I fought #Ubuntu, and Ubuntu won. ‘Sector 2048 is already in use’ every time I tried to install. #Mint, on the other hand, went on like a dream.
There are verified bug reports for the sector in use thing but no workaround that I can see. Oh well, it’s Mint for the moment.
There is no AI art.
There is only art-shaped output.
lol @ ye
It’s our collective responsibility to ensure the memory of our ancestors’ mass murder is not used to perpetuate fascism. Never again means never again for anyone. We strive for a future where everyone is valued, everybody is sacred, and all people are free from authoritarianism and white supremacy.
There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.
Turns out they’re already in the middle of a 24-month contract that he had no idea about and they’re facing a 14% price increase next month. What a scummy predatory company. /end
Trying to get my parents’ astronomical Sky bill down, and the woman on the phone tried to sell Dad a new TV using terms he didn’t understand. I had to intervene and stop it before it was too late. 1/2
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.
turns out delivery robots are kind of like birds in that they run into windows sometimes
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Kohle - Minenbesitzer Öl und Gas - Förderquellenbesitzer Atomkraft - Uranbesitzer Solar: Niemand besitzt die Sonne
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This is going to take primary legislation to fix. Either support the car for a reasonable lifetime, say 12-15 years, or enable all features/open the ecosystem when you drop support. Cars-as-a-service is a hugely retrograde step. #nissan #nissanleaf #ev #cars
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Why Defending 'Woke' Defends Democracy youtu.be/hRd6GLC_p5c?...
Pancake Tuesday already. It really creped up on us this year.
The Edinburgh Symphony Orchestea rehearsing in an empty Usher Hall for tonight’s Chinese New Year concert.
Definitely my favourite venue. What an experience to play here with the ESO for Chinese New Year. #livemusic #usherhall #edinburgh #chinesenewyear #yearofthehorse
"Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?" — Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Text of a Reddit comment: Already refunded. Chatbot isn't supposed to be making financial decisions. It's supposed to be answering customer questions between 6pm and 9am when I'm not around. It's worked fine for 6+ months, then this guy spent an hour chatting with it, talked it into showing how good it was at maths and percentages, diverted the conversation to percentage discounts off a theoretical order, then acted impressed by it. The chatbot then generated him a completely fake discount code and an offer for 25% off, later rising to 80% off as it tried to impress him.
Another day, another #AI disaster. Company deployed customer service chatbot, customer flattered chatbot, chatbot invented an 80% discount out of thin air. #AIDisaster www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
Just saying ...
The things we now have to explain.
This is absolutely what happened.
Who cannot be deprived of their citizenship? There is also a cohort of people who cannot be deprived of their citizenship in any circumstances. The law does not permit people who were born British (as opposed to acquiring their citizenship by naturalisation or registration) to be deprived if that would leave them stateless. That means people who have only one nationality (British) have legal protection against deprivation that people with multiple nationalities do not. Some commentators say this gives the appearance of discrimination against people from migrant and ethnic minority backgrounds, who are more likely to have dual nationality than people whose recent ancestors were all born in the UK.S° The government has stressed that "law-abiding people have nothing to fear" from citizenship deprivation merely because they are a dual national. 51
This is the key point and I don’t know about you but I don’t find it very reassuring.
(It’s from the House of Commons briefing which has the whole shameful history of how governments have given themselves powers they really should not have)
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...
According to my other half, my most common phrase while working is ‘just fucking work you fucking piece of fucking shit’.
Computers are supposed to be tools. If I bought a screwdriver that worked this badly I’d hurl it into the fucking sea.
#technology #enshittification #computers
Fucking hell, that vile ‘caricature’ of Zack Polanski in the Daily Mail (on the same day they’re claiming to care about antisemitism in relation to another story). Revolting.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
They exist to cause suffering and inflict pain. They are not nice people. They are school bullies who grew up and miss that thrill of exploiting the weak and punching down at the poor. 2/2 #ReformUK
It’s occurred to me that being upset and anxious about #ReformUK is exactly what they want. They like the thought of tearful and desperate left-wing folk being frightened of them. 1/2
Board Member at Catskill Animal Sanctuary Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
