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- on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 4h ago
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on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 4h ago
Sony will announce the anti-piracy barbed rectal probe to fuck you in real time.
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Looking at my last job before I left when AI was being pushed heavily I think I can see what you mean actually.
Before the incompetents would look at something and pass it on to second line without thinking. Now they copy paste the idiot AI outputs. It makes their stats look way better, wastes customer time much more and doesn’t help when it finally gets to me after 2 weeks of bullshit.
Customer satisfaction would be higher if you didn’t use it and did nothing. You are a net drain to the company now because you are trying to do things you don’t understand because of blind reliance on LLMs.
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Yeah, you shouldn’t blame AI. You should directly blame the person who implemented the LLM system used.
“AI didn’t realise meeting requirements was important”
“John implemented a system which routinely misses requirements and has wasted 50 hours of work which could have been easily avoided with the previous system”
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on Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on [Palantir] Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Who ever ordered it is responsible for blindly listening to the random generator.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Just ban low effort content, AI or human made slop both count and have no value.
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on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Oh so they are capable of banning the ones they don’t like, just not the ones that are actively harmful and illegal?
Fuck off meta. Really wish more people would stop using their shit. Shun those who work for them while you are at it. You work for the nonce glasses company? Eww
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on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago
Usually I hear those corpo bullshit terms and just zone out. Nothing of value is going to follow so it doesn’t matter. Not worth my time.
They are the people who could be replaced with an LLM at no loss, you could also replace them with a kitten for +8 to staff morale.
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
This is just for an alleged rather than convicted stalker. Distances like that mean you would need to relocate to another part of the country over an allegation.
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on you can make a difference in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026
Lord of the rings is better anyway.
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on you can make a difference in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026
Bread is carbs, potato is also carbs. Best I can offer is all you can eat roast potatoes with rosemary and sage salt.
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on Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
If they don’t have good reasons it sounds like they are wasting time on the job
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
We only get a quiz that badly teaches you the very basics of how to start a fire. A lesson I learnt when I was about 5. They call it fire safety but its mostly just what does a fire need to burn.
Fuel, oxygen and an arsonist!
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
The company laptop isn’t mine, that makes it the perfect test environment!
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
How paranoid are you if you test every USB device? OK got a new memory stick or keyboard. Gotta test it!
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on A Head-to-Head Comparison of Windows vs Consoles vs Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
But I still don’t want it
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
Its more about notifying them earlier so they can monitor it. If you are clearly moving straight there then they can probably send someone sooner. Rather than automatic catch you for going vaguely nearby.
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
But they may not have even done so. This is for alleged stalkers.
2km also essentially allows stalking them if you accuse them. Are they at home? Let’s just walk within 2km and find out. Even just saying a distance and not location would make triangulation easy. Just go to 3 spots and see where the distances overlap. 2 would often be good enough for an educated guess.
I am more in favour of notifying police. 1km is probably still a bit of a wide area although if they are just notified first and only take action if you continue moving closer, say to 200m or so, then it might be more reasonable.
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on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
That seems pretty short though, surely it would mean you are not allowed to live, work or even vist the same town they live or work in.
Like if anyone I knew was to be my stalker, one of us would have to quit their job and sell their house to relocate.
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on Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026
Instant messaging is nice, but we could just run an IRC server for that.
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on The insane amount of requests my LG tv has sent since last Friday in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
Ehh, I know the software where I work makes endless attempts to connect too. That isn’t malicious, just shit. 4 year later its still trying again every 30 seconds. Logs are fucking massive.
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on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
For a special occasion perhaps, but on a regular basis is it valued enough to pay someone a living wage? Most of this stuff I wouldn’t pay for, might make it myself though.
I don’t think you can really have a creative focused economy when landlords and banks are taking so much from us.
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on Time for a new course in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
Wood carver! Oh they have mostly automated that with CNC machines…
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on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Yeah I can be hard to track all of them. Tracking Amazon isn’t though.
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on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
In the end I did after not using it for like 6 months.
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on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I had a £5 Amazon voucher from my last job and I haven’t used Amazon for long enough now that looking at their site… There isn’t really anything I want.
Also £5 just covers the delivery fee, so wtf is even the point?
