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Ashelyn

@ Ashelyn @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

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  • Also, I'm not sure if this is the same in Canada as the US, but I'm pretty sure that in many cases, vandalism is considered a much lesser crime than unauthorized computer tampering/hacking

  • AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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  • I was thinking of a short lil bunny wearing a top hat and monocle with one ear sticking out of the center of the top hat but that works too

  • remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her

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  • I could comment on the notion that one owns one's girlfriend but regardless, you should definitely self host if you're sharing deeply personal information with a program

  • AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

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  • Sounds like a Pal name lol

  • TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

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  • Sorry, let me rephrase: while you can make a good approximation of the average person's schedule in many places due to 9-5 culture, it will, at best, still be just that—an approximation and there will be a significant number of people who didn't follow it. If you need to know a specific person's availability, you will still have to remember details about their routine, and then also convert their time zone to your own or clarify "whose time" you're talking in. That adds an extra burden on top of the whole AM/PM confusion that can occur as well.

    If Alice lives in a timezone 4 hours behind yours, and you both have work until 5pm in each respective timezone, you've probably already calculated that difference and just kind of know that she's not off work until 9pm, and she's doing the same mental calculation that you're off work around the time her clock hits 1pm. This doesn't even take into account other obligations or scheduling.

    Point is that there's already lots of memorization going on. What difference is it if you wake up at t=2.25 global vs 8:00AM local if it's light out and most others around you get up at the same time and work for a roughly equal interval to 9hrs including the unpaid lunch? Communicating with people further away requires figuring out schedules regardless.

    Of course, nobody is used to dealing with the time in this matter. Transition difficulties aside, however, it's not objectively any more difficult than the juggling of coordination we already have to do. People just seem to have a weird attachment to everything having "normal" times even when it's all quite relative in this case.

    Edit: grammar and stuff

  • TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.

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  • You don't know my schedule just because you know my time zone lol

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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  • Opera has been in the web browser playing field for a long time at this point, but haven't been super relevant until the last couple years due to GX

  • Alarming 30-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO

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  • Thanks for letting me know. I thumbed through the article just to make sure and noticed the number was different, but figured if it changed once it would change multiple times and didn't want to play a pointless game of catch up when my issue was over the use of a term, not the specific number.

    I had hoped the WHO would use more scientifically precise language, especially since they're supposed to be a trusted authority on this subject. I think organizations which muddy the waters on terms like this, intentionally or not, end up damaging to scientific literacy for the average person who might not know the difference. It makes things confusing, especially because -fold is used to mean powers of 2 in some contexts and a reader could end up being misinformed if they came across such a headline on said topic in the future.

  • Alarming 30-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO

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  • Other way around, if I have 2 apples and you have 10-fold more, is where I think it gets confusing. I think there are some limited scientific/mathematics contexts where n-fold refers to powers of 2 but that appears to differ from the colloquial meaning which is just a synonym for times.

    I thought infectious diseases was one of those contexts, but I guess not.

  • Alarming 30-fold rise in measles in Europe - WHO

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  • 30-fold or 30 times? Very big difference between n×30 vs n×2^(30)

    I guess I'm being pedantic here but I always thought there was a difference between the two. Oh well.

  • Europe: Atlas of prejudice

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  • Not exactly a post I was expecting to see slurs dropped in but here we are I guess

  • Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March

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  • Do we really though? Don't get me wrong it's some of the most entertaining content I've seen on the Internet but I think it brings more harm than good on the whole, especially with the fervor around GME that spun off into being downright delusional. I'd prefer if we don't end up bringing that over here tbh.

    I think the 'old' wsb even would be sort of borderline with the egging on and memefication of gambling one's life savings on weeklies

  • Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

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  • That makes sense. I always just used my email from the browser unless there's something specific I need from an email client or the setup is employer-provided/mandated, but I guess a lot of people just go with whatever is put in front of their face first.

  • Bug Thread

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  • But if anyone tries to open a new thread on the issue it gets marked as a duplicate and removed

  • Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

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  • I mean, if it's an Outlook email and not from another provider using Outlook as a frontend, it's part of Microsoft's ecosystem anyways. Unless your whole inbox is encrypted (and it's probably not if it's not being advertised as such lol), it's on Microsoft's servers and they have control over it anyways.

    That said, definitely change the password if you just used Outlook as your email client at some point!

  • Rule

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  • Legally speaking, leider ja. But we don't have to accept that framing just because it says so on the piece of American toilet paper legal parchment that is Citizens United

  • Rule

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  • It also bears noting that Shell is not a person

  • They now put ads in cigarettes

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  • I don't understand this take. You can enjoy a product but still understand that it brings more harm than good to society as a whole. I'm guessing tobacco is something you "need to function" because of the very fact that you regularly used it in the first place, probably at least partially due to the industry's predatory practices.

    Don't get me wrong, withdrawal is an absolute nightmare I am blessed to never have experienced firsthand, but cases of lifelong dependence are why those companies should burn in the first place. If there were a way to get you and others like you what you need while wiping the rest of the industry off the face of this planet, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

    If you genuinely enjoy smoking and believe tobacco has enriched your life, more power to you. Perhaps someone selling tobacco to people in your situation doesn't bring harm, but selling that same product to someone who's never smoked before and might potentially become hooked for life? Yeah, straight to hell. Fuck them.

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    Rules, regulations, or: why am I banned???

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  • straight to gulag