I don't think there's anything wrong with storing some things in cloud services. Talking to a layperson, I'd instead say, don't store anything you can't afford to lose exclusively on OneDrive. Don't store anything sensitive on it, either (there are some ways you could secure it, but if you know how to do that, the advice isn't really relevant to you).

I wouldn't say half the country voted to this (even ignoring voter turnout etc). Political parties in the US are bundle packages; you can't get your pet issue a la carte, you have to get a bunch of other stuff with it. I voted for Harris in 2024 primarily because, despite agreeing with some conservative positions such as skepticism around many DEI initiatives, I felt Trump would severely injure our international relations at a time where we needed to project both strength and unity in the face of Russian aggression (and I think that has played out -- I don't think he's been good for IR). Weighing all things together, I felt Harris was the better choice. That doesn't mean I voted "for" everything Harris stood for, at least not intentionally. Functionally, yeah, my vote would have contributed to the progression of those things I didn't like as well, but not because I supported them. The system isn't set up to allow me to separate out these different things, so I vote based on the prioritization of all the different pros and cons. By the same token, the people who voted for Trump may not have agreed with every single last thing he said.

I think one of the failures of our way of doing things is that the wide variety of nuance your average voter has can't come across clearly because every single political party and candidate is a bundle package. I don't like it, I think we should consider trying to do things in a different way.

Not all nerds are IT nerds. The editors here get a lot of complaints in the comments for under-explaining various terms because there are so many domains to cover. I'd rather they explain a simple networking term (that I can just skip past) than not explain some simple term in another domain I'm not familiar with so I have to look it up.

I'm job searching right now and I've found LLMs to be handy for improving my resume, not so much for just outright writing it. They're good to bounce ideas off of, for criticism purposes, and for quickly matching the fairly large number of skills I have to the smaller set that any given application wants. Sometimes their ideas are crap and their criticism is garbage but that's why you have a brain; you can easily make that call if you just use it. If one model or LLM gives you junk, it's trivial to move on to a different one. If they all give you crap, it's just a tool; you don't need to use it, there are other tools. But no, you shouldn't have it write entire sections of your resume; that's obviously going to lead to a poor result.

My only real caution is not to upload anything you don't want the LLM to be trained on. Remove or substitute any personal information and if the format of your resume is unique and you don't want it stolen, only feed it plaintext. Don't put in anything you don't want coming out elsewhere.

I'm not really interested in getting bogged down in immigration politics, but initially when I saw the headline my first thoughts were about how a lot of people just aren't dating. It hasn't reached critical mass, not even close, but it definitely feels like an increasing trend over the past some odd while that people are just checking out of relationships and focusing on other parts of their lives. And while at an individual level that might be the right choice for some people, if the trend continues upward, obviously it's going to have some effects on population growth.

Whether Trump's immigration policy is a trend that outlasts his presidency or a 4-year blip remains to be seen, but I wouldn't be surprised if population levels stagnate or decline anyway.

Let me see, do I want to pay for a service that shows me stuff I don't want to see filled with ads that I want to see even less, or do I want to not pay for a service that shows me what I want without ads? This isn't that difficult of a choice. It's no wonder cable TV is dying; the only price point anyone is willing to even consider it at is the one pirates offer.

I get cable TV bundled with my internet subscription (where I live there's no other choice besides satellite) and even then the only time I ever use it is if I'm out and about and bored out of my mind, as my ISP kindly offers a web frontend that I can log into and watch it on. That's an actual cool value add that I'll give them... but even then it's usually a better experience to just pop on my Jellyfin server and watch something I actually want to see without ads plastered over half the program.

They do have a bit of a bias in my experience. I commented a few days ago on the BBC story and my conclusion was that they didn't seem to have much of a bias but that I didn't really have enough hands-on experience to go off of. It's different with NPR, I listen to them most days while I'm driving and I hear them plenty. They usually report things fairly and accurately but their bias comes across more in what they choose to report on. Stories about things that tend to move or interest conservatives usually only get reported on if they're very major events; stories that move or interest liberals are kind of the meat-and-potatoes of NPR. It's a subtle form of bias that a lot of conservative listeners will probably notice over time but may not be able to put into words.