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on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Stop supporting this fucking company and burn down their warehouses.
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
The cult mechanicus isn’t looking so unreasonable now.
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on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Need to play Space Haven, I got it along with a bunch of other games and I am still going through them. The Riftbreaker was discounted at the same time and so far is the one I have played most of my recent purchases, also got The Last Starship at the same time and have played a little of that. Riftbreaker also has DLC I haven’t touched yet though. Sandustry was another fun one.
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on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Agreed, same for pretty much and major game that gets a lot of media attention.
I’ll stick with my indie games. Got dins champion recently, still think drox operative 2 is my favourite soldak game but after making a second char after a few hours and learning how to play a bit I am starting to get into this a bit more.
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on Calls in the UK to ban sex offenders from buying smart glasses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
However it also includes people who peed in public while drunk
Nope, in the UK it requires more than just public urination to be seen as a sex offender. Unless you are windmilling and pissing all over someone’s window.
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on AskRuledit in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
What an obscure and oddly specific acronym
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
If the UK implementation is anything to go by, anything tagged NSFW demands your ID or face scan to view. Reddit is the same.
Also it is a shit system. NSFW doesn’t necessarily mean adult only. That can fail in both directions too.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
Nothing about it was specifically american. Just because it can apply there doesn’t mean it only applies there. Although I wonder how much of that is because of american politics being imported…
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
You should stop buying that shit then.
Also isn’t the kindle fine if you just download offline files? Its been a very long time since I used one though.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 Sep 2026
That is nice and all but I don’t live in America. The same/similar arguments are not US specific.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 Sep 2026
But I don’t want a driving license. Also just looked it up and interestingly while it can be illegal its not like it is in a car. In a car there is a specific blood alcohol limit and that doesn’t exist for cycling. They need to show you are unfit to ride. So I guess if you are not swerving all over the place.
Then again, they would provably use the same test result if they did test you. I wonder if you can just refuse to provide a sample… Its illegal not to with a car, but unsure if that still applies with a bike.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Yeah no one had an ebike when I went to school either. We all used pedal bikes.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Depends how much. Gone on a bike after a couple of pints before but I wouldn’t after a proper drinking session.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Same in the UK apparently. Don’t need a drivers license for my bike so go ahead and take it I guess?
I remember at school they used it as a threat before, the fact that we could get points on our license before we even had one for stuff on a bike. I laughed in too poor to learn to drive.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Don’t know about too much, but more than necessary perhaps. Mine was £600, probably didn’t need to go that expensive but I use it a lot so its hardly a bad choice either.
Then again, got over £200 in accessories with just the ortlieb XL pannier bags. I cycle to work every day, so arguably its pretty easy to justify spending a fair bit. If I took the bus that would cost over £1k a year. So even that €1.5k bike is fairly easy to justify compared to bus prices if you want a decent bike.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Yeah never heard anything like that, my bike was £600. Cheap bikes are the ones under £200. Once you are in the multiple thousands you are getting to pro athlete levels.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
I usually look up how to maintain bits on my bike as they become necessary rather than all in one go. Same with buying tools for it.
First get a few cleaning bits. Then a few tools to split a chain and some quick links along with the tool to connect/disconnect quick links. Tools to fix an inner tube puncture. Disc brake bleeding kit and mineral oil.
Tempted to get a proper disc brake alignment tool, pretty cheap but last time I just cut a shim from a cider can and placed those either side of the rotor.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Pushing the benefits of something and focusing on the benefits that the target audience actually care about is usually a good way to get them on board with your idea.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Riding the instrument of the devil! Fuck yeah!
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Lol what? Loads of kids cycle to school here and have done for longer than most people have had cars.
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on bike rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
They can’t even stop you from biking for booze touring. Revoke your licence? Lol OK.
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on Accents Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
British accent = what Americans think is a British accent…
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on Accents Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
And as is tradition, New Zealand is forgotten.
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on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
Wow, Jack and Ross look so alike! How did he get his arm back, isn’t that after the accident?
Good thing popcorn is cheap as I need more of it to watch them constantly doing stupid things.
None of it really matters to be because I am never going to buy a console anyway, largely because of shit like this. I’ll just enjoy watching.