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Also Blank Banshee, I mean damn.

In my experience, this only happens when I type in a new address in a tab that is already open with a different website.

When I try to navigate somewhere else, it hangs, looks like it's loading, but gets... stuck?

However, always works with new tab.

Also on Pixel 4a. It's not that old, jesus.

Really unlikely, as VHS and Betamax wouldn't be created until several years later (1976 and 1975, respectively), and any tapes still in existence would be in formats that likely have no players anymore.

They MIGHT be lucky if it they find tapes in the same VCR tape format as the BBC's "Out of the Trees" from 1975. It was a sketch comedy show from Monthy Python's Graham Chapman and at-the-time-writer-for-Dr.-Who Douglas Adams, who would go on to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame.

A copy was recently restored and put on Youtube after a tape in the VCR format was discovered. It was a home taping made by Graham Chapman himself, and the only existing copy of a recording. A multi-year effort was made to rebuild a player for the tape from scratch, with the final results put on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxhV4gzm5c

So, it's potentially possible, the the real issue is that during the early years of the BBC they generally re-used the tapes they had and would record over previously used tapes, which is why so much of BBC history is lost from that period. Famously lots of early Dr. Who episodes are lost to time(lords).

"How do you feel about unions?"

Services. Often, a FOSS application may be too "wonky" for the average user, and so the creator of the FOSS application makes money by offering support services for their product.

This is basically the entire business model of RedHat, I believe. They don't sell their software as much as they sell support for it.

It's not enough to just base this on screens. It's also workplace environments.

Even something as "simple" as working in a pizza place, say Domino's, is increasingly a frantic assembly line where orders can come at a breakneck pace through internet applications.

You'll still be working somewhere perpetually understaffed and who give you basically no training, but expect you to pay attention to multiple threads at once, all day long. You're a delivery driver, but you're also expected to do kitchen prep, take phone orders, take in-person orders, do dishes, cut and box pizzas, help on the prep line and generally be on-call for anything else needed to be done in the store.

When your workflow is literally constantly being interrupted by other parts of the workflow, because you're always expected to be paying attention to multiple parts of the workflow, you lose the ability to focus on just one thing for an extended period.

Anyway, that's my two cents, it's not just social media, phones and screens. It's also a way of life in America, to be expected to manage numerous expectations all at once and always be on your feet moving. If you can't do it, you're likely to lose your (shitty) job, so forcing yourself to be able to focus on numerous things at once without giving your whole focus to one thing is literally pounded into your head in your workplace.

You had me until the weird put-down of soy and insects.

If they aren't generating capital from investments and work for a paycheck, they are working class.

Capitalists have capital.

The rest of us are born with only our labor to sell, whether that labor is blue collar or white collar.

The middle class is was and always has been a lie to separate the working class.

In this case, more like Embrace, Extend, Exsanguinate.

It's capitalism, baby!

Also Conde Nast hasn't owned reddit for a while, they became an independent subsidiary of Conde Nast's parent company Advance Publications.

Exposure Notifications is probably already dead. It's dead in Washington state, which is also where it was originally developed alongside Google. If it's not being used in the state that it was developed in initially, it's doubtfully being used nationwide. Perhaps other parts of the world still use it, but the US no longer gives a rats ass.

The fediverse has places like https://kbin.social/ or there are instances of Lemmy, (https://join-lemmy.org/instances) but most people will want to avoid the "main" lemmy instances for places like https://beehaw.org/

The main lemmy instance is under heavy load and its admins definitely have their own political slant, and if you're not comfortable with that (most aren't) it's best to find a different one or make your own instance.

The part that gets me about this one is that doxxing is a bannable offense on reddit, but they're clearly not banning the lyft corporate account that did the doxxing.

On my end, they have removed the offending comment (finally) but it's pretty clear that they have different rules for corporations and people, since the account is not banned.

I would have to go back and find another article, but her public defender thinks she's not competent to understand what is actually happening. In the times she has been in court, she has mostly complained about the amount of papers and summons she has received, and has threatened suicide if they keep sending her letters/serving her paperwork. Her communication has been described as "erratic" so there may be something mental health related going on here that is preventing her from actually understanding the seriousness of what is going on. I will update this post when I find the article in question.

EDIT: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article272657405.h...

