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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Or if they mean 'achey muscles and feeling kind of physically tired for no clear reason' *just fucking say that*! If it's supposed to be read as 'coughing, difficulty breathing and severe congestion' say so. Like... maybe it's my neurospiciness and my tendency to take things literally that's the problem, but so often the way symptoms are described really doesn't help a lot. 'Flu-like symptoms'? That's so vague it's unhelpful. Influenza has lots of symptoms. And this impacts so many other people with so many other illnesses too. And injuries. I know three people who have learned the hard way that Hollywood lied about fractured fingers - they might not hurt much at the time, or until you, say, bump the injured finger against something and almost pass out. (I have also learned myself that sprains don't always hurt when they happen - sometimes the only clue is that your foot is moving a bit weird and it was kinda hard to take your shoe off. And then the next day...)

@alice@lgbtqia.space @tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca @catsalad@infosec.exchange True. It's been a huge issue for bicycle owners in my area, and the thieves around here don't even go so far as to use vans or anything. But around here, depending on who you ask, building security either isn't allowed to do anything about thefts happening outside of the building they're security for, or they don't care enough to do anything (and the cops are equally disinterested as long as it doesn't happen right in front of them). I'm not sure I'd want to gamble on that when it comes to these cameras, even if they're decommissioned. (See also: Louvre heist, but I feel like the employee dispute with management was a contributor to that. But yes, with some hi-vis most people will just assume you're a contractor.)

@tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca @catsalad@infosec.exchange @alice@lgbtqia.space I mean, they're not restricted like knives or lockpicking tools. Buuuuut carrying one while not being in a relevant trade or job might fall under probable cause (or whatever that's called). And they are *very* noisy, so it's going to be pretty obvious that it's operating. So not necessarily the best option.

@Axomamma @phocks And the rent never drops even if the value of the property does. (In theory, in some jurisdictions you could take your landlord to a tribunal to demand a rent reduction... but you'd have to have somehow found out that the official property valuation had dropped, and also they'd probably just not renew your lease to get rid of you.)

@s1m0n4 @stefano Oh, a shitload of assumptions, yes. Including a big one - always on, reliable Internet. Which still does not exist universally even in high-SES communities in wealthy countries. I live in Australia and there are chunks of major cities where 5G access (or even 4G access) is not reliable. And areas where wired Internet isn't available, or is so bad it might as well not be. I'm sure it isn't uncommon in other countries to have the same issues in urban areas too, and definitely in rural areas. (Don't start me on assumptions about the usability and accessibility of smartphones and touchscreens versus physical buttons and switches.)

@oldoldcojote@climatejustice.social @markhurst@mastodon.social You could probably get some fine motor dexterity improvements out of art and craft classes (especially covering skills like knitting and crochet, or ceramics, but even just pencil sketching helps) but it may not be regular enough in comparison to hand writing.

@apLundell It's up there with me sometimes having to remind people of what year a movie was made as to why characters weren't using technology that wasn't even invented (much less widely available) in them. And forensics too. Like... can they not look up when something was invented or made available? Because usually the answer as to why someone didn't use X to do Y in these stories is that X had not yet been invented or wasn't widely available. (DNA testing is the biggest one. Wasn't even an option until the late 70s, didn't gain precedent for use in criminal cases until 1986, and even then my understanding is that it was slow and expensive so it was a last resort if all other leads and evidence weren't enough.)

@wwahammy I'm thinking that the most likely scenario is that someone got some questionable legal advice (either through the grapevine, or from a lawyer not in the least bit familiar with the software/OS side of things), panicked, and then their panic has been amplified. And/or too aggressively covering their butts. Granted, I'm not a lawyer either. But I'd want to see the opinions from some actual lawyers who are also familiar with how Linux distros work and how software development works, who can give a clearer picture of whether this is ridiculous over-compliance likely to cause more trouble than good (which is what it seems like to me) and what anyone involved in development would actually need to do (if anything at all) to be compliant. (If it's not the case though, then I'd also want to hear what the options are. Because this just screams being set up to find out just how expensive it can be to comply with privacy laws - especially if you're an individual or not making any money out of it. And the penalties for breaching privacy laws can also be pretty scary.)

@CStamp@mastodon.social Yeah, I meant chickenpox, sorry. My SO was born before a vaccine was easily available or routine, as was I - I don't think it became a routine childhood vaccination until the late 90s, maybe early 2000s. And it's a big problem, because in that cohort, we're basically saddled with either very unreasonable costs (I was quoted $400 for a shingles vaccine, the best anyone could do for my SO was $370) or just hoping we don't get it until we age into getting the vaccine for free. (Even a few friends who are immune compromised haven't been able to get it, because their condition isn't on the list of the ones that would make them eligible for a free vaccine and they can't afford to pay for it.) Age-gating subsidised access to vaccines that have only been developed fairly recently just means throwing a huge chunk of the population under the bus. It's nearly always the people who can least afford to drop hundreds of dollars on something who are at the most risk if they don't get vaccinated too.

