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flumph , 1 month ago

I switched all my domains to Porkbun. No way I’m hanging out in Squarespace land.

flumph , 2 months ago

Both female and male patients had a lower patient mortality when treated by female physicians; however, the benefit of receiving care from female physicians was larger for female patients than for male patients.

Of note, the study was conducted on 800k senior citizens.

The findings may not be generalizable to younger populations.

flumph , 2 months ago

It’s a video game show that uses the rules of the video game world.

flumph , 2 months ago

I use it when I’m traveling and am on insecure WiFi.

However, it doesn’t let you pick your egress location,.so if you’re trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won’t help.

flumph , 2 months ago

Too many industries are shitting on entry level employees now… They’re easy targets for layoffs and easy targets for AI, apparently. Now they’re already complaining about the lack of quality talent.

The Great Resignation is effectively over. We’re now in the Great Talent Stagnation, where employers’ biggest concern is the lack of qualified applicants

If you don’t invest in the next set of entry-level employees, you won’t have the next set of qualified employees.

flumph , 2 months ago

It’s faulty, short-sighted logic though. If every company trained juniors, only for them to jump ship in two years, there’d be a pool of trained juniors to hire from. Yes you wouldn’t get your investment out of that particular person, but you’d be hiring someone else’s investment.

Beyond that, there’s work that is better suited to more junior employees because it’s literally a waste of the senior employees’ skills.

flumph , 2 months ago

No one said anything is beneath senior employees.

It’s a lost opportunity when you, a staff engineer, spend your time doing something that a junior engineer could do – instead of doing a task a junior engineer can’t do.

flumph , 2 months ago

Again, you’re putting words in my mouth. I’m done engaging with you as I don’t think you’re conversing in good faith.

flumph OP , 2 months ago

AI and LLM have earned a bad reputation in creative circles because of the push to eliminate creative jobs. Companies that want to build tools for creative communities should know this and not lean on AI-hype marketing.

That being said, in my opinion, Storywise looks fishy as heck. It’s probably a few tech bros using Azure’s DIY GPT. They pinky promise not to use your manuscripts in training data, but there’s no contact info on their website, including in the ToS. So when they inevitably break their promise or have a data breach, how do you sue them?

flumph , 2 months ago

Am I missing it, or is there no way to organize the Drawer, either by folder or tab?

flumph , 2 months ago

Checkout infosec.exchange instead of blocking Threads, the admin made a second instance for people who wanted Threads blocked. Like 40 people migrated, lol

flumph , 2 months ago

What is missing is that the podcast originally claimed it was entirely written and generated by AI. They only changed the story when they were sued.

flumph , 2 months ago

Yeah. The arbitration section of the agreement specifically says it only applies to US residents.

flumph , 2 months ago

And I don’t think any of their nude photos are appropriate for academic papers (unrelated to nudity research) either?

flumph , 2 months ago

“I don’t think it’s nice to federate with a company that has been cited in multiple independent reports of massacres/genocides,”

And I don’t think it’s nice to take the choice away from users. I can block threads all on my own – I don’t need a nanny who doesn’t even cite their sources.

flumph , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I love when people conflate rights and ethics. I agree with you that no one has a right to be listed on Fedi Garden. And I still think it’s not nice to pressure admins into taking choice away from users.

flumph , 2 months ago

1. “Run around” = Respond to a thread that appeared in my subscriptions.
2. “Must lick Meta’s boots” = Let users decide for themselves to block Meta.

Your hyperbole makes it obvious you have no place in a reasonable debate about this topic.

flumph , 2 months ago

And? Why take active steps to stop it from working instead of just stopping technical support? Oh yeah, to get more money.

flumph , 2 months ago

Your entire comment reads as a refute of OPs criticism and an excuse for Meta’s actions. If you were agreeing with OPs criticism, you would typically use phrases like “only five years”.

flumph , 2 months ago

Strong names are great, but (sometimes) mentioning the type of variable in the name is redundant.

flumph , 2 months ago

“Monday”.length is working JavaScript and does equal 6. No print command afaik though.

flumph , 3 months ago

Appreciate you giving credit where credit is due. It is 100% corporate greed.

