"Oh yeah, are you sure about that? Then why does my AirTag say it's already landed on Jupiter, hmm? I'd like to speak to your manager."
Yep, mostly just used to help crowdsource weather reporting like this.
Though I have seen another interesting use-case for the barometer, which is for IP-rated (water-resistant) phones, you can use the barometer to check that your device still has a water-tight seal with an app that measures the pressure as you squeeze the sides of the phone together.
Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels.
Likely YouTube. While neither are great, between Google and Meta, Google's got the better reputation. YouTube also has a larger audience, because it includes a ton of users who wouldn't fall under traditional social media usage. Reels might be used as a periphery platform to drive more people to their main channel on YouTube.
Any TikTok creator who moves to Instagram full-time is either shooting themselves in the foot, or got a good contract from Meta.
I used to buy these little pocket-sized Sudoku books that I'd keep with me, usually play a puzzle or two while commuting to work or something.
I didn't know watermelon could do this.
If done in a controlled environment, it's apparently very tasty! I recently stumbled upon a tutorial somebody made recently about how to make watermelon jerky with a dehydrator. Apparently the flavor gets significantly sweeter. He was making it for hiking/survival purposes, so removing all the water weight lets you pack a lot of lightweight nutrients, too.
That's really cool! I wonder if there's a way to find the previous owners of the house, that'd make for a really fun story if you were able to track down the original owner somehow.
They appear to be scrolling through a single social media feed. This operation is likely what those social media "boosting" services are doing, where they'll bring a ton of new traffic to your profile to try to goad the algorithm into sending real users your way.
No wrongdoing was found!
On surface level, sure. But the consequences of this drama will be seen across the industry. Google and Amazon both appear to have worked to have kept this quiet, which raises a lot of important questions about how the business of video streaming will handle child safety.
Even though it may seem like drama, there's an important story here, and it directly involves the futures of some key players in the tech sector so it's relevant.
I'm 100% certain that if he actually didn't know the kid's age beforehand, that he would have said so in one of his responses. If the situation was anything other than what everybody is already suspecting, he would have put it out there instead of letting the internet speculate wildly. He wouldn't just be sitting on that little nugget of information if it existed. He was too specific in his responses to have left that out unintentionally.
Yeah, and there's a much different context. Those aren't real children on the show. Those text threads are with adults on both ends. The entire interaction from start to finish is mitigated by professionals.
We're talking about a situation involving a real child, not a sting operation where there isn't an actual victim. There's a real child whose identity would be put at risk of being exposed by releasing the logs.
This isn't primetime TV drama. This is a real situation involving a real minor. You should take a step back from the screen for a minute if you're struggling to see the difference.
The amount of people eager to see a sexting thread with a child is fucking absurd.
I was fully expecting this to be some blown-out-of-proportion nonsense, like a "Sign up" button next to a switch or slider in the settings menu for something that would pertain to Game Pass. Nope, it's a full block of the window dedicated just to an ad, not pertinent to any surrounding settings. Hella egregious.
I missed an opportunity to nab a free ticket to a George Carlin show because I couldn't get the day off work. That ended up being his last tour before he died.
I think most people these days don't use browser bookmarks as a "check this out later" tool, and instead as more of a "I frequently need to access this page" function. For me, I only bookmark a page if it's something I frequently access; things like my email, Lemmy, some work apps, etc. In my use-case, bookmarks are a more "permanent" installation to my browser.
Also, "read later" apps generally strip the web page formatting and advertisements, and usually have an offline function of some sort; both of which you typically can't do with bookmarks. These are especially useful for those who like to read on their commute.
I was pressed for time when filing this year, so I didn't want to experiment with the IRS' new program and just went with FreeTaxUSA since I knew it would be fast and have my data from last year saved. For those who tried the new program this year, how was it?
It holds up about as much as those "Not responsible for broken windshields" stickers on the back of dump trucks. Which is to say: not at all.
> > > Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare. > >
> > > While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager. > >
Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".
> > > Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at an individual known as Techlead once again. This creator has had an incredibly controversial history but it's in the last few days he's decided to take advantage of the YouTube copyright system to gain information on his critics and unlawfully remove their content. YouTube needs to step in. Thanks for watching! > >
Added some clarification to the original title as it's a bit clickbaity.
tl;dw: A YouTuber by the name of "TechLead" has openly admitted to using the DMCA process to file illegitimate takedown requests against people who use any footage of him while making exposé videos.
The way it works is by filing a DMCA request against the video, which then forces the creator to respond to the complaint or have the video permanently deleted. Because DMCA complaints are a legal process, responding to the complaint entails supplying a lot of your personal information, which TechLead has been accused of leaking in the past. This forces creators to either expose their personal information to a person who has already had credible doxxing allegations made against them, or have their video removed and their channel permanently stricken.
This process is not only a violation of YouTube's ToS, but also several US laws; depending on what he does with the information he gets from the complaint response, it may fall under doxxing laws, but also knowingly submitting a frivolous DMCA request is considered perjury.
Don't poke the Viper in the jungle unless you're ready for the venom.
> > > Don't poke the Viper in the jungle unless you're ready for the venom. > >
> > > From the upcoming album “Cellophane Memories”by Chrystabell and David Lynch out on Sacred Bones Records on August 2, 2024. > >
