Getting in with private trackers and running a seedbox is how it's done if BT... otherwise Usenet is building back as a good alternative.

I raised my flag a long long time ago. I was able to talk my sister into cancelling her Disney+ subscription due to the recent Kimmel thing. Honestly Disney could drop off the planet and I don't think anyone would miss them greatly.

The Generative AI companies did their thing. It was overall very impressive, even if they massively overstated its usefulness. ChatGPT is a great early demo of this infantile, currently-almost-useless-but-very-promising tech! Now someone simply (heh) needs to get the compute requirements down two to four orders of magnitude.

If companies like OpenAI can (and want to) work on that, great! Or others can build on the work that's been done up to now. I don't think anyone will miss the current companies, though they might currently be employing people who likely have a leg up (thanks to their familiarity with the subject) on addressing the compute resources problem.

But whenever (if ever) it gets done, people are going to run it on their own machines, not your servers and jail. Lock-in has always been, and will always be, an adversarial force to be eliminated by progress. If that means OpenAI's long-term plans won't work out, well, too bad.

Can you use the hardware without any Meta services? Can you use competing hardware with Meta's services? And then beyond just services, can you fully replace the whole software stack?

Any "no"s above will make the utility dubious, such that there's little point in spending much time getting to know the product (except for RE purposes). OTOHs "yes"s will indicate that these types of wearables are starting to become viable.

or push harder on the AI train.

What are the reasons for the RTO push? IMHO, it's to prop up property values and give them a good reason to write off a bunch of taxes on office space more than wanting to micro manage employees. I believe companies are just going to look at this as a reason to offshore the work completely.

Your theory checks out with my experiences. When I worked at Charter Communications, everybody on the security team that wasn't there on a H1B visa had a general shelf life of one to two years before they shoved off for greener pastures. There was a H1B worker on my team that had been there for 3 years when I started, and he was still there when I left.

If you want to find radicalization, start with AOL users. I'm a member of some gun clubs, all of the weirdo's have AOL email addresses. Then consider looking into the Truth Social Network.

Ban on tobacco products.

Yeah, let's make cigarettes cool again!

I think that after every 3rd wave of Missile Command (what a disgustingly irresponsible creation!!), the game should require that the player's parents check to make sure the player isn't getting depressed by the prospect of nuclear war.

And in Asteroids, after any ship destruction due to collision with an asteroid, the game should require parental attestation that the player isn't starting to develop symptoms of petraphobia.

In both cases, if the parents aren't available (e.g. dead because the player is in their 80s) I suppose a Notary Public or a AMA-certified doctor would be a good-enough replacement.

We have learned so much since the early days of computer games, and it's better to be safe than sorry. (But don't fuck with Joust! I want to be able to play without having to call my mom every time the Lava Troll touches my mount's legs inappropriately.)

I haven't read the text of this Swiss law, but if it's anything like USA's, UK's, or EU's laws, then it regulates "providers" and/or "carriers," not software applications themselves.

If you are sending already-made ciphertext through a regulated service, the service won't be in trouble. But if the service offers to encrypt for you, then they will be in trouble.

It just occurred to me that the now-common conflation between web apps and local apps (to a lot of phone users, these two things look the same) matters.

Maybe ASF just likes whiskey.

White oak has more tyloses and a tighter grain structure than other oak varieties, which cause its barrels to be more waterproof. It chars better. And it generally wins most taste tests. It's just perfect for barrel aging.

Save your red oaks for furniture.

Is Amazon fitting the bill for higher insurance rates?

This question surprised me.

Before we tackle the unlikely possibility that this raises insurance rates, your question makes me realize there's another question you might want to try to answer first:

Who do you think currently pays for the insurance on Amazon's vehicles?

And another: do you think that by Amazon making the choice to deploy an additional piece of driver hardware, the insurance-premium-paying party in the above question, would change?

One of the many reasons phones killed physical cameras was the headache of transferring photos to services like flickr, facebook, and other sharing mediums. Getting rid of wifi is going the wrong direction, it needs wifi, direct print, a GPS for geotagging images, and direct streaming to sites like twitch, youtube, and twitter.

Are you being forced into an office when it doesn't make sense for your job? Want to get back at the tyrants ruining your life? Lets chat, microsoftinsider@protonmail.com , only reach out from a new email address, preferably another protonmail account. DO NOT USE YOUR CORPORATE LAPTOP TO COMMUNICATE.