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bone_frequency··on Chat Control: EU states want to legalize comprehensive mass scans indirectly
They will rebrand it and try again as many times as it takes until it passes once, thats how the EU works.
bone_frequency··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
Is Japan going to be defenseless?
bone_frequency··on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older
Are these eldery people receiving extra care going to repel an enemy force when the time comes?
bone_frequency··on Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It
They are too busy making piles of bureacracy that keeps us from having any money to put in the bank in the first place.
bone_frequency··on Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’
You seem to be implying that they have a right wing government.
bone_frequency··on Why does the Beetham Tower hum?
It already is an eyesore as it is.
bone_frequency··on European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
Even if you were a local, you'd have to be "in the network" so to speak. Then you could push a meme project with some buzzwords that align with their political views and you would be allowed to dip in. Additionally, the EU is maliciously anti-wealth, even if you fund it yourself, they will actively cripple you with nonsensical regulations and taxes to make sure your company does not take off.
bone_frequency··on Avid Hates You
Both Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects are buggy, unreasonably slow and very, VERY quirky pieces of software. I switched to Davinci Resolve a few years ago and my work output skyrocketed almost overnight, but while the performance it offers is something adobe engineers can only dream of, it still lacks certain features some pros need, so they remain trapped in the adobe/avid gulags.
bone_frequency··on Henry Darger
From the webster entry:

-esque adjective suffix : in the manner or style of : like

A very accesible blog post on how to use it: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/esque/

bone_frequency··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Will it really?
bone_frequency··on Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
What kind of leverage does Morocco have to get away with this?
bone_frequency··on He Went Out for Cigarettes. A Decade Later, His Car Was Found in a Pond
Is scavenging stuff youtuber kids covered ad nauseam a long time ago part of the brilliant nytimes journalistic style I keep hearing about?
bone_frequency··on OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access
Always has been. Even with all the safeguards, two days ago I was having a conversation with it and it just happily blurted out that one of the reasons Iceland has low crime is because its population is racially homogeneous.
bone_frequency··on A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption
It will be yet another case of "It is okay when big tech does it".
bone_frequency··on One week of empathy training (2019)
I also believe it is an obvious virtue signal piece, but to be fair, I also think he exposed some valid cases in that post. Are there really coping strategies and tools for all these problems?
bone_frequency··on Sweden Sans
That sure is a lot of pompous talk for a Helvetica knockoff
bone_frequency··on Workers want to stay remote, prompting an office real estate crisis
Not my problem.
bone_frequency··on Naomi Klein investigates ‘conspiracy theory culture’ that has shaken her life
As much as I can respect her hustle, it might be time for her to ride a new grift. Or maybe retire with the literal millions she made with her gigs.
bone_frequency··on The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed
I don't get it
bone_frequency··on Update: Tesla driver arrested for attempted murder after Devil's Slide plunge
I don't know about this one case, but it is not the first time something like that happened, the Hart mothers murdered 6 children by doing that.
bone_frequency··on Why women receive less CPR from bystanders (2018)
I specially agree with the two first reasons listed in the article. I do have certified first aid and CPR training but the wellbeing of my family comes first, I am not going to get charged with attempted rape and/or cancelled because I wanted to be a good samaritan.
bone_frequency··on U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday
Would be funny if it was only crypto and not the whole global economy.
bone_frequency··on Awful Library Books
Ironically enough, I personally find their snarky humor just as dated as the books they poke fun at.
bone_frequency··on TikTok sued by former content moderator over mental health impacts of moderation
They do it for free...
bone_frequency··on Beleaguered Didi Is Said to Lose $585M in Just Six Months
Didi drivers will very, very often call you. I deal with this problem by having a pre-baked message explaining that I don't speak chinese, and where do I want to go. As soon as didi assigns me a driver, I quickly send this message through the messaging feature of the didi app, then I use one of the predefined messages of the app (which appear in english on my end) to determine if my pickup location is correct, or if I want him to follow my GPS bead instead. Should the driver call me anyway, I just send him the aforementioned message through sms a couple times.

It is not perfect, but this method allows me to move around easily with didi without speaking chinese. I had no urban mapping problems, but I do test whatever address I want to go in baidu maps first, or any other chinese map app. That way, in case of problems, I can just show him the location or use whatever voice guidance, but I rarely needed this.

bone_frequency··on Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
I do believe they don't need to be replaced, they need to fix their birth rates instead.
bone_frequency··on Ask HN: Is it sane to ask for a non Apple PC when starting at startup?
Speaking as a department leader myself, we all use mac computers here because we find them to be fantastic allrounders that need a minimal amount of maintenance, but if we had a newcomer with the request of a pc computer, we would have no problem with that as long as:

1. He gets the work done. 2. His choice of hardware/OS does not become a timesink.

In other words, in my department you can use whatever you please if you know what are you doing and you are going to properly deliver the work.

I personally have not seen any company with a mac only policy, but depending on the size or even the mood of the people in charge they might be annoyed at the fact that the newcomer does not like a seemingly perfect computer and they have to buy a new one, so I suggest a bit of caution.

If you are not sure about how will they take it and it worries you, why not just dual boot whatever OS of choice in that computer, or go for a VM for now until you can figure them out?

bone_frequency··on Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS
Probably unrelated, but it is interesting to know that they received a $1 million donation from google in 2011 for (quoting wikipedia here) "lobby for or to consult for the company".