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RememberTheApollo

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  • Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York

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  • Fuck the private restaurant business. Just tons of fuckery on taxes and wages. From underreporting tips to working off the clock to writing off trips to France as a “business expense”. Glass of wine or 3 at a vineyard and now it’s a wine-buying-and-research trip.

  • Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

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  • Windows 11? Ads. New outlook program? Ads. Old outlook iOS app? Now injecting ads there too.

    Ads are a cancer on the internet.

  • 'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return

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  • Nice letter.

    You coming in today or what?

  • Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting

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  • A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of its chief financial officer ordering money transfers in a video conference call, police said.

    Everyone present on the video calls except the victim was a fake representation of real people. The scammers applied deepfake technology to turn publicly available video and other footage into convincing versions of the meeting’s participants.

    Police said they were highlighting the case as it was the first of its kind in Hong Kong and involved a large sum. They did not reveal details about the company or the employees involved.

  • Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint

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  • Ask the people at the counter if there’s any place you should avoid. You’re a foreigner in an unfamiliar place in the case of this article.

  • Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint

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  • My point was the that labeling certain areas as “bad” can create problems, even if it’s an area known for carjacking tourists. What defines a “bad” area? Petty theft? Drug arrests? Violent crime? Homelessness? How much crime does it take to be labeled “bad”? Unfortunately a lot of those areas are tied to poverty, and all too often poverty is tied to minorities. So say we start labeling areas, now traffic is reduced and maybe it even starts impacting local businesses because people are now checking the box that says “avoid bad areas” and routes people around a place that maybe got drive thru traffic at the coffee shops or gas stations.

    You can easily see how difficult this is a policy to make. I’m not dismissing the problems these people encountered, but implementing this in popular guidance apps isn’t going to be easy.

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

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  • Thanks! A kindred soul!

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

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  • Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.

    (Yep, it’s the former Reddit app)

    Edit: it is offline, but it only pulls in the first paragraph or whatever. You can read a snippet, but it’s not really an offline reader that pulls in the full article to be read.

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

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  • Thanks for the rec, but unfortunately I’m on iOS.

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

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  • I loved RSS feeds. But I’ve given up on them. And it would seem so have many of the sites I used to frequent. I read RSS offline, so right there I have a problem as the vast majority of RSS apps expect an internet connection. Sites used to write content in such a manner that it was easily readable in RSS, now they don’t. The decline in popularity of RSS has meant that after I get comfortable with an app it stops being updated and no longer works as the developer decides it’s not worth keeping up. Sites make RSS feeds harder to find, if they even have one.

    I

  • Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs

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  • Cutting to profitability. A tired and true way to make the books look good.

    (Not a typo)

  • Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint

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  • Yeah, but if you start labeling neighborhoods as “bad” on a mapping program you have a different set of problems.

    People need to be aware of their surroundings and not cluelessly follow programs like this.

  • The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case

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  • You don’t say…

  • Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany

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  • I could keep going. And I did. Eventually I ended up with a PDF that Preview claimed is larger than the entire universe – approximately 37 trillion light years square. Admittedly it’s mostly empty space, but so is the universe.

    So yes. It can be done.

  • GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids

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  • Yeah, the infrastructure isn’t there yet for EV. We need chargers everywhere, but they’re still a thing that needs to be searched for and possibly have to go out of your way for. And EV aren’t really great to have someplace like apartments where property owners aren’t going to install them.

    So PHEV is better until the system catches up.

  • China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total

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  • No, it’s not hypocritical. Yes, anyone with half a brain knows China makes a huge chunk of the world’s stuff.

    A nation can make choices as to what energy sources they use and China went balls to the wall with coal. That wasn’t a choice the buyers of Chinese products made.

  • Scientists announce breakthrough in hypersonic heat shield

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  • How many civilian uses of hypersonic heat shields are there? I suppose maybe private space companies might be better interested, but I can’t think of any others.

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  • Closely followed by EEE - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. While not a single word, it dovetails nicely with enshittification.

  • We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.

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  • I’m sure we’re making it in our image.

    Sounds familiar.

    We are the AI that killed our maker?