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because they aren’t people 99% of the time, it’s a computer program. It’ll keep attempting, and if you do engage it will switch over to a real person once they have someone hooked.

They even have ones that garner attention, like shuffling noises, saying “Oh I’m sorry, hang on a second” and other gimics to keep you on the line and start engaging. You’d be surprised at how many people will say “Oh sure” out of politeness.

As for cost, to run a virtual machine in the cloud running 24/7 trying all the numbers one by one in the database would cost… pennies. We’re talking probably less than 5 bucks a month.

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Not phone companies, but phone APIs.

www.twilio.com/en-us/voice/pricing/us

If you do it well, $0.0140/min.

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Sure it can be, what I’m trying to say is that there is no financial incentive for it to be though. Programming takes time and money, and there is literally no profit to be had for doing it.

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Oh man there was one that I’ll never find again, I think it was on some XP keygen that I probably still have somewhere that I’ll never run again… There was an epic walkdown at the beginning of it that I can still hear

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If it’s your culture? Absolutely go for it. Not about to tell someone from another culture what they should or shouldn’t name their kid, and it they get bullied then it’s something you can take up with the school.

If it’s not your culture, then it’s a weird mix of “we’re just so random” parenting that is going to set them up for a lifetime of ridicule, which in the end is selfish because you’re not really thinking about how that will affect them. Imagine introducing yourself as Mohammed to your new Arabic boss, when you have zero ties to that culture or the importance to that name.

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From the article it sounds like full integration will be done in January

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The more the better, the less power places like Meta have to change the protocol. For example if Meta pushed for a change to the protocol with just us small guys, we would all push back and say no, but really Meta doesn’t have much to lose if they did it anyway. (We would lose access to them and vis-versa, but it’s Meta after all.)

Now if bigger players are joining like Flipboard, all of a sudden changing that protocol means that they could lose bigger chunks of data, losing flipboard would be a bigger deal.

I’m just surmizing, but I think it’ll be good overall. Legitimizes activitypub more and makes it harder for people to change willy nilly

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Most of the internet was started with Star Trek boards. If I recall correctly, one of the first emails ever sent was about Star Trek

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Agree with you, it’s a hard take there and some real victim blaming there. “He should have known better than try to prove he did it just by posting a photo” when that’s been the standard for… since the camera was invented.

The fact is that he is a victim now, and so is any online creator. They run the risk of being copied and duplicated even worse than before. Now rather than someone just copying and pasting pictures which are easily proven as duplicated, someone can literally set up a pipeline to say:

  • On a new photo posted:
    • Take the description text they posted and reword it to be more ____
    • Take the image and redo it to be more ____
    • Post to my timeline

and just bring in profit. You could change ____ to anything. Take any mommy blogger and replace ____ with San Francisco, or Christian, or whatever garbage.

And to be clear I hate influencers… but this is just the tip of the iceberg for how AI is going to manipulate us.

NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)

New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....

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Scary news told me it wasn’t safe so it’s not, so there.

just don’t you dare compare it to the risks of driving /s

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I was gonna say, I. In this country I get more worried that I don’t attend.

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

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Starfield has it’s negatives for sure, but he has a point about what the communities have been like (including here on Lemmy).

There have been so many armchair gamedevs who overnight know intricacies of engines, how programming works, how 8 year old computers should be able to run brand new AAA titles at 120fps. It’s been just exhausting reading these conversations.

For example, one thing I read again and again was “Starfield just wasn’t optimized, they easily could have reduced memory and bumped framerates”. Which any actual programmer will immediately feel a pit of dread in their stomach because we’ve been asked to reduce ram usage or speed something up, and that is a daunting task in our simple little apps - let alone a major AAA game.

Again I’m not saying Starfield was perfect. It has a lot of flaws, biggest one for me is that it felt like a game that came out 10 years ago in terms of how it played. But it didn’t deserve the overall destruction it received online. Any developer knows that the only people who can say “how” their game could have been done better were the ones who actually wrote it.

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I am SHOCKED that apple isn’t playing fair with the app that reverse engineered a backdoor into their system and is now profiting from it. I thought they would have just loved that idea

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reminds me of hulu in the early days. What’s the point, why would I ever trust your service if you’re just going to haphazardly throw episodes up there?

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In America you don’t have the freedom to ask a doctor for their opinion for you and your baby. You have to go through the government first.

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Hey is this something that could be a black mirror episode? If yes, Google, you probably shouldn’t fucking build it.

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I’m not surprised, and I think that’s coming. For sure I see a character AI style “chat with grandma even after she’s passed on” as being a very lucrative business.

Sure it’s just an amalgamation of approximations of what they think she would say. But I’d put it at around 60% of people would think they’re actually speaking to Grandma beyond the grave.

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Oh you’re using react? I heard it’s not great for security. Just swap it out for angular and we’ll give our approval

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Oh look, a weed slipped through.

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Do you have to download them manually, or is at simple as giving it a link? Audiobookshelf has podcasts but I have to figure out how to manually download and organize them.

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Not that having privilege personally is a bad thing either. It’s just opening you up to it, being aware of it. It also doesn’t diminish other negative things you went through.

