- care_nlm : imagine owning anything that connects to the internet, what a fricking loser
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When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my “Ring doorbell” (it’s actually a Eufy, but I’ll let it slide).
I reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been made. Instead, the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?” The driver, who was walking away and wearing headphones, must have misinterpreted the message. Nevertheless, by the following day, my Amazon account was locked, and all my Echo devices were logged out.
- forearmfondler55 : african?
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ManBearFridge
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ok, this is a lot of fun https://t.co/XP46mvtlCA pic.twitter.com/glqP8HrdM9
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) October 5, 2023
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/metaverse-decentraland-report-active-users
This is downright sad/ hilarious. How do you frick up this bad. How does nobody even try the metaverse. Like how the fricks you only got 38 people in it homie even the hobo got more likes and followers down the street.
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The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
This is a Patriot Act for the internet. pic.twitter.com/uYea49F1b1
Observers note that if somebody or something is designated as a threat to national security, under the proposed legislation, the government would be given full access to these entities.
The text of the act singles out several usual suspects as foreign adversaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, etc., but, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of commerce are free to add new “foreign adversaries” to the list, while not under obligation to let Congress know about it.
They would also be given 15 days before notifying the president.
Critics make a point of the fact that US citizens marked as national security threat can also be considered and treated using the provisions of this proposal as “foreign individuals.”
And when this designation is in place, then the threat of “any action deemed necessary” to mitigate it kicks in, which could result in people being ordered to pay a million dollar fine, spend 20 years in prison, or lose all assets (and these forms of punishment would be meted out without due process).
No limits are put on the funding and hiring to enforce the act, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) would not apply.
I never knew banning an app was complicated 
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Discuss.
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Never thought I find my hidden niche.
— Coco 🥜 (✦Commission(Closed)✦) (@setawar) September 26, 2022
A High Quality Victorian Era Painting of A Lady With Large Breast pic.twitter.com/k0sh0cdRCx
Frick it this goes in slackernews
I love my ai overlords
(again), DiamWall just dropped KF after less than a day 
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Statement here: https://www.diamwall.com/blog/service-continuation-of-kiwi-farms
EDIT: http://kiwifarms.st/ appears to be spotty, sometimes getting a "page could not be loaded" error on top of the 502s
Service Continuation Of Kiwi Farms...
My name is Hugo Carvalho and I'm the CEO of DiamWall, today I'm bringing an important statement that I never thought I would need to do anytime soon.
About our CDN...
Before even starting to talk about Kiwi Farms I think it is important to let people know what a CDN is and does.
We are only a proxy that filters website traffic and blocks malicious requests, we DO NOT host any website, we ARE NOT responsible for any website's content and we CANNOT control every service's content.
Everyone is free to register an account at our website, pay for the product and start using it. We DO NOT and CANNOT analyze every single website that starts using our services.
DiamWall is completely new in this market (we opened to the public one month ago) and this is not a good way to start for sure, nor is it the way that we wanted to start.
DiamWall was formed by a small group of people that worked for many years in this area with private customers and we created the best Anti-DDoS technologies that ever existed.
Now that you understand how it works, let's talk about Kiwi Farms...
The owner of Kiwi Farms came in need of DDoS Protection and because their website was offline due to DDoS, we didn't really know about their website's content. They had a PROBLEM and we had the SOLUTION.
Soon enough the reports started to arrive and we started digging more and more about this website, soon enough we found that Kiwi Farms hosts a lot of revolting content.
We do not think that is fair to terminate any service because of public pressure but in this case, we think there is some foundation behind all those requests and we really do not want to have anything to do with it.
So, after careful consideration, DiamWall does not feel like Kiwi Farms is a good fit for our company, which means that today we are SUSPENDING their service inside DiamWall's CDN.
Please be AWARE that this will not fix the issue, only delay it, they will find another provider that can protect them and will be online once again.
Best Regards,
Hugo Carvalho,
DiamWall CEO
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- Rafflebot : This is the best possible outcome for drama mashallah
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The even more frugal guy reading this and using a $100 phone is wondering why OP is splurging on a $200 phone.
I keep my phones for a long time too.
But once it stops getting security updates, I get a new one. You would be more at risk from security exploits if you're not getting patches anymore. The savings from not buying a new phone is not worth the risk.
Not everyone sees the world the way you do.
Because some people like them the same way you like your phone. It’s okay for people to like different things and have different priorities
Nah if somebody buys the new iphone every year thats a massive redflag that theyre dumb [-72]
I don't understand it either. I used to buy iphones around iphone 2-5 but each one completely died after a year. I got so sick of it so I switched to Samsung. I'm on my second Samsung in like 10 years. I later found out that Apple was updating their phone to kill battery life after the phone was about a year old. I will never ever buy an Apple product again.
Credit to /h/miners! Subscribe for more great dramatic threads.
- free_palestine : dumbass number go back to work contribute to society
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Anyone ever give up looking for a job after years of no success? (self.cscareerquestions)
submitted 5 months ago by goodnewsjimdotcom
Anyone give up looking? I stopped trying to find jobs after graduating Carnegie Mellon University in computer science during the dot com era. I put out 1000 resumes, talked to 100 head hunters, not one job, and less than 5 interviews. Applying to buggy websites back then was demoralizing, you'd spend a half hour tailor answering questions to their application then it'd error out. I'd think,"Man, it'd be easy to fix this, if they could have hired me." The funniest part is I'm one of the world's biggest try hards in academia.
