If they have AR screen (no idea tbh), then I’d love to have one to see if an IRL adblock is possible. It shouldn’t be hard, OCR is already there, and just overlaying a rectangle over adds shouldn’t be that difficult.
Unfortunatel, it would need an always on camera, and people are dickheads who just have to start misusing that.
I’m really a fan of the dogmatized occultisms. The orders like Illuminates of Thanateros, Golden Dawn, John Dee’s books, even Wicca, Discordians.
It’s really interesting rabbit hole that’s a nice open-mindness exercise, plus it’s fascinating to experiment with.
Almost everyone I’ve met who showed any interrest in occultism was always taking it too seriously, to the point of sounding unhealthy. They either knew and read the actual sources, and were too much into it, or they had some kind of random vibes-based new-age approach (and also were too much into it to the point of sounding insane).
I never really understood that. Maintaining an open mind while still keeping a little bit of dostance from it, taking it more like a research into history with a bit of curious practice (basically LARPing would be a perfect analogy), is fun and what I did, but people usually just let it take over their lifes in very unhealthy fashion.
I’ve tried out several of the orders/practices, and each one was fascinating to get into, I would say had overall positive effect on my life, even if it was just having fun larping/method acting and exploring what effects it has on my mental state.
I never interacted with the community, though. I’ve only met one other person who has similar aproach, and a lot of people who you’d consider insane upon hearing how they talk about it.
I highly recommend giving it a try with open mind. I work in IT, never really was into spiritualism or religion, but getting through i.e this book on Wicca, with an open mind, without prejudice and giving it a honest try, was really an eye openning experience. I didn’t stick with it for long, but the few months I tried were suprisingly fun. It’s basically solo LARPing.
Also, the whole history around that and other cults is really fascinating read, but trying out the practice is where most of the controversal (for some) fun is. But again - it’s like with religion - you have to be careful not to let it take over your life, annoy others with it, or use it as an excuse for anything, from why your life sucks or why you can be a dick.
AI shartist
The fact that Meta has a C-suite position that’s called Chief Privacy Officer is my favorite absurdly ironic fact.
I can’t imagine how can anyone apply to that with a strait face and clear conscience, but that’s prpbably true for most positions at Meta, aside from like Beat Games and the like.
You left? Murderer.
I might’ve been wrong, see other replies to my comment. It might’ve been some kind of honor equipment rental, where you can borrow sporting equipment, instead of it being a locker for people to store things in.
But the context of the post is basically the same. City did something nice, people vandalized it :D
Oh, you are right. There seems to be some text on the outside. Might’ve been just some equipment to borrow.
Ok, it might need more context :D
I would guess that the City of Mississauga has installed public equipment lockers for people to store their things in, and within days, all of them had broken glass because someone has stolen the equipment stored inside by other people.
But I’m just guessing based on the picture. I wouldn’t expect the context to be much different, tbh.
My partner works in HR, and from what I’ve heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.
There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.
But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn’t do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.
It sounds like hell of a job, that would’ve been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can’t follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won’t do it if some AI is telling them to.
From what I’ve heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don’t care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.
I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.
If you want the cheapest, go with Cloudfare. They guarantee to ask for the wholesale price, which is the price the registrar pays to the top level domain owner, so they can’t go lower without footing the bill.
What most of registrars do is foot the difference for the first year, so you get a domain for super cheap, then add 50%+ cut on top, so you pay i.e 5$ for the first year for a TLD that has wholesale cost of 10$, while they loose 5$ on that sale, and then you pay 25$ for the second, so they now gain 15$ on holding your domain hostage.
Cloudfare guarantees that they will sell you that domain for 10$, and only raise it when the TLD owner raises the price.
I’m not aware of any other registrar that guarantees wholesale prices, but LMK if anyone knows any.
If you want to get the best deal, buy your first year (or maybe 10 years, if they let you buy 10 for the sale price) with the scammy registrar, i.e get the 5$ sale on Namecheap, and before it expires transfer it to Cloudfare so you don’t pay extra for the second year and can continue with the (much lower now) wholesale price.
Each TLD has a different wholesale price, but every registrar pays the same to them for selling the domain to you. The differences you see is exactly in how much are they willing to foot the bill at first (most have a massive sale on first year, then huge markup on renewals), some just add a flat fee and have markup from the start.
Cloudfare just states “you will pay wholesale”, and don’t do any sheninegans. At least that’s how it was last time I checked.
Yeah, that was my first thought. Could be that, if it’s a simple word based filter.
Assuming it’s not fake, I honestly wonder what could’ve happened, what rule got triggered, that this was flagged.
Minimum system requirement fow Windows PC (with Copilot+, not sure if this has the chip, but if yes it’s funny) is 16gb, per their official page.
Edit: Hah, the article mentions it - it loses the Copilot+ status. Lol
But, if I’m looking at it right, ithas the + CPU. So they just don’t have the ram.
Thats hillarious. Their AI bubble push has… Priced them out of selling AI.
Oooh, so that’s why some clothes could shrink?
I remember hearing that shrinking clothes could be a problem, but I never actually encountered it in my adult life.
We’ve just had a campaign on our city’s public transport trams that said “I’m identifying as a trolleybus”.
During pride month, nonetheless.
It didn’t occur to me to even consider that there might be a custom competitive beyblade scene :D I was mostly just thinking about the pre-made duels at highschool :D
I have to look it up, sounds fun.
I don’t believe they will. The can say and do whatever and nothing will probably happen. .
One of the things that surprised me the most when I started working on vishings for a Cybersecurity Red Team was how extremely easy it is to spoof any phone number.
It’s the nunber one tip I give to anyone who asks about security, a lot of people don’t know that, and spear-vishings are extremely effective.
People have learned to mostly not trust Microsoft Support numbers asking for your CC, but when an internal company number that your phone matches to your bosses boss calls you, a lot of people fall for that.
Hmm, I wonder what the current beyblade meta is, used to be a pretty fun toy a decade ago.
I honestly never thought about that. :D