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lalopalotaon Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'

The commenter also says nothing about being penalized for not taking shifts. If they sign up for a shift, they are expected to work that shift. It is a completely different model than Uber Eats, which he can sign into or out of at any given time, without penalty.

lalopalotaon Milk Sad Disclosure

Where do you buy a $4 domain?

lalopalotaon Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)

Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this?

lalopalotaon Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s

Were any of you hired when you were in your 40's 50's, etc?

lalopalotaon Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction

I agree. Use the LLM to construct a better search query, then return those results and the query to the user. The user can modify the "optimized" query and repeat until a usefull answer is obtained.

lalopalotaon What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades

"not washing their hands" being the key part. it isn't dangerous to handle diver weights or clean up a shooting range. if the traces aren't cleaned off your hands before touching the face/eyes, eating, smoking cigarettes, etc, the lead will get into the body and cause problems.

lalopalotaon Ohio cryptic lineage update

Brother: "Hey, the guy you are looking for is my brother, Ted. Here's a sample of my DNA, my parents' DNA, and Ted's baby teeth. He lives somewhere in Atlanta, probably using a false identity."

lalopalotaon Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English

Typing out the instructions, copying and pasting the data, then analyzing the output for correctness is faster than running `sort -h` ?

lalopalotaon The Right Way to Run Shell Commands from Python

> sh relies on various Unix system calls and only works on Unix-like operating systems - Linux, macOS, BSDs etc. Specifically, Windows is not supported.

from: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/

lalopalotaon Google no longer automatically indexes websites?

You can get an access token from settings which can be provided in the URL. Set your search engine URL to include the token, and your searches just work, even in Private / Incognito.

lalopalotaon The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated

You are free to chase whatever you want. Same goes for those who have chosen FSD.

lalopalotaon AI camera with no lens

make the system output a sketch. boom - problem solved.

lalopalotaon Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet

Yes, this implies that trezor developers know of fake devices claiming to run that version so they skipped that version number to ensure that no one who sees that version number would confuse it with an actual version.

lalopalotaon Banana Equivalent Dose

It rained, watch out for puddles.

It rained, watch out for flooding.

The word used is "rain" in both cases. Degrees of danger is communicated elsewhere. Same with "fallout".

lalopalotaon AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services

Lookalikes / impersonators who present as such, probably not an issue. Claiming to actually be the person might be identity theft?

lalopalotaon Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)

> How would would you say "where is the toilet?" more succinctly with the context up front in English?

"Restroom?"

lalopalotaon Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices

> Discharge our own duties and responsibilities regardless of others' conduct;

Looks like they nailed that one.

lalopalotaon Rolling Stone left out the reason why FBI raided journalist's home

The journalist quit after the pedophilla charges were edited out of the article.

lalopalotaon Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”

Creating + lending an audiobook should be fine, the same as creating an ebook. As long as only 1 copy is loaned out per physical item owned (can't loan the ebook if someone has the audiobook), I don't see the difference. What if they create a physical braille version and loan that out to blind people? 1-to-1 lending should be acceptable in any case.

lalopalotaon Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans

Sounds like they are on disability because they experience DMT-like effects without taking DMT.

lalopalotaon Xiaomi has been in violation of GPL for years

They also don't play videos of skimply dressed students walking around campus for their classes.

lalopalotaon NordVPN library and client code open-sourced

- limit amount of browsing data collected by ISP

- untrusted networks (public wifi)

- normalize usage of privacy preserving practices

lalopalotaon Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine

The max penalty is 15k per infraction * 100 kids = 1.5m

lalopalotaon New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates

Haven't used NeoStore, but Aurora Droid works well for me.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.adroid/

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"Customer support rep doesn't give real-time location to caller claiming to be a police officer in a dire emergency"

Good!

Seems like the process for redirecting callers claiming to be police to someone who can verify their claim needs to be provided to the supoort representatives.

lalopalotaon France's baby bust

> marrying across political lines now carries more opposition than across religious ones, for the majority of people

Where can I learn more about this? I find it difficult to believe this is true for "the majority of people".

lalopalotaon A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304

Here are some features and settings that you can allow changes for:

Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode

Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords

lalopalotaon Soylent Acquired by Starco Brands

With Soylent, I found that if I wait until I'm hungry, I will still be hungry after I drink a glass. If I drink it before I get hungry, I don't get hungry.

Instead of my usual mealtimes of 8am, 1pm, 6pm I drink Solent at 8am, 12pm and 4:30pm; then I don't feel hungry throughout the day.

lalopalotaon Police say GPS tag darts can eliminate need for dangerous high-speed chases

Not to mention that possessing a police scanner while committing a crime is a crime itself.

lalopalotaon Password protect a static HTML page

On the web, all pages on a domain can be encrypted with the same password. If the user selects the "remember me" checkbox, they won't have to authenticate on each page.

This also works without a webserver. It can be a local file that is opened in a browser.