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frob··on Officer who ignored NYPD's 'courtesy cards' receives $175K settlement
The fact that they aren't ashamed at all but instead punish those who don't play along with their corrupt game tells you a whole lot about the NYPD.
frob··on Regex Crossword
This is a Mystery Hunt puzzle, so solving the obvious puzzle is only the first step of solving the puzzle. You will need to do something with the puzzle solution to somehow get a word or short phrase.

I remember doing this one by hand over a decade ago. Fond memories.

https://puzzles.mit.edu/

frob··on Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'
And now the idiom makes sense. Thank you!
frob··on Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'
I think it's supposed to be a play on the word "racket." As in, "to put up a racket" or "make a racket" meaning make a bunch of noise.

I agree that it's horrendously written and really forced.

frob··on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
Florida is a special version of horrible when it comes to treatment of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The citizens of Florida overwhelmingly voted to restore voting rights to people who had completed their sentence. Ron DeSantis and the Republicans modified the law to prevent people from voting if they hadn't paid all of their fees, which there is no central tracking or source of. They then went on to arrest Black citizens who tried to register to vote after their PO had told them they owed no money and were clear to vote.
frob··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
If you want to know what Trump and his ilk are planning, just read it from their own website: https://www.project2025.org/

Highlights: - The DoJ reports directly to the President - No term limits for FBI head - Arrest and prosecute DAs he doesn't agree with - Use the military to enforce domestic laws on citizens

frob··on Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?
To be fair, Lord Rasengan is a sovereign head of the Joseon Empire cybernation according to their own bio, so Sam was just conducting international relations for openAI's next country to exploit. Be careful you don't anger Lord Rasengan; they could throw you in internet jail.
frob··on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
Here's a YouTube video covering the discovery process. Ultimately, one person found it, but they were part of a wider team piecing together many parts of a puzzle, including outdated phone image numbering schema. I found it to be a worthwhile summary that doesn't really assume the viewer has much previous knowledge.

https://youtu.be/-1EKIIM3ShI

frob··on Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
For about 4 years now, I've used Dozer [0] to hide and organize menu items. It's been mature and stable the whole time. It had many of the features still on the development roadmap for Ice. You can drag-and-drop icons, hide and reveal with clicks or keyboards, and have two levels of hidability.

[0] https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

frob··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
This was on the front-page for a brief moment and is now nowhere in the top 150. The irony writes itself.
frob··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
It's so painful. We have funders come to us saying they love what we do, they want us to do more of it, they have $X million to invest, but only if we use "AI." Investers have their new favorite hammer and, by gosh, you better use it, even if you're trying to weld a pipe.
frob··on On Self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
Weren't we supposed to have Tesla robotaxis making everyone $10k a year back in 2021? I will be shocked if there is an actual product that is actually usable within 6 month of August 8.

Never trust a charlatan.

frob··on Indians who pre-ordered Teslas in 2016 are giving up and chasing refunds
Elon Musk keeps proving he is a charlatan who will happily take money on a lie and then fight tooth-and-nail to give it back when people give up on his outlandish lies.
frob··on IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos
Also on a massive scale, there's the Pierre Auger cosmic ray observatory. It covers an area about the size of Rhode Island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auger_Observatory

frob··on Google wants employees to move faster
> "He said they’ve stepped up from working 100 hours a week to 120 hours to correct Google’s image recognition tool in a timely manner"

Either Prabhakar Raghavan is abusing his employees or spewing bullshit. Given that working 120 hours in a week is working 17 hours a day, I'm calling bullshit.

But even if it's not, the idea that a multi-billion company like Google wants their employees to "step up" and work 17 hour days 7 days a week is actually disgusting. That he would praise such an idea shows a moral rot within Google that almost certainly goes beyond Prabhakar. No matter how much they're making, these are people being exploited by Google and Google is holding them up as an example to the rest of their employees.

"Look at these drones sacrificing their health, life, and families to squeeze another few cents out of my stock compensation package. You should be more like them."

frob··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
When there's a genocide going on backed by the largest military power in the world, it should take up all the oxygen.

If you want to ignore it, just press "Hide" instead of "Flag."

frob··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Could you expand on the points of vandalism and threats? The article you linked to only had some vague corporate speak about vandalism, which could easily refer to the banner they hung. The only reference to anyone feeling threatened was a reference to another employee who "felt scared," but it doesn't say the protestor were doing anything threatening.
frob··on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
"At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."
frob··on Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
Oh, man, that username is just too perfect for a comment like this.

"Fuck the poor; they deserve it." -Jesus Christ.

frob··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
I am against systems designed to target and slaughter civilians. I am against using starvation as a weapon of war. I am against rules of engagement so loose that it allows the military to kill a convoy of people coordinating directly with the Israeli military on a aid mission who are using GPS devices to transmit their location to the Israeli military using three separate strikes over 2.5 km. I'm against dropping 2000-pound bombs on dense civilian areas. I am against rules of engagement so loose it allows the Israeli military to kill three of the hostages it was purportedly trying to save while they're waving white flags. I am against using snipers against people hiding in churches and hospitals. I am against an approved collateral civilian kill rate of 15-20x.

I consider these positions to be pro-humanity.

If in your view, holding these positions makes me pro-hamas, I encourage you to examine if you are using an unnecessarily binary framing to analyze the death and destruction going on.

frob··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
That's kind of a paradox. If people instaflag it, then the chance I will see it is very low unless I'm the submitter.
frob··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
At this point, "aiding and abetting" seems to be "existing while inside Gaza." See the deliberate execution of the world central kitchen workers in a three-phase strike to ensure maximum casualties as an example.
frob··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
War crimes do not justify war crimes.
frob··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
And then the Israelis put that target they only have partial confidence about into a system called "Where's Daddy?" which will track their target until he goes home to his family at which point a kill order is sent out to drones and warplanes to massacre his entire family. [0, 1]

Is that the "pro-Palestinian nonsense" you were referring to?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

[1] https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

frob··on Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
Yes, we Americans committed many atrocities in our many wars and we will absolutely do so in the future. Please learn from us instead of following our path.
frob··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
I believe it's more a reference to the allowed civilian casualty rate. If they're allowed to kill 10 or more civilians per bombing of a suspected target, then even if they're 100% accurate in targeting their suspects, 90%+ of the people killed will be civilians.
frob··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Seeing as these discussions are always insta-flagged and you need to revive them to allow for discussion, have you considered adding 'Israel' and 'Palestine to a set of keywords you need to approve to be set as flagged instead of letting automation take over?

Having a human in the loop prevents bad-faith actors from abusing the system to suppress information and discussions.

frob··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
That is genocide.
frob··on Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
One challenge here is that pictographs assume an order of viewing. The same set of pictographs that show someone decaying away and dieing by staying in the exclusion zone depicts a magical fountain of healing and youth when viewed backwards.
frob··on Friends don't let friends export to CSV
My company has been using DSV for a bit: Dagger Separated Values. Unicode dagger (†) to separate values and double-dagger (‡) to indicate end of row. It allows us to easily handle both commas and newlines.
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