Pika

Yes, I post a review on every product and restaurant I visit. I wish more sites let you review more than once as there are some places/products that had amazing visits at one point, but then some visits that sucked hardcore, so allowing the average visit would be nice.

Why? Because I want to share what /my/ expereience with the service was. If they screwed up, others should know. If they did amazing? Others should know. If I was in the other persons shoes, I would rather have known.

I’m not sure location but, if it’s the US my parents had something similar with the no assets thing. Someone stole their car, took it for a joy ride and burned it up the road, they were charged and given a verdict of guilty and had to pay it back, but they claimed no assets. After a few years of no payments whatsoever my mom started complaining, eventually she complained enough they started the legal process of garnishing wages. If he has a job or an income source, they can garnish that either via tax time or via the wages. Being said, the garnish system is super lax for living costs, if they are making bare min wage, you probally won’t get money out of it

I havent used any reverse lookup search in years, I used to do it but most of them want money with not promise of info returned so I decided just doing an exact search of a phone number usually works well enough. If it doesn’t appear in an exact search of common phone number formats, its not worth it to me.

I have 440+ but they are leftover from when i actually used them, I haven’t used the bookmark feature in at least 12-15 years now.

I have a feeling most of them are from an old addon that I had, because I think it abused the bookmark feature in order to keep browser sessions.

I think samsung or android does this. I noticed that my tablet at night will randomly be paused on a black screen and when I wake it it’ll be paused on a video around 5 or 10 minutes after I fell asleep, it’s creepy but I guess it helps me not miss my youtube videos

I would actually prefer that 90% of the time. I hate having to watch TV with someone else, I either miss what’s on it or feel awkward when I have to rewind, then people have this warped perception that I care what they are trying to tell me as if it’s not obvious I’m watching something on the TV so my focus is elsewhere.

My usage of a TV in the common room is when I’m feeling social or want to have whitenoise, any serious watching is strictly in my den or bedroom

I do not have a “TV” in my bedroom but I do have a tablet that I use for videos at night I like falling asleep listening to YouTube or twitch

Oh, I fully understand that. But the everyday person isn’t going to affect the government to the extent where they want to not only issue a court order ordering a company to do this, but also issue a gag order to prevent the company from saying anything.

Political leaders, possibly. Terrorist organizers, definitely. But your typical protest, or right versus left debate, that’s not going to be enough for them to bother, let alone a court order forcing it.

Is it safe enough to use vpns based out of the US?

yes, just be aware that the gov could require the company to log you without letting you know, even if they have a no log setup. For the everyday person this is a non-issue, but if you are doing shadey stuff or have ties that may make someone super interested in your activities, you may wanna choose elsewhere.

they don’t allow port forwarding which nerfs the effectiveness of seeding, seeding is still possible, just not as effective.

I agree with that, but I have noticed some topic areas have more hostility than others!

the users don’t start insulting you when you ask a perfectly legitimate question

I dont know about that one chief, on lemmy it defo depends on the question/topic Ive noticed lol

I read this as they learned it was far too difficult to moderate /all and that the easier thing corporate wise was just remove it.

there was a wiki news?

I mean, when the alternative is self representing, I think the lion share is the better choice.

In a perfect world you would be able to have one without the other but, the lawyer industry at least in the states is super predatory, the more you remove from what the lawyers get out of it, the less likely you will get a lawyer, or the higher costs you have to pay for them to take it.

it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata

edit: upon looking into it further, the other commenter is right, the zip format itself doesn’t actually support encrypting metadata at all, you would need to use a different format such as 7z to obtain it.

I forsee in the future Microsoft implementing a core electron service, one electron instance that is persistant and just runs, but sandboxes every app that calls it. so instead of an electron instance per app, its just an electron instance that has sandboxed pages that are only managable by the parent process.

it would still be pretty bloaty but, since core structure should only be present in the parent process, hopefully it would be less bloaty

In the US companies(where the company is located last I knew) are legally mandated to report specific things such as CSAM and other things if they come across it.

What the issue should be isn’t the fact that they are reporting it, the issue should be they have the capability to see it in the first place to be able to report it.

This isn’t me defending CSAM or anything like that but, in a decent storage system, google shouldn’t be able to even see what you have, let alone what the images actually are.

I like that you used the term significantly here, because usually the question is use will disappear, which it never will. Being said? open usage of image generation isn’t going to go away, and the same is likely to be said about casual ai chat bots. I do think that eventually when the bubble pops and investors realize that they are blindly tossing money into what is essentially a paper shredder most commercial usage of it will nosedive.

This effect is generally rather rapid, once one major company decides to drop it, usually it starts to snowball. Being said, with less commercial avenues of it, non-commercial projects that use cloud based services for it will likely have their prices increased to make up for the difference, so you may see /some/ non-commercial projects go down if the models aren’t being self hosted, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere

You mentioned it already seems to be decreasing as well? I might agree with that. It’s reached the point where the everyday consumer is saying “well this is cool, and makes it easier, but I don’t know how well I can trust this” and we also have some locations (such as the US) starting to put restrictions making it harder to copyright the outputs, which lowers a lot of its value in a commercial sector, but at the same time, we have big companies still going all in on it. So this concerns me.

that sucks, at least they called you instead of you walking in for the job after moving already and them being like “oh you didn’t actually get the job”