A.K.A. “being a new parent.” 😂

Except that new parents go through way more than five days of that. 😞

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That’s an interesting observation. I’m not sure, since I’m in Canada.

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It’s frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

As crazy as it seems that some people today take the bible as literal truth, it’s been revised, edited, and modified so often that you’d never know which version is “right”. LOL

She had a past medical history of insomnia and irritable bowel syndrome and was currently being treated with vitamin D3, vitamin K, manganese and activated charcoal.

She was either self-treating, following the suggestions of an internet “doctor”, or taking medical advice from a chiropractor 😂

Note, irritable bowel syndrome isn’t the same as inflammatory bowel disease (I.e. Crohn’s). And IBD isn’t treated with pepto bismal, either. 💁‍♂️

We describe the case of a 44-year-old woman treated with bismuth subsalicylate for about 20 years, who developed abnormal behaviour and postural instability in two weeks.

What the actual hell???

For those who don’t know, “bismuth subsalicylate” is commonly sold as Pepto Bismol. The directions say to stop use if your problems persist for more than two days! Taking it for two decades is insane!

Ontario, Canada (Near Toronto).

Our previous insurance was by far the least expensive, so I know it could have been worse. But over the pandemic, where we didn’t drive much, it pissed me off to have to pay insurance and not even need it.

Then, when I started cycling more two years ago, I just stopped using the car for pretty much every trip that’s less than 30 km way.

Between my wife and I, we used to pay a minimum of $150 and $200 per month for a single car. That was what we paid, even if we didn’t move it from the driveway.

With pay-as-you-go, we paid around $250 for last year, and it’ll be less this year.

I have a pay-as-you-go insurance in Canada, and they explicitly say that they “… will not use the data to cancel or refuse an automobile insurance policy; to apply surcharges to your current or future automobile policy or for marketing purposes.”.

Apparently, they only use it to confirm the mileage. It does capture your GPS tracking, and will alert you of any issues, like a low car battery (which I’ve had a few times because I drive so little!).

Honestly, in this case, I don’t care. I drive too infrequently, and this saves our family thousands a year, so it’s a net benefit for me, and I choose to opt-in.

If you’re on the sidewalk in public, you have no expectation of privacy.

Under normal context, that’s correct.

But if you are purposely being filmed as part of a movie, project, “prank” or anything else that makes you the “talent”, it moves into a commercial licensing/permit/consent realm.

I’ve been to loads of public events where I’ve had to sign a release form acknowledging that my photo may be captured and that those images may be used in marketing/social media posts, etc. That’s because being at the event makes me the subject. While this wouldn’t be a concern if other people in the group are taking photos/video for their own personal use, the fact that those images may be used for commercial purposes changes the context.

If social media asshats want to use someone’s photos or video for their own commercial purposes, they should be following the same rules as any other professional.

For clarity, we aren’t talking about randos being filmed while on a walking tour of a city; we’re talking about specific people being targeted and recorded as the main subject without consent and with the explicit purpose to use their video for commercial content.

Nearly every country has laws protecting people from having their images used for commercial purposes without consent.

Generally speaking, it is “OK” if you happen to capture people on video while you are recording a public space.

However, the article is referring to situations where people are being video recorded, without their knowledge, as the main focus of the video.

In this case, it should be treated like any TV or movie set, where consent must be given.

I see it as video recording for commercial use, so permits should also be required by these social media degenerates, before a single frame is captured.

LOL. Yeah, sometimes, answers can be very much “I’m winging it today”, but certain prompts, especially for story ideas, can be very interesting and usable.

I’ve always said that if you know a lot about a subject, you can easily spot how AI generally tries to fake it until it makes it.

But if you have no idea about something, the answers you get are certainly better than what your buddy might tell you 😂

But to my point, it comes up with long form content so fast that you wonder how the hell it actually processed the question that quickly.

It still amazes me just how quickly these models can spit out complex answers pretty much instantly.

Google recklessly violated privacy laws to spike ad profits

And they will continue doing so because the “risk” is worth the consequences.

Here’s an idea: Fine them the value of all that ad revenue + 20%. Then see how willing they are to break privacy laws.

If they can’t profit from doing illegal stuff, they won’t do illegal stuff.

Floccus is what I use for bookmarks.

Works across pretty much any browser and on Android (maybe iOS, I’m not sure). I’ve got it set up on my Synology NAS through webdav, and it’s been reliable.

I do also use Linkwarden, but that’s more to collect web pages, and not just bookmark them. The archive feature is great, since it doesn’t rely on the page still being live to work.

Linkwarden and Floccus are very different, IMO.

Absolutely no changes to the cast would have made The Matrix better than it was/is.

In fact, it would have made it worse. Will Smith? Madonna? No.

+1 for Floccus. Been using it for a least a year. 👌

Been using this for a few weeks on my synology nas. Absolutely love it!

Like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

We had an Orkin guy come to take care of a nest in our shed, where Yellowjackets make their way through the wood flooring and set up shop inside of a folding lawn chair.

He dropped his arsenal on them, and then managed to get stung several times while wearing full protective gear.

No goddamn way I’m going to do the same with a bottle of diluted Dawn! LOL

It sounds like these use cases would be better served if this feature was a specific, opt-in available in an enterprise version or a separate, third-party product (i.e. screen capture software that will ONLY record what you do in the software in question, when you want it to).

But baked into a consumer OS (not the business version) seems excessive. Who knows, maybe people will find good uses for it at home. I’m cynical and don’t believe that M$ designed this for the user’s benefit.

On the positive side (at least for now), this is a local-only, encrypted data feature.