Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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I'd say it's worse than that. If someone looks at a protest opposing genocide and they take from that that they're antisemitic, then they're essentially starting from a position of "Jews = genociders" which is pretty fucking antisemitic.

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Lindsay Ellis has a positively exceptional video on this very subject.

This is probably the code on which the LLM was trained.

...and Dyson Sphere Program.

What's 1312a?

The headline is rather vague and seems to buy much of what's said in the actual article: that the cops raided this dude's home and charged him with obstruction when he got upset that they were raiding his home and stealing his shit.

Among the things they made off with as "evidence": computers, t-shirts, a fridge magnet, and a keffiyeh (that scarf traditionally made in Palestine). There's no mention in the article that this dude was anything other than a peaceful activist campaigning for a free Palestine.

Edit: I just read the arrest report and it's pretty standard cop overreach stuff. They raided his home, took his computers, thumb drives, etc. and the worst thing they found were "Plans indicating how to cause property damage during the protest;" and smoke bombs.

Definitely a true danger to the public. Best we lock him up so we can get back to bombing children.

I've wondered this myself, but at a guess, I'd assume that they'd attach a 1hr window to the time change. So to use your example:

• 1400h egg price is set to £3.00
• 1445h you pick eggs off the shelf
• 1500h egg price set to £3.05
• 1515h Jane picks eggs off the shelf at £3.05
• 1530h you get to the till and pay £3.00
• 1535h Alice gets to the till and pays £3.05

Basically, so long as you're in and out within an hour, any price rises (not drops, likely) within that hour don't apply to you.

Alternatively, there's a continued push to use the self scanning guns, those things you take with you in your cart as you shop. These could track the time of purchase and thus give you up-to-the-second pricing. Of course this only works if everyone has to use those things. I'm sure that's next.

It's actually so much worse than that.

With e-labels you can optimise your prices in real time, A/B testing the public across the country in minutes to optimise for the highest rate a population will tolerate indefinitely.

Then, you can offload the management of this service to a third party, which sounds daft at first, but this provides deniability when it comes to price fixing. When EvilCorp contracts with all grocers in a given province/state, they can slowly hike the price of bread by 1% every hour until they maximise profits, screwing you. They can even optimise for time of day/region/whatever, all with deniability.

Surge pricing is a distraction. The real profit is in squeezing the public slowly.

What is it with so many maps drawn by Americans pretending Canada doesn't exist?

You can also do this with New Pipe.

0118, 999, 881, 999, 119, 725...3.

"Tension"

Motherfucker invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader.

Well that's encouraging. Here's hoping they switch.

I would say so yes, but only if you view it as a communist enclave within capitalism.

The tricky bit is that FOSS exists in an environment that's devoid of scarcity. If I write code and post it under a Free license, you can make infinite copies and use it without depriving me of it. That's rather different from a scenario where I might spend my labour extracting a finite number of carrots from the earth.

Still, I think it's an excellent demonstration that the working class is willing to spend its efforts in a sharing economy... so long as the benefits are reciprocal.

This looks... fantastic.

Shame they opted for Apache.

Croc can be especially good for this.

Weirdly, I do have a "special permissions" section in my phone (Fairphone 4, which basically runs stock Android 15), but there's nothing about adding links to the homescreen in there, just:

• device admin apps
• Display over other apps
• Do not disturb access
• Media management apps
• Modify system settings
• Notification read, reply, and control
• Change media output
• Picture-in-picture
• Premium SMS
• Unrestricted mobile data
• Install unknown apps (Firefox has this permission now, still no joy)
• Alarms and reminders
• Usage access
• VR helper services
• Wi-Fi control
• Screen turn-on control
• Full-screen notifications
• Launch via NFC

I actually went through all of these, enabling Firefox's permissions wherever it came up, but still nothing. I'm starting to think that this might be an Android (b)locking rather than a Firefox shortcoming.

It doesn't appear on any site. Note that I'm not looking for an "Open with the app" button, but rather one that creates an "app" that just opens Firefox at a particular URL. This used to exist, but doesn't seem to happen for me anymore.