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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m not from the US, but it would seem to me that public cameras should only be accessible for legitimate purposes.

    Police should need to request footage, but similarly, you shouldn’t be able to just request any footage willy nilly, because of stalking.

    Seems that it should be tightly regulated and require multiple people to gain access, and be documented who was given access.

    Overall your comment seems like a great suggestion to me. If footage “goes missing”, they had better have way more evidence to back up their charges.













  • WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

    This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

    You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

    Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

    I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

    But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

    Are we actually serious? It’s not a report




  • The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

    In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

    If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

    They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

    This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.