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60·6 days agoNot exactly a windfall
Late last month, plaintiff Alek Schott of Houston was awarded $76, one dollar for each minute that he was detained. (Schott asked for this exact amount as symbolic compensation.)
“Money was never what mattered,” his lawyers said. “This was and has always been about the Constitution. IJ will now ask the court to enjoin Bexar County from using baseless traffic stops as a tool for warrantless searches, and will work to enforce the precedent across the state.”
Ah, fair.
Worth a read. The nonsense he went through is bizarre.
I’ve done data requests to Google to get all my YouTube and Google photos data in the past. Both took less than a few days, despite the latter covering over 100GB of data.
The former I did so I could get all my subscriptions into a third party client, the latter was so I could easily get all my photos with their metadata into an alternative hosting platform. These data request tools can be useful.
The “manage your information” section doesn’t exist where I’m at.
(Yes, I did a text search)
Instead, we have “request your data” which likely would give you complete files of all data they have on you. I’m not going to crawl through that right now.
18·11 days agoYeah, isn’t the latter more standard?
Yeah I heard of a case like this at least a year ago. I was wondering if we were reposting an old article, but no. That makes it worse, and explains the judge’s reaction.
“It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.
Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.
Yeah, I know someone frustrated with their local council who privately says “I’m going to 💥 the council” as a joke. That’s very different to sending a threatening letter to the council itself. Or harassing them.
The example here feels closer to the former than the latter.
Why the hell would you give a language model the wheel of a car?
They don’t even understand the concept of time and space. Some of them can parse an image, but typically only enough to pull text from it, and extremely slowly.
It’s like asking an overweight English teacher to play pro football.
We built visual recognition machine learning systems for this purpose.
What’s the longest single word your can type with that keyboard? Best I can do is “yucky”.
It has varied. I used to keep them 1-2 years when they used to improve a lot year-to-year. The last 2 phones I’ve had 3 years each.
After I’m done with it, I hand my phone over to my brother, who runs it into the ground over the course of the next 3 or so years, until it’s almost unusably slow. My brother does the shower thing too, but less often. Maybe 30% of the time and less steamy.
It’s possible that there could be gradual, over time damage. Rust growing until it forms a short. But that’s not been my experience.
Ultimately, it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but given how I treated mine, if you even did this half as often as I did, you’re probably fine.
I didn’t mention this above, but I sometimes also used the phone inside the shower. Clicking the next video or checking a message notification. Maybe 1 in 8 days.
I’ve also sometimes washed the crud off the phone under the sink, rather than my normal approach with isopropyl alcohol. The worst I’d get is a notification saying I couldn’t charge for a bit, or the speaker sounding funny for half an hour or so.
You might call me crazy, but I don’t like to baby my stuff. I paid for water resistance, I’m going to make use of it.
I’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷
Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.
As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.
Yeah I have seen it can be pretty hard to find non-English content on the high seas. I wonder if anyone has a good source for this stuff.
31·21 days agoHey, we’re only 1/4 through the 21st century so far. It’s too early to call it. The Grapes of Wrath reboot doesn’t come out until 2040!
It’s from Sousou no Frieren. The instigating plot of the show is that, as an elf, she perceives time differently. She can take time off for a few decades (a chill holiday) and find that everyone is old / has died.
I also use this one. It’s available on F-Droid here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock
So like you do in Oblivion with Skooma?
Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.
Big Cheese doesn’t want you to know this, but there’s a trick where you can still eat some cheeses while lactose intolerant, even without pills.
Some cheeses have very low lactose, even though they don’t advertise it. My brother is lactose intolerant but eats plenty of Emmental and he’s fine.
The trick is to look at the sugar content when you buy cheese. If it’s zero or close to it then you are much more likely to be fine after eating it. That’s because lactose is a sugar!
Of course, not every country or every place selling cheese marks it this way, but it’s a neat trick when you can use it.