GreatAlbatross

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

A discussion on the other site claimed that the fuck-up was in the copy that Universal sent to Mattel.
And that wrong websites frequently end up on packaging in other industries.

Mattel seem to be doing the sorry-dance for it, so no idea if it's true. Though I'm sure Universal would be very keen to not be involved.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.

I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Because if they remaster it, they can also remaster the price.
Which is probably why they've pulled all the old versions.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And also that you communicate that you're aware what you've done, and how you're going to continue.

I did it on mine, and said "I've just come off at the wrong exit, so I'm going to just continue along here."
Examiner said it was OK, and just directed things back onto the route at the next junction.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

It's only Virgin Media to my knowledge who does this.
Most of the other providers are happy for you to use anything that works properly for VDSL or FTTP.

Most FTTP providers fit an ONT that puts the connection back into an RJ45 ethernet connector.
Then you connect to the provider using PPPOE. Anything past the ONT, you can do whatever you like.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think he might have watched The Emperor's New Groove.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you'd need the blessing of the country's government to pump out that much interference continuously.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yours may be fine.

Barry Shitpea's £100 dodgy 2000W temu special may not. And you can't expect a bus driver to inspect every bike to only let reputable brands on.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I'm probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.

If they started serving up the generic "reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick" with some AI generated picture, I'd re-evaluate very quicly.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least on some smaller subs, there seems to be a suspicious amount of brand new accounts asking one question to get human answers.
It would not surprise me if reddit, or some other service, are seeding to get more LLM-able content. Of course, this might backfire if people start giving stupid answers to eff up the data.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 20 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Turns out, a lot of the problems in nixland were solved 3 decades ago with a single flag of built-in utilities.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 77 points 4 months ago (21 children)

The workload that's starting now, is spotting bad code written by colleagues using AI, and persuading them to re-write it.

"But it works!"

'It pulls in 15 libraries, 2 of which you need to manually install beforehand, to achieve something you can do in 5 lines using this default library'

 

They did, however, do a public good.
I'm sure Channel 4 loses similar amounts for some of the Dispatches.

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