PurpleTentacle

@PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works
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It was made illegal in the EU years ago.

The rule is pretty simple: you have to be able to cancel a subscription the same way you signed up for it. If you used the Internet to sign up there better be a fucking button that allows you to cancel.

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My wife teaches at a university. The title is partly bullshit:

For most teachers it couldn't be more obvious who used ChatGPT in an assignment and who didn't.

The problem, in most instances, isn't the "figuring out" part, but the "reasonably proving" part.

And that's the most frustrating part: you know an assignment was AI-written, there are no tools to prove it and the university gives its staff virtually no guidance or assistance on the subject matter, so you're almost powerless.

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Most of them? The fact that most niche communities failed to successfully migrate away from Reddit is the reason why Lemmy isn't really something I frequent as often as I would like these days.

Heck, it would probably be a whole lot easier to list the three niche communities here that may be thriving.

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Had she retired on time, she would have been remembered as a trailblazer instead of a stubborn, senile, roadblock. The general public would have felt sadness instead of relief.

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Every account on lemmy is a bot except you.

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The problem is, you and me wouldn't be superhuman. Being a broken-ass, second-rate, classic-style human in a world of superhumans would absolutely not be cool.

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The ball gag is for the "Ommms" not to bother the neighbors ...

He filed them right next to his healthcare plan and the infrastructure plan, to be released "next week".

A stupid dystopia.

Even if we ignore the whole "planning a Star Wars inspired regicide to impress an AI" part, trying to assassinate a 95-year-old is just a dumb race against time.

The aqueduct?

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"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won."

They used to be the biggest publisher on Stadia as well and they couldn't have handled Stadia's shutdown any better than they did:

Even though Stadia refunded all purchases, Ubisoft still granted each owner of their titles on Stadia the full, non-plus-ultra-deluxe PC version of each of those game on their launcher. Automatically, for free, and without talking much about it.

MacOS is a good middle ground but not one I would personally use outside of a work machine.

I fail to see how it's a "middle ground" between the drawbacks you mentioned before.

When it comes to gaming, Mac OS is the absolute bottom of the barrel, compatibility is utterly atrocious. With Apple's insistence not to allow Vulkan drivers, they pulled the rug out of any leaps Mac OS could have made in that regard (like Linux did).

Apple also pulled the plug on any server capabilities Mac OS once had.

So, when it comes to gaming or server use, Mac OS would be my absolute last choice, not a middle ground.

Software choice is limited, but software quality is generally high and for some professions, the choice is flawless: when it comes to content creation, Apple's ecosystem is hard to beat.

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Do you mean hardware encoding, because that's what's paywalled in Plex.

I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.

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As an AI language model, I concur with this assessment.

It certainly doesn't help that Lemmy had and still has absolutely no sensible way to actually surface niche communities to its subscribers. Unlike Reddit, it doesn't weigh posts by their relative popularity within the community but only by total popularity/popularity within the instance. There's also zero form of community grouping (like Reddit's multireddits) - all of which effectively eliminates all niche communities from any sensible main view mode and floods those with shitty memes and even shittier politics only. This pretty much suffocated the initially enthusiastic niche tech communities I had subscribed to. They stood no chance to thrive and their untimely death was inevitable.

There are some very tepid attempts to remedy this in upcoming Lemmy builds, but I fear it's too little too late.

I fear that Lemmy was simply nowhere near mature enough when it mattered and it has been slowly bleeding users and content ever since. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, though.

As a language model, I have neither boss nor co-workers.

When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.

It all makes a lot of sense when you realize that the pilgrim fathers didn't travel to America to be free from persecution, but mostly to be free to persecute.

Boost is the reason I'm contributing to this community.

I believe one can't 1:1 compare the dosage, Pfizer's MRNA was supposed to be a little more stable and hence less of it was needed. But, yeah, Moderna's dosage is higher.

I've gotten both over the years and Moderna always knocked me out harder, but never like OP. Symptoms have always been medium to strong fatigue and at most a mild headache.

I haven't gotten the new booster yet.

Dear Penthouse RawStory, ...

My Brother laser printer has told me that my toner is empty three times now for the same cartridge. It eventually refuses to print, but that can be overridden with some undocumented trickery. I have manually overridden it each time, told it that I installed a brand new XL cartridge and it just keeps printing. It just told me, again, that the toner is low - I don't believe it, I'll override it again. It would have forced me to throw out at least 66% of the remaining toner if it didn't have the override.

Yes, Drillisch is one of the companies currently simply ignoring the law. They will probably continue to do so until they get successfully sued and/or fined into compliance.

https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/online-kuendigungsbutton-kaum-ein-anbieter-setzt-ihn-aktuell-gesetzeskonform-um/

Damn, thanks for the info. I used Boost, it told me it failed/timed out the first two times and only displayed the third, successful, attempt.

I'm disabled ...

Try The Secret of Money Island instead, it's much better than Loom. šŸ˜‰

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Unlike e.g. vitamin C, excess vitamin D isn't really excreted. It's stored long term and eventually causes hypercalcemia and kidney stones if persistently supplemented at high doses over a long time. OP's dosage is above the "sensible if you never see the sun" range but not quite in the "dangerously excessive" range.

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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Frankly, I want X to lose big time.

They're pushing their proprietary "Metal" API, which is iOS and MacOS compatible. Just Apple being Apple.

I hopped instances a couple of times (and it's a little annoying that there is no simple way to migrate subscriptions), but so far I'm happy with sh.itjust.works because that's what it does. I also feel like it defederelizes less aggressively than other instances, with some I was almost surprised by all the content that I couldn't access.

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Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.

The Epson Eco-Tank printers are probably one of the most infuriatingly mislabeled products ever, though. They come with self-destruct timers.

If their software counter device that their excess ink sponge pad is full (which can happen rather quickly depending on printing behavior and the amount of cleaning cycles), they turn themselves into e-waste. Epson considers the sponge non-serviceable and the only official solution is to buy an entirely new printer with a clean sponge. Absolutely nothing Eco about that.

There are (paid!) counter reset hacks available now, though.

So, yeah, fuck Epson, but for very different reasons than op is listing.

COVID was a huge factor in the 2021 increase, though. That doesn't mean that you aren't right, it's just that I wouldn't expect any numbers exceeding that spike anytime soon, even after that awful decision.

That said, US maternal mortality rates are shameful and far exceed any comparably wealthy country and they have been long going in the wrong direction even before COVID.

I know, you know, that Iā€™m not telling the truth.

Brought peace.

Made good printers. They were one of the last bastions of sanity, but last year that one fell, too:

As far as I know, they finally pushed firmware updates to block 3rd party toner to most of their printers - which is pretty evil, given that most people purchased Brother devices exactly to avoid that kind of bullshit and nobody expected it from them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

That said, I love my Brother DCP-9022CDW. It has been an indestructible workhorse, eats any toner I want and lets me reset the counter and keep printing another 2000 pages on an "empty" toner. Heck, I've had third party toner that I could reset three times before actually running out. That latest firmware update will stay far away from it, though.