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brbposting ,

This comment’s blank on sh.itjust.works.

But I made a kbin account the other day, so logging in I saw:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f7e82a47-79a0-4168-9766-661dd6941386.jpeg

brbposting ,

despite opinions from random people on the internet.

I imagine you’re saying:

due to my own cost-benefit analysis: I’m an animal lover, and I love kitty slightly more than birdie, but in a perfect world kitty would be inside so birdie could live safely outside.

This allows for responses to more accurately target your calculation. Hopefully it would feel less personal, though who knows.

But if you dispute /BirdFacts, then I’m mistaken!

brbposting ,

Readers only know what you tell ‘em. Your “my kitty” is “generic feline” to others until more context is provided.

It does sound like you would keep generic feline inside, given the veterinarian consensus is reducing the number of free-ranging cats is good for cats and birds. And you go by the vet. Sensible, many would agree.

RE: “survival of the fittest” (e.g. organisms best adjusted to their environment win out, being most successful in surviving and reproducing) - want to be careful not to misapply that thinking to justify human-influenced scenarios.

The scale and impact of cats hunting in environments where they are not native is more an example of humans disrupting local ecosystems than natural selection. Arguing animals are responsible for their own survival against domesticated predators is ethically contentious. But when everything’s natural I’m with ya on the merit-based view of predation.

The randos might be less angry if you were immediately up front about extenuating circumstances. Not all of them! But doubtless some will attack an inaccurate idea of you simply having a personal preference, whereafter you’ll feel attacked for “keeping [your cat] alive.” And that’s no good! Waste of time and needless raising of blood pressure :)

brbposting ,

You’re being good to your cat

Re-introspect bird vs. domesticated predator

You’re catching flak in part for the way you comment

brbposting ,

Nature does its thing.

You know how pooping is natural, but we get sick if we poop where we eat?

Cats’ instinctual predatory behavior = natural.

Invasive predators = serious and unnatural threat to ecosystems.

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…so I won’t hear that line if I catch you taking a dump in my kitchen right 😄

brbposting ,

Are you sure? Neither title nor article appear to suggest such a thing.

After referencing previous scary eye drop news:

No one should ever use any homeopathic ophthalmic products, and every single such product should be pulled off the market.
The point is unexpected, given that none of the high-profile infections and recalls this year involved homeopathic products.

brbposting ,

My reading: Uncle Sam’s Ledger Logic:

$2 trillion vanishes into the Pentagon void? “Oops, slipped through the cracks!”

Your $600 Venmo transfer? “Caught you red-handed! Now, where’s our cut?”

brbposting ,

Got a sample preview of your favorite release?

(Presumably you’re not on Spotify since they’re not paying anything.)

brbposting ,

Big same. I’ll even bang out to Startpage to try to avoid directly using Google (!sp vs. !g), but that’s not as good either.

I bow to my search overlord Google. Until I try Grasp, Kagi, and SearXNG, and hopefully one of those will satisfy (in particular SearXNG).

Until then DDG remains my default, and I’ll !g half the time :(

brbposting ,

One of the three on my to-try list, still.

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time (www.businessinsider.com)

A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

brbposting ,

You can’t just choose the individual items that make up a meal. If you do that, it doesn’t work and you have to delete them all and start again makes the franchisee an extra $2 profit!

Cha-ching!

brbposting ,

Maybe for the 5% of locations which are company owned? And to satisfy franchisees, who probably already like that people who order items separately at the registers pay more (provided employees don’t help out and combine them).

Their mobile app is hands down the most advanced in the US fast food space, so they def have the tech know how.

But definitely just speculating :)

brbposting ,

Obtrusive ads are frustrating.

Perfectly integrated, entertaining, on-brand ads from creators I appreciate? No problem.

brbposting ,

Haven’t seen the tag, but note dispensers were moved behind registers at some locations after the first death/lawsuit.

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution (techcrunch.com)

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution::U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage,

brbposting ,

And wildly different economic realities. The difference between three months and five days of salary to buy an iPhone 15 (roughly comparing India & USA).

brbposting ,

So much incredible UX design work has been undertaken by the experts in charge of it… then we’re forced to reassess solutions (Signal or Telegram?), remarket them (everybody download this app!), support them (no grandma when you don’t have your glasses Siri can’t send Signal messages).

Great job with your stock Apple and for driving the blind to tears with such excellent accessibility features and epic hardware… but you suck for stigmatizing kids’ digital lives and causing so much duplicative effort and confusion in the messaging space.

brbposting ,

Plasm is a noun that can mean plasma, germplasm, or a formative material.

Guess it’s both? (Merriam-Webster)

brbposting ,

Definitely, often from Vermont or Canada ;)

brbposting ,

No, syrup!

brbposting ,

people know the chances

This article agrees. Huge caveat:

…Osmond…obtained a database from the Connecticut Lottery containing 21 years’ worth of winners. What did he find?

They are largely poor, largely minorities, and often addicts.

The lottery preys on these people.

Vox, “4 ways the lottery preys on the poor”, 2016

brbposting ,

Try them. Last one I tried was absolutely utterly impossible. Two times ago, it was easier or just as easy as the visual CAPTCHA. Unfortunately can’t recall either provider/site.

brbposting ,

Interesting read. Big drawbacks with Private Access Tokens?

brbposting ,

That sucks.

Thanks for the info

brbposting ,

Good Guy Randy.

I’m pretty big on this kind of thing… spit lands on my arm, I continue the conversation normally and after a second’s delay slowly move to wipe my arm off without mentioning it.

