I think it's likely that the surge pricing will be small enough to not be a serious deterrent to most customers. At the scale of Wendy's it will still be a LOT of money. Very clever.

The Cray had those those panels around it that looked like benches. I always thought it would be cool to be able to sit down and contemplate massive algorithms on my own super computer.

So, when that I read that article, I ran out and bought a Raspberry Pi! The first thing I did was sit down on it...came up with some great algos!! Would have been better if it had a fan...

It was inevitable that the sources for these LLMs were going to push back. To me it seems like the Times has a fairly reasonable case. I expect that MS will push back on the grounds that the output is transformative and in some cases it is but there are other cases where it's almost verbatim. Damn the lawyers are gonna make a lot of money as this drags on for years.

I'd toss in a few coins just for learning that word!

That's too broad of an assertion. There are smaller ISPs that are offering excellent service in the $50 / month range. In the SF Bay Area Sonic is offering 10 GB fiber for $45 / month.

The police are holding an event where they will install the Air Tags. The thieves will now know exactly where to look to easily remove them...doh!

With Hulu and Netflix, hitting the back button on my remote will clear the UI and give a full, clear shot of the screen. This works with the built in streaming apps on my Samsung TV and with the Roku box (Roku was best move I made re: streaming). BTW, this doesn't work on Paramount+: the back button takes you back out the video that you're watching.

I've been listening/playing-making/DJing music since the early 60s and my tastes run from 30s blues though current cutting edge dance music. Spotify is as close to a universal music library as I can imagine (note: I don't personally know where Spotify is re: classical music). Available on any device that has an internet/mobile phone connection. If that isn't worth 33 cents a day, then you're likely not much of music fan or you're seriously dead broke. And no, you don't have to use the Spotify generated playlists...

"we use publicly available information'

Is your gmail account publicly available?

FYI. the Google Pixel 6: press and hold the power button. You get four options, including Power Off. That shuts the phone down instantly. No awkward prompts.

I've been involved professionally and personally with the net and tech for a long time. I've loved a lot of it - hated some of it. One thing that's clear for me:

My social life and social life in general was much better before the internet. Sure, we yakked on the phone a lot as teenagers but that was primarily during weeknights when we were stuck a home. Aside from that we used our phones to make plans to hang out together and we hung out together a LOT. When we hung out we weren't distracted into our private/personal worlds. Our socializing had a more connected quality. Sounds trite perhaps but it was tangible.

Seriously, I'm a modest FB user and I have NEVER used it for news. It just always seemed like a bad idea from the start...

"TikTok could face fines for each violation and additional fines of $10,000 per day if they violate the ban"

The way that I read this is that Montana has arbitrarily decided that it’s up to the app stores or TikTok severs to filter out any traffic originating from Montana that attempts to download or access TikTok or face $10k/day fines. That should be interesting....

And this:
Most People Who Seek Rough, Aggressive Porn Are Women
https://www.psychologytoday.co...

With the incredulous..."there was a Windows 10?"