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Boar taint in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Oof yes article mentioned, disturbing

Heads up: that YouTube thumbnail is NSFW, also a little disturbing (esp for our post-speciesism friends), poor smart little pigs

(breaking the URL like YouTube[.]com also eliminates thumbnails]

Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’m wondering if you could have any version of this—assuming best intentions and smartest people—which did not demand very similar countermeasures past a certain equivalent growth threshold.

I unfortunately have to imagine Codeberg is like Lemmy and flies under the radar from spammers.

…for now.

LLMs all but guarantee a future of oppressive noise to signal ratios. I imagine IRL connections, or at least numbers saved in your phone, will become pretty important there. So then I think up in-person local-community-vibe verification schemes but they all end with dirty marketers or operators inducing members of the public to astroturf or lease their accounts…

Boar taint in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Looks like we gotta fix that redirecting BoarTaint dot com citation link [2] on Wiki

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Boar taint (en.wikipedia.org)
 

"Boar taint is the offensive odor or taste that can be evident during the cooking or eating of pork or pork products derived from non-castrated male pigs once they reach puberty. Boar taint is found in around 20% of entire male finishing pigs. … Studies show that about 75% of consumers are sensitive to boar taint, leading pork producers to control this in order to maximize profits. …

Boar taint is caused by the accumulation of two compounds – androstenone and skatole – in the fat of male pigs. Androstenone (a male pheromone) is produced in the testes as male pigs reach puberty and gives the meat a urine or sweat flavour, while skatole (a byproduct of intestinal bacteria, or bacterial metabolite of the amino acid tryptophan) is produced in both male and female pigs and gives the meat a 'fecal' flavour. …"

Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Didn’t JUST get this way, we been smart

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down. The software was also attached to the time clock, so it knew who was working in the restaurant. Manna also had “help buttons” throughout the restaurant. Small signs on the buttons told customers to push them if they needed help or saw a problem. There was a button in the restroom that a customer could press if the restroom had a problem. There was a button on each trashcan. There was a button near each cash register, one in the kiddie area and so on. These buttons let customers give Manna a heads up when something went wrong.

[…]

Or, “Jane, when you are through with this customer, please close your register. Then we will clean the women’s restroom.”

And so on. The employees were told exactly what to do, and they did it quite happily. It was a major relief actually, because the software told them precisely what to do step by step.

Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Marshall Brain

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Walking past a Taco Bell it seems someone competent implemented the system—seems to understand people just as well as the best software I’m aware of can.

Anon shoots his shot in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Cutie pie :)

Q T (# for pi)

Just pure vibes in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very interesting, how’d they enforce that?

Fuck the IRS in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1

It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.

Get bent, Brenda in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Mastercardery & Visary processes too

Nomenclature in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Clearly a rare sighting

reverse image search for blorb does not return REAL blorb but it’s okay

/etc? Never heard of her. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

As a noob, those little wrappers are great.

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Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I err on the side of thoroughness, but I use so much more time & water than others I see. I think I’m doing a better job… does it matter?

I want to watch an in-depth video of the minimum required washing. If you know or are a science educator (microbiologist? Epidemiologist?), maybe you can help :D

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"Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Bringing a big photo of soybean oil and whole eggs to your feed

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"Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help" (hey.paris)
 

Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.

932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

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Mid-nineties ghost rizz rule (sh.itjust.works)
 
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A seal galumphs into a bar. The bartender says ‘Grab the salmon!’ (apnews.com)
 

The baby seal is A-OK! But perhaps thirsty (wasn’t even served a sip of seltzer)…

A seal walked into a bar. Or to use a technical term, it galumphed. ... It was a wet, lazy Sunday evening when the baby fur seal waddled into the Sprig + Fern The Meadows craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. ... "Everyone was in shock," Evans said. ... Evading its pursuers, the creature dashed into a restroom and then hid under the dishwasher, which was swiftly unplugged. ... "I just went to my fiancé, I said, grab the salmon! Grab the salmon!" Then it was a brief wait for conservation rangers to arrive. It turned out they were already tracking the wandering seal. "It was their fourth call for the day," Evans said. ... The seal was released on nearby Rabbit Island, considered a safe location because of its dog-free status, Otley said. It's not unusual for curious young seals to show up in unexpected places at this time of year, she added. ... "They can turn up in unusual places, like this pub, but this is normal exploratory behavior," Otley said.

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I want one-finger flashlight brightness adjustment back (from iOS 17) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
37 comments fedilink
 

I don’t care how they do it but I want to be able to press and hold the flashlight icon and, without lifting my finger, immediately begin to slide my finger up and down to adjust flashlight brightness.

Boo form over function. Very minor nod to the increased granularity.

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It started to stop kids vaping [pot] in school bathrooms. Then they stuck it in poor people's homes. | DEF CON Snitch Puck Talk, October 2025 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
19 comments fedilink
 

A lotta vapes are reportedly chock full of lead, so kids probably shouldn't be puffing clouds in the bathroom stall, but was there any reason to design the most exploitable version of a product to alert school administrators about it?
The manufacturer was happy to expand to Section 8 (USA, subsidized) housing in spite of script kiddies, rogue employees, or legit employees working under new guidelines being able to root into the Motorola Halo 3C and use its fully-functioning microphones to invade privacy.
The frog is boiling slowly: pay more for your car insurance when your insurer buys your driving data today; risk your home insurance when you don't install this "fire prevention" spyware tomorrow.

DEF CON 33 - Unmasking the Snitch Puck: IoT surveillance tech in the school bathroom - Reynaldo, nyx: YouTube
83,126 views, Oct 10, 2025

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Has anyone annotated the Star Trek: Enterprise theme video? e.g. where all the source clips/images came from & so on (sh.itjust.works)
 

The song might be goofy but there’s good stuff in there too

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Siri, play news from... NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox. Who else? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Are the available sources undocumented so Apple can change them up as needed?

CNN & BBC also work, though longer form / daily as opposed to quick ~hourly updates. (CNBC isn’t too frequent either, and no weekend updates.)

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Absolute bot free-for-all, wow - no more digging into spammers'/liars' comment histories (www.theverge.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65915774

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