Glad to see all the other Lemmings like this!

brbposting ,

What a lovely site! NSFW/not safe for egalitarians

Tell me that’s like the Truth Social of Poland and only reflective of the extreme right (preferably lie if it’s not)

ETA: this was the fourth hottest(?) post under “Excavation Hits” (Apple Safari translation). It’s not just them happening to share data… one top comment is the N word spelled using the phonetic alphabet, come on.

brbposting ,

Growing per Statista

brbposting ,

Could counteract with some intense verification of personhood I suppose… dig into your network and see if you’re promoting your friends’ products too…

Can’t imagine how to preserve privacy yet eliminate fraud really. Paid reviewers like Consumer Reports? Random sample surveys?

brbposting ,

An unsolicited expert opinion is lobbying

Right. Politicians know nothing about technology half the time, right?

Who does know - it’s people in the technology field.

They have to communicate somehow. Not saying it’s not broken today, and I think you could have a clever setup of advisors, but at the end of the day there will just have to be some kind of input by experts.

brbposting ,

As long as you don’t forget whence this post came - the Riker’s Beard™️ Facebook Group™️™️™️

They could do with a few more watermarks seeing as it’s their IP and everything 😉

brbposting ,

I thought that may have been intentional anti-adblock (just speculating).

brbposting ,

sees the broad side of a white truck as clear skies and slams right at it

RIP Joshua Brown:

The truck driver, Frank Baressi, 62, told the Associated Press that the Tesla driver Joshua Brown, 40, was “playing Harry Potter on the TV screen” during the collision and was driving so fast that “he went so fast through my trailer I didn’t see him”.

brbposting ,

Allegedly it was on a portable DVD player

brbposting ,

Justice is extra, is that okay?

brbposting ,

In one incident described in the court papers, Ms. Ventura says that in early 2012, Mr. Combs grew so angry about her dating the rapper Kid Cudi that he said he would blow up the rapper’s car. “Around that time,” the suit says, “Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway.”

Through a spokeswoman, Kid Cudi confirmed Ms. Ventura’s account that he had a car that exploded. “This is all true,” he said.

-NYT

(Free article: HuffPost)

…wow

brbposting ,

…Signal only sends a notification that you received a message.

Signal on iOS shows previews by default. It even reads messages over AirPods as they come in.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f85ca94b-77af-4a97-b6fa-08f2d4f006e6.png

iOS must be doing something special here, right? They can’t be sending message contents through the same route as push notification metadata, or it would be breaking end-to-end encryption… right?

brbposting ,

Nice.

Readers, note performance won’t match GPT-4. You can see the leaderboard then compare some of the available GPT4All models side-by-side. They may be sufficient for your needs.

brbposting ,

Might have to watch Manos tonight 👋👋

brbposting ,

AP is fine assuming people pay attention.

There’s a human tendency to become complacent after a while, which presents a risk.

Can’t wait for safer-than-human self-driving technology, and know we’ll need to take certain risks of some sort to get there, but there are good arguments against “PLEASE remain fully attentive 100% of the time for this technology that will in fact only require full attentiveness in edge cases”. You might be an exception of course! But Average Meat Driver is going to slip into complacency after many, many miles of perfect autopiloting.

brbposting ,

I knew about the elevators (and forgot about Manhattan) but this one’s new for me:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6a0ab00a-e21a-4381-86d3-6442e038ccc2.jpeg

Men approving this 2-year innovation’s hoodwinking of God:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/889288a3-7de9-493e-9d5a-06fc54ef051a.jpeg

brbposting ,

Y’all hilarious ahaha

Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

brbposting ,

I heard an ad for people scared of dentists - they were offering to put people under.

[More] dangerous and expensive, but better than skipping it altogether.

Gotta be a market for hyper-hypodermic-phobic folks. Even if you & I stick with the five second jab.

How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....

brbposting ,

And if you’re not following server news, even if you know the very basics of federation, it’s easy to miss defederations and subsequently never know you’re not seeing content you wanted to see.

Personally, I’m very interested in seeing a true representation of top posts. I’ll need a client that can let me login to multiple instances or a server that’s never the federated from anybody. One risk here is I could recommend Lemmy to someone, they could register on a different instance, and assume I like content I in fact don’t.

Tip: just learned I can see federated and blocked instances at /instances (e.g. sh.itjust.works/instances ).

brbposting ,

https://i.ibb.co/JyHgG4s/IMG-1257.gif

brbposting ,

Highlighting a downside: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9f3d2370-d9d4-47ee-87d7-87e58b10ffcb.jpeg

Source: Five women got eye syphilis from the same man—raising questions

brbposting ,

Interesting!

When this guy* made clear ketchup, he used egg whites to separate remaining solid tomato matter out from the liquid tomato umami. Wonder if that would work for oil at all.

*Piped link

brbposting ,

Oh not again!

2003’s “Endless Crab” wiped out 1 president and $400 million in shareholder value… you’d‘ve thought they’d’ve learn’ed’ve.

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    brbposting ,

    It says “Not OC” under the photo in the linked post (which Voyager for iOS had to open in browser for some reason).

    The contest should make clear it’s open to folks sharing images they found. I wouldn’t be thrilled to see someone congratulated for “their” photo if this part wasn’t clear.

    ETA: Something like “Picture Fan Submission of the Year”… needs some workshopping though.

    brbposting ,

    Psst… I messaged you just now RE: the deleted 2023 picture of the year post. I had to use a browser as neither Memmy nor Voyager (iOS) supported the feature, although the latter pretended to.

    Messaging is definitely in its infancy. Required quite a backwards flow to find the sent message, after determining how to find you in the first place given you were on another instance.

    /threadcrap (sorry readers)

    (Actually I’ll keep crapping because I had to troubleshoot why I couldn’t reply to your “Roses are ” comment… looks like that post was deleted, but Lemmy via browser wasn’t going to warn me besides spinning a pinwheel after I clicked “[post] reply”.)

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