Wow that casts a healthy dose of doubt on the entire study. Thank you for pointing it all out so thoroughly!

I just access it via the Firefox browser. Mostly because I’m tired of everything wanting to have its own app which turns out to just be a more colourful container to load the webpage (my tinfoil hat hypothesis is that they do it to bypass adblocks). And the other reason is that I couldn’t find anything I need to do on Lemmy that I’m not just as able to do from the browser.

I can bring in friends who used to work on this architectural project called “The Death Star”

Yes, although I would prefer to update the phrase to “My boss makes ten dollars, I make a dime…” to more accurately reflect today’s reality.

Thanks for correcting me. I was almost certain that I read something a while ago about the new Selbstbestimmungsgesetz but couldn’t remember if I had just imagined it. Yay, Germany. We’re making progress. It might be very slow and the AfD is growing at a worrying pace but at least, for the moment, we’re still progressing (unless our politicians are bribed by the automobile industry again)

You can tell your friend yourself that it is actually much rarer in the EU to have non-binary options for official documents than I thought. And those that do only have it for citizens or permanent residents. In Germany, for example, you have the option to put Diverse on your ID and other national official documents, but only if you have a medical certificate that confirms yourself as being intersex. So transgender people or other non-binaries are not included and do not have this option.

Good point I haven’t thought about. I have a Fairphone 4 and that is pretty much on the brink of what’s still okay/comfortable to use one-handed. (I also looked up the FP6 dimensions, dreading the size increase, but I just found that it’s actually slightly smaller than my current phone, yay)

I want to believe it’s that others have the same problem as me that holding the phone to their ear+cheek makes that face-part real moist after a minute or two. And I choose to believe the speakerphone-speakers just never realised they could slightly tilt/lift the phone away from their skin and still hear perfectly fine.

But I fear that @[email protected] might be correct on this topic and it’s simply a case of media/influencers portraying phone conversations that way for better filmability.

I just finished the article and yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing for Palantir

I know that CEOs are out of touch with reality, but come on, even they don’t get new TVs this frequently. But the projected target audience also can’t be megalomaniac billionaires because, even though they might switch TVs with every few showers, they just buy the stuff outright instead of going through the hassle of subscription services, no? I genuinely fail to see a use-case for this. Maybe as a sort of paid trial/test period to see if you really need that 2000€ TV?

I think it’s time to showcase Grok’s abilities to put Pentagon officials into transparent bikinis. I can’t imagine management would keep using a tool that uploads non-consensual NSFW images of them straight to the comment section.

I can’t quite remember when or why I ever first visited that site. My brain wants to tell me it was in the years leading up to my Abitur when I got myself a pair of combat boots and wanted to be more quirky with the lacing than what they initially had. Either way, Ian’s site really is the best and I’m never wearing shoes without using his Secure Knot or at least the fast knot (for the few laces that hold together that way or just aren’t long enough for the secure one). When the site eventually goes down, I’ll be so sad.

My favourite part of today is about to come in half an hour when we eat the burritos for which we prepared the filling in the morning today

Because it’s frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.

Disclaimer: I only started working at this company about three weeks ago, so this info may not be as accurate as I currently think it is.

I work in quality management and recently asked my boss what the current stance on AI is, since he mentioned quite early that he and his colleagues sometimes use ChatGPT and Copilot in conjunction to write up some text for process descriptions or info pages. They use it in research tasks, or, for example, to summarize large documents like government regulations, and they very often use it to rephrase texts when they can’t think of a good way to word something. From his explanation, the company consensus seems to be that everyone has access to Copilot via our computers and if someone has, for example, a Kagi or Gemini or whatever subscription, we are absolutely allowed and encouraged to utilize it to its full potential.

The only rules seem to be to not blindly trust the AI output ever and to not feed it company sensitive information (and/or our suppliers/customers)

In more ways than one. How is this different than what Putin is trying to achieve with the current “peace talks”? There it seems so obvious, because even MAGA and fanatic Zionists have been taught that Russia is bad.

How my father is able to either justify/excuse or even blatantly support any of these illegal acts the American joke of a President is committing.

If you’re tech-savvy enough for it, please consider setting up an Immich library for your photos. That way, they won’t ever need to leave your home while still providing surprisingly powerful face recognition and photo search by context.

Many FOSS projects may not have completely obvious donation schemes, let alone ubiquitous and automatable schemes, for starters.

Slightly related to the topic, this weirdly also applies to bigger players. I wanted to buy a Nebula lifetime membership, wrote to support and basically went “just gimme Nebula’s bank details and I’ll order a direct banking transaction” and there was just no way, not even roundabout, for them to take my 300€ other than by me getting a credit card and paying via credit card.

I’m sure they have good reasons why they probably legally can’t just give me their bank adress (or whatever the American equivalent to IBAN is), but it’s very frustrating to be restricted like this in how I can give people money.

Thanks for that link, I read through that and absolutely love it! I already downranked sites I found to be AI-written on a personal basis, but this could be much more powerful. From what I understand, there’ll be human review of every AI report, so the potential to abuse the system is also relatively low (if the Kagi team does their due diligence)