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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine said 42. I guess the only thing left I’m wondering is what was the question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump threatens 'far larger' tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do 'economic harm' to the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time he escalates you know you’re on the right track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel report says China aims to displace U.S. as top AI power by 2030.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation; “were out of ideas and gave been in a long time, better dump some money to us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The google annual cost to have Google as default search on iPhone is north of 20b, hence the number in the article headline. They also pay lots to Mozilla and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Europe sales drop nearly 45% amid row over Musk’s Trump links⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but that’s the whole catch-22; bring able to go somewhere to get what you need without learning a new site, assessing rules, product, credibility, learning their interface, etc. is part of the value Amazon provides(and I despise Bezos and Amazon). You wouldn’t “go directly to the supplier” for every purchase given time and mechanics above, so at some point you go to a bigger name that will do some of the legwork of aggregating suppliers into a useful, repeatable interface. By the time and "independent, new, direct purchased place gets big enough to be useful to many people you will then say it’s "just open of the big retailers/etailers”.

  In 2025 we’re probably well into a cohort that never had to learn how to search the internet in earnest and probably well on our way back to people who may visit 1-3 retailers before purchasing online. We’re basically back to “you’ve got mail” days when most people didn’t know the difference between AOL’s platform and an Internet browser and just took what was presented to them without any effort on their part. Human nature to a degree with path of least resistance I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail Is Now Using AI to Sort 'More Relevant' Results, But You Can Turn It Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The feature no one asked for in Outlook chapter 1. “Relevant” section out right at the top of the chronological list in case you didn’t want to immediately see the keywords you searched for in descending order but instead preferred completely unrelated attachments from Janice in Finance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with SharePoint groups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One that gets me is the federal minimum of $7.25 wage hasn’t been increased since 2009. It’s the inverse of the atomic test clock at Hiroshima that is reset whenever a nuclear weapon is tested or used; the clock it portends doom whenever it’s count of days is low, the federal minimum wage’s punishing condemnation to poverty of tens of millions of citizens exponentially increases in pain each year it doesn’t change while other goods and services have exploded in cost even in the last 5 years let alone since the great recession when it last went up.

  In reality the federal minimum wage is often far more than employees receive so things are worse than $7.25 per hour. Many southern/red states lobbied and passed “tip credit” laws that allows them to steal their employees tips if they make more than $7.25 per hour to reduce their earnings to the federal amount. The actual minimum wage that employers may cost a tipped employee after stealing their tips is $2.13 per hour.

  The restaurant and lodging association are a huge lobbying arm that will pivot nicely into the Sharecroppers Management Association where once you go into debt with Doordash they’ll help “place” you in a restaurant where you can repay your “burrito debt”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “make the technology available to developing nations around the world…”

  –including the United States that just had it’s president “cancel” the NOAA and our ability to predict, respond and plan for weather events as a nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can request removal, though it’s probably all been scraped by 60 companies so it’ll always be somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Delete your content when you leave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash Partners with Klarna for Deferred Payments—in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So like even the bnpl industry, u mean it’s all hot potato, in an exploding debt class with no resources and layoffs at any time that unsecured debt is just a time bomb.

  US cc debt is highest it’s ever been and far surpassed great recession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The triangle shirtwaist apparel by Gap. Travel the high seas on the Carnival Cruise Line Titanic. Discover employment opportunities and exciting diseases like pneumoniultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in resurgent US coal industry. Enjoy being fired for not showing up for work because you got food poisoning since companies don’t have FDA oversight anymore–and sick time was nationally forbidden. The future is bright, join now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Instead of a conservative approach to new technology the US uses a Conservative approach to new technology which means no regulation and costs born by the populace. No privacy, health outcomes, safety recalls…all to foster “innovation”. We’re basically just lab rats without rights and the now-being-actively-dismantled veneer of protections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consistency unimportant. Only follow important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  National security priorities definitely in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same playbook UK just did, they are in the middle of trying to renationalizr rail because it’s such a cluster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon bought the rights to the Bond series last week.

  The dude has a triple mansion private island called the “billionaire bunker”. Is a media magnate, one of the richest, most powerful people in the world. Has insane, blackmailable data on almost any person’s ourchase history. Sitting behind the president at inauguration. Brutal to his employees in their warehouses and elsewhere. You can’t get any more bond villain than that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason housing should be a speculative investment, and healthcare services available only to the highest bidder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed Birmingham finances⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oracle exists solely on inertia and big, dumb, uninformed customers. They were an early mover in the space for erp, and then they tried to develop everything else. I work in HR and filter out jobs where “PeopleSoft” is their product as it’s so monumentally unfit for human and operational use and eats up all technical, financial and employee resources to try to make it do simple, common things. Companies spend far more training, hiring consultants (because the product is unintuitive and limited in functionality) to operate the system and “customizations” that take years to build and a cadre of expensive folks to keep running is not the exception but the standard. If you see “Oracle” or “PeopleSoft” in the URL for a job application, run far, far away.

  20 years ago only big companies had a need for the scale of an erp, and unfortunately many of them went with Oracle. SAP was the other dog and while similarly unintuitive at least worked well at what it did, bless the Germans. There are soooo many better, more flexible more intuitive, modern products that users can learn and use to choose from, only the truly hopeless are still using Oracle products for ERP and HRIS.

  The most insidious part of Oracle is that because of how difficult it is to use, change, modify and learn, the people responsible for changing these systems experience Stockholm syndrome where they don’t want to change to a better system. All they know is failure, pain, lack of comprehension and lack of understanding of products and the thought of starting over in another system mortifies them, and so they become the barrier to telling Oracle to piss off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great. A Russian puppet state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Earbuds Are Gross. Here’s How to Clean Them Properly⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

  I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great article, you should x-post to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is that certainty that businesses love that Republicans provide, right? On investment, trade, taxes? I’m sure the lost business volume will be made up in their tax refunds the government will surely provide them for all the services cut, right…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge now has an AI-powered scareware blocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protecting the US from hackers apparently isn't in Trump's budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.