beveradb

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

Do you like fishsticks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Same, my favourite thing recently is when the caller is an AI, I just get a voicemail of the darker AI taking to my pixel's on device AI for 30 seconds

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fair, I regret my comment - was a dumb joke in response to the last line of this wall of text (which I'm guessing was a joke)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Good to know, everywhere should do it!

I'm guessing even in California you have to pay for it though?

In Scotland, doctors offices and hospitals don't even have cash registers cos money is not something the citizens ever have to think about when it comes to healthcare, I feel sorry for anyone who has to exist in the US where money and healthcare are tied together

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm from Scotland and here, every time a pregnant person is registered with the NHS (we have universal free healthcare, which is normal in Europe, so this is pretty much every pregnant person), they're automatically enrolled for a baby box to be mailed to their home a couple of weeks before the baby's due date.

The baby box includes a ton of stuff designed to help parents take care of a baby in their first few years, including the box itself doubling as a cot. Loads more details here, it's been super well received since they introduced it 10 years ago ish: https://www.scotland.org/live-in-scotland/progressive-scotland/baby-box

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not supporting brave here, but do you have any evidence that the open source Chromium browser sends data to Google in any situation? The way I see it, Chromium is like android AOSP without Google apps, less functional but generally de-googled.

I can't say I've reviewed every line of code in that huge project, but I'd be shocked if the rest of the open source community working on Chromium was willing to have tracking code in it or anything else which phones home to Google, even if the majority of the developers working on the open source project are Google engineers.

Ultimately, both Brave and Firefox are open source, so you can look through the code and verify for yourself whether either browser are doing something unethical.

This ungoogled-chromoim project is probably worth checking out, they maintain a patch set which explicitly removes the only things in chromium which send data to Google, which is pretty much just the web services for search bar autocomplete and DNS pre-fetching etc.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium?tab=readme-ov-file#motivation-and-philosophy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What? Who's saying you can't say that? The US is the world's biggest bully and has been for decades, it definitely deserves whatever it gets in return for it's atrocities, and I don't think that's an unreasonable or unpopular opinion on Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm definitely not angry, I personally think all of these countries suck and it's none of my business really so there's no emotion in it for me, I'm just curious to understand where people are coming from when they post inflammatory / heated messages.

For what it's worth, I definitely don't think Iran is any better than Israel overall - they've both done pretty awful things over the years. I just think Iran is slightly more of a victim of the US (starting with the 1953 coup) whereas Israel has always had unconditional support from the US. When you're talking about a war-hungry country with the worlds largest military, that's a big deal.

I've just asked this prompt to an unbiased LLM and read through the responses, would love to hear your take on the below and if there's anything you disagree with / think is false in it's responses:

"throughout the last few decades, in all of the conflict in the middle east, has Iran been more of a bully or a victim? and, how much of the conflict in the middle east, including anything with Iran or Israel, has been ultimately caused by the US (directly or indirectly)? please try to remain unbiased in your response, I'm interested in plain facts as much as possible (even though I know I'm asking a subjective question)"

LLM response here; I know it's a lot of text but it's super informative, IMO worth a read and I'd love to hear your response if you do read it! https://gist.github.com/beveradb/d35beffc4f26299e24c34fb8889fbb8e

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that quote, I'd like to see proof of any smart TV having beefy enough hardware to record anything at 100fps+, and even then what would be the point? Nothing played back on the screen will even have a frame rate and 60fps... I'm sure this is a lazy article mistake

EDIT: I take it back, I talked it out with Gemini and understand the logic and realistic implementation now, it's a dedicated part of the SoC design. Still hate the fact that this is a thing, we just need to spread the word about not connecting your actual TV to the internet at all ever.

https://g.co/gemini/share/e37d7882d427

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