Back in 2018 I got a bike trainer to supplement my running, and used Zwift as people in my run group did too. Shortly into this I upgraded from a dumb trainer to a (used) Kickr Snap (a smart trainer). This worked fine with zwift, but eventually I got sick of paying a subscription when I mostly bike to get recovery levels of cardio. But the problem is that the smart trainer manufacturers essentially don't make any simple control methods (like you can't just bike and change the resistance as needed), and the few that do don't have sometime simple and instead course sell their full-blown workout software on the subscription model.
Fortunately I found a free Android app that also has a one-time purchase to make the app more usable (i.e. use it for over an hour at a time). But it's ridiculous the low number of non-subscription options there are to make use out of a multi hundred dollar piece of equipment.
My wife works with people who use drugs, and was able to convince someone to lend her for a photo op. She took two pictures; one holding 1.5g of meth in her bare hand, and the other with about 1 g of fentanyl (he we real careful to scrape any residue out of her palm. She's never used either of the two, and felt no affects afterwards.
It's just cops getting scared and having panic attacks if they can't shoot what they're scared about. Perhaps people who have panic attacks about things they're expected to regularly come in contact with aren't the right people for the job?
Are, or were? Birds were the lest vestiges from the age of dinosaurs. Until the US government wiped then out in the mid 1960's to install the drone army. Now, birds are a constant reminder of the ever seeing eye of the state.
But because birds used to be... well, birds; it makes it so hard for many to see the current truth. There's recorded history of birds just about as far back as humankind has recorded history; they couldn't have been drones then. So you just keep assuming that flying drone is an actual bird, even when it's behaviour is non-sensical as it hit an obvious programming bug.
But it's so much more fair for republicans (and both easy and profitable for the media) to play it off as a "both sides" issue. Side A wants the more people to be poor, and the poor to be slaves to the corporation. Side B would like an increase to minimum wage, and maybe the police should at least track the number of times that the randomly kill people for not respectang their authoratah.
Obviously both sides are just playing politics; who can say which would be better. /s
Sadly, there's only one unsurprising thing about this. That this was done via a 3rd party parent. Otherwise, this is fairly standard for the way that school's handle bullying. The bully is never punished, but anything around standing up to a bully is where all the punishment will centred around.
Poor NB; but hopefully in the end, they'll get a nice cheque from the taxpayers. Still likely it won't have been worth it.
Like it seems to prescient to be both what was needed to allow growth in thoughts, and not needlessly stupid in the ways that congressional laws somehow work.
What I'd like to know is why some people are thinking that "moderation and curation" are different from "moderation and curation via algorithm" ? Sure, the first is done by a person, who are taking orders/guidance from some part of the coproration/business. But the latter is designed/written by a person (or people) who taking orders/guidance from some part of the coproration/business.
Yes, algorithms can have actual bugs, but trying to pass of unintended effects; those can come from the same people (E.g. white reviewers not seeing microaggressions; even if told about their existence) as algorithms.
My Quest 2 was asleep, and when FB was down I went to test. I first tried a game not involving any network play, so I started Crashland. It started without issue, and I even started a wave, so make sure it wansn't just menu'ing, and all was good.
Then I tried Virtual Desktop (so I could try Steam games), and it worked.
Finally I connected by AirLink, and again was able to start a Steam Game without issue.
For games that involved FB Cloud sync (for off-device save files), I just disabled wifi, and then started it. I heard others (but didn't test myself) that for games that had online play, one could also just disable wifi and it would work.
With all of that said, Linking FB/Oculus accounts is ridiculous and annoying. I really enjoy my Quest 2, but I can't recommend it to someone without a pre-warning about "requires a FB account."
I love when someone corrects me (and I'll verify (and expand my knowledge further) that it's an actual correction), and I can reply "Thanks, TIL." That is how our society should work.
I think that you might be failing hard by talking about "improving meritocracy" when you're absolutely not dealing with a meritocracy.
It's like getting lost in a conversation about which general construction material is most favoured as a dessert topping. Maybe cement pre-water might have better mouth feel than a 2x4, but you have lost by having started the conversation.
