Waitman Gobble

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:14:15 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Metal scientists declare metal good for the brain.

According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands

Metalheads are boffins, actually, and these bands prove it

Marshall Sutherland

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:21:28 -0400 from hubzilla

Do intelligent lyrics count if you can't actually understand the words they are using. I don't mean "I don't know what that word means", I mean "What were those words?"

Bill Statler

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:28:28 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Argh.

"Lexical diversity" study:

More different words equals intelligence?
Doesn't matter whether the lyrics can be understood (as Marshall Sutherland noted).
Only covers 1960-present.
Only covers popular music.
Only 7 genres of music exist.

"Productivity and career success" study:

Wow, now there are 15 genres. One of them is classical, which spans something like a thousand years but strangely all sounds the same?
They surveyed 1000 people. How did they ensure the selection was random?
People assessed their own productivity.
Argh!

Anyway, here's the link to this "science":
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/most-intelligent-music-artists/

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:17:54 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Is this foreshadowing ... after he gets out of jail he'll get a job riding shotgun in a trash truck. Lol. It would be amusing for a minute if he gets his jail assignment in a few weeks and misses inaugaration. If by chance he is elected. I have seen some videos that make it seem like his supporters believe he's not really a convict until the sentencing hearing. I mean it is 34 felonies he should do at least a few months right? The guy has already been convicted.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:14:38 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

The scientists in Australia got bored and started working on a pet project "Infinite Monkeys Theory"

Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:00:24 -0400 from hubzilla

This was a "study"? It sounds more like a high school math assignment.

Bill Statler

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:51:34 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

I think they're having a bit of fun, maybe with the educational goal of showing people how to think about this type of problem.

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:25:10 -0400 from Y

A writing monkey, yes. It already happened within the age of the universe.Typing monkey? A bit harder.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:10:19 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hmm probably turning into myspace. Maybe they can use AI bots to click on the AI ads.
Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds

First we had friends in our social media feeds, then we had influencers. The next natural phase of the evolution is a feed full of AI-created content, says Zuckerberg.

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Grumbly

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:39:59 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

The estimate seems short by at least 2.5b. Is there a way to opt out, really? Isn't every fb/instra/threads account holder a user of Meta AI now?

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:02:46 -0400 from hubzilla

If they shove it into your feed against your wishes (like they do so many other things), I guess they can call you a user!

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:29:16 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Yeah what he said

Dinner is served

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:35:43 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Fish cooked in duck fat

Bill Statler

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:35:16 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Sustainable harvesting through duck lipectomy.

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:59:10 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

it seems this is maybe causing a problem...

nginx.conf:

ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;

$ echo | openssl s_client -connect rumbly.net:443 -status
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 C = US, O = Internet Security Research Group, CN = ISRG Root X1
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = Let's Encrypt, CN = E6
verify return:1
depth=0 CN = rumbly.net
verify return:1
OCSP response: no response sent

Intent to End OCSP Service

Today we are announcing our intent to end Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support in favor of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) as soon as possible. OCSP and CRLs are both mechanisms by which CAs can communicate certificate revocation information, but CRLs have significant advantages over OCSP. Let’s Encrypt has been providing an OCSP responder since our launch nearly ten years ago. We added support for CRLs in 2022.
Websites and people who visit them will not be affected by this change, but some non-browser software might be.

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:17:48 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

"Can't be responsible for what AI bot tells customers"

Home warranty company refused to pay this Utah man $3,000 he says was promised by its AI chatbot

Are businesses responsible for what their chatbots say?

Bill Statler

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:53:21 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

And are news media responsible for what their articles say? Amusing disclaimer at the end: "This article provides information only and should not be construed as advice. It is provided without warranty of any kind."

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 06:42:10 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

"Never Forget"
...the poop on the desk..
New poop statue displayed near US Capitol to ‘honor’ January 6 rioters

Artwork satirically commemorates people who broke in to the Capitol and defecated on the House speaker’s desk

El veciet emergency

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:06:53 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

🫣

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:53:24 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

That's interesting, he says some crazy whack stuff that ends up on a news site reporting his crazy whack stuff so then he can say it was reported by Fox or whoever. Lol. Infinite loop of crazy. How about that "All I kmow is what I read on the Internet".

Pressed on lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio Trump’s newest answer is also his worst

Trump now claims he's not responsible for peddling lies about Springfield, Ohio, because he saw some stuff online. He's made eerily similar comments before.

Bill Statler

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:58:19 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Trump has a child-like approach to reality

This is wrong. He has the approach to reality used by propagandists and marketers: Truth in the scentific/logical sense is irrelevant; we create "truth" in the minds of our target audience, to suit our purposes. Even self-contradiction doesn't matter. Hardly anyone will notice.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:16:12 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

A Jamaican friend told me the British were crappy slave owners there, they would go down to the boat docks and buy some slaves, take them home and tell them to work. The slaves would run off and the owners would be like "darn it they ran off again. Have to go buy some more to get all this work done"

'We can't change our history' on slave trade, says Keir Starmer

The prime minister says the practice was "abhorrent" but does not commit to making reparation payments.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:05:28 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

They probably sit around in the office snorting coke off their hookers bodies cracking jokes about how nobody ever listened to old man Hutton.

