RecallMadness
@RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 3 days ago:
Not entirely true.
In some countries (UK, NZ) Uber has to give you the price of the journey up front. Whereas taxis are metered and do not.
Uber UK has competition in thin regard with Minicabs, but the minicab apps are still shit.
Capped costs for consumers is a competitive advantage over taxis, and Uber has managed to find the sweet spot between hailing a taxi, and booking a minicab.
- Comment on Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription 1 month ago:
Aren’t the lyrics just ripped from somewhere else?
They’ve got lyrics for some of the obscure shit I listen to, no way they’re paying money for someone to transcribe it.
- Comment on LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy 2 months ago:
good enough to trick even the savvy
But not savvy enough to be still using last pass.
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
At least the south east.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 2 months ago:
What do you mean? 141 fewer poors? Sounds like a great year for us.
- Comment on *So far* 3 months ago:
Nah it’s more like cookie crumb.
- Comment on A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time 3 months ago:
Hips that make a Pixar mom jealous.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
Come April, NZ will be charging EVs road user charges using the same price-per-kilometre mechanism diesel (diesel not have a fuel levy) vehicles use.
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 4 months ago:
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with “create a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>”
- Comment on Transport For London Adds AI To Its Cameras To Bust Fare Jumpers, Bike Riders 4 months ago:
Because the network is old and the trains don’t have room for non folding bikes.
A normal bicycle is going to block entrances and exits to carriages, and in the case of an emergency that could be fatal.
- Comment on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile 4 months ago:
This cuts too close to home.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 4 months ago:
You can get this done on AliExpress
- Comment on How Quora Died 4 months ago:
I think Something will have to change quite significantly.
Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.
And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.
- Comment on Any takers? 4 months ago:
Wasn’t there a story about a guy who made LSD in an old (nuclear?) bunker and threw parties and shit?
Not far off.
- Comment on Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off 5 months ago:
Just straight up skipped a step in “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 5 months ago:
Amen.
Got money, bought a PC my parents couldn’t afford, learned to code, got a desk job.
Taught me life skills too, like dealing with dickhead managers and customers, time keeping, and just general responsibility.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
What about the LinkedIn key.
That’s actually a shortcut for ctrl+alt+shift+L… that is an (unconfigurable?) hotkey for opening LinkedIn in edge.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 5 months ago:
When the UK was dead set on rolling out verification for porn, wasn’t Mindgeek (Pornhubs parent company) pushing its AgeID technology?
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 5 months ago:
Why don’t we apply these rules to all things? Why just milk and booze?
Weights and measures act, appendix 4.2.0 part 3, section 2: chicken nuggies.
- Comment on Taste the Pain! 5 months ago:
I’m a survivor.
We’re a dying breed.
- Comment on Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says 6 months ago:
“Known CSAM” suggests researchers ran it through automated detection tools which the dataset authors could have used.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 6 months ago:
Their calendar, contacts and bridge don’t support CalDAV/CardDAV, so you can’t synchronise them anywhere.
The iOS app doesn’t synchronise contacts or calendars either. There’s a one way “upload to proton”, but not the most helpful.
The public holidays only include some countries (not mine).
Their VPN is terrible with 20% packet loss, despite sitting in the same data center as other VPN providers without that issue.
But, still not google, and their mail app is better on iOS than fastmail.
- Comment on SEGA Reveal Teasers (Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi & More) 6 months ago:
To me it looks more like a modern manga/anime (more detail, smoother gradients) vs the original that paid homage to (classic?) manga (black and white / block colour).
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill 6 months ago:
And now everywhere we have cell towers sticking out of the ground with little consideration for where it is.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 6 months ago:
You guys are getting cubicles? Living the dream.
- Comment on White AI faces judged human more often than actual human faces 7 months ago:
Exactly. The AIs job is to generate humanness. The things that don’t look human get discarded, the things that have strong human indicators get kept. Oh look, the AI did its job. Shocked pikachu.
The white thing is probably just a case of biased training data. Which is going to be a problem across all AIs. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 5-10 years (if the fad lasts longer than NFTs lmao) we find out the ‘AIs’ have all been fed biased data as yet another means of large corporations controlling the narrative of the population.
- Comment on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads 7 months ago:
If you buy a Sony Bravia you can put them into “pro mode” which keeps all the signal processing, but lets you turn off android.
- Comment on Indonesia's Geothermal Energy May Produce 24 Gigawatts of Electricity 8 months ago:
24GW is 160% of the current worldwide production (15GW)… Impressive.
- Comment on Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge | Vivaldi boss calls for browser choice and warns that Redmond might be deflating usage figures 8 months ago:
Is any chromium based browser an “underdog” ? You’re still contributing to and supporting the google hegemony.
- Comment on Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way 9 months ago:
A similar trope is tossed around in motorcycling communities.
(Supposedly) Motorcyclists make better drivers, not only in themselves but also in their friends, family and neighbours by virtue of awareness “my neighbour Jim is a motorcyclist, I should look out for him when I’m driving”.
Some groups are advocating that the CBT (basic motorcycle training) should be a requirement for new drivers to capitalise on this.
Some level of mandatory other-road-user immersion requirement could be a good way a good way to boost safety.
Fuck, driver licensing is too relaxed anyway, bring in mandatory retesting and increase the skill requirements gradually. Literally force the shit drivers out of their cars. You do it for commercial/heavy vehicles why not personal.