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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • Many many years ago I worked a job where we had to keep an eye on the call center call queue/employees call status on the phone.

    Someone always has to keep an eye on it, so if you need to go for a break, even just to use the washroom, if you’re the only one on shift, you asked one of the team leads to watch it.

    Had been like that for years.

    Well, we had a brand new manager for our team who was an offsite manager at another call center, and my other coworker was in a very long meeting that day so I was all alone watching things.

    I was really hungry, feeling sick from it, so I asked one of the team leads as usual to watch things while I took a break and went across the street to grab some fast food and come back.

    Well, while I was gone for like 10minutes, the manager had called our desk (we have voice mail) and realized no one was there.

    He reamed me out for having left the desk unattended, and how I should have waited for my coworkers meeting to end which wasn’t ending anytime soon.

    Didn’t care that I’d had a TL cover for me as we’d always done.

    Next day, HR calls me into their office and puts me on formal notice for it.

    I quit the next day. Fuck that shit.
















  • I tried doing a dual boot to Mint awhile back, I did the mint backup at the start like it suggests, changed some things, broke it, restored from the backup thinking it was great id already made one, and broke the WHOLE pc.

    I had to pull the battery on the BIOS to get it to go beyond a black screen when turning on.

    It was terrible.

    It seem to recall at the time recommendations about not doing dual boot, and if you wanted to dual boot, remove the main OS drive when you install Linux. Then put it back in.




  • There has been yes, but it doesn’t mean it’s the right ruling law. The law varies on that by jurisdiction as well because it is a murky area.

    Edit: in the USA it might not even be illegal unless there was intent to distribute

    By the statute’s own terms, the law does not make all fictional child pornography illegal, only that found to be obscene or lacking in serious value. The mere possession of said images is not a violation of the law unless it can be proven that they were transmitted through a common carrier, such as the mail or the Internet, transported across state lines, or of an amount that showed intent to distribute.[

    So local AI generating fictional material that is not distributed may be okay federally in the USA.