"Tofflemire’s filing stated, “She has not acknowledged the existence of her own medical condition. Because counsel is bound to represent the respondent’s stated interest, a guardian ad litem would be able to provide representation of her best interests, which are not currently clear.

A guardian ad litem is defined by Washington courts as “an individual appointed by the court to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person involved in a case in Superior Court."

The filing added that when “the respondent has joined proceedings, she has spoken out of turn with rapid, disorganized speech.”

It noted, “She has primarily focused on how she dislikes papers coming to her home, and not the import of the process in which she finds herself. She has repeatedly threatened suicide in relationship to papers being served upon her home.”

(Emphasis mine)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if your business requires you to:

1. Only hire immigrant laborers to do the work

2. Have exceptions carved out for those laborers so you don't have to pay minimum wage or overtime

Your business was never profitable to begin with. It only succeeded through exploitation of labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

"In civil forfeiture, assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the Latin term in rem, meaning "against the property"; the property itself is the defendant and no criminal charge against the owner is needed."

In America, when it comes to civil asset forfeiture, if they don't have enough evidence to charge you with a crime, they will charge your possessions with a crime. If you have cash in your vehicle, they can charge the cash with a crime, like being used for drug trafficking. Similarly, they can charge a locked phone with a crime of drug trafficking, without actually having to prove it. Mostly because taking the item means they will begin an "investigation" into whether or not it "committed" a crime.

"In contrast, criminal forfeiture is a legal action brought as "part of the criminal prosecution of a defendant", described by the Latin term in personam, meaning "against the person", and happens when government indicts or charges the property that is either used in connection with a crime, or derived from a crime, that is suspected of being committed by the defendant; the seized assets are temporarily held and become government property officially after an accused person has been convicted by a court of law; if the person is found to be not guilty, the seized property must be returned."

This is literally how all social relationships work, including non-romantic ones. Mimicry is the basis of how social groups are formed.

You're literally participating in it (whether you know it or not) by communicating with others, period.

This is an instance where the statement "if you think you think outside of the box, you're trapped in one" applies.

Please don't tell me we're having a CopperheadOS repeat. Not a lot of info is provided, so it's got me slightly worried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopperheadOS#License_change_an...

This is super valid. I grew up with these games, and I have heavy nostalgia for them, but they were heavily limited by the hardware of the time. I think some series have had really good modern translations, like the New Super Mario Bros series which has a play-style very akin to the originals, but in a modern format and graphics. I would also consider Mario Maker an example of this as well. But these examples are generally rare and more often there has been a full shift to 3D gaming (Mario Galaxy/Odyssey etc) and side-scrolling is a thing of the past, because a lot of those traditional NES game styles are kind of limited and garbage compared to modern games. I still have my NES, and it still works, but I don't exactly find myself breaking it out all the time to play as opposed to playing a modern game in a modern format.

See, I read this situation as entirely differently.

Google is not being unreasonable in understanding that they can't afford to store all data from everyone indefinitely. They are not being unreasonable that it is a potential security risk.

Where they are being unreasonable is that they have basically gotten everyone addicted to their "free" product, and then, a decade after promoting the idea that no one should run their own services, they should just use free offers in the cloud: they are now admitting the downsides to this arrangement.

That Google account that your dead friend had that you keep on your buddy list because it gives you memories? Gone. That Facebook account with your dead family members photos and timeline? Gone. The Twitter account with all the tweets from you child who died too soon? Gone.

The lesson should be that if you're hoping for someone else to be the steward of all your digital histories, you're in for a bad time.

If you're on someone else's servers, you're bound by their rules, because much like going to their building, you are on their private property.

The thing is, they spent over a decade making sure that people trusted that their data would always be there, and that storing it in someone else's private property indefinitely, somehow, wasn't a problem.

It was always a problem. If you want to keep your data indefinitely, you have to know how to store it yourself on your own storage mediums that you keep in your own home and on your own computers/servers.

So, Google is currently doing nothing wrong, based on the realities of security and cost of data storage. The wrong they did was convincing users for over a decade that this wouldn't happen, knowing full well that eventually it would.

All I have to say is that it shouldn't just be a process to wipe data, but it should be that if you don't wipe data, and it includes data about people who are not yourself, that selling it without wiping it should be considered a criminal act of negligence.