I’m a white male. I probably have gotten jobs that were helped by that fact. I also grew up dirt poor only affording ramen and rice. One does not cancel the other out, it just adds to who I am.

However now being aware of it I want to move into a position where I can help change things, where I can help hire people not based on their skin color or sex

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Driving 8 hours round trip today to pick up one person, and I'll never understand why Americans think this is more convenient than my colleague taking a train.

@fuck_cars

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Because to them being able to drive 4 hours one way in a day is somehow more “liberating” than taking a train. Even going the same distance, they for some reason think its better to drain multiple tanks of gas (at $4.50 a gallon where I am) to go that distance than to purchase a $20 dollar train ticket and do the same distance while being able to read, play games, whatever.

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I have midwest friends who have admitted this, that they don’t like sharing a space. This is generally just a problem with rural people, they shut themselves out from the general public for so long that they get fearful of anyone outside of their social norms.

Which of course I say “Get tougher and deal with it”, your fear of other people shouldn’t drive society. (But that’s human history - aint it)

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Except the alternate is a very selfish, inefficient, and oversized method of transit. Cars mean that we need massive highways that take up millions of acres of space, we need huge parking lots that make it difficult to walk and also again, take up massive amounts of space, and they are horrible for the environment. By being pro car you’re also for all of those side effects.

Instead of saying you don’t like mass transit, you don’t like those aspects of it. I’ve seen clean mass transit, but it needs to be enforced. Be upset with those who don’t enforce it, not the transit itself.

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I actually was agreeing with you? Maybe I worded it wrong? I’m in the PNW and coach from Portland to Seattle is about 20ish, probably more like 30, and it’s 4 hours away, so that’s my example

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Nope. Just racist. (And sexist too)

It doesn’t make it less racist because some people laugh.

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Whenever an article says something sensational like “X SLAMS Y” I just know I have no need to read it. Clickbait garbage headlines.

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Way too much credit given. I’d expect 4 paragraphs of churned out garbage before finally seeing 2025

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Great now I need new pants

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Okay I’m out of the loop, why is iMessage on Android such a big deal? I know that images get compressed but it sounds like Google and Apple are finally working together to draw up a spec there. Besides that it’s… A color difference?

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Eh still, Android offers this, Windows you can do this with an android or an iphone I think, not a game changer personally

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Yep, sounds like they aren’t getting my money for a year

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Unfortunately I doubt MJ will ever get one. Half of the people think he’s the devil and half heard that they said it was all fabricated

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Where is this monstrosity?

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No, their plan is to rollout manifest v3 and most people will accept it.

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They’re going to rebrand it and secretly release it under some new PR name.

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So, if you bought a DVD licensed by Sony, can they now legally enter your house and take your DVD?

No. You fully own the DVD. However if there are any features that are live based they have full rights to deactivate those. You can (grey area) legally make a backup copy of said disc. However, it’s also (grey area) not legal to break encryption (which almost every disc has) to make said copy, so catch 22. (Someone I’m sure will correct me if I’m wrong). But since it’s for personal use they haven’t really pressured that.

There is no “license” with a DVD. You bought it, you own it. It’s just the law that you can’t make copies, sell or distribute them, or I believe show it to your neighborhood. (Legally I don’t even think a bbq movie night with more than 5 people watching is okay, which is why Microsoft reeeeally loved the whole kinect camera watching you)

Sidenote, this post makes me so sad. People have become so accustomed to renting everything we have to explain what owning things was like. “What, you mean you could just have it? And they couldn’t come take it away?”

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This is what I was looking for, thanks for clarifying. For the last 10 years my friends thought I was insane for continuing to purchase physical media. No more.

OP I should also say there are some fan edits of Mythbusters out there that are frankly amazing. None of that “recap” stuff after every break, they don’t jump around. If you stumble on those they are well worth it

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That’s true, blu rays came with updatable firmware that you had to keep nice and happy or they’d stop playing. Like one other commenter said - you own the disc, and the bytes on them. If it’s playable is a whole other story

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Agree, in the great reddit migration everyone came over and just created communities for everything. Now that the dust has settled we have hundreds of one person communities and so many similar ones.

Personally I’d like to see the admins go through their communities and say if there is only one member or if the only mods have been dormant to lock the communities and pin a post saying the community is up for adoption. At the very least that’d stop some of the hemorrhaging

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Yeah, I know there’s just no way for users to do it. If there’s only one mod and they’re dormant then there’s not a lot of options, and there are people who probably would want to take over the communities. There should be a “vote of no confidence” option, but obviously that could be abused. That’s why just scanning and seeing which ones are dead first might be nice.

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This is why I only use bogo sort

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That’s using your noodle!

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I will correct you on that information with a vague quote I heard somewhere

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Not exactly what you’re looking for, but check out FakeSpot. They have quite a bit to determine the authenticity of reviews

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Exactly. If I knew photoshop I wouldn’t have as easily purchased it. The upscaling is pretty much the only thing photoshop can’t do as well, but there are plugins that will get it pretty close. But for my skill level? Pretty happy with it.

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