Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.
On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.
Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.
To be fair Berlin is 100x better than the rest of Germany.
This is the first thing I’ve read that makes me feel excited about AI agents, and it’s got nothing to do with AI or agents.
These kinds of hooks are why people keep using emacs and what Guile was meant to solve. If we actually end up with a generic API framework across apps and websites it’s super cool.
Everything is text/json is going to be slow but fuck it, we can start slow and optimize when needed.
So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.
What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
This is what happens when giant equity funds buy your company. They use any excuse to rip off consumers.
Anyone else feel like life is stressful, boring, and kind of quietly empty — all at once?
This is just exactly how extreme stress tends to feel.
Basically you can’t unwind enough to relax and enjoy yourself, and so the times where you should be happy just feel empty.
You see a lot of stuff about WWII just talking about the boredom.
If the stress is work related, you’re experiencing burnout and it’s time to find a new job.
If it’s US related, you might want to look into emigrating. It’s not an option for everyone, but if you can get the fuck out, you should think about it.
They said they would remove all encryption rather than installing a backdoor.
It’s good that this attracted some attention, but they still agreed to removed all the protections the UK requested.
Ubuntu is deployed all over the place for data science.
I’m fairly sure this is because data scientists got used to running it on their personal machines and can’t be bothered to learn another distro.
OpenOffice is basically dead. Libreoffice is a branch of it that gets regularly updated.
The reason all the weird “rationalists” are worried by roko’s basilisk is because it basically uses all of their dumb arguments for friendly AI against them.
So in the course of realizing why it’s wrong, a bunch of cultists either end up deprogramming themselves, or they just have a breakdown and go murder their landlord.
Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.
So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.
Accelerated Firefox timeline.
That used to have a picture of an actual Phoenix and then a red panda before it got streamlined.
If ladybird keep going at this rate, everyone will be trying to cancel them by the middle of next week
The risk is that a bunch of crazy trump supporters might try to GameStop it. Or that a Saudi prince or Russian oligarch will pump the stock as a way to curry favor with musk.
Bill Gates has been trying to short it for years and it’s just kept going up. There’s nothing rational about the market.
Just pick a random small instance. The catch is that larger instances that don’t block spam instances are probably going to have their own spam problem and get blocked by other networks.
I had a quick look and https://lemmy.sdf.org/ doesn’t seem to block or be blocked by anyone, according to this list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances?tab=readme-ov-file
Just so you know short term lets on Airbnb or anything like it is a pain to make work if you’re not in the area. You need people to check the property and fix any issues between each stay as well as clean it. Managing this remotely is a pain in the arse.
You’ll get less money but it’ll be much less work with lets that last months instead of days. The other option is a management company, that will let it for you, but then you also get much less money and they can do all sorts crap to your place in order to create more “bedrooms”.
The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can’t afford to ignore either.
Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.
You’re in a car. There’s probably a charging port there. Sucks if you don’t have a phone, but it sucked before when you didn’t have change.
Parking has always been a privilege not a right, and if you’re not prepared you’re going to get a ticket.
I get that it’s annoying but if my phone broke and I suddenly had to pay for parking with coins, I don’t know what I’d do either. Everything is cashless now, where would I get coins from?
I mean if everything is ephemeral and the users are anonymous and don’t log in, the federation wouldn’t actually do anything.
Yeah but parking has always been bad.
You had to carry change. Meters were always out of order or would just eat your change without issuing a ticket, and the people checking never gave a shit and would give you a fine anyway.
My only complaint is the app, everyone should offer a website or an app, but if you’re going to park there a few times an app does make sense.
Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.
Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.