& Kagi (search company w/controversial CEO) sounds like they're doing something right

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...Paul Kafasis...took it and pursued it thoroughly, asking Siri “Who won Super Bowl __?” for every number from 1 through 60.

His report at One Foot Tsunami documenting the results is utterly damning:

So, how did Siri do? With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played. That’s an absolutely abysmal 34% completion percentage. If Siri were a quarterback, it would be drummed out of the NFL.

Siri did once manage to get four years in a row correct (Super Bowls IX through XII), but only if we give it credit for providing the right answer for the wrong reason. More realistically, it thrice correctly answered three in a row (Super Bowls V through VII, XXXV through XXVII, and LVII through LIX). At its worst, it got an amazing 15 in a row wrong (Super Bowls XVII through XXXII). Most amusingly, it credit

Courtesy (mostly) XCancel dot com:

Hey folks,

Made a post yesterday on !politics@lemmy.world

Here it is on our instance: https://lemmings.world/post/21083652

It shows up whether I'm logged in or not, but I was surprised to see it at +1 after a day - so I checked !politics@lemmy.world , and it's missing from the New queue where I would expect to see it based on its position as seen on: https://lemmings.world/c/politics@lemmy.world

Thank you very much folks!

Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes strongly criticized the Trump administration this past Tuesday, describing its actions as dictatorial, authoritarian, and making a mockery of law and the Constitution.

A.G. Mayes spoke to the importance of checks and balances and the danger of ignoring established law. Mayes alleges Trump has transferred Congress's power to the unelected billionaire, Musk.

Mayes urges all Americans to stand up, speak out, and defend our democratic processes.

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President Musk (summarized):

• we were wrong
• it's OK we were wrong because... well, NBD anyway
• Americans ❤️ HIV -> Dead Africans

Transcript / Story below:

Musk questions value of US funding for HIV programmes in Mozambique

"Trump boasted last month that his administration had stopped $50m of “bomb-making” condoms being sent to the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, as part of a wider campaign led by billionaire Elon Musk to cut waste and fraud from federally funded programmes.

Trump provided no evidence for his claims, which caused widespread confusion. It later emerged that the recipients of the contraceptives may be a province in Mozambique sharing the same name, where USAID funds large-scale HIV prevention programmes.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Musk was asked whether he would correct his previous statements. Here is what he

For remaking the funny place (one ninety six)

It’s safe, welcoming, and always a good time

💩posting after a 5+ year-old memory came to mind. The face of the employee I’d been chatting with (before momentarily freeing my hand) was positively aghast. Olympic contender in no-coaster defense competitions, guarding the impervious exterior of large corporate marketing assets like it’s the Mona Lisa.

“OBVIOUSLY you’re not supposed to put anything on it!” -my friend

(A little context - I would hope to be described as deferential and polite, occasionally even to a fault.) Oops

Looks like the new Beetlejuice movie was released as a telesync. I thought they were a thing of the past!

COMMUNITY/MODS: want this post gone, it’s gone - would remove ASAP.

Please be excellent to each other here. We have to self moderate or I’ll delete without being asked. Assume good intent.

I’m pro human which is why I’d rather have some people in office here in the US than others, and why I’m pro human rights.

Trans rights are human rights.

After reading criticism of the dems, this question resurfaced in my mind. I know we don’t have time machines, I know it’s easy to claim a false equivalency is being drawn. So note this question doesn’t represent reality. It represents a curiosity of a hypothetical.

Trans rights are human rights! Thank you.

PS: I hope neither this post nor its comments represent/produce any content that bad people will use to make arguments to further evil causes. Have I already erred? Yes I’m worried, I’m also curious enough to hit this post button here… gulp

::: spoiler alt text of featured screenshot **Imagine you have a time machine that lets

Hey friends,

I'd like to:

• Register for a social media account under a client's company name
• Research the presence companies in the client's industry have on the site
• Have a reasonable assurance the account will not be linked to my real name nor my network
• Use a VM for 10-30? hr/mo, short term

I am:

• US West Coast based
• Tech savvy but don't code (unless copypasta)
• Price conscious
• Privacy conscious in terms of social media companies linking my account and my identity

::: spoiler Assumptions and Understandings Given the complexity of fingerprinting techniques, I am under the impression logging in to a remote computer and doing all this work from a browser there has one of the highest likelihoods of success. I'd measure success by not getting spammed with work-related ads, whenever I have to disable Ublock Origin at least. It seems likely a social network will know I'm using a remote desktop (based on IP and loading time/delays), but seems difficult for them to und

Source

Developers (two dudes) are super responsive and would likely release an IP customization feature upon request. Is there any service that would tolerate this [D]DOS-y kind of behavior that would feel more privacy friendly than Cloudflare?

IsThereNet [for macOS] watches for internet connection status changes and draws a colored line at the top of the screen to indicate the status.

Edit: Thanks everybody!

(1) ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Echo Requests hardly constitute a burden on a server.
(2) There is little privacy concern simply exposing your IP to Cloudflare.
(3) Uptime-Kuma can be self hosted to accomplish this task with more bells and whistles.
(4) There is an appetite for daydreaming of DDOSing bad Alphabetic actors ;) You civilly digidisobedient rascals!