The main problem (I think) is because this is handling people's identity documents. I.E. Facebook doesn't want remote moderators doing this with whatever software they've got on their laptops and/or the ability to easily copy it off without looking odd to later sell. It will/would be a horrible case for FB if it's shown that people scanning/picturing their identity documents send them in and copies go to be sold for fraud.
So they're likely only letting the better paid/trained employees who are also only using FB equipment (and thus in an office/call centre) which limits their capabilities.
At the same time, bots and fake russian/chinese accounts got a horrible rap (with cause) during Covid, and the last few elections in the US.
Well, we told you we activated the device via bluetooth on "purchase," but what you really bought was only a 2 year time limited activation. How cute that you thought you bought something...
I'm going to be forwarding this to my local representation. The main problem I see locally, is that the police union is Ontario wide. This is huge and has immense bargaining power. Even if the Region was able to handle 20-50% of the cops' traditional work with various (scaled up) social sevices; the cities/municipalities would essentially be unable to downsize the police force to meet their actual needs.
I've got the same thing (I'm not restarting my browser right now), but amusingly, I can read the PDF on the main techdirt page; just not on the link of the actual article this is in.
"they attempted to move quickly to undo the ban." - evidence that they deserved the ban?
Is this kind of like cops. "Suspect appeared nervous, thus giving me the probably cause to search the vehicle." "Suspect appeared too calm, thus giving me probably cause to search the vehicle."
The legal system moves really slowly to do that, and repeatedly tends to defer to lawyers. It took Steele et all, how many years of active fraud upon the courts? S Powell might be gambling that if Trump can get in in 2024 the bar will be forced to look the other way (in the same fashion that Giuliani isn't facing disbarement).
Dumb equipment
Back in 2018 I got a bike trainer to supplement my running, and used Zwift as people in my run group did too. Shortly into this I upgraded from a dumb trainer to a (used) Kickr Snap (a smart trainer). This worked fine with zwift, but eventually I got sick of paying a subscription when I mostly bike to get recovery levels of cardio. But the problem is that the smart trainer manufacturers essentially don't make any simple control methods (like you can't just bike and change the resistance as needed), and the few that do don't have sometime simple and instead course sell their full-blown workout software on the subscription model.
Fortunately I found a free Android app that also has a one-time purchase to make the app more usable (i.e. use it for over an hour at a time). But it's ridiculous the low number of non-subscription options there are to make use out of a multi hundred dollar piece of equipment.
Fentanyl not dangerous to touch.
My wife works with people who use drugs, and was able to convince someone to lend her for a photo op. She took two pictures; one holding 1.5g of meth in her bare hand, and the other with about 1 g of fentanyl (he we real careful to scrape any residue out of her palm. She's never used either of the two, and felt no affects afterwards.
It's just cops getting scared and having panic attacks if they can't shoot what they're scared about. Perhaps people who have panic attacks about things they're expected to regularly come in contact with aren't the right people for the job?
Re: Are, or were
Are, or were? Birds were the lest vestiges from the age of dinosaurs. Until the US government wiped then out in the mid 1960's to install the drone army. Now, birds are a constant reminder of the ever seeing eye of the state.
But because birds used to be... well, birds; it makes it so hard for many to see the current truth. There's recorded history of birds just about as far back as humankind has recorded history; they couldn't have been drones then. So you just keep assuming that flying drone is an actual bird, even when it's behaviour is non-sensical as it hit an obvious programming bug.
Re:
I think you mean "a" Nunes case. Way too many to be referring to just one.
But but...
But it's so much more fair for republicans (and both easy and profitable for the media) to play it off as a "both sides" issue. Side A wants the more people to be poor, and the poor to be slaves to the corporation. Side B would like an increase to minimum wage, and maybe the police should at least track the number of times that the randomly kill people for not respectang their authoratah.
Obviously both sides are just playing politics; who can say which would be better. /s
Religion
This seems quite similar to talking in Tongues. Are we finally going to get a moral panic about introducing religion to minors?
One surprising thing
Sadly, there's only one unsurprising thing about this. That this was done via a 3rd party parent. Otherwise, this is fairly standard for the way that school's handle bullying. The bully is never punished, but anything around standing up to a bully is where all the punishment will centred around.
