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Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:22PM (#39222940)
Israel.
>the NBER defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales".

Which we have right now. But don't trust objective observations of reality. Just Trust the Experts™ and call anyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorist.

>Lawyers for the customers say that the criminal theft reports are a way to recover lost inventory

If the "inventory" (the car) is "lost," then wouldn't that imply that the renter has a car that they shouldn't have? I.E. stolen it? Or at the very least not returned it when they should have?

Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:23AM (#32701675)
IMDb deleted their message boards several years ago because "trolls" were giving movies bad reviews.[1]

1. https://www.thewrap.com/imdb-shut-troll-infested-message-boa...

Re:Wikipedia tests a new UI design on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:29PM (#32612388)
You've been able to enable this in your account preferences for a while now, and it's also been the default on non-English versions of Wikipedia for a while as well.
About 15 years when I got my first digital camera, I noticed that there were always a few dots in the same spots that were bright white/red/green/blue no matter what the settings on the camera were or what the picture was of. I found out these were "hot pixels" and were caused by defects in the sensor. I'd always wondered if someone could create an algorithm to match photos to a specific camera based on hot pixels. It seems like this is exactly that.
Re:The Lumpy Pearls That Enchanted the Medicis (2019) on Sunday June 12, 2022 @05:24PM (#31718427)
I've always read that the word "baroque" came from a word that meant "misshapen pearl", but I've never actually seen these pearls before. These are very neat.
I use Syncthing, which is similar to ResilioSync. Syncthing doesn't have as many features as ResilioSync, but its completely free and open source.
Re:Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:13PM (#31497038)
They're phrasing it that way for sensationalism.
Re:This Image Does Not Exist on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:18AM (#31467863)
I got 5/7 before I stopped. I feel like this would be even easier if the images were higher resolution.
Re:This Image Does Not Exist on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:16AM (#31467852)
>It can't even do text.

An unpaid intern adding text to AI generated images would be trivial.

Re:Show HN: Create powerful coming soon pages in minutes on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:38PM (#31185469)
I can't tell if this a sincere service or a cheeky ironic joke.
Re:Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:06PM (#31145921)
How will this change affect the users of Fedora?
Re:Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:41PM (#30808020)
IIRC Microsoft had something like this years ago, but the results weren't nearly as smooth or natural looking. I can't remember what it was called, though.
Re:The end of the nice GTK button on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:22PM (#30797692)
What is the reason for everything having flat UIs now?
>It's all about keeping "corporate culture" aka White, rich and able.

What world are you living? Colleges and "Corporate culture" these days are all about opposing "whiteness."

>I'm not aware of any companies keeping servers running for a product that matches the life expectancy of a kitchen appliance

I think this is the key right here. They want to reduce the life expectancy of kitchen appliances to force people to buy new ones sooner.

A better question is, why do microwave ovens now need internet connections and software updates?
Re:Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019) on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:04AM (#30718905)
Why bother using either? They are both unnecessarily bloated and a waste of space. What is nothing wrong with a list of plain old links?
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:55PM (#30715793)
Mozilla does get a lot of their funding from Google...
>are internet cafes still a thing?

I don't know about internet cafes specifically, but pretty much all cafes have internet these days.

I seriously doubt this. They can make way more money billing everyone per month than by the second. They might make more from the top percent of heavy users, but I bet most users only use it less than an hour a month. There is no way that they can find a price that would be worth charging some who only a couple of minutes while also keeping it affordable for someone who uses it al day every day.
Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:42PM (#30462762)
I swear I've read articles with this exact same title several times over the years, but I can't seem to find any on Google.
Bing behaves in the same way, although I think it has always been like that.
Re:Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:25PM (#30289509)
When I saw that comment on /g/ about raytracincing on the TI-84 the other day, I just knew someone would post something like this here in a couple days.
That won't ever happen. If it did, it would disproportionately affect people of color, be declared a racist "feature," and be banned.
I notice that they are refereed to as "driverless" rather than "self-driving".

Are these actually self-driving or are they remote controlled by a person?

Re:How did LastPass master passwords get compromised? on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:00AM (#29737782)
This is exactly why I have never used LastPass, and have always stuck with KeePass (and KeePassXC). It is much more secure to keep all of my passwords locally than in the cloud.
Re:A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:41PM (#29610860)
I don't think it's right to computer simulations "robots".
Re:Bird populations declining fast across North America on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:09PM (#29548131)
With the Earth's being consumed at unsustainable levels, genocide and suffering are an inevitability. It's just a question of who is going to do it to who.

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