But the privatized prisons are local businesses too, right?
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redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Games@lemmy.world•DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025English5·1 year agoLooks like we’re finally able to use the mech!
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivatedEnglish27·1 year agoTesla Board Chairperson Robyn Denholm urged shareholders to re-approve CEO Elon Musk’s $46 billion pay package this week, saying the vote is “not about the money” while suggesting that Musk could leave Tesla or devote less time to the company if he isn’t properly compensated.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screensEnglish6·1 year agoNumbers must go up at all costs. By the time the company’s reputation hit rock bottom, the CEO already jumped ship to the next company.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screensEnglish3·1 year agoIf you’re getting targeted ads for penis enlargement pills, then the system thinks you have a small pp. If this is an error, you should submit photographic evidence to their office to prove you don’t have a small pp.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screensEnglish29·1 year agoI assume they won’t allow porns in ads, but you can still get worse stuff than porn, like erectile dysfunction medication ads which causes people around your seat to look at you with sorry eyes.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutesEnglish11·1 year agoThe whole point of crypto is to be immutable, so that money is simply lost to him now.
IIRC there are several cases where some group of people lost big enough coins and force most of the miners to fork to get their money back. Not bitcoin though.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutesEnglish4·1 year agoThey notify but iirc only if you push a commit to a public repo. The dev in the article pushed it to a private repo, then later made the repo public.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file.English12·1 year agoThank you for the correction!
Won’t this cause subtle but serious issue? Kinda like how pomegranate translates to “granada” in Spanish, but when you translate “granada” back to English it translates to grenade?
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file.English62·1 year agoEvery once in a while security researchers would discover sophisticated exploits that would allow malwares to take over your computer via multimedia files, but those are actually rarely exploited in the wild by run off the mill malwares.
Unless you’re an important person being targeted by hackers and three letter agencies, your biggest source of threat is running infected programs from untrusted sources, e.g. cracks downloaded from random torrents or warez sites, shady sites serving ads that trick you to run some executables, etc.
How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated newsEnglish5·1 year agoFuture historians will have a lot of trouble identifying fake ai news when studying our current era.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Games@sh.itjust.works•“if you can obtain a copy of a court order...we’ll do our best to make it happen" Unlike Steam, Good Old Games claims they are willing to transfer accounts to entitled parties after a user's deathEnglish4·1 year agoLike other mentioned, a lot of old games sold right now actually packaged with dosbox. Some even packaged with Wine so it can run on different platforms. The real problem would be emulating current modern graphic stacks but that would be future preservists’ problem.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Games@sh.itjust.works•“if you can obtain a copy of a court order...we’ll do our best to make it happen" Unlike Steam, Good Old Games claims they are willing to transfer accounts to entitled parties after a user's deathEnglish59·1 year agoImagine inheriting a GOG account originally registered by your great-great grandpa containing ungodly amount of games you can’t possibly play all of them in a lifetime.
If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s XEnglish56·1 year agoEradication? If anything, streaming services turn the sex dial to 11 for a while now. It’s as if they won’t greenlight a new show unless it has a certain amount of sex and nudity scenes.
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Ikea is hiring UK workers for its new store in RobloxEnglish7·1 year agoDoes this mean Roblox is becoming this generation’s Second Life now?
redcalcium@lemmy.instituteto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, againEnglish21·1 year agoThen why does tidal for the same price as spotify with way less users pay four times as much to the artists than spotify?
I wonder why too. Spotify takes a 30% cut, but even if Tidal takes 0% cuts, how come it can pays 4x as much to artists? There must be more to the math to make it check out.
What do you mean? Can’t you see all those innovations in the ads and tracking industry?