Or… hear me out… they just make their products suck less and affordable.

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Treknobabble - happy Trek day! (seattlelunarsociety.org)

“If you're a Twitter diehard who's not willing to swap to X, it might be finally time to ditch X for Mastadon or Threads. On your way out, don't forget to delete your X account.”

Best advice in the article.

The fact that we are even able to still communicate with it, that it is still sending us data, and that this is even a thing just blows me away. I can’t imagine anything I’ve ever worked on lasting this long. 

Great article. The most concerning is that Boeing has become yet another enshittified company, chasing profit too hard over all else, and they are going to kill people with their decisions.

“The fact that the mistake was made at all, however, suggests an organization that is decreasingly inclined, or able, to make the kinds of costly, counterintuitive, and difficult-to-justify choices on which it built its exemplary history of reliability. These choices always pertain to marginal, almost negligible, concerns — simply because reliability at high altitudes is all about the margins — so their consequences manifest slowly. But their effects are cumulative and inexorable. “

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The TSA has attempted to roll out more facial recognition in airports but has so far been blocked from doing so. Clear is stepping in to gather all that biometric data for them, in addition to the fingerprints and Iris scans they already have, and provid it to TSA directly while making a profit on the side from doing so. 

“In the near future, Clear's new facial recognition system will electronically transmit members' digital identities to TSA's second-generation Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2) scanners, Clear says.”

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/clear-at-airport-facial-recognition

Sometimes it feels like the EFF is the only one holding back the tide. Everyone should donate to EFF ❤️

“The Cybertruck does not ship with clear coat, that outermost layer of transparent paint that comes as standard on almost every new motor vehicle on the planet. Instead, each Cybertruck owner has the option to purchase a $5,000 urethane-based film to "wrap your Cybertruck in our premium satin clear paint films. Only available through Tesla."”

That’s bullshit from Tesla, because they definitely don’t have special PPF that isn’t available aftermarket. They certainly have not invented a vinyl film. That’s not an unreasonable price for a PPF job of an entire vehicle, but PPF isn’t suitable for every part of a car. The fact that the paint has no clearcoat at all should not be addressed by charging the customer extra. 

It’s pretty terrifying when you think about the possibilities of deception. And also how throwaway content is going to become. We are going to generate content at a volume orders of magnitude larger than our already current excessive volume, and finding the stuff that has real meaning and a real message is going to be even harder.

Also, artists whose work and styles fed this will be put out of business without ever being paid for their work that was used to train these models. 🫤

How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 

It’s Twitter. No need to adopt his pet name for it.

I just wish there was a standard for marking the cables, so you could look at the cable and tell what it was capable of. All the cables and chargers look the same but have wildly different capabilities. 

Ticketmaster is truly the bastard spawn of satan and corporate greed, an evil so foul and repugnant that merely speaking its name sends chills through all that hear it and sends children running to hide under their covers.

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They have not received any OSHA fines, but that’s because they haven’t submitted injury data to OSHA since 2016. But now employees are starting to self-report.

[-] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So he’s a liar and a charlatan? Shocked I tell you! Shocked!

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Electric Objects EO1 - Zombie Mode (seattlelunarsociety.org)

I really love this Kickstarter digital photo/art frame and even though the company shut down this week, I have kept mine alive and made it work really well, better in some ways than it did before.

Here's the post on keeping the EO1 alive in zombie mode. I hope it helps someone else not throw away this cool device! https://z32guru.com/tech-projects/electric-objects-eo1-zombie-mode

I also started/hosted a community for fellow EO1 hackers to help share knowledge on how the device works. https://seattlelunarsociety.org/c/electricobjectseo1

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Bob.

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Algebros

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That would make him the Centaur for Disease Control.

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Gummy Bears and longer jokes (seattlelunarsociety.org)

If you have a longer joke that doesn't fit the format but is still a clean joke, happy to have those here: https://seattlelunarsociety.org/c/momjokes Not trying to advertise, just wanted to help people find a place to land in the Fediverse, and doing my part to host some of it.

Here's that dad joke I promised:

What do you call a bear with no teeth?

spoilerA gummy bear

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Welcome from Reddit /r/minecraft! (seattlelunarsociety.org)

Welcome to (hopefully) your new home! Invite your friends, reddit mods, friendly mobs, villagers... even those creepers! All are welcome.

You should also know about https://lemmy.world/c/oldschoolminecraft if that's your jam.

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What do you call kids born in a bordello?

Brothel sprouts

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peek–a-boo accident (seattlelunarsociety.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

Where do you take someone who’s been injured in a peek–a-boo accident?

spoilerTo the ICU.

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A few hours ago I dropped a piece of ice

It slid under the refrigerator. I was really upset at first but now it's water under the fridge.

(Posted on Reddit years ago by u/drewigi, I just liked it)

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