sudo42

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sudo42,

If there’s anyone here that cares about their privacy and doesn’t know this already:

If you have a choice between accessing the website through a browser and installing an app, use the browser. Browsers (typically) at least try to protect the types of information that gets sent, whereas there are much fewer restrictions (again, typically) for apps.

Everyone wants you to install apps because apps (typically) get access to much more data.

sudo42,

Thank you for posting this link. Good to know. The text includes this:

The bill prohibits information from organizations, including any affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and clinics, that β€œperform, induce, refer for, or counsel in favor of abortions, or provide financial support to any other organization that conducts such activities.”

Q: Does the bill also prohibit organizations that are against abortions?

sudo42,

I, for one, am sick of this whole β€œOh lets pardon the past president to protect the institution of presidency”

You know how we protect the institution of the presidency? We stop having presidents that break the law.

Agreed. I too am so sick of this ass-kissing authoritarian BS. They’re not kings. They served in an office and now they’re out. They’re humans FFS.

sudo42,

β€œSeat belts in cars? Nah, they just hosed out the interior and sold it to someone else!” β€” Jay Leno about cars in the old days

sudo42,

The NY times has a vested interest in discrediting AI, specifically LLMs (what they seem to be referring to) since journalism is a huge target here since it’s pretty easy to get LLMs to generate believable articles.

The writers and editors may be against AI, but I’m betting the owners of the NYT would LOVE to have an AI that would simply re-phrase β€œnews” (ahem) β€œborrowed” from other sources. The second upper management thinks this is possible, the humans will be out on their collective ears.

sudo42,

A good example would be Musk firing his charging org. He apparently did this in reprisal for the manager not firing enough people.

sudo42,

Lest anyone think this is a new scam:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.npr.org)

Service charges; resort fees; β€œsurcharge” add-ons: If you’ve been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant β€” or book a hotel room or buy a ticket to a game, you’re far from alone. But if you live in California, change is coming. A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take...

sudo42,

Can restaurant customers place a card on the table that says, β€œWe get a 10% discount”? When the restaurant complains, we say β€œYou should have read the card”.

sudo42,

The movie industry version of Return To Office.

In order to continue using Netflix, you have to watch 3 movies a week in the theater.

sudo42,

That article starts out describing criticism of the ad, then turns into an ad for the new iPad. Almost makes me wonder if Apple isn’t paying for this article to be run…

β€œ The new iPad Pro will include a high-quality OLED display for the first time, as well as Apple’s new, own-made, top-of-the-range M4 chip, which the company says means the new devices are 50% faster than the previous generation and ten-times faster than the original iPad Pro model.

Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, said the new Pro β€œpioneers our most advanced technologies, and pushes the limits of what an iPad can be”, adding that the new device was the β€œiPad we’ve always dreamed of making”.

sudo42,

Why are corps so insistent on workers back in the office. I could see them wanting certain employees back in the office, but why all the blanket policies?

sudo42,

Agreed, but what is the mechanism? The CEOs are getting leaned on by somebody. Does Dell own lots of real-estate that they need filled? Seems WFH would save them money. No office to rent, worker pays internet, power, RE, A/C. Those costs add up.
Work doesn’t even provide cube walls anymore to save money. Why not save more? Heck, rent a 20x20 office and let the managers hang out in an all-day meeting with themselves if they miss meetings so much.

Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds | Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results (www.theguardian.com)

I’ll note that 2.5Β°C of warming by 2100 is a significant improvement over the trajectory we were on a decade ago, even if still far from where we need to be

sudo42,

It’s very revealing for their favorite lie: β€œAnyone can get rich. All you have to do is work hard like I do.” Then they do everything in their power to prevent anything that might impact their current money-making scheme.

If they’re working hard now and all you have to do is work hard to get rich, why not move their efforts to something that will make the world a better place… or at least stop making it a worse place?

sudo42,

Can always rely on the classics to stir up the rubes. A new sucker born every minute.

sudo42,

I assume they’re complaining about this β€œphantom debt” that they can’t see? It’s behind a firewall, so they’re hiding the article where I can’t see. /s

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying β€œwoke”, β€œcritical race theory”, β€œβ€œgrooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

sudo42,

I’m going to take a somewhat different tack to describing this.

There are many ways to motivate large groups of people. You’ve likely seen this a lot and not really noticed or paid attention to it. Some examples are tribalism (β€œHey! They’re not one of us!”), nationalism (β€œThose dirty foreign people!”), religion (β€œDo what I say and go to heaven!”), money (β€œDo this and I’ll give you something valuable”), etc.

One of the best motivators is fear. (β€œDo this or I/they will do something you really don’t like”).

Political groups need something to motivate large groups of people. When done well, they appeal to the better sides of humanity. When done by the lazy, the dumb and the craven, they go with the simple one: fear.

That’s what Conservatism has been hammering for a while now. They don’t really have a way to appeal to people’s better sides, primarily because their platform isn’t to make humanity better off. They platform is to make a few people better off to the detriment of everyone else. So they try tribalism (β€œThose brown people are trying to take your money!”), nationalism (β€œThose foreigners are taking your jobs!”), religion (β€œThose non-Christians are trying to install sharia law!”), etc. The most effective one is still fear. So getting their followers scared and angry is the best way to motivate them, get them to stop thinking rationally and build moats that will isolate them from people that might talk them down.

This is used to motivate people to vote in certain ways, as well as motivate them to watch advertisements. In other words: power and money.

sudo42,

The goal of every thief is to take something of value from someone else without any repercussions for themselves.

sudo42, (edited )

all of these new platforms are proprietary, walled off, and in some cases don’t make controlling the data easy if you’re not hosting it

You’ve just discovered their business case. So many new businesses these days only insinuate themselves into an existing process in order to co-opt it and charge rents.

sudo42, (edited )

Heh. Years ago during an interview I was explaining how important it is to verify a system before putting it into orbit. If one found problems in orbit, you usually can’t fix it. My interviewer said, β€œWhy not just send up the space shuttle to fix it?”

Well…

sudo42,

These little bugs bit me

Can you clarify, were those fire-ants? Mosquitos? Yellowflies (AKA deerflies)? Gnats small enough to go through window screens (AKA β€œflying teeth”)? There’s lot of bitey bugs in FL.

sudo42,

He’s right guys. Get off your *sses and pitch a tent in the grassy area of your local US university. Show Sony you’re not going to put up with this!

/s

sudo42,

Look, I don’t want to give away too much, but don’t waste time trying to untangle the tea leaves here. It’s all babbling horsesh*t like so many other beliefs systems we can name. They don’t understand any of this and are hoping that they can basically talk their way out of these situations. The noises that they make have no meaning, rhyme nor reason.

sudo42,
  • Incredible levels of hype
  • Tons of power consumption
  • Questionable utility
  • Small but very vocal fanbase

s/Crypto/AI/

sudo42,

Who’s going to tell them that β€œQA” just ran the code through the same AI model and it came back β€œLooks Good”.

:-)

sudo42, (edited )

This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware

Thanks for that flashback. <shiver>

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