if the cars in your way have a reasonable way to let you in. Don’t invite a pile up because you feel entitled to the space regardless.

JoBo,

We’re in different countries, so there will be differences in driving culture. But signalling when you know no one can do anything about it is pointless. And potentially dangerous, if they think you’re going to do it anyway and take action to avoid a crash, or try to be too helpful and cause a problem in doing so.

JoBo,

That technology is still in development, as far as I know. Certainly, when Bik started there wasn’t any software that could do the job anywhere near as well as she could. I know she’s been testing out some more recent software iterations, and no doubt they’re learning from the masses of images she has detected. But it is not an easy problem to solve. Bits of images are not just duplicated (which might be ‘easy’ to detect if you could do enough comparisons between all possible areas of duplication), they are also rotated, stretched, squished… Automating that kind of pattern recognition would be amazingly hard.

For some kinds of images, detecting the telltale signs of manipulation might be fruitful but that would likely require a whole new set of requirements for images submitted for publication.

No doubt it will happen, and it does work for some kinds of manipulation. But I don’t think anyone is close to covering all the bases yet.

JoBo,

Yes, it was a good day when she appeared there.

It’s been interesting to see who moved from science Twitter (and other Twitters). Some predictable movers, some predictable stayers, and some very disappointing stayers.

JoBo,

This is going to fuck itself up. The predictions are based on what has happened before this information was made easily available. Making it easily available will change booking habits, and thus the prices on offer at different times. Especially as the airlines can (try to) anticipate an avalanche of bookings at particular timepoints and so know that they won’t necessarily need to lower prices to fill the flights.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

JoBo,

This isn’t about when they travel. It’s about when they book the flights.

JoBo,

That does not make any difference. The act of making the information available changes what will happen in the future. The past becomes a very bad guide.

It’s the same sort of thing as with high frequency trading. Quants find a way to profit off particular market movements and in doing so, change the way the market moves. They have to keep updating their models to stay ahead. The difference for Google and flight prices is they don’t get new information every microsecond, they can only update on an annual cycle. I don’t see how they can possibly make a good job of it.

JoBo,

They can model the airline prices.

What they can’t do is predict how they will change in response to customers having the data now.

JoBo,

It’s not about when they fly, it’s about when they book the tickets.

[Discussion] Opinion on Motorbikes as Car Replacements

I’m about to get a motorbike and, while this is in no ways reasoning for getting the bike (it’s pretty much entirely for fun), it’s had me thinking a bit about the social impact of motorbikes/scooters, especially if they were widely used (like they are in India, South-East Asia, and a couple other places) for commuting....

JoBo,

Do you have a source for that? And in particular, do you have a source which reports how many of those people were bikers killed by cars, as opposed to the actual bikes/bikers killing other people?

JoBo,

I’d imagine sending all the grumpy old codgers to their own zone will be a huge bonus for frazzled parents.

JoBo,

The numbers sound big (and they are) but a lot of it will be stuff that can be scanned out pretty quickly. He does not have to read and absorb every word, just understand which particular sets of records are being presented as evidence of criminality.

I do agree that he should be given enough time to prepare his case. He can stay in prison for as long as it takes. Had he not broken his bail conditions, he could do it from the comfort of his parents’ home. But he did, so he can’t.

JoBo,

But impossible to overdose by voluntary inhalation. Just don’t eat, drink or inject lethal doses and you’ll be fine.

JoBo,

Blood sugar. Vital that you have enough to continue functioning but if it stays too high for too long, it will disable and eventually kill you.

JoBo,

What is he required to do on the school Chromebook? Just log in to see messages/schedules and download/upload homework?

I don’t know how it works but if it works like it would in my head, I’d use his good Chromebook to do actual work and then transfer documents via a school-only cloud account. Do that until and unless the school raises objections. And if their objections are that they want to spy on his work habits, tell them where to get off.

JoBo,

I downvote fash talking points. Because obviously I do.

That’s not a sly jab at you, I can’t see anything objectionable in your post history. But I would guess a lot of people have different ideas about what talking points are bogus, or what counts as news, or maybe they’re just trying to bury a repost that has already taken off elsewhere. You don’t really have any way of knowing why they’re downvoting.

JoBo,

That’s a bit harsh. They’re working for peanuts in a call centre, they did not make the decision to harass you. Just politely tell them to take you off their calling list and put the phone down.

JoBo,

No, it’s fair enough. I usually try to give them some kind of reassurance that I don’t hate them, I hate their bosses. Just because it must be an absolutely miserable job and they could probably do with a kind word. But sometimes, it’s hard to do that and putting the phone down is better than berating them!

JoBo,

Sure. That’s how it works. People do crappy jobs because they like doing crappy jobs. They could choose any job in the world to keep a roof over their heads. But being paid badly to get shouted at a lot is just what turns them on.

Tips on how to print a deck of cards?

Hello fellow lemmings! I’m designing a customized deck of cards as a present for a friend of mine. When finished, I’d like to print it by myself, because online print services would cost way too much for a single deck of cards. I’d like the cards to be robust and durable, and to be easy to shuffle. Is there a particular...

JoBo,

Professional printers can do it cheaper than you can, even for a one off. No personal experience with a job like this, but you can buy quite small batches of printed envelopes a lot cheaper than plain envelopes because they get such massive discounts on their bulk orders. It’s not going to be cost-effective for you to do a good job of it.

JoBo,

Fair

Freebooting Twitter Account getting millions of views without credit, original creators get next to none... (lemmy.world)

Description: A freebooting Twitter account (very likely without permission) posts a screenshot of a TikTok with no credit and gets millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. The creators of the original video respond, and get next to no views. (And currently have 6 likes on the tweet.)...

JoBo,

People who want to monetise their images need to add a credit to them. When I save an image and know who created it (which is very rare), I put their name in the name of the image I save so that I can give credit if I reuse it. If there’s an associated URL that belongs to the creator, I’ll bookmark it with the same name as the image so I can find it and link to it when I use the image.

That’s a lot of work to do on behalf of creators who cannot be arsed to sign their own images. Most of the time, I can’t do it because I have no idea where it came from anyway.

And they can sign images but not easily add a clickable URL so that’s not a perfect solution anyway.

I know this doesn’t cover all of the click-thefts. But a lot of those click-thefts aren’t really thefts. They’re crediting the original but it’s the repost that goes viral. That’s something that can’t really be avoided without some tools operating in the background to reallocate clicks to the creator. And that’s not going to happen because the hosts of the click-thefts have absolutely no interest in it happening.

There are some simple ways to avoid accidental theft though. On Twitter (old Twitter, I know nothing of recent Twitter), big accounts often (accidentally) stole likes and RTs by quote-retweeting instead of just retweeting. Most of the time, there was no need for them to add a comment. Just a straight retweet would have sent interactions to the original instead. There are some similar choices that can be made on other social media. Here, for example, an archive link is often the only way for many people to view the article. But if the original source is considered less evil enough to deserve the clicks, linking the original and providing an archive link is probably better than just using an archive link in the main post.

Lot of different issues, not all of them solvable, I don’t think.

JoBo,

downvoted to oblivion for asking for a source

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