@allrite Unfortunately, I can say with confidence that reading comprehension wasn't necessarily much better pre-AI. Sometimes I wonder how so many people survived and graduated from high school (and sometimes even have postgrad qualifications!), and then I remember how I haven't read an academic book since uni and definitely couldn't write a decent essay anymore. I suspect the real problem is some combination of skill atrophy from disuse and the world generally letting people get away with not using their reading comprehension skills on a regular basis. (To be clear though, I don't think AI is the answer there. I think destigmatizing adult learning (even of 'basic' skills) and making it more widely and easily available, plus encouraging literacy and other skills, plus probably some other stuff, is the answer.)

@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place There's a lot of Australian English terms that are effectively shortened versions of words, but the rules as to what gets shortened and how are kind of arbitrary. Eg, tradespeople are tradies, but an electrician is a sparkie. A paramedic is an ambo, but a doco is a documentary, not a doctor. (I will fight anyone who tries to claim 'cozzie livs' as a legitimate example because it's not, it started in the UK and it's also completely cringe and very obviously forced.) I doubt it's unique to regional English variants either, but I don't know of any examples from any other languages. Not sure if there's a collective name for those words or the phenomena either.

@minmi@sfba.social "But who will do cleaning and take out the bins and [insert other job that's vital but also kind of icky and looked down upon here]?" So bear with me, some people actually enjoy those things too but either can't get paid for them or don't get paid nearly enough to do them to live on so they have to do something else or multiple things. There are people out there who would genuinely get far more joy and fulfilment from cleaning than from whatever they currently do to pay the rent.

@randy_ I'm not sure if the original order was ever updated for them, but they'd be hard to follow without at minimum the OT. Rogue One is one of my favourites, but there's nowhere good to fit it in the Machete Order since it bridges III and IV. If you plan to watch Andor though... maybe skip it until after that. (Mostly because I feel like Andor is a much more interesting story if you don't know the ending already.)

@randy_ I honestly would want to hear from someone who's done Machete Order, which IIRC sets the prequel trilogy as a kind of extended flashback sequence during the OT. This also means you're not spoiling your viewer for the big reveal during Empire. If I remember rightly, the order is - IV (A New Hope), V (The Empire Strikes Back), I (The Phantom Menace, some consider it optional but I don't because without it you're missing crucial setup), II (Attack of the Clones), III (Revenge of the Smith), VI (Return of the Jedi). But if that's a bit of a pain, at minimum, release order ( IV, V, VI, I, II, III) keeps the Empire reveal from being spoiled, among other things.

@oisin @welshpixie Oh they've added a lot over the last year. Last major update was... last week, I think?

@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party It actually sounds like this is describing a long term issue in software that AI is just the most recent attempt at a quick fix for, because the actual solutions are, as the author admits, kind of boring and unglamorous. I've never worked in software, but the case of 'the bottleneck is at station C but management just did something to make station A more productive instead even though it seems pretty obvious that C needs the help' is very familiar. Not sure if it would predate AI in the software or tech industries, but in others it definitely does.

@MeaningfulBits @kottke It's already been done by intrepid folks over in Ukraine for quite a while, though they did have a lot of disruptions what with the war so it wouldn't hurt for more people to pick up the skills. (Farmers themselves may be too busy for that though.)

@badtux @ethanschoonover As well, it's a safety trial, not necessarily an efficacy trial. (Ie, is it safe for humans, not whether it actually works, how quickly it works, what side effects it has if any, or if it's worth it compared to other options). If it all goes well, and efficacy trials find that it's worth it, it's still likely that the main recipients are going to be children with genetic conditions where their teeth aren't growing but they still have tooth buds (and maybe teens with severe tooth loss or similar conditions affecting their adult teeth). They're a priority because children generally aren't candidates for any of the options available to adults, because their faces are still growing and changing and that makes it too complicated. So probably a good few decades away from being able to get one more chance on a lost adult tooth. (Though, I would hope that another next step is research into how to replace or regenerate tooth buds. Some of the forms of genetic adontia mean that there's no tooth bud for a tooth to develop from, or the tooth bud just doesn't produce a good tooth, so a treatment like this wouldn't be of much use. And it'd also help people who've had severe infections or injuries where the third tooth bud was destroyed or damaged.)

@malwareminigun@infosec.exchange @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone @catsalad@infosec.exchange Tbh , a lot that I've seen don't consistently maintain their FB/Insta/whatever pages either. Makes me think that they were probably set up by the one staffer who thought it would be easy and then predictably didn't really have time for it (or eventually left) and nobody else is doing it. Which, yeah, a lot of cafes and restaurants don't really have the budget to pay someone for that either, but I'm sure there's ways to streamline things like updating the menu and opening hours (that are probably much easier for a website). There's plenty of free or very low cost Web hosts out there too, templates to make setting up the website as simple as typing in some details and having someone upload a couple of photos... (but if they're anything like the last place I worked for, the owner wants it all done and maintained for life for free, and that tends to not happen unless the owner does it themselves).

@ElenLeFoll And here I thought the machines were like, scanning some kind of embedded something in the note to find out the denomination, not scanning the look of the note or something. (I know the notes in some countries are also slightly different sizes but I thought that was purely an accessibility feature.)

