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Elon Musk’s Reported $10 Million Donation to Fertility Research Is Deeply Unsettling
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I think he deserves some credit for making Mastodon and Lemmy more popular at least.
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Elon Musk’s Reported $10 Million Donation to Fertility Research Is Deeply Unsettling
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I think he deserves some credit for making Mastodon and Lemmy more popular at least.
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What immediately makes you lose respect for someone?
If they treat others bad. Such as waitresses, their friends & family, co-workers etc.
Instantly no respect, zero tolerance.
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What is an item below 100 bucks that everyone should own?
Yubico Security Key, to secure your logins and more!
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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice
Sincerely appreciate your work to better this instance and the fediverse in it's entirely.
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Guys ruins someone concert experience while sexting chatbot
I'm just glad both hands are on the phone...but yeah, I'd be moving somewhere else or something.
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All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU
Not a bad idea but there are flaws and this also doesn't seem to address the issue of pricing or availability.
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Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
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Man, you even cleared your own comments...
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Lemmy World upgraded to v0.18.4 on 2023-08-10
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From the release notes: "This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs."
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Genital mutilation should be illegal
Interesting comments and opinions. I know that coming from a non-religious family, I was circumcised after birth because the doctors stated that it was better for hygiene. However, I got an infection (from the surgery) and spent 3 extra weeks in the hospital, nearly dying.
Thankfully, my following siblings were not put in that situation (and I had no long-term issues). And although I do believe that it is better for hygiene, it also takes the majority of nerves out.
Today, I believe that it should be an optional surgery or when medically required. In today's world, it is largely unnecessary.
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Lemmy World outages
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It sucks but there will always be some labor intensive queries to execute. Although, it can be limited and restricted which I'm sure they are already on top of it. Such as caching and security control put in place to make limits like "this type of request from this IP can only happen 1x per hour" or something along those lines.
If I had to guess, without looking into the source code yet and limited information provided I'd assuming it's mass account creation, image uploading and/or exploiting how the instant syncs with the fediverse. It's most certainly something that can be mostly prevented once the holes are made and then patched.
Also, I'm sure in the future something more efficient than SQL will be used.
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allegations that Marta removed an individual under the age of 14, who was not a family member, without obtaining parental consent and subsequently confined them.
The most information I've found so far, gonna see later whats public record. But regardless, kidnapped a child by no parent consent and confined them. https://www.fresherslive.com/latest/articles/fabian-marta-arrested-why-was-fabian-marta-arrested-what-did-fabian-marta-do-1555158282
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The only way to avoid Grammarly using your data for AI is to pay for 500 accounts
Great call-out! Probably because most over 500 can't allow exfiltration of data for security (banks, gov, corp secrets). From my understanding most, if not all, AI data sets are built from our data.
Google and OpenAI was caught (or opening saying) using web spiders for AI datasets, crawling public data from Wikipedia, Facebook, Reddit and more. Google even using data from Google Assistant and other opt-in data "to improve their products".
I haven't looked into Microsoft but they are also using OpenAI as they are a major investor for OpenAI.
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Reflectacles to escape Facial Recognition
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And that's how I got kicked out of the local trader joes...
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Lemmy World outages
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Could not be stated any better.
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Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff
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Afterall, "Your PC needs to be backed up and connected to a few more Microsoft services to help you work more easily and securely across all your devices.".
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Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff
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That's what I did, it's one of the few things that it does let you uninstall.
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Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff
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I did already have this turned off, and it still pops things up like this and trying to get me to sign into a Microsoft account. It's just annoying and they don't provide an option to skip or don't remind me again which makes it even worse.
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lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy
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Yeah but check out the difference in the community rules, that's why.
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Apple now has 1 billion paying subscribers
Yeah, that is pretty crazy. It's found almost everywhere, soon even grocery shopping will be subscription only.
I remember not that long ago trying, begging, pleading friends and family to hop on with apple. After 10 years, including working as Apple Support for 3 years, I finally got away. I love the quality, the software is so intuitive out of the box and it "just works".
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Bob Barker, longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host, dies at 99
The legend. ✌️