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fubo,

Remember, streaming only has a business model as long as it has a better user experience than piracy. That’s why iTunes took off in the era of Napster. When a streaming service’s user experience drops below that of digging up pirate treasure off a shitty ad-ridden torrent site, that service is not long for the world.

fubo,

cdc.gov/…/flu-vaccination-recommendations-adopted…

Basically, unless you’re allergic to eggs, yes. Eggs are used to manufacture the flu vaccine, so it contains a small amount of egg protein.

fubo,

enterprises

… can pay engineers, rather than expecting volunteers to fix everything for them.

fubo,

Alcohol. First the casual drunks get pissy, then the serious drunks get sick.

fubo,

Do consider that maybe the same people are both (1) abusing children themselves and (2) blaming child abuse on LGBT+ people.

I mean, if the GOP can do it, the chans can do it …

fubo,

Handling real money requires real identities.

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths (www.theverge.com)

Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three without a helmet — between...

fubo,

A software update to a vehicle to correct a safety failure is a “recall” in industry terminology.

The oldest ones are not fixable and they advise junking them!

fubo,

🎶 Moon moon moon blue moon …

fubo,

Slightly expired MREs.

fubo,

They’ll be hauled to Ukraine and used as fortifications.

fubo,

Morality is to do good and refrain from evil; to praise good and condemn evil; to seek out good and keep away from evil.

Ethics is to figure out what makes something good or evil: understanding what we can mean by those words; and what sorts of actions, motives, or dispositions fall under those categories, and why.

Justice is to build social systems that promote good and deter evil; including establishing the facts of what someone has done, and prescribing actions to be taken in response.

fubo,

The original plan was a dating site with video profiles!

What is the attraction to kids?

There has been a ton of CSAM and CP arrests in the US lately, especially from cops and teachers, along with at least one female teacher seducing boys as young as 12. I cannot understand the attraction to kids. Even teens. Do these people think they are having a relationship, or it is somehow okay to take away another human...

fubo,

There are no green cats in the training data, but the AI can interpolate between a green parrot and a gray cat.

fubo,

If you want Windows, you know where to find it.

fubo,

One issue with IRC is that there’s no archiving by default. That means discussions and context for decisions are lost. This can be fixed, though. But the default setup for social chat isn’t optimal for project planning.

fubo,

… Floyd Pepper?

fubo,

Well there was president Grover Cleveland; and president Teddy Roosevelt had a son named Kermit. Jim Henson liked to use historical names occasionally for Muppet characters. No Elmos in the White House yet though.

fubo,

You can sideboard Cyborg but are you gonna swap out Gar or Cliff?

fubo,

Last October, Manesar received a “Silver Creator” award from YouTube for reaching 100,000 subscribers and posed with his plaque next to a cow.

For what it’s worth, this is probably an automated process: if an active YouTube channel has 100k subscribers and hasn’t yet been flagged as abusive, it automatically can get this status. The channel was later demonetized and videos taken down, but it’s not clear that YouTube has yet made any changes to prevent this from recurring.

fubo,

This surprises me since Cloudflare has AAAA records listed for lemmy.world. Do you know your way around tcpdump? If so, it might be interesting to see what’s happening with traffic to those addresses. My desktop doesn’t have v6 right now (sigh) or I’d be testing that myself …

fubo,

You can’t translate 🇷🇺 to 🇫🇷 but you can rotate and permute it.

fubo,

Alternate between tracks of Oasis’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and a chronological listing of Weird Al polka medleys.

fubo,

A game has a set of goals, and you can quit it without dying.

If there’s no set of goals, it’s not a game, it’s a toy.

If you can’t quit it without dying, it’s not a game, it’s real life.

(Does real life have a set of goals? Depends who you ask.)

fubo,

That’s its goal, not mine!

fubo,

This sort of creepitude isn’t even specific to online ads.

You know postal junk mail? The “direct marketing” companies that enable it will cheerfully sell you a list of the home addresses of people meeting any demographic characteristics you want.

Do you have reason to want a list of 18-25-year-old gay men in the Boston area, widowed Asians in San Francisco, or military veterans in Oklahoma City? With their names, ages, and their home addresses?

They can sell you one, perfectly legally, and it’s not even that expensive.

Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria?

On the Food network they boil potatoes, but they poach carrots. They poach turkey, but they boil eggs. They sauté’ onions, but they fry eggs in the same pan. Likewise, they fry hash browns, but they sauté’ onions in the same pan before adding the potatoes....

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They’re slight variations in technique. Poaching is usually at a lower temperature than boiling, for instance.

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Yep, did that this past weekend. Not a whole hell of a lot of fun. Advil helps a lot with the fever and chills.

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He was credible, back in the day. Unfortunately, sometimes people go crazy, get bought, convert to evil cults, or otherwise become not-credible-anymore.

fubo,

I’d rather do psilocybin than overtime too.

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The_SeveredHead

Is there a way to dissolve or break down polyester fibers?

