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toriver

@toriver@mas.to

On-off developer, mostly administrator of SharePoint, Teams, Jira, Confluence, PureService, Azure AD

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jeffjarvis, to random
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American conservatives' (here AEI) creepy obsession with making babies gets space in the Washington Post instead of analysis of the roots in white eugenics.
The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

toriver,
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@SharG @jeffjarvis yes, they fear becoming a minority because they expect to be treated like they treat current minoroties…

exchgr, to random
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speaking as a jew, it’s not antisemitic to call for the end of a genocide. it is antisemitic to use accusations of antisemitism as a cover for carrying out genocide

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr your argument is on the level of some Holocaust deniers, that since the Germans were so super efficient and skillful, then they would have managed to kill all the Jews if that was their intention. That many survived is seen by them as proof that Nazi Germany did not commit a genocide.

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr well, Dresden was not a conclave controlled by the allies (the way Israel controlled Gaza), and the allies did not target the refugees fleeing the destruction.

Face it, the systematic destruction of hospitals, universities and, well, people fleeing is hard to not call a genocide unless you are a heartless apologist. Israel knows where everyone in Gaza lives and could have sent in special forces to take out Hamas and rescue hostages. But vengeance was the goal.

toriver,
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@vy @exchgr So then mass murder is the solution? The Israeli military estimate that maybe 10% of the killed were Hamas. If someone abducted people in Tel Aviv and fled into a mall, would the IDF bomb the mall? No, because some people are "better" than others.

Israel had the chance for peace after the Oslo accords but chose to create an enemy. Because it has a cadre of politicians from right-wing US immigrants with no connection to the Holocaust, destroying good-will.

EU_Commission, to random
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🔴 We designated Apple’s iPadOS as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.

Our investigation shows that its tablet operating system is an important gateway for businesses to reach consumers due to its large and commercially attractive user base and its importance for specific use cases.

We also discovered that Apple leverages its large ecosystem to disincentivise end users from switching to other tablet operating systems.

We will keep monitoring #DMA compliance very closely.

toriver,
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@EU_Commission Can’t wait for when you get around to Microsoft.

Richard_Littler, to random
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I see he's reached 'Gulling the Gullible', chapter 2 of 'Big Con: The Right-Wing American Grifters Playbook'. If Jesus existed, he'd sue this unctuous, mock-spiritual, sham-Dickensian hustler. Would you buy a used cardinal from this man?

toriver,
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@Richard_Littler Part of me wants to think he’s still a chaotic-neutral liberal and all the right-wing-sounding nonsense is a bit. But it is more likely he has morphed.

lycophidion, to Palestine

Across the US, Campus Protests for Palestine Face Intensifying Police Crackdowns

The authorities seem to be taking their playbook from Obama's take-down of the Occupy movement.

https://truthout.org/video/across-the-us-campus-protests-for-palestine-face-intensifying-police-crackdowns/

toriver,
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@palin @lycophidion Not a fan of the First Anendment and the right to «peacefully assemble» are you? Entitled MAGA it seems.

gulovsen, to random
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It is highly unlikely that anything which happens between now & November will prevent the former President of the United States from running again.

If you want to get worked up about things like the Supreme Court, or whether gag orders are being violated, or whether he spends time in jail, that's fine, but please don't let that distract you from what you could actually be doing between now & November to make sure that he never sets foot in the White House again.

November is all that matters.

toriver,
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@gulovsen Dunno, if the SC for some reason should conclude that the President has full immunity, then Biden can just send Trump to Guantanamo and dissolve the RNC, banning the party on the national level as a Russian spy agency. (Did you know the Constitution doesn’t even mention parties? They formed some years after it was written.)

carnage4life, to random
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A Tesla owner has been charged with vehicular homicide for killing a motorcyclist while browsing the web on their phone while the car was on Autopilot. According to the driver he was “putting the trust in the machine to drive for him,”

The naming of this feature kills people.

toriver, (edited )
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@carnage4life names do not help, people are dumb, like the person who bought an RV, started driving, activated «cruise control» and left the driver’s seat to go make a coffee or something because they thought that, too, was supposed to act like an autopilot, but ended up in a ditch.

heidilifeldman, to random
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Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/ #LawFedi

toriver,
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@bahrta @heidilifeldman Why are you parroting lies that have been debunked for ages now and that only MAGA believe? He told them to «go home» hours after the invasions had started - up until the point where it became obvious the coup had failed he watched the attack on the Capitol on TV without doing anything to stop it. And prior he had told the crowd repeatedly to «fight». You just believe his imaginary excuses.

parismarx, to tech
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Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

toriver, (edited )
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@anne_twain @parismarx back when the fad had media traction, anything that had multiplayer and avatars was counted as «metaverse» by the tech-bros. «World of Warcraft is part of the metaverse!» they cried before pivoting into crypto instead.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

toriver,
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@jon @Vivaldi Ah yes, I remember buying a floppy with Opera from you at some computer fair (in Lillestrøm?) back in the 1990s.

