I would think that an audit trail only needs temperature readings, not adjustments.

You don't want to know who made the adjustment? Nor the time the adjustment was made? What adjustment was made?

Might as well gut audit logs in Windows or Linux if all you want to know is a reading.

A small percentage of a few billion people is a big problem.

Yes, regardless of whether their name is Muhammed or Breivik.

Why not here? Because for starters, humanism isn't a religion (and I say that as a humanist). It's a philosophical stance within atheism. And atheism is the absence of religion** (it's literally right there in the name), not a religion. You can't claim "religious" exemptions as an atheist. What this person actually wants is a philosophical exemption, akin to, say, a vegetarian wanting an exemption from having to cook meat at a restaurant or whatnot.

** - Well, except for those atheists who worship Athe.

Yeah, nothing insular about the Amish.

(Oh wait...)

Not quite a manual, but I bought a Packt book that's supposed to help me learn Azure. Specifically, it claimed to have a number of sample projects to help me better understand Azure and use it more effectively.

In its chapter regarding configuring a site-to-site VPN, it glosses over the part where one is supposed to configure the local side, and its sole metric of success is whether either side has a connectivity indicator. In its chapter regarding storage options and tiers, there's no project at all. In its hybrid EntraID section, it says to just download Entra Connect to my domain controller - y'know, the one I just have lying around.

Claude was able to hold my hand through creating different resources, and took its time explaining the concept of a "resource group" multiple times until I understood the concept. Stack Overflow doesn't have that sort of instant gratification, but it does have enough of a group of people who can usually answer a question well-enough.

Written documentation has its place, but it requires a VERY good writer to express an idea in a way that will make sense to readers who, almost by definition, don't understand what the author is trying to convey. It's a skill that isn't at all easy to do, so quality of manuals vary greatly.

Quite. Scientists and researchers have been using the term AI to describe this collection of technologies and algorithms since the 1950s. The field has (arguably) made great strides recently. Most of the current scientists and researchers have been perfectly content to continue to call it AI. But no! Now we're going to let somebody who was born stupid, dedicated his life to staying stupid, and now is seemingly in advanced stages of dementia tell us what we should call this field? What a bunch of bootlickers these tech execs are. I hope Trump has the good sense to walk through a cattle field before he asks these losers to get their tongues out.

... get your boss arrested for robbery

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Headline from 1845.

Better a few Boomers lose their shirts than decades or centuries of techno-fascism.

Because only boomers have investments.

Your whining is the same thing that has been said for centuries whenever a new technology or process has come along. I can guarantee you would have been one of those whining when the cotton gin was invented, or cars and airplanes started being made. This is how society advances. If you don't like, you don't have to participate.

You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet

On r/lawncare, it's people's shoes and dogs shitting on the lawn. On r/laundry, it's people either deliberately telling you what piece of clothing is dirty and asking how to clean it, or showing the labels.

I don't have an account, but even I can recognize this astroturfing. It's being deliberately done to get views.

What delusional world do you live that the taxpayers don't have a right to know where their tax dollars are being spent?

Companies are private entities. They do not operate under the same rules as government. Your example is invalid.

It's called transparency. It's what good government does. When you work for the government you give up some of your privacy becausse you are working for the people.

You must work for Trump to think the people don't have a right to know what their government is doing.