I recently bought a shag rug for my living room. Not realizing that the motor/actuator for my electric recliner sat directly over the floor, the fibers got caught in the actuator which is now seized and no longer functions. The motor is still fine, however, so if I could find a way to dissolve the polyester fibers and clean up...

fubo,

Can you reach into it with a sharp tool and physically cut the fibers?

fubo,

Use vinegar if you can: it has a strong smell that cats don’t like, but it won’t hurt them like bleach can. Lemon juice works well for this, also.

Might try peroxide. It has no smell, as it breaks down rapidly into water and oxygen gas. It oxidizes waste compounds and destroys bacterial cells. It’s the main active ingredient in commercial pet urine stain removers.

fubo,

Yeah, benzoyl peroxide acne cream isn’t gonna help you very much here.

fubo,

In personal relationships we usually call them things like “abuse tactics”, “manipulation”, etc.

Gaslighting gets all the press, but plain bullying is more common. It doesn’t have to be a threat of violence: “go along with my whims or I’ll create an unpleasant scene” is bullying too.

“You don’t get to leave until my needs are satisfied” is another. Heck, I’ve seen that from car salesmen confronted by a customer who just wants to pay up front for a car, no financing, no extras. After the check was handed over, but before the car was brought out, there suddenly were a bunch of extra forms to say “no, I don’t want these expensive extras.”

fubo,

My sibling and I are both in our 40s and don’t have kids, so we finally gave our parents explicit permission to donate our old Lego to a local school. That stuff lasts forever as long as nobody bites on it.

fubo,

My 30 year old Teva sandals are still going strong

How?! The tread wears off mine in a matter of months, and eventually something tears.

fubo,

“Open source” in the sense this article uses is not really the same as “open source software” which is what this forum is about. Open source journalism does not refer to copyright license terms.

fubo,

Because people are really good at picking up stereotypes from fiction.

fubo,

A and B are column headers; X and Y are row headers.

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Torrent sites are safe and sane compared to Kazaa or Gnutella in the early 2000s.

fubo,

Gotta register the mandatory tracking modules for the CIA, Red Army, MI6, Mossad, and FSB.

fubo,

Another step to push authentic humans to non-corporate platforms …

fubo,

The more ritual and incense-waving you wrap around your work, the more likely it is that someone is going to spend all their time on ritual and incense-waving and none on actually creating value.

fubo,

Is it that, or just the reverse?

fubo,

No, consciousness is just what it feels like when a meat brain uses its meat to change its focus of attention; which gives rise to beliefs (some of them even true!) about a meat brain having a self.

It takes time, because brains are made of meat, and meat is slow.

It’s leaky, because brains are made of meat, and meat oozes.

It generates the image of a “self” because brains are in meat bodies and actually do have physical continuity rather than being disconnected instants of computation; a term for “I, me, myself” is a rough model of the existence of brain features like memory, meat features like hormones, and even ape social-behavior features.

Attention/awareness is leaky and takes time; meat pumps rhythmically; and chemicals stick around.

And the meat brain can notice its own meaty doings. Just as it builds models of the outside world, it builds models of itself, with thoughts like “I am in the middle of doing an action” or “I am impatient” or “I feel sleepy” or “OW, LEG CRAMPS SUCK!” That is, its attention can range over not only the leg cramp itself, but its own reaction to having a leg cramp, including how the existence of leg cramps fits into its larger model of whether the world is a terrible place.

It usually comes up with a lot of correct beliefs out of this reflection, like “this is my leg, not your leg” and “I know English” and “Wow, I am distractable this morning, maybe it’s the strong coffee”. But it also comes up with dubious beliefs like “I am an eternal soul”, “I am fully continuous in time”, or “Oh God, what sin did I commit to deserve this leg cramp?”

(“This is my leg, not yours” is important because there’s nothing anyone can do to your leg that will make my leg cramp go away. The “self/other” distinction is important to consciousness because it has real-world implications; bodies really are physically disconnected from one another, which is why depersonalization can be an unhealthy thing for a consciousness to do too much.)

There’s no reason to believe ChatGPT or the like are conscious, because they don’t have the properties that consciousness is a model of. They’re not fed information about their own well-being or place in the world. They don’t observe their own processing. They do run largely as disconnected instants of computation. They don’t live in a space where having a sense of “self/other” is effective.

(Not yet, anyway. There are folks out there trying to build AI systems that do have the feedback loops that might generate something like consciousness. This is probably a bad idea, and may even be an evil one.)

fubo,

A vaccine booster puts me out for a day with chills and a mild fever (Advil helps!) so I really would prefer not to find out what an actual infection does.

fubo,

They’re not reporters; they’re entertainers.

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Fascists aren’t morally healthy humans. Authoritarians can’t cope with social reality, where different people can have different opinions and loyalties and yet support each other. They always seem to end up succumbing to patriarchal cults, where Lenin-Hitler-Mao-Trump gets to do whatever he wants to your sons and your daughters, and you and your working class have no recourse.

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