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It really depends on the facility. Some are better than others. They vary wildly and it’s hard for you as a consumer to know which ones are good and which are bad. Some large zoos have extensive conservation programs and focus around education, and some are just animals in jail for entertainment. From the outside it’s hard to tell the difference a lot of the time.

It’s one of the reasons I support Alveus Sanctuary and their recent expansions and future plans. Their facilities and programs are based around video streaming and chat interaction, instead of in person exhibits. They have collaborative events with streamers, etc. in person to help further their reach to new people and educate viewers that otherwise may never interact at all with that type of content. Otherwise all of the animals have limited human interaction only with the employees. Those in person collaborations are always about educating the viewers about the animals and various societal links related to them. Things like pesticide use on bugs and how that propagates up the food chain, selective breeding and trade of exotic animals, amphibians and environmental pollution, etc.

Don’t know this specific situation, but there are animals in captivity because they’re unable to be released back into the wild for various reasons. Things like animals being actively rehabilitated. Or ones that are now animal ambassadors used to teach people about the species or parts of human society that negatively affect wildlife. Maybe because they are unable to fly anymore, or they imprinted on humans, are unable to forage or hunt properly, etc.

That helps a bit but doesn’t fix studios not remixing audio properly from the theater mix to home audio where the majority of people have basic stereo. No excuse since every physical format and online service supports multiple audio streams.

Won’t be for long, it’s owned by Google.

FYI… Changing it in the US only is exactly what Google is doing, just like with the Gulf.

I’m not even sure it’s collaboration for the dumb shit like this. It’s just not worth spending millions of dollars litigating over something that doesn’t actually fucking matter. Not litigating the name change itself, but whatever bullshit Trump decides to do for his temper tantrum for being ignored.

It will just be changed back eventually.

There is, but A4 isn’t the baseline, A0 is.

A0 is 1m² with a ratio of 1:√2. Cut that in half along the larger side and you have A1, half it again and you have A2, etc. on down the line.

The entire series maintains the same exact ratio down to A13 at 9mmx13mm.

The name is a reference to bootlegging alcohol. And their original packaging literally had a dude with a moonshine jug on it, same with the modern Throwback label.

All it takes is one asshole during the trial phase to turn someone off from the community entirely. Especially a non-technical person trying to come from something like Windows. And there are a lot of vocal ones across the various Linux communities. Especially in the discussions on GitHub, which is where you end up for support on nearly every piece of software not from a massive corporation, unless it’s a simple solution or a very common issue.

The number of times I have posted looking for assistance with an issue, or a small suggestion, and gotten some variant of “fix it (or add it) yourself, it’s FOSS” over the last couple years is a bit ridiculous.

Most of the community is great and super helpful. But the assholes are prevalent and very vocal.

Yeah the use case I see for these is literally having a record of your trip or vacation without having to take out a camera or phone and bring you out of the natural experience just to snap a photo or video. You can just exist and experience it in the moment, then pull a recording or photo from it later.

Augmented reality is another, albeit smaller, use case. Like displaying navigation when walking or biking around an unfamiliar city, again without having to pull out your phone.

You’re in public, there are hundreds of cameras recording you and your surroundings at any point. Nearly every store has security cameras, cities have cameras monitoring nearly every intersection nowadays(not even including things like Flock, just the old dumb traffic monitoring cameras). You have control of absolutely none of those recordings at any point. And that doesn’t even get into vloggers, tourists, etc.

Muppet Treasure Island is one of the best movies ever made.

The muppets could make every movie better.

Nvidia needs to keep that AI ouroboros to keep funneling the same money over and over back to them to artificially boost their revenue as much as possible in this bubble.

There should be a button to ban anyone that submits any changes using AI from your projects.

Slopcoders would never be able to strip the included AI tool identifiers so it would likely be one of the most accurate automated ban tools ever made.

I have two different PINs I use for different debit cards. One of those is also my phone PIN, the other is my Duress PIN.

It would be really easy for to forget which is which when in a stressful situation.

See one of those is marketing. The other is effectively payroll. Companies will spend a ton of money on useless marketing because it has a 0.0001% chance of increased revenue… but will refuse to pay a penny more than they are required to employees because that’s always an expense.

Or donated from a facility that upgraded, to use that educational donation as a tax write off.

Zero censorship on social media?

The term unalive has replaced dead or suicide basically everywhere on social media because of censorship on language (albeit for advertisers, but it still has the same result).

The MPAA absolutely hates swear words. More than nudity or violence. That is almost certainly why it got an R, regardless of what they might claim. It’s also a relatively obscured process with no oversight or appeal system.

SEC is neutered

This article is about an incident in Australia. The SEC has no bearing on what Australia can do.

As long as they still have someone verifying and correcting mistakes, that’s a decent solution. It doesn’t need to be complicated. Whisper is by no means perfect, but from my experience it handles 90% fine, only having to listen and correct 10% is a huge improvement over transcribing everything manually.

The issues with so much of the current AI use is implementations that completely remove trained human oversight from the equation because the AI companies position it as a complete replacement for employees.