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silverbax,

It’s completely accepted when CEOs and other executives serve on multiple boards or even run more than one company. Companies demanding 100% of any employee are just abusing labor and embracing unequal labor practices, and those practices aren’t against any law, companies just make up their own ‘policies’ to try and make their own laws.

silverbax,

Yeah, it’s just bullshit. They said the same thing during the writer’s strike before making two more offers.

silverbax,

On top of giving poor recommendations. Nobody who uses Photoshop and GIMP professionally would think GIMP is a suitable replacement for Photoshop.

silverbax,

You really shouldn’t answer questions you clearly don’t know the answer to. There a dozens of ways for apps to report your license status. Most people just don’t know about it.

You can look at a MS Word doc someone sends you and detect the license. Apps can phone home all the time to report your status. Just because you’ve never noticed ot or no one ever caught you doesn’t mean there’s ‘no way’.

I honestly am baffled when people take time to type this type of crap out and post it. You clearly do not know, but you posted it anyway AS IF IT WAS FACT, despite it being provably false.

Rapper G Herbo says ex-manager cheated him out of $40M (rollingout.com)

Chicago-born rapper G Herbo is learning firsthand that the adage “mo’ money, mo problems” is more than just a Biggie song. According to recently obtained court documents by AllHipHop, Herbo (born Herbert Wright) is in the middle of suing his ex-manager Joseph “JB” Bowden and his company, Machine Entertainment, for $40...

silverbax,

If you aren’t working, put in zero as your salary.

silverbax,

You can’t know the future, what if the economy craters? If and when your salary changes, you update it then.

Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)

Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added...

silverbax,

As a minor aside to the story, I find it interesting that the devs tried to make the robotic dog ‘talk’ by opening and closing it’s ‘mouth’ and failed. Cinema such as Star Wars has proven that humans don’t need an android or robot to actually move its mouth when it speaks in order to have a conversation.

I also can’t help but wonder what has happened at Boston Dynamics - these robotic dogs were/are a wonder, but they aren’t new. They are scary with how agile they are, but it doesn’t seem like this is anything different than a thousand other ‘I integrated Chat GPT into my R/C car’ type things that have come out over the past year. Has innovation at Boston Dynamics stalled?

silverbax,

Got mine in Walgreens, same day appointment. Both flu and Covid booster.

silverbax,

I feel productivity rising already and am behind this initiative.

silverbax,

Just like his magic ‘215’ weight. That dude is easily over 300 pounds.

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‘Rare form of pnuemonia’ -> it’s COVID and she’s unvaccinated.

silverbax,

I’ve never been able to figure out if Wheeler Walker Jr is performing a character or if everything about him and his music is just the way he is…but I guess that just means he’s damn good at being Wheeler Walker Jr and it doesn’t matter.

Dub FX Still Making Fat Grooves With Latest Release 'Infinite Reflection' (www.musicmachina.com)

We first encountered Dub FX busking on the streets of Bristol in the UK in a 2009 video ‘Flow featuring Mr. Woodnote’. The video, shot in black and white, shows an then-unknown rapper who builds a beat from scratch, dives into flawless lyrical delivery before holding the mic up so the saxaphone player can weave in with a...

silverbax,

I don’t know if he’s ever been able to tour the US, but if he does, I hope to catch him.

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No thanks

silverbax,

I didn’t even realize they owned BandCamp. I wonder what the profit margins are for the app as it is now.

silverbax,

I’ve seen this specific strip but not the original art. Very cool.

US sues Amazon.com for breaking antitrust law and harming consumers (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com (AMZN.O) on Tuesday, charging the online retailer with harming consumers through higher prices in the latest U.S. government legal action aimed at breaking Big Tech’s dominance of the internet....

silverbax,

I go out of my way not to buy from Amazon. It’s not some altruistic move - about 3 or 4 years ago I started noticing how little oversight Amazon was placing on the products listed, and you’d be lucky if anything (especially tech) was actually what you’d ordered and not some knockoff or used.

I think I’ve only bought one or two things from Amazon (other than digital books) in that time frame. I always look to buy directly from the vendor, if I can.

What concerns me is that I’ve started noticing more and more companies seem to only sell on Amazon. I see this as a mistake, as it hands over more control to one sales channel. I understand a new company doing this, but companies who are well established should maintain their own sales channel directly with their customers, even if they also sell on Amazon.

Recently I bought items from Wahl, Nike and Anker, directly from them. Wahl has products you can only get from their site. I always feel more comfortable just ordering directly from the company when I can, and I notice some companies seem to get that.

