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"Daily Pay" Is Just Another Way to Keep You Living Paycheck to Paycheck (sh.itjust.works)

I’ve seen several big chains, mostly gas stations and fast food, advertising “daily pay”. If you are worried about how you’re going to make it until your next paycheck, whether it’s tomorrow or next month, or you have no savings to cover any sort of emergency, then you live paycheck-to-paycheck....

SquiffSquiff ,

OP you have some strange ideas. You think it’s better for workers to wait for their money? Why? If this were me and I wanted to paid at the end of the month I could just pay into a savings account daily and collect interest.

Yes daily pay is associated with casual work, like labouring. Some people struggle to turn up for work reliably. At least with this they get paid when they do. Better than zero hours contracts.

SquiffSquiff ,

You should celebrate with some upside down cake

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The OpenBSD project maintains portable versions of many subsystems as packages for other operating systems. Because of the project’s preferred BSD license, which allows binary redistributions without the source code, many components are reused in proprietary and corporate-sponsored software projects. The firewall code in Apple’s macOS is based on OpenBSD’s PF firewall code,[6] Android’s Bionic C standard library is based on OpenBSD code,[7] LLVM uses OpenBSD’s regular expression library,[8] and Windows 10 uses OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) with LibreSSL.[9]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD

SquiffSquiff ,

are you sure that you don’t already have this built in? support.google.com/gboard/answer/9108773?hl=en&co…

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Zim desktop wiki? I’ve used it for years. Cross platform, open source, lots of features. Bear in mind that there are a lot of plugins, including one specifically for journaling

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More reputable sure covering this and related stories www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

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‘Standing’? This isn’t the US. The law in the UK is a bit different.

In British administrative law, an applicant needs to have a sufficient interest in the matter to which the application relates

I think this woman can show that

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Not seen where protected categories are mentioned but they aren’t vague. The evidence will presumably be that she was thrown out/barred based on an automated camera recommendation. This will be on record and thus she can show harm. The security guard apparently gave a reason for ejection at the time, ditto. What can the retailer say? “Oh someone else told us she was someone else your honour”? Most likely they will try to settle out of court.

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It seems that you’ve misunderstood what the issue is here from cloudflare’s perspective. The customer was using cloudflare IP addresses, which is causing a knock-on effect for the rest of cloudflare’s customers and putting cloudflare as a business themselves at risk. The alternative was for the customer to use their own IP addresses as cloudflare advised . I’m not sure what you think ‘Business development’ teams do but I certainly wouldn’t be expecting engineering advice from them.

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If there’s ‘nothing stopping’ it then why has nobody done it? Apple moved from x86 to ARM. Mobile is all ARM. All the big cloud providers are doing their own ARM chips. Intel killed off much of the architectural competition with Itanic in the early 2000’s. Why stop?

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If you look at the price for a Mac versus a Windows computer, I think it’s pretty obvious why people might choose a Windows device. For Linux, you really have to know where to look to buy a laptop that is shipped or warrantied with Linux. People tend to buy Windows computers because that’s what’s advertised available, familiar and in their price bracket.

Disclaimer: my main laptop is Mac. I have a secondary one running Linux and although I have a work laptop running Windows, that wasn’t my choice and I don’t have Windows on any personal devices.

SquiffSquiff ,

Coming from what looks to me like a different perspective to many of the commenters here (Disclosure I am a professional platform engineer):

If you are already scripting your setups then yes you should absolutely learn/use Ansible. The key reasons are that it is robust, explicit, and repeatable- doesn’t matter whether that’s the same host multiple times or multiple hosts. I have lost count of the number of pet Bash scripts I have encountered in various shops, many of them created by quite talented people. They all had problems. Some typical ones:

Issue Example
Most people write bash scripts without dependency checks ’Of course everyone will have gnu coreutils installed, it’s part of every Linux distro’ - someone runs the script on a Mac
We need to pass this action out to a command-line tool, that’s obvious Fails if command-line tool isn’t available, no handling errors from tool if they aren’t exactly what’s expected
Of course people will realise that they need to run this from an environment prepared in this exact (undocumented) way Someone runs the script in a different environment
Of course people will be running this on x86_64/AMD64, all these third party binaries are available for that Someone runs it on ARM
Of course people will know what to do if the script fails midway through People try to re-run the script when it fails mid-way through and it’s a mess

The thing about Ansible is that it can be modular (if you want) and you can use other people’s code but fundamentally it runs one step at a time. You will know for each step:

  • Are dependencies met?
  • Did that step succeed or fail (in realtime!)?
  • (If it failed) what was the error?
  • (Assuming you have written sane Ansible) you can re-run your playbook at any time to get the ‘same’ result. No worries about being left in an indeterminate state
  • (To an extent) It is self-documenting
  • Host architecture doesn’t really matter
  • Target architecture/OS is specified and clear
SquiffSquiff ,

Great location for a music video

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Cool cover. Not just a carbon copy of the original

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Look at what they paid Steve Jobs

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What are you basing your ‘guess’ on? IKEA typically design their own products. They already produce Smart home speakers. Why do you suppose that this would be a rebranded product from somebody else?

