Because it’s ragebait. The restaurant accepts baht as normal, but the customer didn’t have any cash on them. The restaurant agreed to accept payment in renminbi as a workaround.

What they refused is one particular payment method called ThaiQR, which is not accepted everywhere.

If you disagree, feel free to discuss, no need to be dismissive for no reason.

Really? The internet is always so quick to jump to extremes. Someone making a mistake at work doesn’t mean they need to be fired. Yes they are responsible, but if they didn’t do it on purpose then why do they deserve to lose their livelihood over a stupid email? Some compassion could be in order here, they will probably never hear the end of it at the work water cooler anyway and to me it seems like enough of a punishment. Assuming this was some deliberate dog whistling is just bad faith.

Fact is it wasn’t sent in Germany where Nazi symbols are a criminal offense and that tells you whoever did this knew.

Does it? Somebody wrote the email, then the email was sent to translators for different markets. The German translators noticed the problem and decided not to send the email, but didn’t report it back, or reported it back too late. What makes you so sure the person who wrote the email was made aware of this? Maybe they were, I don’t know, but you can’t just act like you are sure. I worked at bigger companies enough to know that things fall through the cracks all the time and trying to reach a department in another country is often a multi-day effort with no guarantee of success.

the company is run by Nazis

Be real, again I agree this is an egergious mistake, but do you honestly believe the company is run by literal Nazis and they secretly send Nazi symbols on purpose as part of their secret Nazi agenda? Do you actually believe this? Isn’t it a much more reasonable explanation that an employee was incompetent and a big company has broken processes and didn’t catch it in time, something that commonly happens everywhere? No, the more likely explanation is that the company is run by Nazis?

How is this a history of transphobia?

Link 1: They made a pun using a trending hashtag without checking what the hashtag meant. They apologized when it was explained to them. This is an example of cluelessness or laziness on the part of whoever was running the Twitter account, not of transphobia.

Link 2: In their video game, containing themes like murder, rape, torture, and the abuse of society by megacorporations, they included a megacorporation misusing an image of a trans person for advertising. When asked about it, they confirmed it’s part of the evil fictional world that they have created, and obviously they don’t condone it, just like they don’t condone murder even though the game features a lot of murder. Is it transphobic to include themes of transphobia in a game, even though it’s shown as a bad thing?

Link 3: They didn’t like a fan’s assumption that only men work for the company, and used the “Did you just assume their gender” meme. They apologized when they were told it can be offensive.

I don’t see a single example here of them being transphobic on purpose. And speaking of Cyberpunk, it features a major trans character whose struggle you are supposed to emphatise with, so they clearly care about the community.

I agree they should be more careful about what their post, but I think there is a big difference between being transphobic, and accidentally posting something transphobic without meaning it 8 years ago and then apologizing for the mistake.

The point is, the game portraits a terrible world. The game contains people killing each other, that doesn’t mean the developers condone people killing each other in real life. The game contains megacorporations misusing images of trans people for advertising, that doesn’t mean the developers condone that either.

I think it’s usually well understood that something being in a work of media doesn’t mean it’s representative of the views of the authors, in fact it’s very common for media to contain themes like violence and abuse, not because the author is condoning it, but because the author is building a dark world for their piece of fiction.

No need for a toy gun. “3D printed guns” are all actually 3D printed gun components, printed separately, and joined together separately, in almost all cases joined together with metal parts.

So it will stop you from printing a camera grip, as that’s the same as a gun grip. It will stop you from printing a flashlight body, as that’s the same shape as a silencer. It will stop you from printing a switch toggle, as that’s the same as a gun safety switch. Almost all “gun components” are parts with legitimate non-gun-related uses that cannot be distinguished until you see what they are actually used for. A “3D printed gun” is not a gun coming out of a printer, it’s lots of separate components coming out of a printer, in separate prints.

And of course the separate issue is that even if your prints are allowed, it means everything you manufacture is uploaded to an online service for judgement, where I’m sure it will be stored securely and not stolen/leaked.

So you do agree it’s seizing, which is all I said. I didn’t say anything about it being a realistic proposal.

He wants to take over 50% of the companies without paying them. If that’s not seizing then I don’t know what is.

Edit: If the downvoters want to tell me where I’m wrong, I’d be glad to be corrected.

I just photoshopped my fake name onto a picture of an ID and they accepted it as proof.

I don’t think “correctly label FAT32 as FAT32 instead of a versionless FAT” is “lowering ourselves down”. In fact I’d say it’s the opposite, let’s be technically precise and correct, instead of a simplified label that confuses everyone.

And on the other issue, what do you have against file managers being able to mount a network drive? Yeah I can do it in fstab but if I could do it faster right from the file manager I would.

Why is making things better a problem? If Gnome add the mounting feature to their file manager in the future, you will be against it, talking about the good old days where real men edited fstab uphill both ways? Whom does that help?

Taking back half of their stolen profits seems like a step in the good direction though. Let’s seize their assets, starting with the half here, and then close them down.

You can, but 90% 3D printer buyers can’t, and that’s a good enough amount of people to spy on.

Polymarket skirts gambling laws by insisting it’s not gambling. Instead it’s legally registered as a futures market (or something like that, I don’t remember the details). So all bets are legally stock market trades.

Knowing that, it makes sense.

The dislike button never went anywhere. Do you mean the dislike counter?

I hate to break it to you but we are all irrelevant, being in Lemmy. We are already the outcasts.

A fellow passenger “saw the man at the front of the plane near the cockpit, in their words, kind of reach for a flight attendant and subsequently had multiple guys hold him back,” Rundle said.

So the guy wanted to get the flight attendants attention, and instead he got arrested and the plane diverted? I have to note the “multiple attempts to breach the cockpit” are nowhere in the actual article.

I wonder where they place the line. Many IDE’s today use machine learning for autocomplete, it would be difficult to have a 100% AI free piece of software.

I once asked ChatGPT to find a bug in a piece of code that wasn’t working. It found it and I fixed it now that I knew what the problem was. Does that count as AI-assisted even if I didn’t use any AI generated code?

I don’t like the arbitrary exception for “well established” projects. It sounds like they want to keep their cake and eat it too. Ban AI while not losing any big popular projects. As most big popular projects will have some form of AI assisted content. If they are principled they should ban it for everyone. As it is, what they saying is that AI slop is welcome as long it’s in a popular project.

Am I not seeing the actual white paper or is the “white paper” just a short blog post? Usually a white paper is a ~50 pages technical PDF, but you said detailed so I expected at least 100.

What journalism? This is the banned author posting on Twitter, they are the primary source, and could have said anything, including that Google didn’t give a reason, if they didn’t.

but does that really matter?

No, which is why I started my comment by saying it doesn’t matter.

AI moderation is bad regardless. Now that we have that settled, and have established Google is the bad guy here, I am interested what he was banned for.