Partners at EF Hutton, the Firm Backing Truth Social, Spent Money on Prostitutes, Drugs, Strippers and Gambling, Lawsuits Say

The partners of the firm that backed Donald Trump’s IPO this spring also allegedly lost millions of dollars gambling, according to two lawsuits.

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:20:59 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I guess there were bugs in 1956, Vonnegut wrote that he had worked all the bugs out of his game.

GHQ

Vonneguts Pitch Letter

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:00:52 -0400 from Y

There was a moth affecting a relay in the Mark II at Harvard.

Bill Statler

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:03:09 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Ah, the infamous Markdown Moth, which lays its eggs in a numbered list.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:09:27 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

If your vacuum starts yelling at you... might be hacked lol
Robot Vacuums Hacked to Shout Slurs at Their Owners

Robot vacuums were hacked to shout racial slurs across the US, exposing major security flaws in popular Ecovacs models.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:13:44 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

The company, it appears, has not yet addressed all of its critical issues—nor do they seem to believe that their vacuums are even capable of being hacked, at least according to that owner Daniel Swenson, who says that the company’s customer support didn’t believe him when he said his vacuum was shouting the N-word at him.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:48:38 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

If you ever bought a Casio in the 1980's you might want to check your data. (Joking about i have no idea what products they sell now)

Casio confirms customer data stolen in a ransomware attack

Casio now confirms it suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month, warning that the personal and confidential data of employees, job candidates, and some customers was also stolen.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:53:20 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I think i had this watch in the 1980's. Guess it is still a thing.

El veciet emergency

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:24:05 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I had 1 Casio in the 80s too , more simple than this in the picture

Bill Statler

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:31:49 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

I miss my Casio calculator wristwatch (and I miss having eyes that could read the buttons and the display without high-powered reading glasses). It had a metal band like yours.

Casio has always made excellent watches with terrible plastic bands that disintegrate 366 days after purchase.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:52:47 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

It's amusing to see people complain about Meta.

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

Meanwhile, Threads is filled with engagement bait posts.

Marshall Sutherland

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:31 -0400 from hubzilla

When you don't give your users full control over what content they see, you put yourself in the inescapable trap of moderation. They did it to themselves and they deserve the result. Such hubris to think they know best what their users want to see.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 08:47:45 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

In Dominican Republic they print the date the meat was packed. It took me awhile to get used to that, i was wondering why all their meats were past expiration.
I used to work in a meat department as a teen, meat turns brown from exposure to air and if it smells sweet it's no good to eat. Also never buy those prepared meals from the shop, they usually but not always use the meat that didn't sell fast enough.

California becomes first state to ban 'sell by' and 'best before' labels to reduce food waste

With no federal regulations dictating what information these labels should include, the stamps have led to consumer confusion — and nearly 20% of the nation's food waste, according to the FDA.

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Bill Statler

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:50:30 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

It will require the use of “Best if Used By” label to signal peak quality and “Use By” label for product safety

So they're standardizing the terminology. Not too bad of an idea. But I wonder how many people will just read the headline, and start yelling about California trying to give everyone food poisoning in the name of their woke ideology?

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:58:41 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I kind-of remember when this "sell by" date happened, i think it was the gulf war and they found huge warehouses of pepsi and no idea how long it sat there. that's my memory of it that's possibly skewed. I think the sell-by date is/was more of inventory control. From what i understand perfectly good food is wasted for no reason except nobody will buy it past the "sell by" date.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Els Mussols)

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:59:52 -0400 from Streams at els Mussols

We have something similar, i.e. the packing date and the "best before" or "expire" date. The best ones also have the origin trail, i.e. which farm the meat or whatever is from, and others involved from the farm to the store. This is to avoid "Norwegian meat" meaning meat from Denmark or New Zealand or Kongo with a "Norwegian" owner.

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:48:01 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Oh fun I want to connect to a refridgerator!

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Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:43:39 -0400 from hubzilla

Maybe you can get it to order more food for someone!

Bill Statler

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:33:50 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

I'm surprised the refrigerator has a password.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 07:27:38 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

maybe it's 7f53, lol. i didn't try

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:08:35 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

In California your brain data is safe. lmao. it is funny but pretty damn serious too.

California Enacts Law To Protect Brain Data

A new California law extends consumer privacy protection to brainwave data gathered by implants or wearable devices.

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:20:38 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Nice, they have a patent on burning plastic, where 92% goes into the atmosphere.

Exxon Mobil says advanced recycling is the answer to plastic waste. But is it really?

Exxon Mobil has touted 'advanced recycling' as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide in our plastic crisis. California says it's a lie.

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:52:29 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Whever i see this woman i want to send her some hair ties. She's got crazy hair lol.
Stuck NASA astronauts welcome SpaceX capsule that'll bring them home next year

The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June are welcoming their new ride home.

Marshall Sutherland

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:22:33 -0400 from hubzilla

"For once, my hair doesn't fall into my face!"