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iinnPP··on Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
These types of comments have been getting more frequent, or more irritating. Your conclusion is ridiculous and you should be ashamed.
iinnPP··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
Unmentioned is the effect of having officers watch your home the entire time. Which is the tradeoff not worth the hassle for everyone.
iinnPP··on Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
If you want to complain afterwards, yes.
iinnPP··on Flipper One – we need your help
Normal is humans living in caves.
iinnPP··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
It's "free" if you want it to be.
iinnPP··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
Depends on how it's done.

Trusting that process to be done well is probably not the greatest plan.

iinnPP··on SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
I believe the idea is to offer simulation of ideas to test out new tasks AND something like dreaming.
iinnPP··on Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
I have a similar outlook atm as one of "those guys."

Everything takes so long, nobody is held accountable. The most likely result of pushing for any type of positive outcome for basically anything is some form of punishment or social degradation.

And so, as of October 2024, I don't do it anymore.

I will also note that most of the things I see "being corrected" these days are entirely fictitious.

As an example is the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Canada. They tossed out a valid complaint about Shaw (during Rogers buyout) for jurisdictional reasons. Then they are on the news making odd statements about (exclusively) OpenAI not being honest about using your data?

It's all a show it seems. I figured it needs to get a qhole lot worse before it can get any better.

I have moved to internal tooling creation and have airgapped a machine/tool each month this year so far. Just a laptop and my social phone remain networked.

iinnPP··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Now that you mentioned it, I seem to recall that news. The point stands that in some areas, that type of store can still perform.

Perhaps they would come to an agreement.

iinnPP··on Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster
When did you last try with the OPC? I also have experience (a few) and noted a sharp decline post covid. My first go was for Freedom Mobile (success) but the representative from the OPC was borderline harassing me to accept the currently (STILL) completely broken authentication. When I tried again it was 'out of jurisdiction' and no sort of appeal process.

Calling it functional is not something I would do. Judges are also extremely critical of the compensation process a have essentially been forced to take it over. It's also still too new and risky so lawyers are reluctant unless it's paid up front.

If anyone with any say is reading this, I can still break into any Freedom Mobile account in under a minute, including the admin ones.

iinnPP··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
It's reasonable to predict that as physical media is phased out by the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, that the value of offline capable inventory will shift to an investment instead of a liability. Increasing their percent cut as a result.
iinnPP··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
GameStop in Canada owns stores in active malls and in standalone locations. Hard to see the store empty, even at 1030am on a weekday in November.
iinnPP··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Speak for yourself. There's a reason places like Once Upon a Child and their parent stores exist. There's even other entirely digital stores on the sell for pennies instead of donating market.

People are broke. Just not everyone.

iinnPP··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
On the opposite end of that is the plethora of psychiatry/psychology professionals whom are terrible at their profession and are likely causing more harm than good.

I see it along the same lines as brands, your typical Great Value psychologist will greatly underperform the Kirkland psychologist who will greatly underperform the ... and so on.

Then there's the subset of the population whom have been abused in the most horrific ways by psychologists.

Not to counter your point, just as additional discussion.

iinnPP··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
I think there exists enough evidence of placebo benefits that it shouldn't be all that surprising. Moreover, regardless of any study or anecdote to the contrary, Those people will exist and see actual benefits, realized or not.
iinnPP··on Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
I tend to agree with you on this. I wanted to add however that Meta itself lets so many TOS violating ads in, that it seems like special treatment for ads that are much less undesirable than the ads normally pushed.

It's not just a Meta issue either.

iinnPP··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
The popup also scrolled down for me and I had to scroll back up to hit the X.
iinnPP··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
The AHT value indeed went down 3 minutes below the average, which is generally a good thing so long as you are doing everything well still. All outliers get checked and mine was the lowest. I was honest about the tool, including that it was offline. Their supposed policy was no personal tools and as it was during "probation" (first 90 days in Ontario), they could fire without cause, and did, immediately.
iinnPP··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
It was offline.
iinnPP··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
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iinnPP··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
I worked HP CS in Highschool and during my time there I created a HTML/JS replacement for a unbearably slow tree system that made a 10+ second network call every single question(often 20+ questions and a tree copy was required for notes). Mine was instant.

They fired me for it because my AHT flagged me and it made someone look bad.

At that point (this is at Windows Vista launch) the minimum hold was 25 minutes all day.

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
I avoided needing medicine by altering my diet to tone down salt, unhealthy fat, and sugar intake. My doctor was surprised as "everyone just takes the meds."
iinnPP··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
It's been a while but as a 12 year old I completely broke the library system, installed cracked Starcraft, and refroze DeepFreeze afterwards.

Not to counteract your point, just as an anecdote I like remembering.

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Salt, among the ingredients in the average burger is the most likely to cause you problems. Calling it bikeshedding is a massive stretch. In a talk of the importance of the contents of your diet related only to burgers, salt is the exact opposite of bikeshedding.

Nothing whatsoever is stopping Beyond from removing salt and allowing people to salt their own burgers, as they already do.

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
The sodium content is about 3x higher. It doesn't taste 3x higher.

If you're salting your recipe with traditional ground beef, you're doing the same with Beyond. If not, same.

I do not expect or even encourage the content of any alternative to match the nutritional value of the real deal.

A typical pinch of salt is 300mg. Not 2300mg.

When the base product has 3x as much sodium, that is a problem. It doesn't need that much because as you stated, you can add salt during cooking. As a great example, let's take a use case for Beyond which is taco meat. I add taco seasoning (my own which is about 30% sodium compared to a traditional) and now the Beyond version is still roughly 250% the sodium content.

I can't remove the sodium they add. It's not a product I like or desire. It's more expensive. It's less healthy (note how often I mention reduced salt) for myself.

Also, I have been a strict vegan in life for about 5 years. I still didn't eat Beyond (aside from tasting it) during that period (it was available).

I'm not really trying to attack Beyond here, it's all personal preference at the end of the day. I make 95% of my food, from bread to tomato sauce to pickled peppers and hot sauce. When I am reaching for a vegan protein, I reach for lentils.

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Beyond sells a ground beef substitute which has about 3x as much sodium as lean ground beef.
iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
I was going to edit the comment with this but in Canada we have a company called Metro(grocer) and they often sell 4x fresh beef patties for ~$4 which is 1lb(454g) of ground beef and exactly nothing else.

It's good to eat sans salt on bbq with your desired (typically salty) toppings.

I know people salt the patty while cooking, but the topic at hand is Beyond and their patties.

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
You don't need salt and spices to make a burger, it can be 100% beef with no additives. A pinch of salt can be like 0.3g/burger and you're fine as well.

I don't eat that these days, my burgers are actually 25% beef and 75% lentil/seasoning. Still under 0.5g/100g

iinnPP··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
A burger can be made from that solitary ingredient though.
iinnPP··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
It's not just these articles. Having any differing opinions on basically anything now.

It's as far from hacking interest as it gets for me.

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