We adopted a yellow-headed amazon (parrot) in his 40s. For months he was shy and kept to himself.
One day, seemingly out of the blue, he began whistling songs, cat-calling, saying his name, asking for a cracker, etc. He had like an entire repertoire!
Most unexpected, funniest thing that’s happened with any of our pets.
Close second is a cat that would play fetch, like a dog!
That is WILD! This technology could be put to good use, but corporations are abusing it to build profiles on their users so they can weaponize the data.
Random photo I had saved (of a Da-Brim cycling accessory):
Don’t forget that every self-driving car is a 360 camera that’s able to capture real-time photo and video for the car’s manufacturer (and whoever they want to sell this data to).
This would include images inside your garage, even when the car is off.
And they have microphones that can record conversations inside the vehicle, too.
These vehicles, in my opinion, are in many cases more privacy invading than phones.
And with Elon in government, with his BFF President at his side, concerns over deregulation and weaponizing these of moving spy devices seems like a future reality.
And honeybees even often outcompete native pollinators, which is bad for biodiversity.
Of course, Texas has to incentivize this type of destruction:
"In Texas, the law qualifies people who own between five and 20 acres of land for tax breaks if they rear bees for five years. "
This is actually not a good thing.
For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).
There’s no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. “Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them.”
The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article…
The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone’s interested.
It makes me wonder how people can travel like one timezone over and not have crippling issues because of it.
It’s likely not the change with the DST that messes people, but the obsession with worrying about it that does.
On Android (and probably other systems), Death Road to Canada is fun, funny, challenging, and comes with no BS.
Yup. I’m either hoping for a more sustainable alternative, or a fork with active updates.
For now, I’m holding my position, but preparing for an exit from Bitwarden.
you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden.
Well, I’d prefer that the apps that are a gateway to my most important pieces of data (passwords) be updated to plug vulnerabilities and exploits. If it were any other app/service, then I can live without updates. But not something related to passwords.
To turn opt out of this (and you absolutely should), log into your PayPal account and then go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping.
I have personal and business PayPal accounts, and don’t even see those privacy options in either one.
Are these privacy concerns only seen in certain countries?
Yeah, with all the stuff going on with password managers, I wonder if there’s a truly future-proof setup that can be self-hosted and will never have these issues.
I was a Keepass user many years ago, but I’m not confident that a Keepass-like system would work well with some very computer-illiterate family members. Bitwarden is hard enough to teach them, and it’s one of the easy ones!
I care about other people’s kids. I want them housed, fed, clothed, etc.
I want my tax dollars to improve other’s lives so they have what they need to be self-actualized human beings.
I won’t let them get hurt at the playground if I can help it.
I watch them when they cross the street to make sure they do it safely.
Oh geeze, yeah, I hope that what I wrote didn’t come off as “not caring” about the wellbeing of other people’s children, because that’s absolutely not what I meant!
What I mean is that most people don’t get excited about when someone else’s child just spoke their first word, or took their first step. They really don’t, because it’s not a milestone that impacts that person’s life in any meaningful way.
When someone sends you baby picture after baby picture, or their kid’s school trip photos… nobody actually “cares” about those things. It occupies no space in their head past that brief moment they were told about it. That’s what I mean.
If those things make you happy, there’s nothing wrong with that, either!
Do cute kids put a smile on my face? Of course. But do I care that an acquaintance’s child now uses the potty? Not. At. All.
Some flashlights I own have a lockout feature to prevent this from happening accidentally.
The one bike light that doesn’t have this lockout mode, or the ability to disconnect the battery by unscrewing the cap, burned through a dry bag I had it in…
Still a good light, but I had to tape a metal ring over the on/off button, so this never happens again.
I don’t mind a long-click to turn off/on, and a short click to move between SOLID modes (high/low). But for the love of Christ and all the saints, any strobe mode should be a special key combination (i.e. double click).
Flashlights that have you moving through multiple strobe modes before you can get to a different brightness level, or before you reach “off” are infuriating.
Some are absurdly bad in this regard!
“Oh, you want to reduce the brightness? Scroll through 7 modes, including 4 epileptic seizure-inducing strobe modes, before you can get to low brightness mode.”
Very, very, VERY few people actually care about other people’s kids. And that interest only goes up slightly when they are related to the child.
Nothing wrong with you feeling that way.
As for vacations, life events, etc., I’m interested in knowing what goes on in my friend’s lives… that’s kind of what having a friend is about.
BUT… I’m interested in hearing about these things face to face. I couldn’t care less if they’re just social media spam about what they did with their spouse. That’s one reason why I stopped using social media.
The original source is a satirical news site
Well, that would have been nice to know! LOL The screenshot and post gives no context of where this story came from.
Is that a mug shot? She was arrested for being the hero we all need?
“Prefer”… when you’re young, you’ve got time to burn online without distractions.
Then you get married, have kids, work a demanding job, and you don’t get time for uninterrupted online play.
Eventually, correspondence chess is the only gaming you have time for! /s
What would be the point of AI replacing people to create art?
The essence of art is that it came from the mind and talent (or skill) from another human being. It’s a thread connecting our humanity through time and space.
No one will be looking back at AI art the same way we look back hundreds or thousands of years at paintings, sculptures, musical compositions, or even real photographs.
We might enjoy some AI generated content for the novelty, but it’s soulless.