QBertReynolds

joined 1 year ago

And here I was thinking that Cruz was famous for eating a booger in the middle of a debate.

All fair points. I don't fly much and it's been such a long time since I've been carded that I don't really think about using it for stuff like that.

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Must be nice. I can't remember the last time I drove across Louisiana and didn't get pulled over in some podunk town whose only source of income is speeding tickets. We've had digital IDs here for years, and I can't help but think that getting people to handover an unlocked phone is exactly the point.

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

When has a cop ever approached your car with an NFC reader?

Discussion from when this was posted yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/19055957

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I've never understood the appeal of digital driver's licenses. If I get pulled over, there's no fucking way I'm unlocking my phone and handing it to a cop.

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

From the article you clearly didn't read:

Photography has been used in the service of deception for as long as it has existed. (Consider Victorian spirit photos, the infamous Loch Ness monster photograph, or Stalin’s photographic purges of IRL-purged comrades.)

My little brother was expelled from school in 1st grade for drawing a gun (which looked far more like a banana) and pointing it at another kid. That was in rural Alabama in 2000. Nothing new here.

I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked.

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

That's technically true, but it's as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.

Edit: I'm told my information is out of date. No more Yandex because of Uncle Sam. Yahoo is just Bing now, so that index doesn't count anymore. The bulk of the rest of their sources are largely inconsequential specialized search engines. Their sources page states that they "largely source from Bing".

[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.

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