[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 month ago

My credit got tanked years ago for a $95 doctor visit bill I was disputing that got sent to collections. Took me years to repair my credit. I spent most of my twenties with credit well below 600 and unable to get even small increases to my credit.

I hope this goes through and others don't have to deal with this kind of crap (or worse) because of the mess that is credit reporting.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 month ago

Guys, seriously. The entire Affinity Suite is $150. Paid for updates through the current version. It's solid.

Dump Adobe.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

Thr problem the AI tools are going to have is that they will have tons of things like this that they won't catch and be able to fix. Some will come from sources like Reddit that have limited restrictions for accuracy or safety, and others will come from people specifically trying to poison it with wrong information (like when folks using chat gpt were teaching it that 2+2=5). Fixing only the ones that get media attention is a losing battle. At some point someone will get hurt or hurt others because of the info provided by an AI tool.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago

I never understood this, as my grandparents were always grandma/grandpa, or granny (in my paternal granmothers case she preferred it).

Then I moved to the south, and met my husband's family and friends. Every single one of them had weird names for at least one of their grandparents. A lot of them called grandmother "meemaw" and my father in law is papaw to my neices and nephews.

I took it as a cultural thing, but it still feels a bit strange to me.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 months ago

If people want to make computer characters date they should just save themselves the trouble and get the Sims.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago

They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.

Surely nobody saw this coming right?

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From the article: "Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for "Texas VPN" jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase "How to access Pornhub.""

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 58 points 5 months ago

The one thing where I agree with cable companies about is the risk to consumers accidentally canceling all or multiple services when they intend to just cancel one. It will be hard to explain that a package price will no longer apply if one part of the package is canceled.

However- it can be addressed with a well-designed cancelation instruction screen. This is a constraint to the communication and process design; it is not an insurmountable barrier like the cable companies are suggesting.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 months ago

Based on her description of what the guy said it sounds like he was genuinely trying to just say something nice and she took it that way. As long as the email didn't follow up with a "so are you still single, let's get together" or whatever it's fine.

I think all the news of creepers out there and the Incel crowd makes it hard to see things through a positive lens, but there really are good folks out there. We all would benefit from assuming good intent when we see things like this.

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I'm looking for a way to play games that are 20+ years old and not produced anymore. I'm thinking like the old maniac mansion games and other Sierra on-line stuff from the early 90s, but I'd love to be able to browse old games and check them out. Happy to play in browser or download if the source is reputable.

Here's a few places I've come across in my search. Would love thoughts or recommendations on these sites or others that are good places to check out.

Myabandonware.com

Abandonwaregames.net

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TLDR The messages were shorthand meteorological readings for multiple locations at specific times. It was a unique form of code used to transmit weather data via telegram back in the 1800s that is the predecessor of the shorthand used today.

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TL:DR author's positing that despite the public narrative we (gen x and millenials) are mostly better off (especially financially) than prior generations and at least partly due to actions from boomers.

Thought this was an interesting read. I don't agree with all of the author's points but figured it would generate good discussion here.

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This was a pretty interesting video on the progression of world records on NES Tetris and the code that creates the kill screen.

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[Mortgage Is 'Just A Fancy Bullsh*t Word For Paying Rent For 30 Years To The Bank,' Says Real Estate Billionaire Grant Cardone — Here's Why Renting Could Be A Better Financial Move

](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-just-fancy-bullsh-t-171148202.html?guccounter=1)

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Not sure what is going on, but over the past few weeks I've been having recurring issues with Firefox freezing up requiring restart (of the app).

Seems to happen when I have multiple tabs open but no particular sites that I've noticed. Multiple updates have come through. I'm on windows 11, using privacy badger, unlock origin, one password and the capital one shopping app (disabled most of the time).

I'm working on setting up a shop for selling my art on squarespace so I'm on there a lot. I'll be in the middle of editing something and then it stops responding and I get the pop-up asking me to wait or close the app. Waiting has never worked so I just close and restart. It also can't reopen my tabs when I restart so I have to do that manually.

I've tried reinstalling it. I've cleared out the cache though it's set to do that at closing anyway. Nothing works. This happens randomly, not every time I open the browser.

Does this sound like anything you are experiencing? Any ideas on other things I should try to fix it?

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 44 points 7 months ago

I am normally really protective with my data but I don't get the outrage here. If the data is all about how you use the app and the report relates to things relevant to usage that are interesting and is sent just to you,I don't see the harm. It's not broadcast to the world and isn't sharing a bunch of sensitive information (as far as I know). It just seems like a fun way to reflect on the year.

I use Pandora and I wish they did something like this. As much as pandora is all about data I would love to see a report on my music listening with some of their insights about music attributes included.

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Glory (2022) Acrylic, ink, and paper on canvas.

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 52 points 8 months ago

Would love to see this happen in the US. Would be a total shitshow but very entertaining to watch.

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"Manchin said he first has to explore whether there's an appetite among voters for a moderate candidate like him. "

Ugh.

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There's supposedly a variety of different spectroscopy methods but what drives the choice of one method over another? If elements drive the colors, how do you parse out individual elements from a compound?

Is there a consistent pattern to how the emission lines relate to what the element looks like before going through the prism? Is there a resource that shows examples of emission lines along with the visible color?

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 45 points 8 months ago

This totally sucks, though I have to say I am impressed that they spelled it out so clearly. I can't believe they showed it to you like that instead of burying it in some legalese/fine print, across multiple emails or something

[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 59 points 9 months ago

I managed a remote team for 5 years. Good managers have no problem leading teams remotely. It is a question of knowing your employees and how best to make the remote environment work for their specific skills and job requirements. People trying to get monitoring software or pushing for RTO are just trying to get butts in seats and not truly managing their people.

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