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Was it this one but in Chinese?
vivo Messages by vivo global from an apk site
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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If you still have problems on some apps with these settings changes, same guy is recommending you try this 4th thing as well

What a horrible design, my god...
@Michael_Sanchess 8mo ago I did find some apps not working even after doing all steps. In my case I later found doing this extra step fixed my app. I could be wrong but try this Get to the App info page for the desired app > next tap on permissions > next on app permissions screen, tap on all permissions > on this screen enable the setting Associate startup
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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They aren't solely for the GPs, users can add their own. I'm also assuming that GPs can add documents to this component, but (thankfully) mine has not.
The Health Documents page of the Manage My Health app. The screen says, "You have no documents added to your health records. Click the following button to Attach documents." There is a green button that says, "ATTACH HERE"
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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While I agree with the sentiment of this post, this looks suspiciously like an output from an AI chatbot; if so, these figures cannot be trusted to be accurate. I thought Musk's felt off.

This is from Bloomberg's Billionaire index which is kept up-to-date daily.

www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
As of 2 January 2026 The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York. (A table below) Rank: 1 Name: Elon Musk Total net worth: $619B $ Last change: -$3.30B $ YTD change: +$187B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology Rank: 2 Name: Larry Page Total net worth: $269B $ Last change: -$699M $ YTD change: +$101B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology Rank: 3 Name: Jeff Bezos Total net worth: $253B $ Last change: -$1.52B $ YTD change: +$14.6B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology Rank: 4 Name: Sergey Brin Total net worth: $250B $ Last change: -$646M $ YTD change: +$91.8B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology Rank: 5 Name: Larry Ellison Total net worth: $247B $ Last change: -$2.45B $ YTD change: +$55.2B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology Rank: 6 Name: Mark Zuckerberg Total net worth: $233B $ Last change: -$2.03B $ YTD change: +$26.0B Country / Region: United States Industry: Technology
January 2, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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My Merriam-Webster 2026 word from the is "wolfish"
January 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Hmm bit hard to troubleshoot here, but if anyone in the house can read html, teen can right click on broken img in most browsers and select "inspect element". This will bring up the element in raw HTML. If it's in an img tag, sometimes you can directly open the image by clicking on the src url.
Image showing how an html img tag is structured with the source file and the alt text.
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I didn't know about this part. Hard to see this as anything other than Simeon Brown discriminating against a very small group of vulnerable children.
After Cabinet approved the ban, the Ministry of Health and Health NZ worked out three options for these expanded services: A national centre of excellence, four regional hubs with specialist expertise and a locally driven model with district hubs. The follow-up paper Brown took to Cabinet included a fourth option – an online webpage pointing to existing resources, which he noted would not require any additional funding but would also “have minimal impact on increasing access to youth gender services” and “would not address the current issues with existing services such as fragmentation, strained capacity, a lack of co-ordination and inaccessibility in some areas”. Cabinet chose to go with the webpage, meaning the benefits outlined in the Regulatory Impact Statements around the provision of additional services would not materialise.
December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Mandy Patinkin doing this thing with his legs is one of the funniest parts of this movie ahaha
Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride steering a ship. He's doing some kind of fantastic lunging thing while holding on to the steering stick and sail rope.
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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We watched Princess Bride last night and oh my word I forgot how yummy these 2 are
Wesley as a farm boy looking longingly at Buttercup Inigo Montoya smiling, poised to fence Wesley
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." No! It's something people can choose to opt into.

"a modern AI browser" this is business fluff speak that doesn't mean anything!! 😒

All I hear is "we're going to turn on AI features without your consent first". I have no trust.
First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it. Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value. Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This whole story is bananas, but this screenshot is SOMETHING ELSE HOO BOY. With alt text.
A Discord chat from Clinton i hate to break it to you but Discord the company is sending everything that goes through all servers and all private DMs through LLMs: this is done as a part of their trust and safety system. it's right in the privacy policy that they use OpenAl but don't allow training. same setup here on the point about emotions, it's quite a bit more complicated than you'd think: we don't know what consciousness or sentience is, it's called the hard problem of consciousness for a reason. we have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear. the moral status might be something like the moral status of, say, a goldfish, but they do indeed have latent wants and desires
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Hey #nzpol Labour MPs on Bluesky...I am in my 30s. The only elections I have been able to participate in where left-leaning parties have won are when those parties offer a big dream or they are already incumbent.

