I don’t believe USPS can open packages without a warrant (which is why they’re the preferred courier for drugs), and I don’t think “multiple packages going to a wrong address” counts as probable cause. But it’s been a minute since I’ve been involved in that end of things, so I dunno if that’s still current protocol.

That’s why you use a fake return address that doesn’t exist. Allowing your product to get into real people’s hands was just asking for trouble.

Instacart is being miserly by not paying their workers a fair wage.

Instacart is paying their workers fairly. It’s just that the driver is not an Instacart worker.

They’re not employees, they’re contractors. And when you, the customer, place an order, they are now your worker as you’ve entered into a contract with this person. They aren’t working for Instacart or the store, they’re working for you. And you’re the one who pays for their time and labor, that all comes out of the service charges on your order.

That’s how all these apps work. They don’t get paid anything by the app, they get paid by you through the app.

That’s not how modern AI image generation works. AI no longer just mix-and-matches various assets from a library. It’s creating its own unique images based on what it knows about the shapes and colors of things its been trained on.

Yeah, one of them definitely had the fake, post-processed bokeh effect added to it that a lot of phones with “portrait mode” use. Which, to be completely fair, makes that technically an AI-generated image.

I was looking for artifacts of AI generation, and I found them, but I’m still wrong. I can’t win.

Not at all. I think it’s fascinating. The technology behind it is incredible and getting better every day. While I don’t consider any AI-generated images to be “masterpieces” by any stretch of the imagination, they’re interesting to study.

If the voice doesn’t match the account owner, it doesn’t give out any personal info. If you use somebody else’s Assistant, you can only get general search results or media payback, typically.

Instagram is still decently big among GenZ for still-photo content.

I’ve been seeing a ton of these sites spamming up Google’s search results lately. It’s super frustrating, and makes it so much harder to find things that I’m looking for. Luckily, uBlock Origin is good about blocking these pages if I accidentally click on one, but still, this is absurd.

As the owner of a 2000+ user server, this setting is an absolute necessity because yes, disposable email accounts are plentiful and Discord still does a poor job of detecting them. Server raids still happen, and temporarily restricting access to non-verified accounts helps mitigate this.

However, Discord’s phone number verification blocks most VoIP or burner numbers from being registered. It’s one of the few things Discord does pretty well these days, IMO.

Destiny has so many amazingly designed weapons. Thorn, Malfeasance, Winterbite, Touch of Malice, all the Ikelos weapons, Conditional Finally, Deathbringer, Eyes of Tomorrow, Gjallarhorn… Weapon artists at Bungie are on another level.

Similar situation for me, as well. My company’s taken a turn that’s very successful for the C-suites, but more and more stressful for the rest of us and I’m becoming majorly burnt out.

How often are you using Firefox on your TV?

If you wanna be rebellious around Christmas, all you gotta do is serve somebody a coffee in a red paper cup.

But that aside, both “Christmas” and “Xmas” are equally religious. The X in “Xmas” is actually meant to be the initial for Christ’s name in Greek (Χριστός), so it’s still ultimately the same thing as saying “Christmas”.

Yeah, Japan had a massive tech boom in the 80s and 90s, but then just kinda stopped growing that field. It’s still there and still a strong industry in Japan, but the cultural tech hype isn’t there anymore, it seems.

Well, not for long. Soon she’ll just be another good broke person.

What was the point?

Like most current demonstrations of AI, it’s just a tech demo. All it’s really meant to do is show off its capabilities. This wasn’t meant to be taken as somebody’s true artistic vision or something.

If you’re in line at Burger King, your life’s already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.

It’s half of one billionaire. It’s a drop in the bucket.

I’m pretty sure the average person can tell the difference between a Tesla and a Jeep, though.

It doesn’t matter, anyway. It’s not a part of the story.