Of course the US couldn't give one shit about that. Our privacy laws are fucking bullshit.

We've done a full reversal and instead of dropping the www because its a given, now we're having to bring it back because it's not a given.

They are only that way because our society treats them as luxuries instead of baseline "these are needed to properly take care of yourself."

Apparently only the rich deserve things like this, according to US society.

You know, rich folks like Steve Jobs who definitely listen to their doctors and their support networks and definitely don't fall for quacky bullshit that means they die from a totally manageable type of cancer.

Well, its like people who describe Ketamine therapy. The process itself can be deeply traumatizing, even if the after-effects make up for it. I've heard it described as deep hallucinations, often touching on dark places in your psyche, while you can't get up or do much or get away from it. On the plus side, it can make you face some difficult internal issues, but on the downside, not everyone actually responds well to that. Some people this can cause a psychological break.

Anyone who has been in the hallucinogens scene long enough knows someone who either did too much over the years and is a basket case or just had one really bad trip and never recovered or were the same after.

It's certainly not as dangerous as other drugs, but I'm fairly tired of people acting like it is inert or can only produce positive experiences.

AI has a body, it's just not the type of body we think of when we think of "body."

AI can have many sensors that allow it to "see/hear/feel" outside of itself.

AI is generally limited to its own system and requires a great deal of processing power, so it cannot easily "jump to a new body" as many people worry that a rogue AI will "find its way on to the internet." Fairly sure it would be useless for it to try to shack up on small low-power slow-CPU devices.

AI has a body, and physical limitations, because computers are not fucking ethereal. They have physical locations, even when they are "virtual machines," they still live on physical hardware.

When you take a drill to a hard drive, you are physically destroying data. Data is real.

From the outside, it sure as shit looks like it. Great that you don't think so, good to know you're oblivious.

This is quite true. I think the anger over this kind of thing comes from somewhere else, and they're right that the article title is unprofessional and the anger misdirected.

I think the actual issue is that people understand that someone like Musk, one of the worlds richest people, can essentially keep appealing rulings until he gets a ruling he likes simply because he can afford to.

The justice system is broken when it allows endless chances for those with oodles of money like Musk, but the rest of us can't afford that and usually have to accept what we're given.

It's not helpful for people's feelings about that aspect of this issue to cloud how they discuss it. Musk's legal team isn't doing anything wrong within the legal framework, but people tire of it because it seems that with enough money, you can essentially get away with anything.

The US justice system has essentially always been pay-to-play/pay-to-win. It's part of why the government doesn't like getting embroiled in legal battles with billionaires because they know they can delay and appeal for decades because they can afford a team lawyers for that long. The governments allotted budget for a legal case is often much smaller than a billionaires.

It's how the system was built from the ground up and if we don't like it we should probably vote in some folks who will prioritize changing how it works instead of always being angry at rich people for doing what they're incentivized to do based on how the system works.

When they originally had you do setup for Beeper, they would record the process, and not inform you that they were going to do that until the meeting was already open.

Beeper is made by the same guy who made Pebble watch and then sold the whole kit-n-caboodle (minus developer jobs) to Fitbit when business tanked.

I have have sent several emails asking Eric Migicovsky what guarantees he has that the privacy policy will continue to stay the same if Beeper becomes unprofitable and is sold to another company. He doesn't think an answer to this question is deserved, as he has not responded to any emails. In the meantime, he has continued to send me advertising emails reminding me I'm no longer on a waiting list, but apparently doesn't think questions from customers are worth answering.

What's the point in trusting your data to a company whose privacy policy can change if they sell it to the highest bidder and one of the co-founders has a history of just that? Especially one that has no intention of telling you that they're going to record the entire process of on-boarding you until you're entering the meeting.

I'm gonna stick with Pidgin and Matrix, especially since you can spin up your own Matrix server with the same bridges that Beeper uses, and then the only person you need to give your iCloud password is you, and not some stranger who refuses to answer valid privacy policy questions.

"Cronyism" is the long-term result of capitalism. It will always result in this type of corruption, it's the nature of an economic system that rewards greed.

Cronyism is just another way to say "Late Stage Capitalism."

And here I just want an electric car with manual roll-up windows.