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CommentAlternative math (Score 0)98

When asking about RSA encryption a few weeks ago, one of the lengthy paragraphs Gemiini responded with explained that 1 is not a prime number.

There is a reason Gemini won't let you share links to conversations, and it's not privacy. It's because the hallucinations are fucking embarassing.

ChatGPT at least lets you share links to one of its replies, but not prompts, and not an entire conversation. The limitation is intentionally.

CommentRe: I need both (Score 1)126

I am not on the spectrum, but have a few other mental health issues. During covid, I found that I lost all will to work while alone at home. RTO never happened for me as my job just didn't last after 2020. I tried a hybrid job in 2023, but still couldn't handle responsibilities the 3 days home alone. Communication really broke down. I found that I really needed a few hours of daily face time to function. Now, vision problems also interfere with my ability to drive and commute. It's too many hurdles, and I don't think I'll ever work again.

CommentRe: Just like every retailer ever! (Score 1)31

Using a magnifier is reasonable to read something relatively short, like the expiration date on a small object like a bottle of eye drops, that can only be printed small, or nutrition labels on foods, or a short one-page document.

It's not reasonable to use a magnifier to read lengthy amounts of legalese that have been intentionally shrunk to fine print to discourage even able-bodied people from reading them, such as EULAs. Also, my smartphone is my magnifier. Some apps block the system magnification feature from working for security & privacy reasons (financial, health) or copyright (DRM), making the text effectively inaccessible.

CommentRe: Just like every retailer ever! (Score 1)31

The court ruling was in San Jose, California.

There are laws in the US at both the federal and state level. California has more consumer protections than most states.

Nevertheless, these laws are rarely enforced. This is the equivalent of a speeding ticket. Only a few get caught or punished for it.

CommentRe: Just like every retailer ever! (Score 1)31

In many places, there are consumer laws against false advertising. Some even have teeth, and get enforced. The regulations are typically about the legality of advertising discounts, relative to what prices the items were previously listed for, for how long, and how much they actually sold for, before a discount can be legally advertised

CommentRe: Thanks for the warning (Score 1)122

Not fully effective, and the modem also overheats and drops the connection.

I would cut the wifi antennas on my XB8, but they are built in to the chipset and can't be shipped.

I did disable xfinitywifi. The gateway however continues to show interference on wifi scans, on hidden SSIDs.

You can choose to use your own modem, but you then get to pay $30 more per month for unlimited data.

Also, if you have a line issue, Comcast will blame your third party modem and won't fix the line for 6 months until you rent their modem.

CommentRe:Thanks for assuming what I want (Score 1)47

Unfortunately, Accept-Language is somewhat flawed. It's a priority list. I have English set to first, and French second. Both google.com and google.fr front pages show up in English. If I reverse the order of display page languages in Firefox, which presumably reverses the order in the header, the google.fr front page now show up in French. Unfortunately, the google.com front page still shows up in English. This is probably because google.com currently doesn't support French.
What I would like is for google.com to always show up in English, and google.fr to always to show up in French. That is what I currently get with the reversed language settings, and current language support on google.com and google.fr. When google.fr goes away, I expect google.com will always show up in the first language configured, which I normally set to English.
Leaving French as the first display language in Firefox isn't what I want, as other sites would prioritize French too.

Most sites other than search engines originate in one country and have an original language they were written in, whereas the other languages they may support are mere translations. IMO, the site itself should have a priority list of languages, and select the first language that is contained in the user's Accept-Language header. That is complicated enough to describe, let alone specify and implement. With existing specifications, it would make sense to be able to set per-site language preferences. That doesn't have to be done by signing in to a Google account, however. It could also be done at the browser level on a per-domain basis, the same way can already customize support for cookies per-domain in Firefox - but selecting a specific language for it instead of an on/off flag.

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