Interesting; I’ve read that more and more jurisdictions are ending the concept of common law marriage. The idea is it existed in a time when a legal marriage was harder to get. Nowadays in those areas a legal marriage is easy to get so the thought is if those people never legally married it’s because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t, so there’s no reason to have a marriage forced onto the couple.
I had an old one that was DE-9!
Instead of promptly removing bad actors, Meta allowed “high value accounts” to “accrue more than 500 strikes without Meta shutting them down,” Reuters reported. The more strikes a bad actor accrued, the more Meta could charge to run ads, as Meta’s documents showed the company “penalized” scammers by charging higher ad rates. Meanwhile, Meta acknowledged in documents that its systems helped scammers target users most likely to click on their ads.
“If you’re going to scam our users we want a cut.”
The Mask of Zorro was one I thought of recently
According to the [Wall Street] Journal, some employees balked at the demand, concerned that their faces or likeness could be sold to other companies or used in deepfake videos. The employees were put off by the chatbot’s sexual demeanor and its likeness to a waifu. But they were told that the collection of their data was “a job requirement to advance xAI’s mission.”
Oh man, I think I played that in elementary school!
I talked to a high-end DIT once who’s pretty influential and even gets sponsorships. Corning gave him a fiber optic Thunderbolt cable made with Gorilla Glass. He said he could tie knots in it and it still worked. Made it real easy to take from filming location to filming location. Sounded like it was crazy expensive if anyone wanted to buy one, though.
I caught an infection that gave me vestibular neuritis while at my in-law’s last year. The first day when I was in really bad shape and running a low fever my dog spent the whole day curled up in bed with me, not her normal activity there. She just knew something was wrong. When I was doing a little better and was able to sit in the living room she got very excited!
It used to be if you wanted the detailed news you had to pay for it, either a subscription or 25¢ for that day’s edition ($1 on Sunday). But it was really easy to get that day’s edition: just stick a quarter in the dispenser.
We need to find a way to make that work. I wouldn’t mind paying 50¢ or $1 for access to one day’s-worth of articles, but the payment processing fees eat away all the money on such small transactions. I also don’t necessarily want to set up an account for some random local newspaper on the other side of the country that I’m looking at this one time and might never look at again. It feels like these should be solvable problems, though.
I got a late appointment for my dog at the vet’s office. A tech walked out and was kind of freaking out that it was already dark at 5:30. She said she’d never experienced DST before. Turns out she’d moved here fairly recently from Puerto Rico and they don’t change time there.
You still have Kmart in Australia? They went bankrupt in the US. I have fond memories going there as a child in the ’80s and ’90s but it went downhill in the new millennium.
Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often “offshore or at lower salary.”
This is just coming out of a prediction from a Forrester Research report of predictions for next year. It’s not actually showing they’re hiring people back at lower pay.
A fun finish in that article; I was going to quote the end but it felt like posting a spoiler
Oh wow, I thought I read it was university studies (which I’d still say is more important priority-wise), but that’s really young!
I’m going to guess, based on the only other comment on this post from @Blaster_M@lemmy.world, that the “beloved” qualifier might be overselling the level of appreciation for Unity. Either it’s not actually that beloved by Ubuntu users or there is only a relatively small number of people for whom Unity truly is beloved. In any case I’m guessing it hasn’t had enough users to justify funding from Canonical.
In fact, just looking up Canonical on Wikipedia to verify the company name and see if they were for-profit I found this:
Canonical achieved a small operating profit of $281,000 in 2009, but until 2017 struggled to maintain financial solvency and took a major financial hit from the development of Unity and Ubuntu Touch, leading to an operating loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year 2013. The company reported an operating profit of $2 million in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees.
I didn’t know they’re touring!
Fn E on recent Macs or Ctrl Cmd Spacebar
I thought this was an abstract Firefox logo at first
Edit: I read the article and it’s a really interesting concept!
Never heard of it but poking around their website it looks interesting; how do you like it?