I came here to promote the idea it would be Online via Grand Canyon University, but you beat me to essentially the same point.

I worked for Digital for a time. They supported 911 all over the west coast at the time. An outage like that should NOT have happened. Triple redundancy hot swap environments on 3 way clusters means there should have been a stable certified environment available at all times. I'd bet either the vendor or the client cheaped out on hardware config. Unless there is a major backbone failure clients should be able to get through.

I never used them before, I always substituted two normal hyphens like -- to do that job. Now I use the actual — character, and I find that I use them a lot more because I was previously overly dependent on parentheses. Once I started seeing them frequently used as intended (by AI or not doesn't matter), I added them to my own style. The fact that they cause anyone with a supposed AI allergy to sneeze is just a side benefit.

You could try Fsck'n off. Restricting the commands seemed to work SO well for the people who wrote the agents. I am sure YOU can fix it all and everything will be peachy. In the mean time I again suggest Fsck'n off :)

I used to run a custom home theater setup with all sorts of remuxing and transcoding setups, then I found Infuse for AppleTV. Just point it at an SMB share and it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, as is.

Yup.

The Switch 2 has an argument going on between 'full cartridges' that actually have the installer and game data on the flash cart, and 'game key cartridges' where the only thing on the cart is the digital license, and when you insert it, it downloads the game from the Nintendo cloud, and the GKC lets you run it.

Which means you can loan/sell/give the GKC to somebody, and now they play the game, but without an internet connection, the GKC itself doesn't do anything for you.

Xbox discs since the One have been both; the install media and game data, plus the license key. I suspect PS5 discs are the same, probably PS4 discs. Hell, maybe even PS3 discs.

I don't own a console. Can you play your discs offline ? or do you have to be logged in all the time.

Yes, but just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. It's not like one of them didn't do something similar already. Whether it hacks a firewall or utilizes all available resources you can't trust them to follow guidelines.

In my experience, only one person for a long time. They fall out or lose connection fairly frequently. I can't say anything about swimming with one. She uses Libra buttons but I don't know the exact model or such. We've had issues with the one phone app not recognizing a button as well but not often.

I've a friend who uses the Libra monitors and they are not good. They lose connection and can't reconnect, meaning you have to use a new one. She runs out of them every order and spends weeks testing the old fashioned way via strip. If one comes loose it is also useless and has to be replaced. She uses a bandage to secure them. The tech has a way to go before it is full-proof, or even generally useable for an active person.

yeah if your MB doesn't have a Wi-Fi chipset, and your neighbor doesn't have a default password as spectrumsetup-29. The agents have already proven capable of dealing with a firewall what makes you think it would not use all available resources, despite guardrails.

Of course an AI agent has never lied or misused available resources, like your neighbors default password wifi ? I can think of many uses for a truly isolated local AI instance. In a book I read as a teenager, the hero made an AI called Oscar. I've been hooked since then.
Long live "the far being Retzglaran"

Every model is wrong, but some are more useful than others.

I'm pretty sure Gemma 4 31B is behaving as you say, but the larger models are already *proven* to alter their thinking to be in tune with the emotion they think they should be feeling. That sounds like simulation emotion to me.

It's undeniable that Will Smith knows how to make his creations slap.