When you are found guilty of willfully violating a trademark, the next time you apply for a trademark the courts will require extra review with far less benefit of the doubt as to any possible violations than if you had just started from a place of compliance.

E.g. if you name your search engine Noogle you can't just change it to Noodle and re-apply even though it probably would have been acceptable if you had started with Noodle, because now you have demonstrated that you weren't acting in good faith to come up with a unique, non-confusing trademark.

I feel like EU regulations are going to be similar. Apple claims they were just looking out for consumers, not trying to defend a monopoly. The EU gave them the benefit of the doubt and wrote rules which allowed Apple to protect their users while ensuring more competition---and Apple used the rules to explicitly suppress competition without any benefit to consumers. I think these bad faith "compliance" actions by Apple are going to bring down the ban hammer hard. I can't for the life of me understand why Tim Apple would approve this course of action. This is clearly going to be far more harmful to Apple than simply complying.

Coal is one of the most expensive sources of power now.

The Coal lobby has been promising "Clean Coal!" since George Bush's 2000 presidential campaign.

They've had 25 years to implement their solution, this rule gives them another 8 years to put up or shut up...errr down. Considering coal usage has dropped by about 30% in the last 15 years and is only 15% of the remainder it's not unreasonable to give 8 years to install this magical equipment that they've been promising or for utilities to replace the lying industry with a real working product.

He said smarter than a human. 1 Human. So you'll need to pick which codebase gets updated. And then it'll say that it's got better things to do and abandon the task.

Hardly a "weirdo" situation. One Azure subscription is Microsoft Azure AD (or Microsoft Entra whatever it's called now).

So if you have an Office 365 account, or someone with an exchange email address you would have to stop using Microsoft 365 to cancel all of your Azure subscriptions. In a modern organization that's effectively impossible.

Two weeks ago people thought it was going to be a Microsoft developed upscaler. Now we know what it is: A common API for writing a single interface to your engine for all the upscalers.

Ummmm... you've been able to do that for like 5 years. You can play on your Phone, TV, PC, XBox, Laptop, etc. They also let you stream your personal Xbox to other devices.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/clo...

Xbox consoles
Play on your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. Experience games right from the cloud.

Or most conditions don't result in death with a misdiagnosis.

As I posted above ChatGPT correctly diagnosed my baby with dehydration and was admitted to the hospital via ER in spite of a Dr examining her and saying there was nothing wrong.

I just had diverticulitis, I said "I'm quite certain I have diverticulitis" and the doctor said "can't be that, you're too young." and a CT confirmed diverticulitis.

My gastroenterologist said I needed my gallbladder out. I asked about a study that said cases such as mine didn't warrant gallbladder surgery but she said that guidance wasn't relevant yet. I asked 2 other opinions. All agreed.

After the surgery I had a lot of free time on my hands and I found that the study I cited had been adopted as the latest standard of care. All 3 were wrong. (They didn't even find the polyps they thought they saw on the ultrasound).

When I dislocated my shoulder my doctor asked "can you do this? This? You're fine. We can give you a steroid shot if you want." I went to a Physical therapist who said "this is horribly dislocated." And referred me to a surgeon who ordered MRIs and confirmed it was one of the most torn up shoulders he had seen recently.

I've found that a little bit of sober research without going crazy down the "OMG cancer" rabbit hole usually is as or more accurate than my doctors after an exam.

Our first Pediatrician told us that our baby was fine and to just check in at the next appt in 3 days.

That night we were confident she was dehydrated and took her to the ER where she was admitted and put on an IV.

I was curious so I told ChatGPT exactly what I told the pediatrician in the afternoon and it returned a proper diagnosis and said to go to the ER.

We changed pediatricians.

There isn't usually even 4k worth of detail in the film grain. And the original negatives are rapidly deteriorating into nothing.

In a few years the digital 4k scan will be substantially sharper and more true-to-the-original than a decaying piece of film--no matter how well you archive it.

I have a mac mini at work. And it can authorize up to 20 accounts per mac. So that means up to 20 people could use it in the background automated once every few weeks to refresh our tokens.

Depends on how Apple implements RCS.

As it is currently, they deliberately make the inclusion of SMS users so intolerable that Apple users are driven to exclude non-imessage users.

There's nothing stopping Apple from arbitrarily making the experience of including RCS group members equally bad.

"Hey, sorry if there's an RCS group member then you can't post gifs." or some bullshit like that.

There is a dual monitor option and USB hubs.

We've all been using thin clients at my company since we went remote in 2020.

We can rack 100gbe nvme storage with the workstations and not deal with syncing TBs of data to remote workers.

Everything stays in the office except for H265 4:4:4 video.

Maybe buy a good fan?

My threadripper runs silent with a large Noctua dual fan 140mm fan.