My (soon to be ex) bank recently decided to make everyone use their ID card number which can be obtained from many sources and does not change, a username with symbols and numbers and minimal length requirements which cannot be changed and a 4 digit pin code. No 2FA at all, so its only saving grace is that you get locked out at 3 tries.

I’m guessing they are trying to align everything to their legacy ATM pin code system instead of making the ATM system better.

I have no issue with spiders, but now that a small lizard took residence somewhere in the house there’s almost none left. And also no other insects as well.

All Android devices are Linux, it just happens to be the worst kind of Linux possible: one that entirely depends on proprietary drivers and is controlled by a company hellbent on closing it down through total dependence on their services.

Yeah, I’m waiting for the same thing, and even if they cut off their services, so long as the phone can be degoogled and replacements installed I wouldn’t really care.

Banking apps could be the only problem I foresee, but then I guess I’ll just go back to debit and credit cards.

Also, if someone releases a working Linux phone with some extra polish that has actual global distribution that would also be a good option for me.

Learning to build both automated and fiber operated 3D printed drones is probably a better use of your time. And learning some fun chemistry and electronics.

Well, I’m just starting so for basic grammar and vocabulary Nihongo con Teppei is what I’ve been listening to, mostly to reinforce and expand upon what I’ve seen during classes and what I’ve read from Tae Kim’s grammar guide.

I would say he makes for decent listening because he is native, but he can get a bit chaotic later on as he corrects himself mid sentence.

For streams so far it’s been mostly Japanese vtubers who speak slow enough to sort of understand what they are talking about, but that has been mostly to train listening and pay attention to the pronunciation and cadence of words when a native speaks. I’m nowhere near understanding many of their sentences due to a ton of missing vocabulary. They act more as a benchmark of progress.

I recommend picking any that talks about topics you understand already, uses standard dialect and does not have a motor mouth. There’s enough indies with niche content over there that there is a chance you might find one that appeals to you.

The timezone makes it super rough to catch any livestream so for now looking through archives and finding ones about something you know and find interesting is useful.

That poor neutron male killing his partner and the couple on the floor below every time he gets lucky.

La traducción mas literal y correcta de billionaire es milmillonario o millardario. Aunque es poco común verla en uso.

I’m slowly but steadily improving my comprehension of basic Japanese grammar and vocabulary though a combination of weekend classes and listening to streams and podcasts.

What exactly is it that you heard about the Pleroma devs? As far as I’ve seen the only people who seem to have something against them always vague post and never specify what is it that bothers them.

What actually makes it soul sucking is if you still have a sense of duty or responsibility to deliver high quality code, because you will be knee deep in slop code without enough time to review it, or if you’re forced to review it. If you stop giving a shit, you can use that time to find another job or do research for your own project.

You also get the same issue with trans men. We a had a local case where a trans man was convicted of a crime, and the local authorities decided to send him to a male prison, respecting his self-identification. He proceeded to immediatly challenge this through the courts for obvious reasons.

In this situation, it’s impossible to escape the drawbacks of your biology so long as prisons assume a dichotomy. And the vast majority of the population considers any criminal to be subhuman anyway, so asking them to acommodate a sub-percentage of what is already a tiny 0.1% of the population is impossible. They would sooner vote to just execute them to save themselves the hassle and expense.

The older you get the easier it gets to abandon all streaming services to be honest.

Every high production value movie is a cliche you can guess 5 minutes in. And the few outliers get so much publicity you will probably hear about them anyway and be able to get a copy through other means.

I guess it’s also why apparently CD sales have been picking up. Easier to just rip your favorite music and listen to/stream your own collection than deal with a mess of different services.

Does anyone here have any song from the supporting acts you would recommend?

In my experience, the rich almost never get richer by spending their own cash. Even the local ISPs are operating on the government deployed backbone in that region. Sole exception might be Movistar but I’m not sure about that. And convincing the current government or the next one to prioritize spending cash on this will be extremely hard.

Good luck with that. After the center left governments got removed all initiatives to develop internet infrastructure in the region stopped expanding.

The internet service down there is expensive compared to the rest of the country.

Both the Omarchy shilling and these attempts at smearing a lot of people with the least charitable interpretation possible of their words and actions feel incredibly artificial, so I’m going to do what is best for me and ignore both.

Si, muy de izquierda usar el aparato generador de imagenes que hace mierda el planeta para la protesta por los derechos sociales, dejar que te controle el lenguaje el país mas imperialista y supremacista que hay en el hemisferio cuando existen alternativas autóctonas hace mas de 20 años, y vincular a una compañía que se beneficia tomando tus datos y usándolos para manipular opiniones durante las elecciones. Como dije: cosas de izquierda berreta.

Si, muy humano el poster, mira le sale igualito que a este las fuentes, el estilo, la forma de subrayar y resaltar, etc.

Pero el que no distingue basura hecha por IA soy yo…

• Poster hecho con IA
• Usa anglicisismos para el lenguaje neutral
• Pone un vínculo a Instagram

Es como una suerte de trifecta de la izquierda berreta.

In the Chinese Room scenario, cards with Chinese written on them are inserted into a box.

Inside there is a man who doesn’t understand Chinese but has a lookup list of which symbols to write as a response to every possible sentence you can write on the inserted card.

For anyone observing from outside the box it looks as if whatever is in the box is fluent in Chinese and can hold a conversation. But the man inside does not understand anything about Chinese.

This is used as an analogy to explain that machines, very much like the man in the box, do not actually understand the data they are fed, nor the data they output, no matter how human the response might seem.

It was an argument against the Turing test, which is about whether machines showing behaviour indistinguishable from a human is a sign that they can think.

The Chinese Room argument is that they must also show understanding of the data itself, rather than just human-like responses, to say that they think.