If I order directly from the company, I also get better support. I have an actual order number from the company, and correspondence/confirmation from the company. Special deals work better (the same deals on Amazon sometimes have hiccups).

silverbax,

Finally a decent episode.

silverbax,

Or, they would be forced to lower their prices to what people can actually afford.

Or, they could then figure out that lobbying for single payer health care will be more profitable than not being able to charge ‘everything you own’ but not be able to threaten you.

silverbax,

We really need a bot to chime in whenever someone shows up with Infinite Leftist arguments.

There are Policy Leftists and Infinite Leftists.

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog (blogs.microsoft.com)

Today we take the next step to unify these capabilities into a single experience we call Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion. Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, your work data and what you are doing in the moment on your PC to provide better assistance – with your privacy and...

silverbax,

Teams is already sucking up proprietary data and running ML on it, any company stupid enough to use that and this together deserves how bad this will screw them in their markets down the road.

All of that data is worth billions to the stock market and competitors, and Microsoft is breached constantly.

silverbax, (edited )

How do you think Microsoft generates the summaries of meetings, emails, contextual content, messages and attendee summaries for the ‘Productivity Score Reports’?

Microsoft has stated if you block everything except telemetry, Teams won’t be able to provide those. The source is Microsoft’s own documentation.

silverbax,

I believe this may be one of the few times other car manufacturers would lobby the government in favor of unions, since they see Tesla as having an unfair advantage that hurts their bottom line.

silverbax,

That’s literally every company.

As a manager, you get frustrated because no matter how good an employee is,they won’t let you rate them as high as they should be, for…reasons.

silverbax,

I am simultaneously encouraged about the writers starting to take chances and completely baffled as to why they even bothered with an overall throwaway storyline.

I would also like some actual jokes thrown in. This is like…an outline of an episode that was never punched up in any fashion.

silverbax,

Every move Elon Musk comes up with makes Twitter less relevant.

silverbax,

Like selling insurance that never has to pay a claim.

silverbax,

I’ve debugged your code.

silverbax,

That generational ‘designation’ has been changed so many times it’s not credible.

Gen X was originally they ‘children of the baby boomers’. If someone was born in 1981, they were young Gen X for most of their life, now they are told they are ‘Millennials’

silverbax,

This propaganda to constantly scare workers has got to stop already. AI is nowhere near being able to do this, all AI can do is provide better tools.

This kind of ‘journalism’ is eye-rollingly painful.

FBI joins investigation of threats to grand jurors in Trump Georgia case (www.washingtonpost.com)

The FBI has joined an investigation into a barrage of threats against Fulton County officials in recent days, including members of the Atlanta-area grand jury that voted to indict former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference.

silverbax,

It’s like watching the world’s smallest, stupidest terrorist faction finally getting the attention of the most powerful government that has ever existed.

silverbax,

Microsoft has done things multiple times that were blatantly illegal, and a couple of times ran afoul of governments, yet they still did new illegal things after that - as well as going right back to doing the things they were busted for before. There’s no evidence that they are concerned with anyone suing them or ‘going nuclear’ if they aren’t even worried about nation states that have come after them before.

silverbax,

Working at a Musk owned company must be a nightmare of daily changing priorities and initiatives.

Granted, it’s true that a lot of companies change their priorities far too often and usually based on the whims of the CEO, but Musk is a speed runner of bad ideas and then immediately changing course.

I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibilities that SpaceX would launch a mission to Mars on a Monday morning and on Monday night Musk would release a statement that instead, they would go to Saturn, then on Tuesday, it would be Mars again.

silverbax,

I’m not sure what app you are thinking of, but WeChat is used in China (Northern hemisphere) and was backed by the Chinese government in order to be established.

There are 1.2 billion WeChat users, over 1 billion of them are in China.

silverbax,

I know that a large number of brands and news organizations have reported that their Twitter engagement has completely disappeared, which tells us far more than Twitter’s press releases ever would. It’s dead.

silverbax,

Don’t get your feelings hurt by fake internet points, m’dude.

Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)

Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...

silverbax,

Well, that’s what religious people have always done. They follow a religion until it disagrees with them, then they leave and start a new ‘slightly different’ branch which agrees with them.

You know, sort of like how Catholicism was founded about 30 years after Jesus’ assumed death date, but then 1600 years later, Baptists decided to branch off create their own flavor.

silverbax,

What’s next for this cutting edge product team? Pogs? Beanie Babies? Silly bands? Poker? Jazzercise? Tulips?

Maybe they can offer new shares in the hot technology of terrestrial radio.

silverbax,

Nah, he changed his afterlife party affiliation in the 60s.

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I like Daniel’s constant work to improve/add features to PixelFed, but he also tends to rush stuff out and then have to fix it later. So personally, I would wait until he’s had time to figure out any flaws and bugs.

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