I have two; a male common corn snake and a male hognose. They are definitely not cuddly animals, as you stated. However, they absolutely can and do get to know their handlers, and learn how to be relaxed when handled - and they obviously enjoy it, since they often seek out being handled of their own free will (I usually open the enclosure when they’re “surfing” up against the glass and let them decide whether they want to slide into my hands). I’ve had them for a few years now and I have been bitten, but never out of “malice”. All biting incidents were my own fault due to inexperience, and the snakes mistaking my hands for their meal. A snakebite from a non-venomous or very mildly venomous snake is no worse than a bee sting. If you have cats, you’ve probably been through worse than whatever a snake can do to you.

All in all, could recommend!

Snake tax:

I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).

Welp. Learning from history is simply no longer a thing I guess.

You know they’re just going to drown you in “civil matter” shit as soon as you try.

For every person like you that won’t take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.

Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.

It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.

It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.

Thanks for the info!

No, the AI advised me to contact my direct superior and his superior, but mentioned their names.

I have never provided it with this information, so that means it has a lot more access to our information than is officially known. Technically we aren’t even supposed to input anything that could possibly be identifying, again for GDPR purposes, so I have no idea where Copilot got the information from.

I assume that MS lets companies tailor their instance of Copilot to a certain degree and maybe it was fed an organigram of the entire company, but AFAIK this is already not allowed under current legislation. Or maybe it is and I’m just a modern luddite.

Regardless, I’ll be even more careful about what I use Copilot for from this point forward.

Today I was “talking” to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager’s NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot’s primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.

That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can’t act on it without breaking GDPR.

Your move, corporation.

Nah. A mattress though? You bet!

TL;DR: money. It’s always just money. They want us to breed more slaves but they’re not willing to put up any collateral.

There’s another consideration: it has to be as cheap as possible to produce. And that explains the advent of reality TV.

If you NEEDED both hands for that before, well, then you are truly blessed sir.

Reddit until two years ago, and now Lemmy. That’s honestly it.

Nope. Managed to stay off of it for my entire life so far. Reason for it was that back in '05 or a bit later one of the very first things I learned about the nascent Facebook, was Zuck’s famous “Dumb fucks” remark about his early users. I rightfully concluded that someone with such a mindset would be an absolutely plague on mankind and I would never willingly help them in any way, no matter how insignificant.

I would sooner put my nuts in an iron vice while running 10.000 volts through it and lighting it on fire than provide Facebook with anything at all.

You can give yourself an instant raise by working 50% of your usual pace. BAM your pay per hour just doubled.

Damn, Elon’s company town is barely a week old and others are already introducing scrip. I knew it was going to be inevitable but this is way faster than even I anticipated.

Yes, and that is why people like you and me will never be rich in the first place. This mindset completely prevents it.

Everyone’s so tired and broken down with all our societal problems that they’re just trying to make enough money so the problems don’t apply to them anymore, rather than trying to tackle the actual underlying issues…