Poor NB; but hopefully in the end, they'll get a nice cheque from the taxpayers. Still likely it won't have been worth it.
I hope we get to find out who is funding this.
But who wants to place bets than "Random Shell Company" that can't easily be traced to anyone is going to be the source of funds?
Re: Translation
ctrl_f "pravda"
Surprised the article missed the obvious point. Who here wants to take bets on if Putin himself recommended the name to trump?
I can hardly believe section 230 exists as it does.
Like it seems to prescient to be both what was needed to allow growth in thoughts, and not needlessly stupid in the ways that congressional laws somehow work.
What I'd like to know is why some people are thinking that "moderation and curation" are different from "moderation and curation via algorithm" ? Sure, the first is done by a person, who are taking orders/guidance from some part of the coproration/business. But the latter is designed/written by a person (or people) who taking orders/guidance from some part of the coproration/business.
Yes, algorithms can have actual bugs, but trying to pass of unintended effects; those can come from the same people (E.g. white reviewers not seeing microaggressions; even if told about their existence) as algorithms.
Quest 2 wasn't crippled for me.
My Quest 2 was asleep, and when FB was down I went to test. I first tried a game not involving any network play, so I started Crashland. It started without issue, and I even started a wave, so make sure it wansn't just menu'ing, and all was good.
Then I tried Virtual Desktop (so I could try Steam games), and it worked.
Finally I connected by AirLink, and again was able to start a Steam Game without issue.
For games that involved FB Cloud sync (for off-device save files), I just disabled wifi, and then started it. I heard others (but didn't test myself) that for games that had online play, one could also just disable wifi and it would work.
With all of that said, Linking FB/Oculus accounts is ridiculous and annoying. I really enjoy my Quest 2, but I can't recommend it to someone without a pre-warning about "requires a FB account."
Fact checking is free speech ++
I love when someone corrects me (and I'll verify (and expand my knowledge further) that it's an actual correction), and I can reply "Thanks, TIL." That is how our society should work.
Re: meritocracy?
I think that you might be failing hard by talking about "improving meritocracy" when you're absolutely not dealing with a meritocracy.
It's like getting lost in a conversation about which general construction material is most favoured as a dessert topping. Maybe cement pre-water might have better mouth feel than a 2x4, but you have lost by having started the conversation.
Re:
The main problem (I think) is because this is handling people's identity documents. I.E. Facebook doesn't want remote moderators doing this with whatever software they've got on their laptops and/or the ability to easily copy it off without looking odd to later sell. It will/would be a horrible case for FB if it's shown that people scanning/picturing their identity documents send them in and copies go to be sold for fraud.
So they're likely only letting the better paid/trained employees who are also only using FB equipment (and thus in an office/call centre) which limits their capabilities.
At the same time, bots and fake russian/chinese accounts got a horrible rap (with cause) during Covid, and the last few elections in the US.
Licensing
Well, we told you we activated the device via bluetooth on "purchase," but what you really bought was only a 2 year time limited activation. How cute that you thought you bought something...
Awesome!
I'm going to be forwarding this to my local representation. The main problem I see locally, is that the police union is Ontario wide. This is huge and has immense bargaining power. Even if the Region was able to handle 20-50% of the cops' traditional work with various (scaled up) social sevices; the cities/municipalities would essentially be unable to downsize the police force to meet their actual needs.
Re:
I've got the same thing (I'm not restarting my browser right now), but amusingly, I can read the PDF on the main techdirt page; just not on the link of the actual article this is in.
Re: 'It's not censorship when its us doing it!'
Don't forget that in addition to the consequence free speech, they need a guaranteed audience. It's in the constitution, ya know!
Reasoning like cops.
"they attempted to move quickly to undo the ban." - evidence that they deserved the ban?
Is this kind of like cops. "Suspect appeared nervous, thus giving me the probably cause to search the vehicle." "Suspect appeared too calm, thus giving me probably cause to search the vehicle."
Re: Disbarrment?
The legal system moves really slowly to do that, and repeatedly tends to defer to lawyers. It took Steele et all, how many years of active fraud upon the courts? S Powell might be gambling that if Trump can get in in 2024 the bar will be forced to look the other way (in the same fashion that Giuliani isn't facing disbarement).
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