What is shows is sexual education is in the US is much better than in the nineties but still behind other developed nations.
https://www.guttmacher.org/fac...

The companies I know of will train you for a price that gets paid back over time, say two years.
When you leave you can pay off the remaining pro ratio cost of that training, with some luck your new employer will reimburse you.

What do you think of the chance to remove the pixelation from Japanese porn?

I am surprised to see the UK mentioned.
In the US you can expect anything, like don't say toilet or WC but call it restroom or powder room :)
Someone mentioned here this is because the large credit card companies are behind it but then, they also have significant business outside the UK and US.

There is nothing new about this technology. I've been using Topaz AI's Video product (ne service) to upscale and enhance videos for years.

So, about 3-4 years of car registration fees in California. Doesn't seem like too much for something amortized over basically forever.

Obviously not. The Constitution applies to the government of the United States. It applies to the U.S. GOVERNMENT everywhere in the world. If a U.S. LEO meets an American in Mexico, the Constitution still applies. If a U.S. LEO meets a foreigner in Arizona (or mexico for that matter), the Constitution applies.

Wherever possible, give MS the boot. Also the Windows admins.

If they weren't doing virtualization, that might explain why the cloud brought spend down. A few big servers running everything in virtual environments would have increased utilization enough to get prices below cloud costs. If IT is run badly enough, nearly any change will be for the better.

Also, doing everything on Windows didn't help costs or reliability any.

That sounds absolutely ridiculous.

Remote XDMCP has always been very latency sensitive (IIRC) and requires a lot of other bits in place before you can use it: firewalling, secure tunnels. That includes a remote X server (client). The interactivity and interoperability is poor on anything but local networks, and was unusable on broadband connectivity the last time I tried using it 15 odd years ago.

The benchmark here is RDP, and has been for at least 20 years. At least with RDP on Windows, it's quite straightforward (or at least used to be). A quick search on the interwebs says that it should be possible to do, but it's not turnkey - Wayland's a compositor, after all. You could definitely use wayland + rdp + full screen single app to get the same effect.

So don't use VNC, use RDP. It works better than XDMCP ever did.

Could we perhaps encourage him to go work for Microsoft or Amazon/AWS? On the one hand, nobody would likely notice; on the other hand, he might improve things; on another hand yet (a foot?), he might strike a mortal blow and we'd all be better off...

People who don't play office politics lose to people who do. Having "toadies" helps you win the game of Survivor. It works because the CEO doesn't recognize actual skill.

What exactly is the appeal to X11, in 2024?

I've not been a serious Linux desktop user for a number of years now, but when I was, Wayland was far more appealing than X11 on every basis: performance, remote desktop capability, overhead, security.