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  • Komoot's big discount.

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  • Komoot's big discount.

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  • I'd be careful with komoot. They've been operating at a pretty big loss and they were just bought out by a company that has a tendency to rinse a products features for money until everyone leaves. They'll then sell it on having (in their eyes) hopefully made a profit.

    Maybe this will be different, but I doubt it.

  • “Lab leak” marketing page replaces federal hub for COVID resources

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  • I remember that the foot and mouth outbreak in the UK was a lab accident, procedure failed and a lot of bovine were culled and some people died in truly horific ways.

    I don't understand why it's so political to say that it's likely that covid may have had a similar start. It happens, it's terrible, it's not helpful when you're directly fighting it to focus your energy on blame but if this was a lab leak, shouldn't we now be focused on tightening regulations on bio-experimentaion in order to reduce the risk of this occurring again? Global treaties on how to approach such research, share procedure to keep everyone safe.

  • crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies

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  • Yeah I reflected on that after I posted it, maybe it just dumped all the headers to the logs

  • crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies

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  • Yeah, I wonder why any developer thought logging either the session cookie itself was a good idea. I guess they could decode it and figure out which user was having an issue? Still bizzare

  • crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies

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  • Would using rust have prevented this issue?

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  • Why would'nt this work?

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  • There was, but now I'm getting older and more tired

  • Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

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  • How do you even deal with wage compression? It feels like it's ingrained socially at this point, people just seem willing to accept that pay because there's no alternative. I know that for public sector jobs it's a tricky balancing act where the government can't increase a salary for roles in 1 Civil Service grade as it may disincentivise workers in another role at the same grade. That probably hasn't helped when highly skilled roles that require decades of experience are tiered similarly to a role that may only take 6 months of training, where that high skill role wage is being constrained by that lower skill role. Perhaps that's had a wider effect of bringing the perceived value down? I haven't spent any time really thinking about this though, if you have any resources on this, I'd love to give them a read/watch.

    Also sorry if my comments felt like I was implying young people are lazy, that wasn't what I was getting at at all. I think the apathy that young people feel is absolutely valid, and even workers who are in their late 50's who have been hit by redundancy are feeling this apathy intensely as they may not see any opportunities that allows them to provide for their families due to the general outlook of things.

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  • I've wondered this for a while, is a car dependant society creating a general senae of selfishness?

    Like if you walk everywhere, I feel your behaviour will be rounded out via interactions with others, but in a car you're removed from seeing the human effect your actions have, it allows you to detach your humanity because it happens outside your cage, you're only concerned for what's happening inside thr cage.

    Not everyone obviously, cycling around the overwhelming majority of drivers are all good, but as a general trend I do wonder

  • Thank you, Gemini, very cool.

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  • That's not very AI singularity of you

  • Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

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  • I don't have that many answers, but I'll give it a go.

    I think we need to come down extremely hard on landlords, potentially crippling their income stream. They chose an investment, and all investments carry risk, the risk in this case is that too many people can't afford housing, and the government has to step in and heavily regulate those who profiteer off of basic shelter. This would apply to anyone with rental properties, second homes, long term investment opportunities, ect.

    Along side that, a shakeup to planning permission. Fuck NIMBYism, sorry but you don't get a say when people are paying 80% of their income on the bare essentials. From the top down, mandate construction of new housing in an aggressive manor. After Thatcher absolutely fucked us by forcing the local councils to sell off their council houses with the start of austerity, we've been at a ludicrous deficit. I think the figure I was reading is we need to be building about 400,000 houses a year and then in 5 years time, we'll get "close" to fixing the lack of supply that we're faced with now

    Where does this money come from for that? I dunno, I would guess borrowing like we have done. It's risky as hell, but it's better than the current risk where we borrow against our rise in GDP, just hoping we outpace the loan rate without any long term plan to reduce the cost of living. Failing that, a wealth tax could maybe be possible? In the tune of 0.5% or so. That would generate an insane amount of revenue, but it would risk foreign investors looking unfavorably towards the UK. It would look risky for their assets, so foreign investment may fall in a dangerous way, maybe this isn't the best plan? I just have no idea, it's not my area of knowledge.

    I think the above could be enough to trigger an actual wealth transfer. By dramatically reducing the cost of living, people will actually have disposable income. Income that can go into buying things. Say you work selling clothing, your customers suddenly having 50% more of their paycheques to spend is like the ideal situation, now they actually have the funds to buy your wares. With that higher income, well now you can hire more staff, you can pay your staff more also. You're not having to work to such a fine margin as economically your customers aren't as screwed just trying to survive.

    I have no idea if this is all viable to be clear, I hope that I've come to some solid conclusions and ideas here, I'd love to hear pushback on all of that as well as I'm sure I've made some wack assumptions.

  • Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

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  • I want workers to earn more, but can you really regulate the economy into being better like this?

    The cost of living is insane, but the relative pay per hour of a worker competed to anywhere in Europe is already pretty high. Our current minimum wage is 25% higher than Germany, 28% higher than France, 81% for Spain, and 318% compared to somewhere lile the Czech Republic. Our economy is already stalled out, It's already prohibitively expensive to run a company in the UK, and I don't think making employees cost more will stimulate the economy.

    Also if minimum wage rises aggressively then I think all that will happen is we'll get a wage spiral upwards and companies will hire fewer and fewer peoeple. We saw a bit of this as we were coming out of covid as a reaction to inflation at the time. The concern is if wages do inflate quicjly, then that drivea prices higher, which results in people demanding higher wages, ect.

    Tackling the actual living costs, housing, utility, food, I think that's the only way to go about this. Anything like a minimum wage increase just rolls the snowball down the road, and it will 100% be bigger when you reach it again.

  • OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit

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  • I'm sorry you went through that, and I'm certainly not tying to downplay the experience of anyone having gone through such events. I hope if Sam's sister did experience these things that she has the full support of her family.

    I don't know the details of the savage lawsuit honestly, but often settling is far cheaper than a long drawn out fight. There was thr court case against Andy Baio by the photographer who took the photos that was used on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album. Andy settled out of court and put out this statement discussing it.

    Not to say Adams or Sam's stories are at all related to their case, but these things are extremely imperfect with guilty parties often going on to reoffend leaving further damage in their wake.

    I still believe that hating ai based on "guilt by association" may weaken the perceived position, even if the criticism and accusations are absolutely warranted and deserved.

  • OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit

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  • Wasn't Adam savage accused of a similar thing?

    I'm not a huge fan of AI, but I dunno if jumping on anything that could paint one of the CEO"s in a negative light is the best approach. I feel the anti-ai position will lose credibility if in the future these accusations are disproven, similar to Adam Savage's accusations.

  • Firefox's Profiles get a huge upgrade with easier Profile Creation, Switching and Customization

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  • Been playing around with this today, moved entirely to nightly for it. Absolute game changer. No more librewolf as a work browser

  • Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.?

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  • They're Large Language Models. They're defined as generative pre-trained text transformers, that's their entire purpose.

    Saying the calculator spits out random numbers would be wrong, but saying a calculator spits out numbers, that would be correct. Reductionist would probably be a better word than regressive or asinine.

  • Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.?

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  • But it's accurate? Doesn't mean that human looking text can't be helpful to some, but it'll also help keep us grounded to the reality of the tech.

  • How much did i mess up by using shizuku while connected to an unsafe device ?

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  • I don't know the details but this feels like such a specific attack vector. Most malware targets the easiest and most common payload delivery mechanism as possible. Having someone connected via hotspot and piggybacking ontop of a specific workflow such as Shizuku just seems super unlikely. Could absolutely be wrong about this though, just my gut feel