jqubed

@ jqubed @lemmy.world

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5h ago

Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app
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21h ago

New NBER research finds that US crash deaths rise by ~15% on dates of major album releases

I sure thought new albums came out on Tuesday when I was in high school and college, around the turn of the millennium. Am I misremembering that or did it change at some point?

1d ago

everyone get in here!

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

Is that an albino kiwi?

1d ago

where my bromo bros at?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

Iceberg or wave for me, thanks

1d ago

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

I’m assuming it’s for the employees on the drive-thru; they’re already wearing headsets

1d ago

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

If they’re wearing headsets I’m assuming it’s for the employees working the drive-thru

1d ago

We All Know This Guy

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

So in Germany one often has to move out of Harms’s way?

1d ago

We All Know This Guy

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jqubed @lemmy.world 1d ago

!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

2d ago

Let an old baldy rest his tired ass, for the gods' sake!

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

The Roman senate didn’t have chairs?

2d ago

What Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

I looked up Lineage and see it’s also an Android variant. What’s the Pentecostal logo?

2d ago

AWS would rather blame engineers than AI

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Exactly

This isn't a coverup; it's a massive insecurity that's extremely cringey to witness. AWS would rather have the world believe their engineers are incompetent than admit their artificial intelligence made a mistake. That's not just a messaging choice. That's a company so desperate not to look behind in the AI race that they'd torch their own employees' reputations to protect their robot's feelings. What does it say about AWS's strategic position that defending the AI's reputation takes priority over protecting their humans? When did "don't hurt the algorithm's feelings" become corporate policy?

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Things break. Code has bugs. AI will make mistakes. This is the natural order of building complex systems, and anyone who's been in this business longer than a funding cycle understands that. The problem isn't that Kiro decided production was due for a surprise deletion. The problem is that when faced with their first major AI failure, AWS's instinct wasn't transparency or accountability. It was to protect the AI's reputation at all costs.
If your cloud provider would rather look incompetent than admit its AI is fallible, sit with that for a second. Not because this particular outage was the end of the world. It wasn't. It's Cost Explorer, for God's sake; I spend meaningful chunks of my life with that service, and it being down for a few hours just means I'll do something else for a bit. But we are at the exact moment where every cloud vendor is asking you to hand agentic AI the keys to your production environment. When the first real test case showed up, AWS's communications instinct was to protect the robot and throw the human under the bus.

3d ago

What Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I think several on your chart don’t believe in the Trinity? Pretty sure LDS, JW, and at least some Pentecostal? I think they all self-identify as Christian, though, but some Unitarians might not? Is that the difference?

3d ago

How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I know it varies from state to state, but where I’ve lived it’s an “elective” in that you got to pick which language to take of the available options (some schools might only have two choices, others four or even five), but taking a certain number of foreign language credits was required for graduation. If you wanted to go beyond the minimum and had room in your schedule you could.

4d ago

Big Hole

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

Seeing that this was a hand-dug mine in South Africa, I was expecting bad things, but it’s still disheartening:

Burials for paupers occurred in Glastone cemetery from 1 March 1883. Many records were lost to fire; however, surviving reports state that between 24 June 1887 and 28 November 1892, 5000 black burials happened at Glastone cemetery. Approximately 611 black burials occurred between February and June 1900. Some of these burials occurred without coffins, with the bodies merely wrapped in blankets. Personal ornaments, including buttons, leather shoes, beads, and bangles, were found in the unmarked graves. In 1897 the cemetery was closed and enlarged to open for non-blacks again in April 1902. The bodies of miners were viewed as an issue of waste disposal by the mines/city council and the African rituals and mourning processes were of no concern to authorities. Many Basotho miners were not pleased at the manner in which the dead were treated.

4d ago

Flax dinner rolls

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

Sometimes if it’s just outside companies will be flexible, especially if you ask nicely, but you definitely don’t want to wait at that point

4d ago

Flax dinner rolls

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

Don’t Kitchenaid mixers have really good warranties? It’s probably worth contacting them

5d ago

TIL that Radon is a radioactive substance which can cause cancer. Colorado is full of radon. The average level of radon in Colorado homes is 6.4 pCi/L, which is equivalent to 200 chest X-rays a year

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jqubed @lemmy.world 5d ago

Even in my state I don’t think it’s required everywhere. In the mountains and the Piedmont there is a risk although it’s not common, but I think in the coastal plain on the sandy soil it’s uncommon. IIRC for our state the more granite in the ground the higher the risk. Having a crawlspace foundation is also better than a basement or a slab foundation because it gives a space that can easily be ventilated before the gas enters the living space of the home.