DaddleDew

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Gabe wins the internet once again.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Can't wait for Trump to go away so we can jail this fucker for murder.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Look up the phenomenon called "Chatbot Psychosis". In its current form, especially with GPT4 that was specifically designed to be a manipulative yes-man, chatbots can absolutely insidiously mess up someone's head enough to push them to the act far beyond just answering the question of how to do it like a simple web search would.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 164 points 3 days ago (7 children)

So how does that work since he's turned the US into a third world country?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 126 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'd say it's more akin to a bread company saying that it is a violation of the terms and services to get sick from food poisoning after eating their bread.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

New suggested title for the article:

"Billionaire executive can't understand why their minimum salary employees don't want to sacrifice their personal lives to make her even more money".

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There is something else that contributes to the success of bikes in Victoria. Commuting by car has become absolute shit.

The cost of housing made living in the city unaffordable to many people and because of the geographical location most of the new housing sprawl happens West of the city. This adds all that new traffic going in and out of the the city at rush hour to only one already overloaded highway. Parking downtown is also a problem. This makes the Galloping Goose Trail extremely attractive as it is essentially a bike highway that feeds bike traffic from the West straight to downtown. In rush hour it can be quicker to commute by bike than it is by car, and a heck of a lot less soul-sucking too.

The mild weather all year round also helps a lot, as they already said in the report.

People living there hope that they will add a ferry that takes pedestrian and cycling passengers from the suburbs out West straight to downtown as well. But projects like that make glaciers look like they move fast.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

He was sent by someone to do this. No wonder Trump is defending him. He know if they throw him under the bus he might talk.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course. He was counting on something like that happening

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am sceptical when it comes to electronic safety features that downright take control of the vehicle from the driver. The idea and intent might be good but when you put it in the hands of a car manufacturing company that wants to save money it can quickly turn into something that is more dangerous if it is not regulated properly.

A great example is the ABS system. I learned to drive without it. Then some car companies did the half-assed implementation of a single channel system. (Essentially of only one wheel lost traction all braking power would be severely reduced on all wheels). That shit was downright dangerous in the winter. I had to use the handbrake to not end up cutting into a busy intersection because my breaking power had been reduced to almost zero by the ABS system because one wheel was on an ice patch. For as long as I had that car after that, I had the ABS fuse pulled in the winter.

Now my fear is a half-assed automatic braking system that brakes without warning for no good reason.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

We already knew that HP was a shit company. No change there.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago

Totally true story

 
 

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

In many RPG games, when you level up, it feels good. You see your stats increase, your damage output and damage resistance go up, all the numbers get bigger. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. But then, you are made to face tougher enemies which completely cancel out the progress you've made. As a player you're locked into a gameplay loop that acts like a treadmill that keeps you struggling all the time while providing an illusion of progress.

Inflation and "pay raises" are doing exactly the same thing. When you get a pay raise, you feel like you've progressed because you make more money than you used to when you first started. But if you take inflation into account, you've never really progressed at all. For most, their struggle only got even harder even.

 
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

What if Trump was really into this kind of stuff and everything he has been doing is a secret genius plan to make sure people will pee on his grave for decades, if not centuries to come?

 

Explaining in good detail why people should care about how modern cars have become a privacy nightmare. From Regular Car Reviews.

 

Bobbing their heads at every step. How ridiculous must have that looked if it was the case.

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