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Is there some cache on your old phone from some previous ‘activate on this device’ required?

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Lemmy Connect for android has regex filters

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

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Simulated CP is legally considered the same as ‘actual’ CP in the UK

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...

SquiffSquiff ,

There’s plenty available in larger sizes if you look for ‘commercial display’ instead, e.g.

Also you need to move on from ‘as long as you don’t connect them to the internet’. It may have been true once, it isn’t true anymore- see comments here about Roku TV including from OP and discussion on a recent Hacker news thread

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Are you able to provide an example as to how greater complexity makes it easier

Edit: Thanks for the explanations. I get that multiple languages use gendered nouns to mean something that is clearly not ‘gender’ in the biological sense but key to understanding context. Seems strange as an English speaker where noun gender is vestigial if it even exists at all and even then it doesn’t matter if someone gets it wrong

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Please excuse my lack of knowledge here. Am I under to understand from your post that software that you have purchased from another supplier will check from files that you have bought from this supplier and refuse to use them based on their attestation?

SquiffSquiff ,

Oh no, I understood the watermarking concern. This sort of thing is famous with with Oscar screeners and electronic books. I was asking about OP’s suggestion that the font might be effectively withdrawn by a third party

SquiffSquiff ,

Thanks for explaining. I guess this would be comparable to e.g. Blu-ray key revocation. I suppose it’s possible but I’m not sure how likely it is considering the potential downsides, e.g. legal liability, for anyone doing this, compared to I’m not sure what upsides where there’s no profit to be found and all costs sunk

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Paper boats on a lake or river?

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You need to clean the USB port on your phone thoroughly with a toothpick

SquiffSquiff ,

I’ve had the same issue with a pixel 6. Fluff gets compacted in the usb socket and prevents the jack connecting properly. Good luck

SquiffSquiff ,

Realistically you will always need to be able to read documentation for:

  • Your language
  • Your compiler
  • Your platform
  • The APIs you’re calling

All of this will be in English even if your project is in another human language. Yes there will be translation for some of it available but it will be partial, incomplete, dated, etc. you’ll be using English so much anyway and have people from other countries working on the code regardless that you’re adding a needless barrier using a different national language.

Look at the French government open source codee for instance. The overall website is in French but the actual repos are covered and mostly seem to be in English

SquiffSquiff ,

Actually these days I would recommend using ChatGPT to get the ideal settings based on source medium and target quality/device

SquiffSquiff ,

LOL, easier interface, sure, but:

HandBrake uses FFmpeg under the hood

SquiffSquiff ,

So OP has posted this everywhere, even getting it flagged on Hacker News. Article is weak sauce:

I would agree with author that there are many problems with Spotify but concentrating on the artist revenue per stream and then publishing your top hits of the year as YouTube links? Really? Go and find out what the artist share per stream is on YouTube (regular YouTube video) for soundtracks. I’ll wait. Hint: there’s a reason that soundtracks using unauthorised copyrighted work get muted or taken down rather than revenue being redistributed.

Recommending a paid desktop MacOS music app for local content? There are hundreds of local music players but OK… but none of the criticisms of Spotify were about the client! Foobar2000 (mentioned for mobile playback) supports Spotify streaming…

Article seems to boil down to ‘I got tired of Spotify recommendations and I am an aspiring musician at an early stage in my professional career so I am recommending Bandcamp and soap boxing about artist revenue share’ . There’s a reason that people, some with local music libraries in the TeraByte range listen to Spotify. There’s also all the competing services - Apple Music; YouTube; Deezer; Tidal; Amazon; etc…

Recommendation to OP: If you are trying to persuade people on something, then decide what point you want to concentrate on, consider the pro’s and cons for your position, and make your point based/reinforced on that. Don’t meander around a bunch of inchoate personal gripes and affections that don’t really relate to one another or any particular point.

SquiffSquiff ,

I’m in the UK. Spotify family subscription is £17.99/month (US$ 22.84). Same price as Netflix premium, although I have Netflix standard at £10.99 (US$ 13.96). Now, I know that they give a high percentage to the record companies, source says 70% but really? What are they doing over there? They seem to have some fundamental problems. With Netflix, my history, watchlist, search results, etc. are consistent across sessions and devices. Spotify can’t manage this. Netflix of course produce a significant quantity of original content. Spotify do a few live music sessions. I don’t think that the user experience with Spotify has changed significantly in the last 6 years that I have been a customer.

So they’re not making money. They’re not improving the user experience or meeting the market standard for it. They’re not producing original content and they seem unable to comply with local laws. Why have they not been disrupted by one of their competitors?

