It’s been a few years since I last bought a TV, but I’ve been happy with my Sony. About once or twice a year I get a “software update available” message, which is weird since it has never been connected to any network, but I just dismiss it and continue my regular usage.

I hope a significant number of them get new jobs and quiet quit to get that double paycheck for as long as they can.

Have they solved the racial bias issues that has plagued facial recognition systems?

“… guys like me who have been debanked,” Donald Trump Jr. said

I had to look up “debanked”. Admitting to it has to be the financial equivalent of telling people you are a registered sex offender.

A survey of 18,000 Americans released in March pointed to flexible work schedules helping mental health.

It’s almost like the work force actually values the quality of their lives more than … umm, honestly I’ve never been able to figure out a positive side for companies pushing RTO. Report after report show remote work improves productivity, employee retention, is perceived as a significant perk to attract new talent, and reduces corporate overhead (that last one is just an assumption on my part).

Seriously, what is the attraction for RTO?

In 2020, so-called “AI agents” defeated human pilots in simulations in all five of their match-ups - but the technology needed to be run for real in the air.

It did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

I’m gonna guess the AI won.

The difference is the US government believes that TikTok is beholden to the Chinese government. When a corporation acts this way it is an invasion of privacy. When a foreign government acts this way it is espionage.

If TikTok is sold to an entity the US government thinks is sufficiently independent from a foreign government, then they can continue spying on users.

Alternatively, they may be able to registers under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I don’t know how that would impact TikTok’s ability to operate though.

The general take away is “Surveillance is oppression and it is the responsibility of the people to stand up against oppression”.

A few other quotes I like that fit the theme.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

— V (V for Vendetta)

“Without privacy, you can’t have anything for yourself. Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

— Edward Snowden

I’ve got my Plex server running on an Intel NUC 8 with 2 USB 2TB solid state drives serving as local storage for my media.

There are 54 pages of risk factors, which, after reading many S-1 filings over the years, seems pretty long. One of the most notable is the sentence, “We have incurred substantial losses during our history and may never achieve profitability.”

Well that doesn’t sound very promising for them.

23andMe admitted that hackers had stolen the genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million users

I’m honestly asking what the impact to the users is from this breach. Wasn’t 23andMe already free to selling or distribute this data to anybody they wanted to, without notifying the users?

Not the first time people “bought” digital media only to have it taken away.

Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

China is claiming…

Aaaand I no longer have any confidence in the validity of this claim.

Why was this cross-posted to bisexual?

EZTV for episodic shows

YTS for feature length movies

Without knowing where you are, what type of person you are, or what type of person your date is, I’m gonna make a generic suggestion of some sort of class (cooking, pottery, wood turning, stained glass, painting, etc) that look interesting. Something that the two of you can learn together and have fun with.

Some others I’ve found (with “lemmy” prepended)

• lemmy.by.ninja
• lemmy.without.me
• lemmy.without.rest
• lemmy.is.legal
• lemmy.is.global

Gonna stop there because I don’t think that I can top the “is.global” domain.

Likewise, the “forme” domain name has some good tld’s available.

The winks domain name looks to have several good tld’s available for it. You could use a South Park reference and go for a lemmy.winks domain.

Some examples I saw available:

• lemmy.winks.rocks
• lemmy.winks.host
• lemmy.winks.site
• lemmy.winks.cloud
• lemmy.winks.website