Whimsical418

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18 speed cameras just went up in Oakland, California. The cameras will ticket drivers that exceed the speed limit by 11 miles an hour or more. in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] Whimsical418@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

11 mph? In the land down under 3 kph (~1.86 mph) is enough to be fined and get demerit points.

LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently worded on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Whimsical418@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've taken to using horizontal bars on my laptop, since they either look identical or almost identical (depending on font) to emdashes. For comparison, — vs ― . they are encoded in unicode as u2014 and u2015, so are provably not the same.

YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] Whimsical418@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

And then you find it later and it is character for character what you searched for. SMH Apple

Cloudfare outage post mortem in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Whimsical418@aussie.zone 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wasn’t it crowdstrike? Close enough though