I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which “lured” the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it’s on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.
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r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow?7·2 months agoA totally not serious answer. Today, I was sitting across from a Starbucks and staring at the logo. It is really weird. I started thinking that if something were to happen to civilization, all these cups, sleeves, merchandise and plastic stir sticks emblazoned with the Starbucks logo may cause future archaeologists to think that we worshipped some half fish woman thing (or whatever the logo is supposed to be).
Alternatively, this xkcd could be fun to do.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hourEnglish1·2 months agoStates have argued successfully to tax cross state commerce. That’s why you get charged local sales tax even when ordering from a company that does not have a presence in your state. I don’t see this as any different, but someone will need to go first to set the precedent.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hourEnglish33·2 months agoThis is the FTC’s rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracyEnglish3·2 months agoI keep my seedbox in the planter at the coffee shop down the road with free WiFi.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracyEnglish4·2 months agoI couldn’t afford one of those fancy 2-cassette boomboxes, so I had my friend bring his tape deck and we put them real close together in the quietest room of the house and recorded that way. Having several siblings meant that there were no quiet places, so we used the empty garage when my parents were at work. The audio was autrocious, tons of echo and static, but I played that tape thin until it snapped.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracyEnglish131·2 months agoSeveral countries require proof of ID to purchase a SIM card.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP?English2·2 months agoMy mantra is “plan to be hacked”. Whether this is a good backup strategy, a read-only VM, good monitoring or serious firewall rules.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing TaskEnglish111·2 months agoAre you referring to the AI search results? If so, I’ve fallen into a similar strategy. I’ll search for something, usuaply how to do something then read the AI result. If it’s what I’m looking for, then I’ll click through to the referenced articles. The AI result is usually too vague. Part of my problem is probably bad searching skills on my part. I’ll often find what I’m looking for way down the first page or sometimes the second page of results. The AI cuts through that searching page after page or tells me that I need to change my search terms.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing courseEnglish1·2 months agoI suppose that makes perfect sense. A corporation is an accountability sink for owners, board members and executives, so why not also make AI accountable?
I was thinking more along the lines of the “human in the loop” model for AI where one human is responsible for all the stuff that AI gets wrong despite it physically not being possible to review every line of code an AI produces.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing courseEnglish41·2 months agoI was thinking about this the other day and don’t think it would happen any time soon. The people who put the CEO in charge (usually the board members) want someone who will make decisions (that the board has a say in) but also someone to hold accountable for when those decisions don’t realize profits.
AI is unaccountable in any real sense of the word.
It’s a VGA connection and, yes, my primary concern is resource usage. I’m running 2-3 VMs on it so that I can easily migrate the VM around.
I had plain old
top
and it was boring. I did not know how many alternatives there were.I’ll also have to check out cmatrix.
This is an excellent idea!
The cash registers at a place I worked had this for the PS2 keyboard connection, too. IIRC, you needed to slide back a sleeve before giving the cable a tug. All this was behind the tight counter, buried under a layer of dust and whatever else fell behind the register. A skilled coworker could do it with one hand, but I never mastered that skill.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you actually audit open source projects you download?English4·3 months agoGenerally, no. On some cases where I’m extending the code or compiling it for some special case that I have, I will read the code. For example, I modified a web project to use LDAP instead of a local user file. In that case, I had to read the code to understand it. In cases where I’m recompiling the code, my pipeline will run some basic vulnerability scans automatically.
I would not consider either of these a comprehensive audit, but it’s something.
Additionally, on any of my server deployments, I have firewall rules which would catch “calls to home”. I’ve seen a few apps calling home, getting blocked but no adverse effects. The only one I can remember is Traefik, which I flipped a config value to not do that.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldEnglish64·3 months agoThis smells a little funny, as others have suggested. I read an article a while ago that suggested that we’re not running out of raw materials; we’re thinking about the problem wrong:
Chachra proposes that we could – we must – treat material as scarce, and that one way to do this is to recognize that energy is not. We can trade energy for material, opting for more energy intensive manufacturing processes that make materials easier to recover when the good reaches its end of life. We can also opt for energy intensive material recovery processes. If we put our focus on designing objects that decompose gracefully back into the material stream, we can build the energy infrastructure to make energy truly abundant and truly clean.
This is all outlined in the book How Infrastructure Works from Deb Chachra.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data ShowsEnglish71·3 months agoI read recently that the lidar on many self driving cars can wreck the CCD on most phones. I don’t know how it works, but maybe parking one of the cars by your front door will solve your problem.
r0ertel@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - NextcloudEnglish5·3 months agoThe issue does not exist with the version installed from F-Droid. I think the Play Store version is a different build with the feature disabled as a condition of hosting it on the Play Sore.
The Android app itself still works with the permission, and we released new versions on the external F-Droid store. So the limit is a “purely” Google Play Store-related problem.
Frank Wilhoit 03.22.18 at 12:09 am