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Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies
What a useless headline. God forbid they just give the actual capacity rather than some abstract, bullshit, flexible measure that means nothing to anyone.
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Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies
What a useless headline. God forbid they just give the actual capacity rather than some abstract, bullshit, flexible measure that means nothing to anyone.
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Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it.
America’s whole tipping thing is a nightmare. Just make companies pay employees properly and if they can’t, maybe they shouldn’t be a business.
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Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
Why is everyone making this a price thing? The way I see it, this is because Apple Silicon is so damn good. I replaced an Intel MacBook Pro with an M2 Air and I’m not going to need another machine until this thing stops working. People shouldn’t need to buy new laptops every couple of years. This is a win in my eyes.
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Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter
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I can see how it might look like that if you simply ignore literally all the details. But thats only something an idiot would do. You’re not an idiot, are you?
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About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity
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That’s the trick, you don’t read them.
Person A creates an email with AI, attaches a ppt created with AI, and send it to person B.
Person B gets AI to summarise the email and ppt, and create a response.
Repeat.
It’s an ouroboros of shit.
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Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it is how difficult it is to observe and monitor employees
They're frustrated because it shows that they aren't necessary. People can just get on and do their work without some micromanager breathing down their neck.
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Updates
There are high-schoolers alive today (maybe even in this thread) who were born after Apple stopped charging for updates. Maybe it's time to get some new jokes.
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Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI
Is anyone really surprised by this?
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Unless that’s more than they made with their misleading pricing, that’s not really a punishment. Fines for companies need to be bigger or they’re not really deterred from shady behaviour.
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
Why do you need a gas station in walking distance?
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Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter
I'm gonna guess he has way more than two burners. The dude is an addict, tweeting is all he has.
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web4 – The Second End of History?
Web 4 — it’s web 3 but this time the grift is slightly different.
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‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict
Seeing people say they’re saving lots of time with LLMs makes me wonder how much menial busywork other people do relative to myself. I find so few things in my day where using these tools wouldn’t just make me a babysitter for a dumb machine.
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Elon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earnings
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Given that Twitter's already relatively tiny user base is dwindling, the platform is now account-walled, and Musk is a notorious liar, I doubt any prominent creators are going to even consider cross-posting to Twitter.
A competitive alternative would be great, but Twitter isn't going to be it.
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Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall
I pray this bumbling moron actually does it.
Edit: spelling. Apparently I’m a bumbling moron too.
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More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities
Realistically, a couple of 10TB drives would have me covered for like a decade at least. If these massive drives bring down the price of much smaller ones, I'm a happy boy.
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Why Linux is Best for Most People
Hilarious. In what world is a Linux a good choice for “Elderly people who are not familiar with advanced technology and prefer clean and simple computer usage”.
The elderly people I know already struggle with the systems they’ve used for years. And when something goes wrong, they can ask basically anyone and someone will be able to help them.
Now insert Linux (which “flavour”? Who knows, pick one) and see who can help with even basic tasks or problems. This is fantasy shit.
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I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist
This shit seems like the perfect basis for a discrimination lawsuit.
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Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV
Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.
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Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes
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I mean, it is a private company and they can do what they want. It’s a shitty and childish thing that Musk is choosing to do but it’s his $44B dumpster fire to fuel as he pleases.
Advocating for free speech rights for a private American company to be beholden to is stupid because it misunderstands everything about free speech laws work and how companies and content moderation work.
The people who think Elon brought free speech to Twitter tend to also be the people who think free speech starts and ends at your right to use slurs without social consequences.