[-] xia 11 points 3 days ago

I'm confused... wasn't there a big stir about green bubbles being the lowly Android peasants?

[-] xia 4 points 3 days ago

...but aren't the gray bubbles the ones she is sending from her phone?

[-] xia 30 points 3 days ago

I could FEEL when amazon removed the not and quote functions... now it's nigh-unusable.

[-] xia 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I feel like I've seen this in more than one sci-fi show...

[-] xia 8 points 5 days ago

So... what's the kleenex box for?

[-] xia 9 points 5 days ago

When ordinary cancer is not enough... double-dose.

[-] xia 3 points 5 days ago

I doubt they will even pay to have this exception coded up, much less try it out to have customers reject the higher prices. I expect it is easier and cheaper to simply exclude from operating in that state; this seems to be the pattern with other such force of law over tech company business models anyway.

[-] xia 2 points 6 days ago

I like how it was able to handle the fire's lighting effect and tent occulsion, and I wonder if it thinks of it like a fireplace, as inside a home.

[-] xia 17 points 6 days ago

I guess the technical answer would be "all of them"? It's some Dall-e 3 images muxed together, not a real game... ;-)

[-] xia 9 points 6 days ago
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If so, does that mean people actually remember a persons name & face after only one encounter?!

If not, why do we pretend they will be upset, and try to hide the fact that we forget an unfamiliar name?

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[-] xia 144 points 1 month ago

This is how conspiracy theories ought to work. Perfectly fine to raise a question, and dismissed when you get the answer. Absent is the rampant speculation and unfounded claims.

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I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the "you haven't used firefox in a while" in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the "meta refresh" option in the "about:config".

Now, I've started seeing this one... it's not even one of the passive banners but a full-page stop-the-world w/ semi-transparent background and right-click prevention.

Before I invest too much time trying to figure out how to disable these, or templating profile options en-masse, or the like... I thought I might ask... is there a way I can tell firefox that I only want it to only be a web-browser? i.e. an effective tool and not an attention sink or exciting video-game-like challenge of exploration and closing popups and suggestions while trying to remember why I launched it.

Somewhat relatedly, there is some kind of irony with firefox prominently offering to copy a URL without tracking for other sites, but when it is their own ad (however benign it might seem) that they disable right-clicks and load up on the trackers. The above button links to:

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write: fstab: no space left on device

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dall-e v3 w/ minor post-generation mods. Prompt: A robotic solicitor knocks on a home's closed front door with his right fist knuckles. The robot is dressed in a suit which has a large corporate logo on it and holds a tablet in his left hand.

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I know managers love that term, but I think I've come to hear it as an insult... Sorta like being called an unprofessional "jack of all trades" budget handyman that does everything mediocre...

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without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.

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[-] xia 77 points 6 months ago

Easy... decoupling. You hit the pause button on your keyboard, it does not need to "know" (in code or compile time or at runtime) what your music player is, and it can still pause it. Similarly, you can write a new media player, and not have to convince 1000 different projects to support or implement your custom api. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus

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