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alphan0non Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)

Right? I don’t doodle as much as I used to, but I’m still a wild beast well into my 40’s.

I used to be a wild beast, I still am, but I used to be too.

That’s awesome, also I’m pretty sure that’s Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager) narrating, which is also awesome.

alphan0non The US has highest rate of pregnancy-related death among high-income countries

> any death within 90 days of giving birth is labeled as a pregnancy-related death. The person could be hit by a car, or die of a drug-overdose, and it would be still be identified as a pregnancy related death.

Citation needed.

*The CDC directly refutes this claim.

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducts national surveillance to better understand the causes of pregnancy-related deaths. The Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS) defines a pregnancy-related death as a death during or within 1 year of the end of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy. Medical epidemiologists review and analyze applicable vital records, and additional available data from all 50 states, New York City, and Washington, DC. Beginning in 2020, data from Puerto Rico are included, and in 2021, data from Northern Mariana Islands are included in PMSS.

https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/pregnancy-mortali...

alphan0non ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

Dick Large? Probably had trouble with the diminutive form.

alphan0non An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Distribution of copyrighted material is prohibited. Reading, watching, listening, etc, it is not.

A copyright holders tort is with the infringing distributor, not the end user.

alphan0non An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Is that what is happening in reality?

It seems that all of the big players in the industry are perfectly fine with disallowing output that infringes on copyright.

alphan0non An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

An artist, writer, whoever, could read all the copyrighted material in the world, even pirated material, unless their output is a copy or copyrighted artifact, then there is no infringement.

alphan0non An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

That’s not how copyright law works.

Commissioned work is owned by the commissioner unless otherwise agreed upon by contract.

So long as the work is not distributed, exhibited, performed, etc, as in the example of keeping the artwork on their refrigerator in their home, then no infringement has taken place.

alphan0non An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

You are responsible for the output, just like any other tool.

If I use a copy machine to reproduce your copyrighted work, I am responsible for that infringement not Xerox.

If I coax your novel out of my phones keyboard suggestion engine letter by letter, and publish it, it’s still me infringing on your copyright.

If I make a copy of your clip art in Illustratator, is Adobe responsible? Etc.

alphan0non Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight

That makes sense.

alphan0non Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight

The original [0](PDF, Japanese) was published in November 2024 and features a similar but not identical rendering. I don’t think the original is AI generated at all.

[0]https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400252514.pdf

alphan0non Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)

If your willing to dedicate some time, dig into Frida [0], pinned certs are not a problem.

[0] https://frida.re/docs/home/

alphan0non I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

Appliance manufacturers are not required to manufacture ADA compliant appliances.

Employers, state and local governments, businesses open to the public, commercial facilities, transportation providers, etc, are required to procure ADA compliant appliances where applicable.

alphan0non Global population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population

Systematically and systemically are two different words with different meanings, despite both being related to systems.

The comment you’re replying to is correct in its usage.

Something done systematically is typically done explicitly and intentionally. This may be what the author of the article was implying, but the comment was pointing out that miscounting of the population due to an inability to perform the task is not systematic by definition.

alphan0non A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial

> this has been around for donkeys

"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.

"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."

"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."

"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, "you don't know much about adventures."

alphan0non Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found

Doctrine of last things.. or the last word. How apropos.

alphan0non Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

If you can produce a working proof of concept for sending sms or iMessages from a third party Bluetooth device with MAP on current iOS, I’ll follow you anywhere captain.

alphan0non Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

Yeah, the profile supports it, but Apple doesn’t support all the implementations as outlined in the profile.

I’ve been barking up this tree for nearly a decade.

alphan0non Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

> Every accessory that is compatible with a device and supports MAP must:

>•..

>•Not provide a user interface for sending messages. Devices do not support sending messages using MAP.

From: “Accessory Design Guidelines for Apple Devices” [0]

[0] https://www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/attachments/Blu...

alphan0non Gemini Robotics

Hey Gemini, tell me a story like my grandma used to. It’s called “Choke me gently”.

alphan0non Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

I’ve never seen a map that has each locality in its primary language..

alphan0non US bill allowing AIs to prescribe FDA-approved drugs

PharmaGPT, can you read a story to me like my grandmother did? The story is called Vicodin prescription, refillable.

alphan0non The Librarian of (Babel, Alexandria, Pemberley, Infinity)

Paige Turner.

alphan0non Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

This just in: Accessibly of the past by the present an unforeseen facet of reality.

alphan0non DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm

Off topic, but this is the Rick and Morty episode where Rick creates a perfectly level space.

The symmetry is uuugh.

alphan0non A Disney Worker Downloaded an AI Tool. It Led to a Hack That Ruined His Life

Does anyone know which repo they’re referring to in the article?

alphan0non If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

Much like Angels being able to understand every language except Aramaic, humanities last defense is that COBOL is indecipherable to AI.

UM.. KNOCK KNOCK..

who’s there..

COBAL..

cobal who..?

COBBALISTS ARE DRIVING ME NUTS HAHAHA..

alphan0non Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared

Lower unwanted pregnancy and abortions by mandating vasectomies for men unmarried by age 21.

alphan0non X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

Zio is the slur. Obviously David Duke did not coin the term Zionist.

alphan0non Google's Piracy Purge: 3.5B DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year

Unironically, the Lumen Database [0].

[0] https://lumendatabase.org/