TIL Crescent Wrench is a brand that was genericized to a category of wrenches
https://home.howstuffworks.com/four-types-crescent-wrench.htm
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What are the four basic types of crescent wrenches?
Crescent wrenches got their name from the Crescent Tool Company. Learn about the four basic types of crescent wrench in this article.HowStuffWorks.com Contributors (HowStuffWorks)
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“Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.”
Don’t buy Ford cars.
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising
Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.therecord.media
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e-bikes is the best answer although those are not exactly FOSS either, although RMS would say they are like microwave ovens (the s/w is embedded and not updatable, so it’s not important to be free s/w).
A muscle bike avoids non-free s/w for sure.
But if you must have a car, why must it be new? Cars that people in well developed countries consider junkers get shipped to Africa, where the average age of a car at purchase time is ~21 years old. They maintain them forever.
Recall when Intel and AMD started putting an M.E. in their chips (#spychips, 2008 & 2013 respectively). I’m still using a CPU from 2008 because of that.
@bojkotiMalbona @enobacon oh I don’t think me or anyone in my family has ever bought a new car before, but the stuff they’re making today is gunna be the cheap old cars of 20 years from now
Also I believe motorcycles are way more dangerous to be in vs cars especially for highway driving, so I’d really like to avoid motorcycles for that reason. If I’m staying within a city I prefer the bus to everything else already so not worried about short trips so much.
🪐 We've been on Mastodon for many years, but I'm gonna go ahead and post this old Xenia drawing anyways, in case any of our followers from Cohost are checking these tags
#hicohost #artistsoncohost #cohost #heycohost
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who has been pushing a mask ban for NYC, has again tested positive for COVID.
A timely reminder that now is a good time to wear a mask, and to call your representatives and tell them to speak out against mask bans.
Source: https://archive.ph/FPTPi#selection-1453.4-1453.62
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"This is more than mildly infuriating. That fence is especially maddening although it's all bad."
submitted by u/space-mango-tasty
https://redd.it/1fcsywl
#fuckcars
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i can't believe it took me 10 years to find out that Transport Tycoon got a full live jazz orchestral remaster of its midi soundtrack 🤯
and it sounds GREAT. john broomhall and his "TT band" knock every piece out of the park
https://archive.org/details/Transport-Tycoon-2014-OST
#retroGaming #music #ost #dosgaming
Transport Tycoon (iOS, 2014) OST (TTD OST remaster) : John Broomhall : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Transport Tycoon (iOS, 2014) OSTThis is the soundtrack for Transport Tycoon for iOS/Android (2014), a remastered version of the original game, Transport Tycoon...Internet Archive
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Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says
Experts warn chatbots writing police reports can make serious errors.Ars Technica
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Climate protesters should not get longer prison sentences than rapists and far right, says Greens co-leader
Exclusive: As the Green Party gathers in Manchester for its annual conference, co-leader Adrian Ramsay has questioned the lengths of the jail sentences handed to the M25 Just Stop Oil protestersDavid Maddox (The Independent)
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Nothing will happen...without holding the makers criminally liable.
US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks
The U.S. government’s road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuriesTOM KRISHER AP auto writer (ABC News)
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It's fine. No need to apologise! I'm really comfortable explaining when I'm being silly, and understand not everyone will recognise it. 😊
The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things:
1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts
2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit
It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching.
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With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.
- Open
about:configin your browser. - Accept the Warning it gives.
- Search
browser.mland blank all values and setfalsewhere necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as0.
Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.
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THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.
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TIL about Eternal September: How a 1993 AOL promotion led to year-round influxes of new users, a phenomenon that previously only occurred each September with new computer science students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fcei6h/til_about_eternal_september_how_a_1993_aol/
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Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake streams to with them.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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should've just laundered money with real, but bad music instead.
#sarcasm #NotLegalAdvice #NotFinancialAdvice
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
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NEW STORY // Join for The Urbanist's RapidRide G Line Opening Celebration
via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/09/08/join-for-the-urbanists-rapidride-g-line-opening-celebration/?feed_id=4055&_unique_id=66de1d2646196
Join for The Urbanist’s RapidRide G Line Opening Celebration - The Urbanist
# The Urbanist is hosting an opening day celebration for the RapidRide G Line, which commences service on Saturday from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at Stoup Capitol Hill.Urbanist Staff (The Urbanist)
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TIL that honeybees who consume a nectar that includes grayanotoxins can produce a special honey called "mad honey." Ingesting this honey causes violent drunkenness and disorientation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_honey
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fc7n8j/til_that_honeybees_who_consume_a_nectar_that/
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People are angry at Gen Z taking photos of airport trays. Here’s what’s really going on
No sooner have airports introduced new scanning machines so you don’t need to unpack your carry-on bags, than a trend emerges where you photograph all your loose items in your airport security tray.The “airport tray aesthetic” has taken off on TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest as people share artfully arranged shots of their sunglasses, shoes, toiletries and reading material inside the regulation polypropylene dishes.
Don’t expect crumpled plastic bags stuffed with toothpaste and Pepto-Bismol. This is aspirational travel, where your 35mm film camera nestles between your vintage loafers and your first-edition copy of “On the Road.”
#CNN #News #travel #GenZ #airport #airline #flight #aviation
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People are wildly clueless about their own financial situations. If I'm ever in an article highlighting financial challenges when my income is six figures, someone needs to smack me.
Seattle on one income? It takes ‘watching every single receipt’
Second jobs, five-figure debt, shoestring budgets: Single-income households confront unique challenges — and solutions — to getting by in the Seattle area.The Seattle Times
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@elliots Of course.
I'm noting that this article -- and many individuals like the one highlighted in the article -- conflate personal choices with system problems.
Yeah, obviously housing costs are way too high. But I have zero confidence this person making $142k doesn't end up with the same problem if housing costs were halved because they seem unable to make reasonable financial decisions to live within their means.
@elliots I highlight this because the people who need to be paying more taxes so we can subsidize childcare and housing, are the people like the first guy in this article.
We aren't getting a world class welfare state by only taxing the 1%. The upper middle class have to be the biggest contributors.
Anyone else really like major key conversions of songs that were originally in a minor key? :3 #music
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Me: I think America is at that point where you realize you are becoming just like your parents...
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Blame capitalism: It is a barrier to a renewable energy future.
https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/
#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war
Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.
The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.Ben James
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