Yep. Lovely reading font.
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I love Linux Biolinum for reading. It’s a ‘humanist sans-sarif,’ which means it designs letters like a serif font but with less little bits stuck on.
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Technology@lemmy.world•UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistakeEnglish
6·6 months agoAs far as I can tell, the frog incident was not real-world. It was a police department vetting a system by doing fake test stops. They did one with Princess And The Frog playing in the back seat and the transcription system interleaved the traffic stop and film dialogue, then took that at face value for the summary.
System still sucks, but at least they were testing before blindly relying on it.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG
34·6 months agoCD Projekt has shareholders. Shareholders expect revenue growth with less to no expense growth.
GOG wants to grow expenses (developing patches for niche games) with little potential for revenue. Shareholders don’t tend to like doing things for goodness sake, while private owners can do whatever they like.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for LinuxEnglish
8·7 months agoIt bothers me. There are too many things that are either not standards-complient or support different parts of the USB feature set that compatibility is a wildcard.
I carry a large backup battery when I travel for work. It can keep my laptop going under load all day, allowing me to not care at all about proximity to outlets when working. It also allows me to painlessly recharge phones by just handing it to someone.
Last week, I was running something from someone else’s laptop (enterprise HP, like mine, but different model). It got low, so I pulled out my battery. Plug it in… No power. I could see the voltage fluctuations of it negotiating, but nothing after that.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spikeEnglish
2·8 months agoIt was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.
They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.
The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every timeEnglish
9·9 months agoAccountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.
Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.
Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.
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politics @lemmy.world•Stephen Colbert Revives Right-Wing Alter Ego to Rip Donald Trump on Free Speech
31·10 months agoCBS and Comedy Central are both Paramount.
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politics @lemmy.world•RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote
130·10 months agoThey did vote to restrict access to the Measels/Mumps/Rubella vaccine for children under 4. Monsters.
For those who don’t know, that vaccine is the origin of the modern anti-vaccine movement. A company marketing stand-alone vaccines was mad that somebody made a combo vaccine, making theirs unmarketable, so they funded fraudulent studies to block it.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thingEnglish
1·10 months agoIsn’t that mostly pushed by the vaccines-cause-autism guy?
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politics @lemmy.world•There was no "missing minute" in Epstein jail video, government source says
12·1 year agoThey aren’t disagreeing with that. They are reporting that a source within the government claims the footage in the gap exists.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone battled Comedy Central over showing Trump’s genitals, refused to blur his penis
3·1 year agoIt did to me too until I zoomed in.
My wife thinks it is beads using a finger for scale. The glitter effect on the finger is likely fresh adhesive sticking them there.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone battled Comedy Central over showing Trump’s genitals, refused to blur his penis
11·1 year agoWhy are you getting adds on Lemmy?!
1/3 appears to be an eyeliner stencil. 4 and 6 are clothing. 5 is glass orbs full of low-freezing-point liquid so they stay liquid in a freezer but have high thermal mass. They are used in some woowoo skincare routines to cool skin.
2 is very weird. It’s an index finger that appears to be covered in glitter and tiny orbs.
They are blind, not obtuse. Norton ≠ Notion.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Complains He Should Have Won FIVE Nobel Prizes By Now But ‘They Only Give Them To Liberals’
5·1 year agoIsn’t he out of contention since he has already reproduced?
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - DexertoEnglish
8·1 year agoJWO hasn’t shut down. The system got polished enough for them to sell it to other companies, so they don’t need their own test-platform locations anymore.
JWO and similar systems do not reduce labor. The people working cashier become customer service attendants. These systems are valuable when the issue is throughput and sales are being lost at peak times. Airport convenience stores and stadium concession stands, for example, can get significantly higher revenue for the same footprint.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - DexertoEnglish
105·1 year agoOn the other hand, the only way to get good training data is to generate data indistinguishable from the real-world scenario and then have humans mark it up the way you want the system to do it. You might as well have the data actually be from the real world and recoup some of the costs with sales.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘You have no timeline?!’ Senator gobsmacked by FBI director Kash Patel showing up at budget hearing without a budget
56·1 year agoHe quit his second job by not showing up.
A guy living in an oligarchs mansion in Vegas was appointed director of 2 federal law enforcement agencies.
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.English
27·1 year agoThis was comments, not posts. They were using a model to approximate the demographics of a poster, then using an LLM to generate a response counter to the posted view tailored to the demographics of the poster.
It sounds like a link can be a file path and clicking the link just opens the file. If that’s the case, this is effectively the same risk as filesystem shortcuts.