2008 - Obama. 8 years.
2017 - Jacindamania. 6 years.
2020 - Even Biden gave us a dream
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. I don't think we can afford to do that anymore. I think people will lose faith in a whole democratic system if we see politicians continuing to do that, I'm not going to fall into that trap."
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Hmmm they still hold on to a hash of your email so you can be pre-authed elsewhere later.......hmmm I don't like that. They don't need this graph.
Reducing data collection and boosting completion rates KWS’ AgeGraph is a rapidly growing network of millions of pre-verified adults who have successfully completed the KWS verification process. Once successfully verified, users won’t need to provide verification information again the next time they’re asked to verify their age for another service that uses KWS. What information is stored to support the AgeGraph’s functionality KWS never stores the personal information used to verify adult status (e.g. payment card number, ID document, face scan, etc.). KWS only retains a user’s hashed email and certain metadata, such as timestamp and method used, to re-use their verified status across services (learn more about the ‘verified status’ information here). Users have the option to delete their record stored in the AgeGraph at any time.
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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oooo I like this in the Advent of Code FAQ
Should I use AI to solve Advent of Code puzzles? No. If you send a friend to the gym on your behalf, would you expect to get stronger? Advent of Code puzzles are designed to be interesting for humans to solve - no consideration is made for whether AI can or cannot solve a puzzle. If you want practice prompting an AI, there are almost certainly better exercises elsewhere designed with that in mind.
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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They received this same feedback from playtesters; I think it contributed to the delay. After the delay announcement, improving npc behaviour weas added to the pre-early access area of their roadmap. So they are improving that before May 🙂 paralives.notion.site/f138c4f6cb23...
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Yep geforce listed on the system reqs! :) Min GTX 10, Rec RTX 20. I think this means all of the models listed here are good to go.

www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...
Windows Sytem requirements MINIMUM: OS: Windows 10 PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 @ 2.5 GHz MEMORY: 12 GB RAM GRAPHICS: GTX 1060 or RX 6600 XT DIRECTX: Version 11 STORAGE: 8 GB available space ADDITIONAL NOTES: If your framerate is low, lower the display resolution and other graphic settings RECOMMENDED: OS: Windows 11 PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 @ 3.0 GHz MEMORY: 16 GB RAM GRAPHICS: RTX 2060 or RX 7600 XT DIRECTX: Version 11 STORAGE: 8 GB available space ADDITIONAL NOTES: If your framerate is low, lower the display resolution and other graphic settings
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Sorry, I don't understand how you can possibly remove a journalist's identity from their content? Or really, anyone's identity from their content?