I started coding age 3 at 1981 on a TI-99, haven't stopped.
I had such a high IQ that they didn't give me the number in Elementary School, just looked in me in fear as they wrenched the IQ exam away before time was up after I invented division on the fly and started doing even higher math than that.
I had the same look of fear in Carnegie Mellon when I did 20 rocket science questions in 20 minutes getting em all right only using my mind no paper... My peers took 100 hours over entire notpads and not always getting em right.
I've been #1 in the WORLD at some video games arguably more intellectually demanding than chess: Starcraft all races, Warcraft3 all Races. Also #1 world in games no one cares about: Diablo2 hardcore, C&C3, SC2 2v2. Proof: Blizzard Entertainment shouted me out and their webpage: www.crystalfighter.com/a.html > You gotta give proof or people call you a BSer. Video games stimulate the mind to problem solve in a time limited space which promotes your mind to compartmentalize with fast logical answers. Everywhere I go people often say I'm the smartest person they ever met.
Yet, I never even got a Jr Position, let alone a senior architect. I have a unique software engineering skillset of both rapid prototyping and extended expadsible foundations. I do indie dev, and my one coworker who worked with the top guys at leapfrog told me I'm 4x faster, 4x more quality of their most elite teams of 4. 4x4x4= 64x more effective than a single software engineer, but you know how that goes, efficiency is lost in groups even with proper collab software.
Why spend time applying wasting hundreds of hours when no one gets back to you?
I updated my Resume, has a couple games I finished, I coded most of them all by myself, some of which have over 100,000 lines of hand written code. I'm one of the absolute best software architects on Earth, and nah, no one wants to interview me, life is funny, eh?
All the above is true as the Blizzard links in www.crystalfighter.com/a.html are verifyable history in the Internet Archive.
Also you can see a few games I made:
A unique puzzle game that twists your brain in the right way: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062390/Triangle_Mania/
A 2d Zelda style game: www.throneandcrown.com
A 2d gauntlet style game that got over 2 million plays and Defy Media didn't pay us the royalties: https://www.tangerinepop.com/
I'm capping off www.StarfighterGeneral.com now, a MMORPG with a few research level techs ECS/DOTS, an innovative way networking, and solid MMORPG design. I have about 100-200 hours to piece the working techs in. Unity's new experimental packages are kinda unstable and finnicky.
I coded all of the majority of the above games, even making servers from raw sockets. Some of those games have over 100,000 lines of code hand written. No funding, no pay checks unless games made it. Dungeon Run made me 9,000$, 7000$ of which I put into student loans that interest ate anyway. So in the past 30 years I made negative dollars making video games.
Just wondering, anyone else give up looking? I'm not sure why no one gave me a chance at a game developer position or a normal business job, but it's not worth my time anymore a decade with over 1000 resumes and 100 head hunters out is a lot to get only 4 interviews...
PS: I actually have some fanatical haters who will post comments just mocking me. Plz ignore em.
Very cool, James W Sager III
.webp?x=8 "P-Hat (pink) - It's pink.")
Lois, democracy and liberalism is non-negotiable
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It's full of quality code like this.
The lead software tester was a daughter of another friend with whopping 2 years of experience (and a non-stem degree).
They didn't have 2fa for anything, they got access to one of the developers outlook email+password through social engineering and got access to EVERYTHING.
the whole sourcecode: t.me/sawarim
I want to thank your countrymen for paying for this @UraniumDonGER
- rDramaHistorian : ITT: WinCucks and Linuxnerds fighting. MacChads stay winning
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.webp?x=8 "Heart Crown (sparkles) - 💕💛💔💗♥🖤✨💙 or something idk")
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REQUESTING SEETHE FROM BLIND ABOUT THE MATTER IF PRESENT
Orange website does what it does best
: In case it's not clear what's happening here (and from the comments it doesn't seem like it is), someone (not Meta) leaked the models and had the brilliant idea of advertising the magnet link through a GitHub pull request. The part about saving bandwidth is a joke. Meta employees may have not noticed or are still figuring out how to react, so the PR is still up.
(Disclaimer: I work at Meta, but have no relationship with the team that owns the models and have no internal information on this)
: It's not even clear someone has leaked the models. A random person has put a download link on a PR, it could be anything.
: Here is the magnet link for posterity: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ZXXDAUWYLRUXXBHUYEMS6Q5CE5WA3LVA&dn=LLaMA
: Thanks not working for me... Not that I could run it if I downloaded it.
Based r-slur makes a PR about it on github to "save bandwidth"
: lgtm *approves PR*
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https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144
PSA: #Reddit is restoring deleted and overwritten posts to save what they consider "their data". This is a new low and probably illegal at least in Europe. You can send a GDPR or CPRA request here: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
These are screenshots of my profile on June 14th before and after overwriting and then deleting all my posts with Powerdelete. Today, June 16th all my posts have been restored by Reddit without my knowledge or consent.
Twitter's recommendation algorithm just dropped
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Blog explaining shit if anyone actually cares:
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm
IMPORTANT: PLEASE GO DUNK ON DESTINY
open source? qt me if this ever happens lol https://t.co/DROtHfVhzV
— Destiny (@TheOmniLiberal) January 17, 2023
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