Kotaku’s editor-in-chief has resigned

flumph , 3 months ago

I’m more concerned that the company decided it was OK to meld the “From:” line of her email (asking for support) into her profile. If they think that’s an appropriate way to handle PII, I don’t trust them.

flumph , 3 months ago

I hate patent trolls, but I will say “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer company”. I hope they both go broke on legal fees.

flumph , 3 months ago

Misread that as “cat” and thought I was in for a cute satire, not a boring dystopia.

flumph OP , 3 months ago

1. New Jersey distributed these kits to schools in 2020
2. DHS isn’t involved, this is FEMA and NJOHSP
3. The Interfaith Advisory Council helps churches, synagogues, temples and mosques

flumph , 3 months ago

I generally have to disagree on it being disrespectful. There’s an inherent cost in any business relationship that has to be accounted for with low volume partners. Every company that offers volume discounting does it for this exact reason – the price per piece doesn’t change, but the other costs can be spread over more pieces.

Could Valve eat some of this cost to promote indie development? Absolutely. But it’s not disrespectful to price your product with volume discounts.

flumph , 3 months ago

Most of the novellas in The Murderbot Diaries are short. If you like the first one, the rest are more of the same. And if you don’t, you only invested a little time.

flumph , 3 months ago

They’re working to improve login.gov to support the level of user verification needed for this service, but it isn’t there yet. Hopefully next year when tax time rolls around again.

flumph , 3 months ago

Not at all! I had to use ID.me for unemployment and it skeeved me out too.

flumph , 3 months ago

It should be illegal to use an AI in the hiring process that can’t explain its decisions accurately. There’s too much of a risk of bias in training data to empower a black box system. ChatGPT can lie, so anything powered by it is out.

flumph , 3 months ago

Seems like you’re asserting that the article is sponsored content without being disclosed, in violation of FTC guidelines. Seems like a pretty serious claim that borders on libel. Do you have any proof of your allegations?

flumph , 3 months ago

Because Sweet Baby Inc is known for forcing a narrative and tokens into the writing, for the sake of diversity on the cost of quality of the story and the characters.

Where is the proof of this beyond speculation? I can’t think of a mechanism through which a consultant can force anything. Their contracts would undoubtedly have an NDA that would prevent them from sharing which of their recommendations the client acted on or not.

flumph , 3 months ago

Fun fact, it’s been two different groups of people in charge! Yahoo! was responsible for removing adult content and then sold it to Automattic for pennies on the dollar. Automattic then went through several rounds of different poor moderation before the CEO himself stepped up to share GDPR violating information on Twitter. Now we’re adding AI!

flumph OP , 3 months ago

Here’s the statement from their CEO Kirk Tanner (emphasis mine):

Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said. “As we continue to show the benefit of this technology in our company-operated restaurants, franchisee interest in digital menu boards should increase, further supporting sales and profit growth across the system.

Here’s the Oxford English Definition of “dynamic pricing” since 1929:

the practice of varying the price for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions, in particular the charging of a higher price at a time of greater demand.

Referring to reporters, investors, and consumers as “shitty” for taking a company at their word is just silly.

flumph , 3 months ago

Apparently the idiots are mad that official mod support hasn’t come fast enough and that official patches break unofficial mods.

That sounds like a great reason to threaten someone /s

Baldur’s Gate 3 Devs Hope for Substantive Discussion. „Threats and Toxic Behavior Only Harms Conversation.”

flumph , 4 months ago

To make matters worse, they keep reusing the same names for things. I honestly don’t know if I use Google Pay or Google Wallet? I just push the credit card icon on my phone.

flumph , 4 months ago

Also, does the point of creating a game have to be making the “most” money? Isn’t it enough to make something awesome and a profit?

flumph , 4 months ago

The people who make up the 2% market share using Firefox overlaps with the people tired of AI - specifically LLMs - being shoved into everything.

Mozilla just released a LLM-driven website generator a few months ago. Why are we assuming they won’t add something similar to Firefox?

If Mozilla wants to use machine learning, awesome. But how about we treat the techies who support them like adults and say “machine learning” instead of using the AI buzzword which is overloaded.

flumph , 4 months ago

While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea,

How many people do you need to administer a Mastodon instance? I’m pretty sure infosec.exchange is like one dude.

flumph , 4 months ago

NewEgg is such a shell of its former self. They went from fighting patent trolls to platforming scammers.

flumph , 4 months ago

I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they’re usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.