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Swedish article about meta smart glasses & the african low income workers who process the data from them. Ugh.

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

Swedish article about meta smart glasses & the african low income workers who process the data from them. Ugh.

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

A cheapo SSD I have for faffing about with just apparently died. Not detected at all by Linux.
Not seen by the bios.

Sigh.

Preparing to whack it with a big hammer and bin it, just gave a quick google for "dead ssd".

Random reddit post: "leave it powered up for 10 minutes, then unplug, plug in & try again".

Yeah right, but suppose it can't do any harm to try.

HOLY FUCK IT ACTUALLY WORKED

I've just been reminded of the existence of NoScript and wow there's a lot of shit out there on webby sites.

I wish people would realise that change dot org is just a data harvester and creating petitions there is pissing in the wind while someone steals your wallet.

@b0rk

:(

@chewie
To have literally everything make no sense or be incorrect is quite the achievement

@chewie
@b0rk_reruns needs this

@WiteWulf @anon_opin

"meedle of leedle" sounds like someone doing a fake Mexican accent

I ain't no square, but, unfortunately, neither do I have corkscrew hair.

After chilling out for 10 days at Heathrow, m'parcel is again on its way in my general direction.

@MLE_online
I remembered today that I once read that Fox News plays in US military bases 24/7 in places like canteens & recreational areas.

It sounds plausible but no idea if true.

@MLE_online
"They'll refuse to obey orders and his power will crumble"

Yeah ok

There was a lot of "our fine ethical US military will save us from Trump's worst excesses" on US bluesky not very long ago, and that's a milkshake duckening if ever there was.

Passed a guy today, sat on a bench, earbuds in, toast phone, bellowing down it "yeah it's not just the Islamists innit, there's all the Jamaicans too".

Unfortunately I didn't have my cheesewire handy.

Hang on, I thought it was Tuesday, but it turns out its Monday. Wtf.

[this thought triggered by turning on the radio, hearing the Labour prime minister's voice, and immediately turning it off again with a volley of expletives I'd reserved for the last 5 Tory PMs]

I'm not a great one for counterfactuals, but I do occasionally wonder what kind of country I'd be living in if John Brown hadn't died, or even if Gordon Brown hadn't apologised for his intolerance of bigotry.

@fishidwardrobe @JugglingWithEggs @statsguy

Hmm the rest of that article seems to turn into something rather more uncritical of Starmer. Redemption my arse.

" fachonazimilliardaires" is my new favourite French epithet