That’s definitely true!

Yeah, same at the company I work at - interns are paid and have benefits, including housing provided by the company.

interns are there to learn. They’re not supposed to do work that would otherwise be assigned to a paid employee,

Which industry do you work in? In “big tech”, it’s very common for interns to work on regular projects that full-time employees would otherwise work on. Usually a senior-ish FTE would determine the best project, write a project plan, scope it, define milestones and deliverables, etc, and the intern would just work on the actual implementation.

I’m a senior software engineer on my team, and when it’s intern season, we usually find things in our backlog that we haven’t had time to implement and that would be interesting for an intern to work on, and spec them out.

Edit: Also, interns are always paid. Generally the large companies don’t do unpaid internships.

In the USA, facial recognition isn’t legal in some states (e.g. the company needs written permission from the individual to collect their facial data in Illinois), and other stores have had issues with facial recognition (e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/rite-aid-banned-using-ai-facial-recognition-after-ftc-says-retailer-deployed-technology-without) so I’m not sure how Kroger think they’ll succeed with this.

“To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

Isn’t that the same thing? It doesn’t matter if you raise prices on demand or lower them, the outcome is the same - different pricing at different times.

Good idea to send donations to the syncthing-fork devs to keep it alive though.

In that case, could the syncthing-fork app be renamed to syncthing, now that it’ll probably be the main Android app for Syncthing?

mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library

I’m not familiar with exactly what Bitwarden are doing, but Nvidia are doing something similar to what you described with their Linux GPU drivers. They launched new open-source drivers (not nouveau) for Turing (GTX 16 and RTX 20 series) and newer GPUs. What they’re actually doing is moving more and more functionality out of the drivers into the closed-source firmware, reducing the amount of code they need to open source. Maybe that’s okay? I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Open source software doesn’t have a reason to lock you in like proprietary software does :)

More and more proprietary SaaS systems are allowing data exports now, to comply with laws like the GDPR “right to know”. Say what you want about Google and Facebook, but they were the first big companies to start allowing data to be exported before there was any law requiring it - Facebook in 2010 and Google in 2011.

Forums are social media, especially so for sites like Reddit and Lemmy where the subforums are community-created.

Wikipedia:

Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

Merriam-Webster:

forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

Britannica:

forms of electronic communication (such as Web sites) through which people create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, etc.

How about we read an article before we start spewing shit everywhere?

Good luck lol. The top comments are almost always people that didn’t actually read the article, just the headline. I see it on practically all social media sites, not just Lemmy.

QVO drives are trash though. Would not recommend. Very slow and they don’t last as long as Samsung’s EVO and PRO drives.

I’d guess that they’re commercially available but only for hyperscalers - large companies like Google, Amazon (AWS), etc that need a huge amount of storage.

It’s more likely if you bought all the drives from the same store (since that increases the likelihood that they’re from the same batch), so you should make sure that you buy them from different stores.

I think one of the main reasons is that a lot of tech people on Twitter ended up on there. Mastodon originally filled that spot for me, but I found that a bunch of people that moved from Twitter to Mastodon ended up abandoning their accounts (or very rarely posting) a few months later.

It’s also probably the largest Fediverse instance, as users can opt in to sharing their posts to the Fediverse.

I still don’t use it often, though. I don’t spend a lot of time on any social networks (or similar services) any more.

I tried Bluesky but just couldn’t get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I’m liking Threads a bit, too.

Why is the FTC being useful now? What happened?

HaLow is sub-1Ghz so it goes through walls pretty well. Not sure about cost or how widespread it is yet.

Yeah there’s a SIM card in most new cars, usually in a place that’s not easily accessible.

on my car it was free for three years

At least it sounds like they told you this. They probably aligned it with the most common lease period. Mazda just suddenly decided to make it a subscription.

Ideally it should be longer, like 8-10 years.