Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 7

People: Please come over to the Fediverse, it's totally not weird.
The Fediverse:
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♲ @hungry_joe@mas.to: Professional request:

I'm looking for a kinky cellist/violinist willing to play background music in full fetish gear for 100 people at a corporate event in Berlin on May 30. Paid, naturally.

Pleas share :)

E.T. in 1982: Kids routinely bike in the US streets, an UFO is extra-ordinary.

E.T. in 2024: UFOs are routinely sighted sparking a Congressional hearing, kids biking in the streets are extra-ordinary.

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These write themselves:

• "Florida Man builds giant boat, says God told him to build it"
• "Florida man, 30, breaks temple stalls in a fit of rage, fight priests"
• "Florida man desecrates grave of local notable Lazarus"
• "Florida man caught almost killing his son, says it was a dare gone too far"
• "Florida man defies giant, gets lucky shot"

♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:

I was recommended by YouTube a video about an “incredible” industrial process to turn discarded plastic bags into lawn chairs.

The video depicted people in sandals operating heavy machinery in a dusty garage probably located in India or Southeast Asia, including handling molten plastic blobs made from heating bunches of plastic bags shoved into a hot grinder and placed into a hydraulic press.

I left the video nauseated, less by the clearly unsafe work conditions and the obvious worker exploitation than by the video title that was only focusing on the “incredible” process of turning plastic junk into more plastic junk. 🤢

New woes since I wrote this:
- Dota 2 randomly crashes back to desktop, sometimes several times in the same evening. At other times it works flawlessly.
- The "FN" key used to illuminate the keys that can be used with it. Now it happens when I press the letter "T"??? Pretty distracting to have the keyboard quickly switch colors whenever I'm typing some text.
- It automatically restarted twice in a couple days, which made me lose work in a software I left open. Interestingly, on the first restart, it was able to rescue the file I was working on. Not on the second time. 😞

I've contacted the seller, I'm not hoping for much but it's the worst computer I've ever own, surely there's a way not to flush $2,500 down the drain?

@Brad Koehn ☑️ Ah, I see. At the moment, they have LLM growing pains. Not because they're using it, but because it's directly and adversely impacting their publishing business.

They are mounting a legal defense against intellectual property infringement, but if it ends up bearing fruit, it will be very delayed while the harm has already been done.