"You're a commercial user of libcurl who use it for free and you ask a volunteer to fix your problem on his spare time?"

Sometimes I need to say it.

One of my big pet peeves is when people say "people used to ..." and they describe something well-off or only wealthy people did in the past. "but nowadays people just..." and they describe something poor and broke people do today.

We don't have as much documentation of how poor people lived in the past... so in a way we don't know how poor people lived as clearly.

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I think it's perfectly valid after the month I've had to use some of my time off work to do absolutely nothing.

@artemis In the UK the inevitably right-wing politicians who used to do the loud public media saying "you should live on gruel if poor" could never complete a week living on social security level payments as part of an 'experiment' and that test-poverty was before the "social security agency fucks up your money roulette" or "something breaks down". Usually they quit after 2 days when they spent all the money on stupid shit and had a massive tantrum.

And worse, still promote their gruel-media.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116846648695885111

100% ack

and it made me think of this quote:

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
— Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Stanford scientists just solved one of the biggest problems with human aging.

They found a way to regrow joint cartilage.

They blocked an aging-linked protein called 15-PGDH, and the results were massive. Old, worn cartilage began to grow back in older mice. Human cartilage samples also showed signs of new cartilage growth.

This is a massive milestone for human longevity. Actual biological repair. Proof that the body can fix its own parts.

Maybe it’s about time we add ‘no cryptocurrency’ and ‘no AI’ to the Mastodon features list

Right beside the ‘no ads’ and ‘no tracking’

Crazy we live in a time where the ‘no’ features make you a better alternative

Mini thread polemico sul gaming
SONY E I DISCHI FISICI

Sony dice basta ai dischi fisici, e come al solito il mondo del gaming mi avvilisce per la totale assenza di un ragionamento politico che non sia robaccia di pancia da post su Facebook.

Sony dice che non ci saranno più dischi, il che vuol dire che non sarà più possibile prestarsi i giochi, rivenderli, tramandarli ai figli, etc.

Ma quello del disco è un problema superficiale. Quello vero è il DRM. Che c'è già.

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Chicco Testa, Luciano Violante, Renato Brunetta, Massimiliano Fuksas, Paolo Scaroni e altri firmano un annuncio a pagamento sui giornali per difendere il diritto dei dirigenti a guadagnare milioni ma senza responsabilità personali. Paese ininventabile.

Friendly reminder che chi affitta case o stanze "al prezzo di mercato" in particolare in città universitarie, la legge lo permette quindi per lo stato può farlo e ok.
Ma moralmente è un parassita difficilmente definibile umano per il quale ho solo disprezzo e pietà.
Anche lo schiavismo era legale fino a qualche secolo fa.

Esiste il lavoro, che crea qualcosa.
Ed esiste il parassitaggio, che ruba qualcosa.
Sono cose ben diverse, non dimentichiamolo

@remixtures Seeing this circulate more, it occurs to me this is probably going to fuck anyone who happens to be an amputee, happen to have broken fingers or a broken wrist at the time, as well as the usual inaccuracies these systems have with PoC. Oh, and what do you wanna bet there's been so little accounting for women's hands that acrylics or just nail polish is going to fuck with this?

“Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.

That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.

Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

#Google #ReCAPTCHA #Biometrics #Privacy

@remixtures in addition to the obvious risk that Google will hold on to the biometric data they will collect through this, a few seconds of video should be sufficient to thoroughly profile imperfections in your camera's lens(es), which can be used to identify photos or video taken with the same camera.

This BBC article quotes Jessica Fridrich, who I believe pioneered use of the technique and its applications in digital forensics:

The hidden fingerprint inside your photos

can we please fast forward to the part where i can buy ram again

The key thing to understand here is that LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ARE WRONG ABOUT SHIT ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
We used to sarcastically say, "Every time I read a news article about my area of expertise, I'm appalled by everything it gets wrong, but I'm sure the news articles about things that aren't in my area of expertise are all perfect!"
It's no longer news articles people blindly trust, it's LLMs, which can produce bullshit at the speed of light.
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The BBC is looking for an Elixir developer

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/47677-en_GB/

#FediHire #getfedihired #elixirlang

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116851816985011989

Quello degli account generati da IA sta diventando un problema per i moderatori delle istanze (Mastodon e non solo). Distinguere tra persone reali e fittizie non è sempre così facile soprattutto se l'account è appena stato creato e non vi è molto contenuto.
Un suggerimento: dopo esservi iscritti presentatevi ed interagite con altri account in italiano della vostra istanza. Rilanciate contenuti e createne di vostri.
Voi inizierete ad apprezzare il fediverso e noi capiremo che non siete una IA. 😅

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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
> workers were allowed to take up to six weeks of paid leave for an illness. If the employee falls ill from a different sickness, the six-week paid leave starts again.
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> German workers reportedly took advantage of the policy, with employees taking an average of 14.8 sick days a year

An average of 14.8 days/year compared to a possible *30* days *per illness* hardly sounds like "taking advantage." 15 days isn't much more than the 10 we're legally allowed in Australia!