QBertReynolds

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[–] QBertReynolds 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

When has a cop ever approached your car with an NFC reader?

[–] QBertReynolds 4 points 2 months ago

Discussion from when this was posted yesterday: https://lemmy.world/post/19055957

[–] QBertReynolds 36 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I've never understood the appeal of digital driver's licenses. If I get pulled over, there's no fucking way I'm unlocking my phone and handing it to a cop.

[–] QBertReynolds 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

From the article you clearly didn't read:

Photography has been used in the service of deception for as long as it has existed. (Consider Victorian spirit photos, the infamous Loch Ness monster photograph, or Stalin’s photographic purges of IRL-purged comrades.)

[–] QBertReynolds 5 points 3 months ago

My little brother was expelled from school in 1st grade for drawing a gun (which looked far more like a banana) and pointing it at another kid. That was in rural Alabama in 2000. Nothing new here.

[–] QBertReynolds 2 points 3 months ago

I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked.

[–] QBertReynolds 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

That's technically true, but it's as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.

Edit: I'm told my information is out of date. No more Yandex because of Uncle Sam. Yahoo is just Bing now, so that index doesn't count anymore. The bulk of the rest of their sources are largely inconsequential specialized search engines. Their sources page states that they "largely source from Bing".

[–] QBertReynolds 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.

[–] QBertReynolds 6 points 3 months ago

Never seen that before today and now I've seen it twice. Was just thinking that 'opens new tab' was an odd name for one of the plaintiffs in the Anthropic lawsuit.

[–] QBertReynolds 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't see how this is pro Trump. It's an article about how Trump's DOJ did unethical things when prosecuting the people protesting Trump's inauguration.

[–] QBertReynolds 22 points 4 months ago

Puberty blockers don't permanently prevent you from going through puberty, they delay it. You know what is permanent though, puberty.

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