FriendOfDeSoto
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Technology@lemmy.world•Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.English
2492·15 days agoI get she was frustrated. I get this was a joke. You don’t make bomb jokes in line at the TSA either.
She may have overestimated the degree of privacy her DMs had. That’s also on her. Other e2e encrypted services are available to make the crass jokes. But if one of the three recipients had also failed to get the joke, a Signal chat would’ve sufficed to get those deputies showing up as well.
And one shouldn’t expect that a company, even of dwindling importance as Snapchat, won’t do everything in their power to cover their asses. Imagine if this teacher did go amok and they flagged it but did nothing.
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cats@lemmy.world•Going out of town for a few days next week. What are some good ways to keep my cat occupied and happy while I'm gone?English
18·21 days agoYour cat may treat you like a war criminal upon your return but she’ll be fine. I wouldn’t leave the ming vase out or the catnip planter but keep in mind most cats do better without their masters than the other way around.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootingsEnglish
6·21 days agoIf you can’t (or won’t) cut down on having firearms freely available, and if you cannot (or will not) do more on the mental health side of prevention, and you have already invented bullet proof whiteboards, doors like battlefield tanks, and implemented a system of metal detector entry checks and maybe deployed an armed guard, then this is an almost good idea. It’s the blinking light in the window and an alarm system sticker on the window that may deter a thief but for school shootings.
I’m not sure about pepper spray. Is a blind shooter unloading their AR-15 magazine an improvement over a fully sighted one? Why aren’t they equipping them with tranquilizer darts? Cross promotion potential for zoos as well.
What are the odds that we get coordinated school attacks and we find out one part-time student at the control center can’t fly 5 drones in 5 different high schools at the same time?
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Technology@lemmy.world•White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of scienceEnglish
66·27 days agoThe report also seems not to realize that it is being written by the Trump administration.
There are a few delightful digs like this in this article.
The only thing that’s golden is the tacky veneer on the White House walls in the picture.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
18·1 month agoYou may disagree but have a read through the rules. Attempted murder is enough to ruin somebody’s day. This one falls at the first hurdle. It’s also getting more political as you reply here. Find another outlet for your outrage. Outrage > mildly infuriating.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
19·1 month agoNothing mild about that. Wrong community.
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Technology@lemmy.world•UK culture minister quits X over ‘abuse and misinformation’English
1·1 month agoDon’t call me Shirley.
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Technology@lemmy.world•UK culture minister quits X over ‘abuse and misinformation’English
28·1 month agoIt’s like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in featureEnglish
32·2 months agoNothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Energy Secretary: “I'm thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”English
42·2 months agoWrong community. Nothing mild about that.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts ArgueEnglish
51·2 months agoThe Yahoo!tech writers went on a deep dive and watched a YouTube video.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI ForeverEnglish
5·2 months agoYahoo!tech digging deep for a story there.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bombshell lawsuit alleges that RAM manufacturers are colluding to drive up prices. Three companies that account for 90% of RAM revenue are being sued for anti-competitive practices. Samsung, SK Hynix…English
242·2 months agoI am in Japan where they have just discovered a cartel of ice cream manufacturers pushing up prices. Supply and demand. This is capitalism, baby!
This is a lawsuit, right? It’ll go through a few judges’ hands on appeals and what not and by the time the companies get their slap on the wrist in 2-5 years they will have made so much money it doesn’t matter.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I feel like this could have been a smaller packageEnglish
4·2 months agoThe most obvious answer is shrinkflation. They may have sold units with more pills in them before but economic pressures put them in a pickle: increase price for all or keep price the same and reduce content. It’s possible they had ordered a gazillion of these pill bottles and have them in storage now. They gotta use them. It would be economically and environmentally mad if they put a million of these bottles in a landfill and ordered smaller replacements.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilitiesEnglish
23·2 months agoAlibaba picking up Anthropic’s fair use strategy?
Edit: is there an argument for letting the US ruin its economy and environment to train all these models and then just swooping in before it turns into a mild madmaxian hellscape to distill and/or extract the knowledge? Beats having to do this on your own, doesn’t it?
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm electionsEnglish
101·2 months agoNot like any other election before where tech companies had zero interests and just thought may the best team win.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ SpiritsEnglish
36·2 months agoCouldn’t have happened to a nicer boss or company.
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Technology@lemmy.world•German court rules Google can be held liable for false AI Overview claimsEnglish
2·2 months agoYou’re reading more criticism into that than I really feel. I just answered a question. And my original point was merely that while the article makes it almost sound like this ruling was final, it isn’t. The war will be entering its second battle soon.

Call me cynical but I do think an outlet called oil price dot com may not be entirely impartial when they report on this. That is not to say what they wrote here is wrong; I wouldn’t know. It just has a touch of pot and kettle about it.
Since the power networks are linked and European countries import and export electricity, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that next to renewables power from gas stepped in to fill the nuclear gap. And the price for natural gas is often linked to a certain other commodity price.