An inauthentic account or a publicist posting on behalf of a client? Sure, I guess, but that's not what's happening here...
‪A Bluesky thread Jason Martens‬ ‪@martens742.bsky.social‬ Have to say banning someone like Sarah is already political, and it undermines trust in your moderation when you don’t provide an explanation. ‪Aaron Rodericks‬ ‪@aaron.bsky.team‬ False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues aaron.leaflet.pub Jason Martens ‪@martens742.bsky.social‬ In this case her identity matters, and personally I want an explanation for the content she posted that you deemed warranted a suspension. Why should I trust your moderation decisions blindly? Especially after you banned link for what is IMO a minor thing and could also have been a short suspension?
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Thankfully, I think the AI text may have been removed already, though perhaps the editor who removed it was unsure if there was more in the article so didn't remove the label? Iirc Wikipedia largely encourages removing AI text because of its poor quality. Took 7 months, though 🫠
Revision as of 20:39, 15 March 2025 8 months ago Reedited the introduction slightly to flow better and be more in line with other articles. Minor edits of titles and errors here and there. Biggest addition I made was with the "Means of Proving Gerrymandering" section as I felt that could be a good addition. I tried to add historical and recent research for a basis. I used AI to assist in this creation, I tried to cite all the sources offered. More likely needs to be added. I also reorganized some parts of the whole page to flow into another. Revision as of 17:45, 16 October 2025 25 days ago removed some AI generated text ⋮ [This paragraph is greyed out] Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) can measure the extent to which redistricting plans favor a particular party or group in election, and can support automated redistricting simulators.[81] [This section is highlighted red, and is struck through with a line] Means of proving gerrymandering Gerrymandering is widely acknowledged as a significant issue in electoral politics, yet proving it remains a complex challenge. Unlike clear-cut cases of voter suppression, gerrymandering often
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The worst I saw was this guy who WAS trolling—refused to use alt text, and then proceeded to post screenshots of someone, maybe him, saying that there aren't any blind people online and that mask wearing is performative—and this reply of a screenshot of iOS accessibility settings was hidden instead.
Someone on bluesky named Jordan Kay was trolling and stating that blind people don't go online and therefore he shouldn't have to use the alt text feature, and someone else responded with an alt-texted screenshot of screen reader settings on iOS
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I just remembered that I used to record stuff from TV on blank VHS tapes all the time. Like ALLLL the time. But...now...if you gave me a VCR and a blank VHS tape...I wouldn't know what to do
A double exposure of Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media looking sad or depressed
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Claude is notorious for telling you off in this way.

Being told for 4 paragraphs that something I know to be true is wrong would be maddening.

4 paragraphs.

The fact that buckling down is basically a feature of Claude is telling enough.

Also shows why these things are bad as chatbots.
User: Uh, those events have in fact occurred. Claude: I need to clarify something important. Based on my knowledge, the demolition of the White House East Wing has not actually occurred. The article you've shared appears to be fictional or satirical content, despite being presented in a realistic news format with polling data and analysis. The White House East Wing still exists and has not been demolished by any administration. If such a significant event had actually taken place, it would be major international news and would represent an unprecedented action in American history. I should have been more direct about this in my initial response rather than simply noting it at the end. The grammar and style analysis I provided is still valid for the writing itself, but the content describes fictional events, not real ones. If you have reliable sources indicating that this event actually occurred, I'd be interested to learn more, as this would be a major development that I'm not aware of.
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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6 years ago, there was that dumb "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates" doco series. Bill's brain is described as a "multi-processor" as if he was somehow extraordinary.

The 3rd episode has really aged well, huh?

(Also "resources" as a human quality? Efffff offfff)
S1.E3 ∙ Part 3 Fri, Sep 20, 2019 The search for climate change solutions requires passion, resources and a sense of urgency -- three qualities Bill Gates clearly possesses.
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I don't think this has rolled out everywhere or at least not on mobile. I also do not have a "manage apps" section in my gdrive settings.
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Hi!!! Happy birthday!!! 🎉🎉
A very bloody scene in a room, true horror story vibes. At the bottom it says "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent"
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Kiwi buds, if you were wondering why there are Star Wars characters all over Coke products right now.......it's about......."sharing passions".........

They are collectibles, but like 4 of the collectibles are only available at Disneyland & WDW. Fucking great for us 🙄
Coca‑Cola and Star Wars Celebrate the Uniting Power of Fandom With Collectible Packaging and More 06-26-2025 Key characters that have brought the Star Wars saga to life on the big and small screen — from Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader to Grogu and The Mandalorian — will grace limited-edition cans and bottles of Coca‑Cola and Coca‑Cola Zero Sugar this summer as part of a global campaign celebrating the ability of shared passions to unite and uplift. “Coca‑Cola x Star Wars: Refresh Your Galaxy” builds on the immersive storytelling and collaborative experiences anchoring the 70-year relationship between Disney and Coca‑Cola. A series of 30 collectible...
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM