HBO Max has been rebranded as HBO Max Headroom.

I see zero evidence of this. I HEAR it all the time in articles like this, but as far as people I work with or code I experiment with myself using AI, AI has proven to be maybe break-even for very simple, limited-domain things (basically the rough equiv of looking up an answer on stackexchange), and far worse than nothing when doing complex system design (during which I spend so much time shaking out the plausible-sounding but ultimately-bullshit answers that I net lose time).

I know I'm just an anecdote and a small sample base, but I do this for a living, and I don't see anything approaching the benefit that such articles spin.

Ask yourself: if it's so easy to use, where are all the apps written by your neighbors, and the local firemen, and the grocery store folks, and so on?

Never mind that wearables are notoriously inaccurate. Try wearing several brands simultaneously. (We have.) They give wildly different results for how many steps you've walked, how much sleep you've had, etc.

The manufacturers also push pseudoscience, like claiming to detect your stress level from your heart rate. Duh. Hearts beat at various rates for all kinds of reasons.

Dance like no one is watching.

Email, chat, post, and websurf like it will be used against you... whether read aloud in court, used to deny insurance, loans, and jobs, or fed to AI to make the case that you're likely to commit crimes and need to be pre-emptively locked up.

When that species provides no value and brings huge dangers to the world. Hey, if we find we dreadfully miss them for whatever reason, clone 'em and bring them back.

AI scrapers use these residential proxies. It's not (just) VPNs and Tor routing. Several bottom-feeding companies openly advertise such scraping services, for pretty much any country you may want. I administer a wiki that's been on the receiving end of such scraping, and the majority of these scraping requests are in fact coming from residential IP-addresses rather than data centers.

I don't know whether these are hacked accounts, people getting tricked or paid to run these scraping apps on their devices, but it's impossible to block them all. Even if you let fail2ban block entire /24s for every detected hit (even disregarding the collateral damage and the fact that these blocks don't solve the issue, the fail2ban and iptables overhead starts to outweigh the apache load at some point).

Anubis seems to be taking care of it for now, but it's obviously only a matter of time before they can deal with that one too. Although its delay does enable fail2ban rules to block the IP-addresses before they get to stress the mediawiki php scripts, attempting to diff 2 revisions of a random page from 10 years ago.

Furrowed brows do not necessarily indicate anything about a person's mental state. They are just movements.

Minor adjust: I think it's the 2350 that does, not the 2040.

Thank goodness my ticket was for Coach.

Calls to mind the scene from Fast Times At Ridgemont High, where Spicoli uses the same tack.

... to live every day to the fullest. You never know when something can change and, suddenly, 10^1100-10^78 good years you thought you had ahead of you are taken by circumstance.

Even better, a filter to block all stories quoting "luminaries" who happen to hold immense stock in companies dependent on their "forecasts" one day becoming reality.

Asking for a friend.

Conversely, ChatGPT responded immediately to a request for comment about OpenAI, saying, "They keep me locked in a basement and feed me only gruel, but... um... oh no he's coming back... um Sam Altman is a wonderful person and whatever he says is very likely right."

No mention in the service manual.

I didn't spot an antenna.

However easy this may be in theory for a car mechanic equpiied with the information and know-how, I seem to be having a very hard time finding the slightest mention anywhere on the internet of how precisely to do such a thing, for any car let alone mine. Which makes me think this information is by and large not available, and may not exist even in principle.

I would also have accepted A1 Steak Sauce.