I had an almost opposite scenario to this happen to me in middle school.

I was done of my classwork for the day, so I was playing games on my iPod Touch. Teacher notices it, confiscates it, and tells me I can get it back at the end of the day at the front office. Not so much getting an earful, just trying to get me to focus.

At the end of the day, I go to pick it up and the teacher says “I didn’t realize this wasn’t a phone. I would’ve let you keep it if I’d known”

This was with regards to Air Canada and its LLM that hallucinated a refund policy, which the company argued they did not have to honour because it wasn’t their actual policy and the bot had invented it out of nothing.

An important side note is that one of the cited reasons that the Court ruled in favour of the customer is because the company did not disclose that the LLM wasn’t the final say in its policy, and that a customer should confirm with a representative before acting upon the information. This meaning that the the legal argument wasn’t “the LLM is responsible” but rather “the customer should be informed that the information may not be accurate”.

I point this out because I’m not so sure CVS would have a clear cut case based on the Air Canada ruling, because I’d be surprised if Google didn’t have some legalese somewhere stating that they aren’t liable for what the LLM says.

God damn it, I hate this hacker crap!

Simple. It’s theirs when it works and yours when it doesn’t.

Get high and watch the entire Star Wars original trilogy. Been too long since I’ve watched them. May throw in the prequels too.

I hate how it seems to be a priority of our government to support Israel and that there isn’t a single party that we could elect who would actually put an end to that support.

At this point, why even consider getting a Roku?

Note, I rarely, if ever, use a TV anymore, so smart TVs have never appealed to me. But Roku seems to be very anti consumer (between the forced arbitration and their ad policy), so I don’t understand why someone looking to get a smart TV would actually want a Roku over an alternative.

Maybe I’m just poorly informed, but it just seems like almost anything else should be a better option?

Just to your point about The Martian, I would argue that the book wasn’t ‘objectively’ better than the movie, but that the movie had a different vibe than the book due to the change from written text logs to the video logs.

It’s a limitation of the format, but the movie almost feels like it belongs to a different telling of the story than Weir’s original? As if there he’d written in the 80s, someone rewrote it slightly different in the 00’s, and the rewrite got made into a movie?

I am definitely biased because I really enjoy both The Martian book and movie, just in different ways.

Planning to play Stardew with my buddies, work on a coding project, and see what all else happens

When I was a kid (primary school, ~2010), I watched a History Channel show about it with my little brother.

Back then, we just thought the “Boston Molassacre” was a funny name for a tragedy, so it’s stuck in my head.

Boston

But if I call them that, people will think I’m talking about the Conservative Party of Canada (who also go by CPC).

Artificial General Intelligence

It did add an international arms market, where you can trade excess things for civs.

And if you’re going to offer someone to switch to something over the snap controversy anyways, maybe recommend Mint or a similar distribution (Mint is basically Ubuntu without snap)

This might not be universal, but here it doesn’t even require it.

Back in 2017, Uber tried to expand to my home province and tried to get us to change our local regulations regarding rideshare (it boiled down to Uber being required to call its drivers employees and to function like the pre-existing taxi services).

Local government doesn’t budge, so Uber decides that it doesn’t want to come anymore. Within the year, a local alternative pops up that complies with the regulations Uber tried to fight, and they’re still profitable 6 years later.

It’s not that Uber isn’t capable of paying their employees living wages, it’s that they can earn more money if they don’t.

I did the same. I used Boost (which is working on a Lemmy app currently) and it somehow lasted 7 days longer, but as soon as it stopped working I deleted reddit.