SquiffSquiff ,

Microsoft were hardly early to the game with Windows phones, compare BlackBerry or Symbian. They had some early successes, for instance against Palm. The big failure was to keep deprecating the existing version of Windows phone, in some cases many months before the ongoing version was available, and deprecating the existing hardware along with it. Look at the whole mango/tango Windows phone 7 /Windows phone 8 debacle

SquiffSquiff ,

Really poor article. Could swap out mention of phone lines for e.g. high street bank branches and nothing would change. What would be useful:

  • What’s the legal requirement regarding power cuts?
  • What are the regulatory requirements regarding panic buttons etc?
  • Why the focus on the over 70’s within the article?
  • What’s different for a user for VOIP compared to analogue (apart from the power issue)?
  • What are some possible mitigations, e.g. a battery backup and a fallback mobile connection?
SquiffSquiff ,

Look into ssh

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Article seems to be mainly about Timnit Gebru. I struggle to see ANY business wanting her on the board. Sasha luccioni, appears to be another AI Doomer, i.e. Up there with Helen toner who

said that if the company was destroyed as a result of Altman’s firing, that could be consistent with its mission, the New York Times reported.

And additionally reported:

The New York Times reported this week that in the weeks leading up to Altman’s firing, he and Toner had discussed an October paper she had co-authored for CSET.

In the paper, OpenAI is criticised for releasing ChatGPT at the end of last year, sparking “a sense of urgency inside major tech companies”, like Google, to ensure they did not fall behind and prompting competitors to “accelerate or circumvent internal safety and ethics review processes”.

Seriously, look at the people in the article, the organisations that they’re associated with and the opinions they’ve publicly stated. The Doomers at open.ai tried a coup and failed. The Accels won. The current board surely wouldn’t welcome or be welcoming to the Doomers. We’re clearly well past the point where people can sensibly pretend that they can hold back the avalanche of A.I. from the board of a single company in the space.

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I know right, nobody’s interested in Norman Rockwell anymore

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It was probably not a version 1 feature initially and nobody had been sufficiently motivated and skilled enough to fix it since

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Blogrolls and webrings

SquiffSquiff ,

I don’t follow your line about an intern. I don’t see it in the article and even if it were the case, an unqualified person being able to do this is on the seniors/leads. Throwing the intern under the bus is what scummy companies do to shift blame - see solar winds , where (spoiler) this strategy doesn’t seem to be working out

SquiffSquiff ,

This is a feature available in outlook desktop application at least for Mac

The irony is of course that Gmail did used to be essentially an instant messenger until Google decided in their wisdom that on Android you should not be notified immediately you receive a message

Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! (reddthat.com)

Despite its failure to capture a significant market share, I really enjoyed the metro UI on windows phone and tablet. One UI on my Samsung was getting stale and has a nearly unusable apps drawer, and standard Android notifications are nagging and ungainly....

SquiffSquiff ,

You’re forgetting that they had a good market position with Windows Mobile. They saw off Palm and were competing with Symbian and RIM. Then they rebooted with Windows phone and again with Windows phone 7 and again with Windows phone 8 and again with Windows phone 10. Each generation incompatible with the last. Sometimes even known in advance, e.g The 8-10 transition leaving Osborned devices on sale for nearly a year Meantime Android was available ‘free’ to manufacturers, compatibility was maintained between operating system versions and across manufacturers. Customisation was a big thing for OEMs - look at HTC and Samsung on Android. Every Windows phone had to look IDENTICAL on screen by order of Microsoft.

Microsoft did it to themselves with mobile. Ballmer era MS thought they could ‘bulldoze the market’ like the early PC era again but that didn’t work when they had to actually compete.

SquiffSquiff ,

I fail to see the use case for Centos stream full stop. I wouldn’t want a rolling distro in an enterprise environment and I wouldn’t want a an enterprise distro outside of a server setting. Sure you can run it on a home or personal server, you could also run Debian Sid, Arch, Gentoo, etc.

SquiffSquiff ,

The rolling part is that there is a nightly build released and no established ‘stable’ version. FTFY

Pretty disingenuous to say that it’s ok because there’s major versions when both RHEL and Centos (historic) had fairly significant changes on minor versions and a major release might last 3-5 years before a newer version became/becomes available.

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If you read the original Reddit post, or watch the MKBHD video specifically referencing it, you will see that Brownlee recreated an experiment demonstrating that the phone was inserting a pre-made image of the moon when and where it ‘recognised’ the moon in the scene. This is beyond what you could call ‘post processing’, it’s in the realm of ‘photoshopping’. No Brownlee was not especially outspoken but I don’t think there was anything ambiguous or deceptive with his presentation.

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You’re aware that luxury cars may have both, e.g. Aston Martin DB11

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Excuse the ignorance but what stops Meta setting up their own instance?

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