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thallium205

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thallium205··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Pretty much any kernel bug gets a CVE by default now, right?
thallium205··on ChatGPT Pro 500
$5 flat group rides, $8 flat single rides anywhere in the city. The glory days.
thallium205··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I bet there exists data from the 3 cameras to represent some depth to the image.
thallium205··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
I've never understood astrophotography. It's like taking pictures of the Mona Lisa with a Gameboy camera. Unlike real photography which is dynamic and ever changing, the night sky has remained the same since our ancestors first looked up.

Why not just download HD scans from the pros especially if you're going to "automate" the hobby portion of the field.

Can I just simulate the user interface a smart telescope uses and then just return Hubble photos after some artificial loading screen completes? Maybe toss in some whirring noises?

thallium205··on The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
The proof is in the pudding. On a pure price-return basis without dividends, an investment in the Euro Stoxx 50 in 2000 sat at approximately 0% capital growth for nearly 25 years.
thallium205··on The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
Europe on another money grubbing fishing expedition on US corporations.
thallium205··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
And then I'll switch to Apple's voice to text which is equally awful.
thallium205··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
It still enjoys many government mandated monopolistic advantages.

See: American Letter Mail Company.

thallium205··on Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
They are at least 6 months behind the other labs because they got a late start.
thallium205··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
The UK, the EU, Japan, and Australia all have identical rules to this policy.
thallium205··on Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
So you think being logged out of Google will keep you more anonymous than this Kagi Privacy Pass setup?
thallium205··on What 1,281 agent runs reveal about coding agent failure in large codebases
Slop article.
thallium205··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Nevada was able to get it banned. The casino pull is huge.
thallium205··on EFF is leaving X
Virtue signaling is priceless.
thallium205··on In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
Seriously. I recently switched to a minimal phone which has a physical keyboard. I was pretty stoked to have one again but then the space bar broke after a few weeks. The failure rendered the entire phone immediately useless just like that.
thallium205··on We mourn our craft
Translation for Mgrs - it supercharges offshore immensely. ftfy
thallium205··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
On Pixel phones, Power + Volume Up retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".
thallium205··on CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
Trees?
thallium205··on 'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
All house and senate GOP members voted "no" on ACA. Obamacare is a lot of things, but a "GOP healthcare plan" isn't one of those things.
thallium205··on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
The author lists Starlink at 100mb/s down but I'm consistently getting around 400mb/s these days with the high performance dish and a commitment of gigabit speeds next year. He's got options.
thallium205··on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
FedEx
thallium205··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Teslas always want the road to be as bright as possible for their self driving tech to work well.
thallium205··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
Many spammers will strip the +xxxx out of the emails anyway to not reveal the source of their data so it doesn't matter too much really.
thallium205··on US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say
Airlines would pay them all personally if they were permitted.
thallium205··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
Looks like they restored service.
thallium205··on Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences
Because the supply of academics have outpaced demand.
thallium205··on Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
Yep I prompt my AI to do that too.
thallium205··on Fight Chat Control
The punishment can include the death penalty too.
thallium205··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
I'd rather interact with an AI than federal workers 80% of the time.
thallium205··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
"All VPN services must also perform age verification." Done.
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