homesweethomeMrL

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 1 hour ago

All good points, but even without Chrome they became one of the biggest companies in the history of Earth. Even without Chrome they'll still have Android and will undoubtedly spit out a Chromev2 browser experience that suckers will flock to - and even without Chrome they'll still likely control all of that search traffic.

Hey if it kills their fingerprinting plans, I'm all for it, but are they going to be prevented from developing a browser? That's like not being allowed to develop a car. Which - again, fine by me, but still unlikely.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 2 hours ago

A UAB research has characterised in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

Well shit.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 3 points 2 hours ago

Wow. That's Classic Evil™ right there.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 2 hours ago (7 children)

FFS the Chrome thing is nothing even. Who would even want it?

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 2 hours ago

Yum! Thanks!

[–] homesweethomeMrL 5 points 2 hours ago

"I'm a very busy man, Columbo - there are three reported Jem Ha'dar attacks in the DMZ in the last week alone! I don't have time to remember every detail about some freighter I've never even heard of before!"

[–] homesweethomeMrL 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh, of course, sir - I didn't mean to imply. It's just, y'see . . . you reported the vessel's core breach at 09:03 on 47821.6.

Well sir, the thing is that the Federation Sector Array which is right near there you see is recording that explosion at, uh . . 09:13 on 47821.6. Now how d'ya suppose that extra ten minutes got in there? It's the darndest thing.

Now I thought - of course, I don't know much about Sector Arrays and the like, but see I thought - maybe it was off, by ten minutes? That could account for it. But then my wife, y'see, she tells me that all the Sector Arrays are sequenced exactly to Federation Universal Time, and if it's off by even a tiny little bit it throws all kinds of alarms, and they rush out there to take a look, and so on.

So anyways, I thought I'd check to see if maybe you remember something else that might help figure out what happened with that.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 5 hours ago

Matt Gaetz ethics report finds 'substantial evidence' he participated in statutory rape, prostitution

And drugs and witness tampering and obstruction of Congress and being gross and skeezy

[–] homesweethomeMrL 0 points 5 hours ago

Attaboy, Joe

[–] homesweethomeMrL 11 points 5 hours ago

In another text message exchange cited by the committee, Greenberg exchanged messages with a woman in September 2018, writing, “If you have a friend that is down, perhaps all four of us can meet up later.”

The woman responded she did have a friend who could meet up, adding, “I usually do $400 per meet.”

Greenberg responded by sending a photo of Gaetz holding out a phone and taking a selfie. “Oooh my friend thinks he’s really cute!” the woman responded.

“Well, he’s down here only for the day, we work hard and play hard,” Greenberg wrote. “Have you ever tried molly.”

. . . Committee investigators concluded that between 2017 to 2019, Gaetz “used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.”

“There is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz used cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. At least two women saw Representative Gaetz using cocaine and ecstasy at different events,” the committee wrote. “Additionally, nearly every witness interviewed observed Representative Gaetz using marijuana.”

[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 5 hours ago

A civil suit might be a winner.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 5 hours ago

In this particular situation, "didn't know" and "didn't care" are the same.

 

This is from ten months ago, and as such is a fascinating time machine of what was going on when trump was going to go to jail and AI might still figure out something to do before faceplanting an industry that shouldn’t exist.

Most of the horrifying layoffs you've seen in journalism are a result of rot economics borne of the ideas of people who can't write and don't read. The news industry has spent a decade building itself on foundations made of sand, with executives desperate to change content strategies to match the constantly-shifting whims of social networks and search engines. 

If you’re looking for somebody to blame, you can start with Cory Haik, Vice’s Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Vice, she co-led Mic, a publication she drove into the ground by forcing it to move from producing beloved written journalism to dancing to the beat of Facebook's "pivot to video,” leading to the company laying off most of its staff and selling its intellectual property to Bustle. Haik is an example of the media world’s failure to police itself - a career failure that has now driven two great publications into the ground because she doesn’t understand what the fuck she is doing, as evidenced by her 2017 op-ed claiming that we were “in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism.” Cory Haik isn't a journalist, or an editor, or a creative — she’s a parasite.

. . . And few network effects have damaged the news more than Search Engine Optimization, where the allure of traffic from search engines like Google has led publishers to create content not with the goal of serving their audience, but attracting the spurious traffic that one might get from those searching "when does the Super Bowl start."

The result is a media industry in crisis. Desperate executives and disconnected editors twist their reporters' coverage to please Google's algorithms as a means of improving traffic to please advertisers' algorithms, creating content that looks and sounds the same as other outlets, which in turn leads to layoffs as profits fail to increase, which in turn normalizes and weakens the content created by the outlet. This is largely a result of those in power not actually consuming or producing any of the product that makes the outlet money, only understanding the business as a series of symbols that at some point create revenue, ostensibly from the written word and video.

The obvious connection between billionaires-have-destroyed-the-media isn’t explicitly made, but the case for it is.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/50437149

Ferret Frenzy!

 

A 1 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM are enough

If it ain't broke: Many large companies and organizations are often ridiculed for using outdated computers, but not every business requires the latest digital technology. Case in point: a bakery in Indiana has been photographed processing sales using a Commodore 64. This isn't the first time a 21st-century business has been spotted using the top-selling 1982 PC, as the device remains beloved by enthusiasts today.

Photos have recently surfaced showing that Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg, Indiana, uses a pair of Commodore 64s as cash registers. While running a business on a 42-year-old PC might seem unusual, the device likely has sufficient processing power to ring up orders of donuts.

The pictures, originally taken in 2010, recently reappeared on social media. The C64s were also visible in another photo from 2021. Hilligoss Bakery appears to have a strong reputation, boasting a 4.7 rating on Google Maps and a 4.4 on Yelp.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23318290

  • Los Angeles County health officials are investigating a case of three cats presumed to have H5N1 bird flu
  • County officials confirmed the disease in two other cats who drank recalled raw milk and died

December 18, 2024

UPDATED: Confirmed H5 Bird Flu Detected in Los Angeles County Cats That Consumed Recalled Raw Milk - Public Health Investigating Additional Possible Cases in Cats http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=4908#:

 

The appeals court found that a “significant appearance of impropriety” was enough to potentially taint the case in the public eye. The appellate court decided, however, it wouldn’t dismiss the sprawling racketeering conspiracy case entirely.

“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the court wrote in Thursday’s opinion.

The court added: “We cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment.”

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/5815202

Microsoft, Google & Co: Länder haben sich mit Pornofilter völlig verzettelt

https://archive.ph/tSvRu

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