molly0xfff, to random
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"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

toriver,
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@molly0xfff Well the cloud is only other people’s servers, from tech-bros that have reinvented 1970s mainframe timesharing.

nixCraft, to random
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Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324

toriver, (edited )
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@nixCraft Indeed, Midjourney is an artist the same way Napster was a record collection.

baldur, to random
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“WSJ: The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue”

Linking to a reddit thread just for the headline quote they found in a paywalled WSJ article feels a bit weird but…

This 17x number is just for chips so the actual cost x revenue multiplier is much higher in reality https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1bs1ebl/wsj_the_ai_industry_spent_17x_more_on_nvidia/

toriver,
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@jimgon @baldur already Microsoft is charging $30 per month and user for their Copilot for Microsoft 365 (the enterprise Office suite), despite not supporting too many languages yet.

toriver, (edited )
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@jimgon @baldur But keep in mind this is one of a dozen different Copilot products. Copilot for Github? That’s extra. Copilot for security? Also costs extra. Etc.

ChrisMayLA6, to politics
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As both the Tories & Labour refuse an offer of easy access to the EU for 18-30 year olds, because they don't want to re-invigorate 'freedom of movement', at least our Govt. did conclude a deal with Iceland for young people to easily gain working (and visit) visas.

I'm sure Iceland is a great place to visit & a place to work, and equally I'm sure we should welcome young Icelanders to work here... but its not quite the same is it?

#brexit #politics

https://www.government.is/diplomatic-missions/embassy-article/2022/01/04/Agreement-between-Iceland-and-the-UK-on-Youth-Mobility/

toriver,
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@ChrisMayLA6 must be the last part of the truce after the 1970s Cod Wars between the two ;)

parismarx, to tesla
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Tesla has to recall every Cybertruck it’s shipped. There are only 3,878 of them.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/

#tesla #tech #cybertruck #cars

toriver,
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@parismarx Less if you deduct the non-functioning rusty wrecks where people trusted Musk’s claims about water proficiency.

cabel, to random
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Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift?

Yes.

Did I still do it?

Y… yes

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toriver,
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@floby @cabel Also, there is at least one reason the founder left and started Vivaldi. Opera now is a cryptofriendly Chinese(?) company.

toriver,
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@cabel ah, «yours forever» which really meant «yours until you click the wrong link while in a browser session where you have authorized access to your ‘wallet’ and now some hacker has your domain because Code Is Law.»

jeffjarvis, to random
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Slime.
Barr, a vocal Trump critic, says he will ‘support the Republican ticket’ in November https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/17/barr-vocal-trump-critic-says-he-will-support-republican-ticket-november/

toriver,
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@jeffjarvis «I will support the Republican inmate, I mean, candidate.»

GossiTheDog, to random
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AI Tech Bros are VERY UPSET that reviewers are REVIEWING PRODUCTS

toriver, (edited )
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@armandaneshjoo @GossiTheDog hey look a techbro snuck in to defend some overhyped junk by blaming the user instead of the shit-maker.

dangillmor, to random
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"Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images" -- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/adobe-s-ai-firefly-used-ai-generated-images-from-rivals-for-training

(Paywall, sorry...but you get the idea.)

toriver, (edited )
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@Bluedonkey @dangillmor Oh, I think that if you ask Midjourney for a «space droid» and it invariably produces C-3PO, Disney might have a harrumph.

EU_Commission, to random
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EU citizenship means: ____

🛫 Move: The right to live, work and study anywhere in the EU. No visa or work permits required!

🗳️ Vote: Democratic rights are a core part of being an EU citizen. By voting, your voice is heard when laws are discussed and adopted at the European level.

🗣️ Speak up: You can launch or support a European Citizens’ Initiative and petition the European Parliament.

Find out what being an EU citizen really means for you → https://europa.eu/!n7HDFW

toriver,
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@Bruticus @EU_Commission If you are rich enough: Via Malta or Cyprus.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Asked if a restaurant could serve cheese nibbled on by a rodent, the Microsoft / New York City government official AI chatbot replied:

“Yes, you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has rat bites,” before adding that it was important to assess the “the extent of the damage caused by the rat” and to “inform customers about the situation.”

AI is spewing out this sort of surreal garbage all over the world right now. AI is a monumental grift.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21

toriver,
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@rooktallon @gerrymcgovern Ah, the next step in AI-bro delusions, comparing the dumb LLMs and copyright-abusers to actual useful innovations. Rotten apples to oranges. No, the AI craze will eventually fail like the «metaverse» craze and the blockchain craze before it. Mindless excessive resource-guzzling and expensive techbro toys.

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