Because she works in the medical field, she decided to create a condition related to health and hit on the name bixonimania because it “sounded ridiculous”, she says. “I wanted to be really clear to any physician or any medical staff that this is a made-up condition, because no eye condition would be called mania — that’s a psychiatric term.”

If that wasn’t sufficient to raise suspicions, Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”.

Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.

If it’s free, you’re the product.

Would I be asking if it’s normal if I had?

Three years?!?! Is that normal? I’d be ready to strike after 3 months!

Everyone would use it if that’s just the only way it worked. I don’t need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It’s always on. There’s no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don’t actually want people using it.

I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’m running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.

If you go this route, you’ll be suspect #1 if anyone else ever takes more aggressive defensive measures against the cameras.

If only there were some way to temporarily cover up the license plate.

I’d recommend caution. No idea if these things have a built in GPS, but I wouldn’t be surprised considering how easy/cheap it is for electronics hobbyists to add GPS functionality to their projects. Take it home and fire it up and you may potentially be telling the gestapo right where you live.

You have keywords to type into forums.

That’s great when you do, and you usually do, but sometimes you don’t.

Case in point; A while back I was creating a 3D model for my 3D printer. It had a part that was essentially identical to a particular unusual pipe fitting that I have seen and knew existed, but didn’t know the name of (spoiler: I’m not a plumber), and I wanted to give the sketch in the modeling software a proper name for the thing.

Just trying keywords that sort of described it’s shape in search engines was useless. Search engines would focus more on the “pipe fitting” part of the keywords and just return links to articles about plumbing. Then I asked an LLM, and it responded with, “That sounds like X.” Then I checked that it wasn’t just making it up by searching for “X” and found online stores selling the very thing I was trying to figure out the name of.

This tech we need, is the leap from ICE to electric vehicles

Great news! I heard a rumor that they’re going to start making electric vehicles next week.

Gained access to Epstein’s FedEx account: Still live. Shipments in 2024, address book with 90+ names

Put up or shut up.

“Yeah? And your point is?”. ~ Billionaires

“If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3m files,” Khanna said during his floor speech.

^^^ That’s an extremely important point that bears repeating. It’s not, “six men.” It’s “the first six men of probably hundreds that should be unredacted.”

5th, not 1st.

You don’t honestly think that DHS doesn’t know Lemmy exists, do you? If they’re monitoring Reddit, you’d have to be a fool to not realize that they’re probably here, too.

Last year, a finance officer at a Singaporean multinational paid out nearly $500,000 to scammers during what he believed was a video call with company leadership.

My bet is that that is just his very plausible cover story. He’s the one that got the money.

The rest of us, he indicates, will be stuck on the assembly line, building whatever the tech companies require.

Meanwhile…

China is accelerating the rollout of fully automated “dark factories,” where production continues non-stop without lighting, human workers or shift changes. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/tech-news/no-lights-no-workers-ai-powered-dark-factories-are-reshaping-china-s-manufacturing-4921224.html

Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market.

Well, there’s an absolutely plausible motive that I hadn’t considered, yet. Fuuuuuuck.

closed source due to the small team

There are open source projects created and managed by a single developer. A “small team” is not a reason to be closed source.