She still has an OF account.

I wonder how The Unknown will fit into this.

Well I got incredibly lucky so I have a firstname@lastname.de address. Why would I ever give that up? 🥰

It’s quite frightening to see how fast these AI models have improved during the last few years. You can still spot errors in the videos, but how long will it take until you can’t do that anymore?

It sounds terrifying to not know what’s real or not anymore. And also, these videos will put a lot of people out of jobs, especially in the creative industry. Who needs someone following a car with a drone anymore, when you can just generate that footage on the fly?

Even current German events are replicating the rise of Nazi Germany. But many people are too blind to see…

German finance minister noises intensify

What the article doesn’t mention (or I haven’t seen it when I skimmed through it):

• This is only a pilot project for half a year, after that it’s probably back to the grind, unless the company decides otherwise
• Only 45 companies are testing it and around half of them are very small (10-49 employees). So this is not the big thing this article is suggesting.
• Craftsmanship and industry only make up for 6% of the companies doing this test. The biggest labour shortage is currently in these areas, so this is a slap in the face to young workers, because it implies that companies in these areas still don’t care about better working conditions, like they’ve done for the past few decades.

At least they’re doing one thing right this time: They reduced the amount of hours to 80%. So if you’ve worked 40 hours a week before, you’re now doing only 32 hours. This is a real four-day-workweek, which honestly surprised me. Mostly, companies try to just shove the same amount of work into four days, which is really stressful.

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From personal experience, most companies are not adopting the four-day-workweek out of principle, especially when older people are running them. I have the privilege of a 32h week with Fridays off, but I’m also working at a very young and very small company. It’s not the norm and we still have a long way to go.

What also doesn’t help is that major conservative parties, our finance minister and bosses of big companies and banks are openly against it. When you go into mainstream media, there’s a new article almost every day telling young people to start sweating because they’re “ruining our economy”.

That won’t go away that easily.

For some reason I thought the Safari engine was proprietary, but you’re right, you totally can.

However, you need to have the specific Webkit version on your system that’s also used on the iOS release where the bug is present. Which can be a real pain to manage and I imagine compiling this engine will take quite a while.

Still better than buying unnecessary, overpriced hardware, though! I will for sure check this out soon.

only WebKit is truly optimized and safe for iPhone users

So that’s why it interprets certain standards differently than all other engines. Must be the security. The amount of rendering errors I have to debug just for iOS is annoying. Especially, since you need a MacBook AND an iPhone to debug this bad engine properly, so either me or my employer needs to buy into their ecosystem.

Exactly. “Apple is forced to allow” would be a much more legit headline.

But it’s easier to go to the big media outlets and tell the workers “We have to be prepared to work harder and harder again” and “You also have to sweat”, like the bosses of the biggest German bank, Bosch and our finance minister did.

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I believe the liberals are really afraid of a wave of people realizing that working less for the same amount of money is an option. When the train drivers get their 35 hour work week without any pay cuts, there will be more people also taking a liking to that idea. Worst nightmare of the upper class.

Great, my hobby is going to the cinema every week. Doesn’t need any practice, just sit ya ass down and watch.

This. This is exactly it. I could earn a bit more money working 40 hours, but I decided to do a 4 day work week with only 32 hours and my health has increased drastically.

What’s funny about this, is that I’m also a coder and I used a lot of my spare time and regained power to learn new tools, frameworks and programming languages outside of work. Ultimately, these will result in higher paid jobs. Can’t do that when you’re constantly tired.

Last year I started working less for even more money. Another company wanted to poach me, so my boss had to make me an offer. Went down to a 32 hour work week with Fridays off while also getting a significant raise, so I stayed at the company. He didn’t like it, but there wasn’t much of a choice because we’re severely understaffed.

Let’s see if I can do this again this year. Not working less hours (32h is fine), but getting an even better offer.

And the major reason why they are voted for, our broken asylum system, remains unfixed.

I’m not sure that’s really the main reason. We also have an energy crisis and a recession and a lot of people simply don’t have the money to pay for their basic needs. In 2022, 5.5 million people weren’t able to heat their homes properly due to monetary reasons. Our current political party leaves these people alone, energy prices are rising again this year and the FDP clings to their debt brake (“Schuldenbremse”) which makes the situation even worse.

The AfD promises simple solutions for the current problems and a lot of people want to believe them. I’m sure a lot of voters flock to them because of immigration politics, but I believe it’s not the only reason.

I don’t know but banning #1 political party in a region might have unexpected negative results

The biggest problem is: If an attempted ban fails, it will further legitimize a fascist party, which will probably bring them even more votes. It’s a really hard and dangerous step to take.

The Hollywood actor was held for three hours at Munich airport on Wednesday.

Last I checked, Munich is still in Germany. :D

It’s gotten so hard to find authentic, useful results that people have started adding the word “Reddit” to search terms

I have definitely done that multiple times.

Tentatively called “Alexa Plus,” the paid version of Alexa is intended to offer more conversational and personalized AI technology, said one of the documents obtained by Business Insider.

But the quality of the new Alexa’s answers is still falling short of expectations, often sharing inaccurate information, external tests have found.

Do they really expect people will pay for a large language model making up results on-the-fly?

“If this fails to get revenue, Alexa is in trouble,” one of the people told BI.

I will not shed a tear when Alexa gets shut off, to be honest.

I wonder, if he’ll be back here in Germany after that incident.

Because he’s always forgetting things…