What began in 2022 as broad optimism about the power of generative AI to make peoples’ lives easier has instead shifted toward a sense of deep cynicism that the technology being heralded as a game changer is, in fact, only changing the game for the richest technologists in Silicon Valley who are benefiting from what appears to be an almost endless supply of money to build their various AI projects — many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.

I don’t have advice to give you beyond looking at !ubiquiti@lemmy.world and !ubiquiti@lemmy.ml

“Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.”

Maybe, I dunno, make it more healthful?

(English pedant peeve: food is not “healthy” or unhealthy; it’s healthful or unhealthful. Living things are healthy, nutrients are healthful. A state of health versus a beneficial quality.)

Will these still function if they get maintenance from a different company?

The one area I would sorta disagree is on updates, although only inasmuch as they’re needed for security fixes on things connected to the internet. But if it’s not connected? No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.

Speed limits on roads in built-up and urban areas can only be changed where a majority of the elected members in a local authority vote to do so.

This seems like the balanced approach. That would mean if there’s an arterial road where a higher speed limit still makes sense they can keep it while deciding to use the lower limit on other streets, right?

Interesting; I’ve read that more and more jurisdictions are ending the concept of common law marriage. The idea is it existed in a time when a legal marriage was harder to get. Nowadays in those areas a legal marriage is easy to get so the thought is if those people never legally married it’s because they didn’t want to, not because they couldn’t, so there’s no reason to have a marriage forced onto the couple.

I got a late appointment for my dog at the vet’s office. A tech walked out and was kind of freaking out that it was already dark at 5:30. She said she’d never experienced DST before. Turns out she’d moved here fairly recently from Puerto Rico and they don’t change time there.

Not wearing pants on camera is as old as TV itself. Always enjoyed this episode of Mayne Street highlighting this phenomenon and the problems when anchors no longer got to sit behind a desk. Also, rewatching this and realizing it has a couple people who would go into more noticeable roles on Parks and Recreation.

Gotta keep your phone in landscape mode for the Zoom call!

I remember a Scottish lady telling us in the ’90s about how they had vans that would drive around to find illegal TVs and the whole thing was just mind-boggling to me!

To embed an image, use the same format as a markdown link but put an exclamation point in front of it. The text in the square brackets serves as the alt text.

![Image of a plastic chair knocked over with a caption of “WE WILL REBUILD”](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2024/10/we-will-rebuild.jpg)

Of course, I’m not sure it will display if the Daily Dot blocks hotlinking.

While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.

Interesting; I am a better table tennis player after 1 drink, but no more than that

Possibly even right there at Disney World

Is Newfoundland and Labrador still the butt of jokes in Canada?

That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!

I think they used separate style sheets. Going way back in time, to the early days of smartphones and back when non-smartphones had mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout for tiny screens or even an entirely different, simplified page. Early adopters to mobile browsing tended to hang on to that separation much longer than newer sites that took advantage of CSS that could adapt to the screen size.

Are you in a jurisdiction subject to HIPPA? That would seem like a pretty easy violation to report. Otherwise see what your jurisdiction’s medical privacy laws are and who you can report that to.

As much of a hassle as Epic My Chart and other portals can be, I do appreciate how they make medical things more secure and an annoyed when I see small places with nothing that try to tell us to just use email.

Probably have to host their own instance