Trying to dodge Chinese traditional medicine in Asian countries when you go to the doctor is such a pain in the ass.

I had to go to three different Japanese doctors before they would give me something other than herbal powder.

More than likely we’ll see in/outbox functionality similar to activitypub, so the PDSes could interop with ActivityPub and individually talk to one another

This is not true.

The App view, relay, PDS, and mobile app, code is all open source. Anyone can spin up their own version if they want.

If you want a complete copy of bluesky (reflecting the bluesky post firehose) it’s prohibitively expensive, but you can spin up your own version if you want.

The only thing that’s missing is bluesky federating anything other than PDSes by default, but you can 100% go in the other direction.

A good overview is here: What bluesky is and what bluesky is not

The fact that it’s hit #1 on the US Apple app store is wild to me.

Five eyes agents must be pulling their hair out.

Meanwhile all the TikTok users seem to be moving to a copycat called Red Note

But he went on to say: “We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we’re using for engineering teams by more than 30% – to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering.”

This announcement is just advertising for agentforce (their AI) they’re likely not being serious about it.

This is already implemented on windows

Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All > Video \ Subtitles/OSD: Text rendering module [Speech synthesis for Windows]

It’s actually using whisper.cpp

From the README:

Memory usage Model Disk Mem tiny 75 MiB ~273 MB base 142 MiB ~388 MB small 466 MiB ~852 MB medium 1.5 GiB ~2.1 GB large 2.9 GiB ~3.9 GiB

Those are the model sizes

I’ve never seen a big company like bytedance give PTO for a death in the family, much less for someone’s house burning down.

Any of those companies big enough middle management can hide behind “company policy” and then off their hearts and brains.

ahem I think you mean north louisiana

bc

It’s a simple command line calculator! I use it all the time.

I love locate! I have a cronjob that updates the db every night, then I can just find a file without having to think about where it is

Holy shit I was just talking about cp with progress today. Awesome

I like the freedom to watch the kids remote work brings, but I hate the loss of concentration that having kids “at the office” (home) brings.

I think many people (me included) feel that it shouldn’t be the employee’s responsibility to find shift coverage.

That depends entirely on your job:

High court rules vital Shinkansen drivers can’t dictate days off

America’s Supreme court ain’t the only shitty one lately 😩

…Yes?

This is specifically about making the plc DID you’re given when you sign up (@username.bsky.social) move to the web DID you create when you verify your domain (@username.domain).

You can still use whatever usernames you want under your domain (@username.username.domain).

I’m not sure why your friends are paying that… Most cities in Saitama, Chiba, and the 23 wards at least I know that the 学費 was set as 無償化.

There are some instances where you don’t qualify for free school if you make too much money. (Or it could just be they didn’t have a good guide at the city office to walk them through the maze of beaurocracy)

Also 23 wards and most of the cities in Saitama and Chiba have daycare and kindergarten entry that’s points based(the larger cities have more kids than daycare spots, which is my favorite bit of irony about the Japanese birthrate problems), the more points you have (points based on need, like are you a single mother, both parents working full time etc.)

When you move from the US you lose like half your salary for an equivalent position (more now cause of the relative power of the dollar to the yen).

The people that live like kings are the ones that are in Japan at the behest of American companies on American salaries living at like a third of their American costs.

Daycare/Kindergarten is already free across the country for all children starting at 3 years old.

All child healthcare is also free after a prefecture-set monthly premium (usually about 1000 yen).

This policy announcement is specifically about making the 0-3 year old gap free.

Honestly I’d rather just see the government pay more into the shakai hoken (the national insurance that pays for mother/father leave) so people can take more time off from work early on in the kids’ lives.

Making it easier for parents to go back to work instead of focusing what’s good for children and parents seems par for the course.