@Furthering@convo.casa I'm not sure if all LLMs do it or are as bad for it, but the fact that I've been told twice now in as many months by different employment consultants to not use any kind of formatting beyond font size and bullet points in my resume (so aesthetically it looks *awful*) because LLMs can't parse text in a table or in columns does not make me confident that it's gotten any better or going to get any better. (Again, might be some of my spicy brain showing, but as much as I know resumes need to be easily readable and short, I also appreciate a well-presented and aesthetically pleasing document. Makes it more memorable as well. But I guess humans don't read resumes anymore.)

@onekind@beige.party @zoy@merveilles.town I'd really recommend you read the Sightless Scribbles piece that's been linked a couple of times in the thread. It lays out the issues a lot better than I ever could.

@burgerdrome@aus.social I need to do this. 50% because my old smart TV was starting to do that out of the damn box (also it liked to randomly crash out and reboot every 15-20 minutes if it was streaming 4K, and since not many streaming services have an option like 'my internet sucks shit do not ever stream anything in 4K, 720p is enough for me' it made a couple of platforms almost unusable) and 50% because I bet that monitor is also significantly lighter than a TV, and/or came with a decently sturdy stand so you're not forced to wall-mount it (for reasons largely related to 'I live in a very old house and I don't trust that this would end well').

@Erased_Citizen @miffyhelen In theory, the WiFi is supposed to be able to help with that, if there's also a bar code scanner (so it can retrieve the actual use by date info from whoever made the food). And it should ideally include a way to manually enter dates for stuff you've made yourself or whatever. In practice, I've never heard of those working outside of the USA, and I'm not even sure if they work that well there. (I can see the merits for slow cookers, washing machines and dishwashers - at the minimum, it can keep its own internal clock synced up, and you can then set delayed starts or it can notify you when it's done without also notifying the entire household. It rarely ends up not also being a security issue though, and also a lot of the time those features again aren't that reliable. But also, I can ignore a phone notification a lot more easily than I can ignore a loudly beeping appliance. I'd rather have the loud beeps.)

@CStamp@mastodon.social Pretty sure as well that active shingles can infect those who don't have existing immunity, as well as potentially activating it in others. Also it sucks ass no matter what age, but adults seem to be more prone to the really nasty effects like nerve pain. (And you'd be surprised at how many people aren't immune and aren't vaccinated, despite being high risk. Mostly because no matter how much evidence you have that you are definitely not immune and how much risk you're at, if you're under a certain fairly high age (usually 50 or 65) in many jurisdictions, you're not considered at risk enough so the vaccine is e x p e n s i v e. It's also surprising how many adults aren't immune. Some because their parents didn't think that childhood illness was normal or a good thing, some because they were isolated as kids, some because... who knows? My SO has never had it, despite repeated exposures as a child, and I don't think it's possible to be asymptomatic. She doesn't want to test it, but... not old enough to get the vaccine for a reasonable price.)

@PalmAndNeedle @ElenLeFoll Still, it's wild to me that for machines the detection is entirely based on a scan/image of the note. I know that'll pick up a lot, but still. I know almost every country embeds various anti-counterfeit measures into their notes, but again, I thought those were more for humans to use.

@Furthering@convo.casa @RadtkeJCJ@mastodon.scot @zoy@merveilles.town Also the format flattening - I don't have a ton of examples of books where the typography is an important part of the story itself or equally as meaningful as the content off the top of my head, but the one that always comes to mind is House of Leaves. (I think some of the Lemony Snickett novels did some interesting things with typography as well. I haven't had a chance to read a lot of others that do much with the typography that I can recall as standing out to me. Though some of the adventure novels I read as a kid that included a lot of puzzles definitely used some special typography to make those work. And ofc Discworld using font changes to convey some particular character voices. From what I've seen a lot of LLMs tend to flatten formatting when fed text. Or they don't like it and won't parse the text at all. And I'm sure that comes across as 'don't do that' to less confident writers using LLMs, just as much as the flattening of the content of the text is discouraging.

@nasser Also writing, also art... sort of. (I think Adobe might have given them the idea.)

@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social It might also depend on if the GP has the necessary equipment on site and available. I can't find anything from a Web search that says that a cardiologist definitely has to do it, but most of the results about it are from cardiology clinic websites, so I'd assume it's not something GPs would usually be able to do. (And heck, looking a bit further, might not even be all cardiologists. It might be worth calling around to cardiologists you can get to easily first and asking if they can do a tilt table test first (or if they know who does) so you at least know where you have to go if you need to be referred.)

@RadtkeJCJ@mastodon.scot @Furthering@convo.casa @zoy@merveilles.town Plus, maybe I'm a freak but sometimes I like to struggle a bit with a text. I have a notepad held onto my copy of Sacred Games with a rubber band, where I wrote notes on all the unfamiliar slang terms and references. It's taken me much longer than usual to read it, but so much atmosphere and tone would be lost without it! If all that was stripped out, it wouldn't be Mumbai noir anymore, it'd just be noir set in Mumbai, and not nearly as interesting or fun to read. (And clearly there's plenty of agreement that it's a good novel, since it got a Netflix series.)