I think there's still value in NPR's existence, just like I think there's value in outlets with a slight right bias like the Wall Street Journal existing. As for whether they should receive public funding, that's a different story. There seems to be this notion that it's important to have state-funded media and that it's important for that state-funded media to be fully independent... but that pretty much necessarily means they're free to be biased. Even if you don't think NPR is biased, such a setup means that they could be biased and there'd be no recourse. I think independent journalism is of value and I think there might be value in state-funded journalism, but I'm not sure I think there's value in the overlap of the two. If we're going to fund journalism, we should probably have some checks in place to make sure all of our taxpayers are getting representation out of it.

I can actually provide a bit of insight on this. It's because it got cracked on every version of Windows and Office that supports it going back to like Windows 7. This happened nearly a year ago now. I'm not sure whether Slashdot wants me posting direct links to websites that host crack tools so I'm not going to do that, but if you search mas blog tsforge you'll find their writeup on what it is and how they did it. It's a fairly interesting read.

The writing's been on the wall for phone activation since then. I don't think they're going to bother patching it out of old versions of Windows but it was pretty obvious they were going to drop support for it at some point since it's so completely and utterly busted open.

Showing that there's a right-bias in guest selection only proves that there's a right-bias in guest selection. That can be offset by other sources of bias, such as story selection, story presentation, interviewer-guest interaction, etc.

Most of the interactions I've had with the BBC here in the US (mainly through the BBC News Hour on NPR in the morning and some occasional online stories) come across as pretty neutral anecdotally, and MBFC, my preferred watchdog for this sort of thing, seems to agree. So I think the original poster's conclusion that the BBC is left-biased is probably untrue and likely comes from his own place of bias. But it's important not to overstate the case here based on one metric. A news outlet disproportionately taking on right-leaning guests could very easily be offset by, for example, the host being disproportionately confrontational to those guests or conveying story information before or after in a manner intended to predispose the audience to the opposing viewpoint.

I missed the previous story on this or I would have commented on that when it was current... censorship doesn't necessitate government involvement. The point of censorship is using some form of power to suppress speech. In the US and many countries, there are laws against the government doing this to some degree. In the US' case, the Constitution defines checks on the US government intended to prevent censorship. The reason this applies only to the government is because that was the scope of the Constitution, not because other sources of censorship are somehow perfectly acceptable.

The problem with censorship is not "the government doing it," the problem is speech being suppressed. The government is often uniquely powerful and can suppress speech better than most, but it's far from the only entity that can do so. Power can take many forms, but generally speaking the things people fear are physical harm, financial ruin, captivity, threats against family, etc. The government is not the only entity capable of making these sorts of threats and following through on them. I believe using any of this sort of power to suppress speech in any context is unacceptable. Now, I do think the nuance of what speech is is important -- I'm using the term "speech" but I do think certain things should be excluded, like many of those things that are excluded under US law (defamation, credible threats, criminal incitement, etc). But stupid and hateful opinions based on false information should be met with truthful refutation, not threats of harm or ruin.

While I disagree with the Trump administration on a great many things, and I find their motivations suspect, and I certainly think that they only care about protecting speech that they agree with like a great many so-called "free speech activists" often seem to, I do find myself in agreement that, in principle, if people outside the US are trying to use some form of power to suppress the speech of US citizens, that is something the US government should be pushing back against as the representative of the US people.

We need to stop pretending like it's perfectly OK to film strangers in public. Legal? Sure. Should you be doing it? 9 times out of 10, no.

It is. It's legal because it's OK. You're in public, people might catch you on camera. You can find plenty of videos of Karens on Youtube harassing people who are merely filming the area the Karen occupies and they grab at the camera/phone and attempt to destroy or steal it if they get ahold of it. This is illegal and it should be illegal and nobody should accept it; these people are bullies and thugs and should be treated as such.

In this specific situation, the guy was additionally being annoying and obnoxious on top of that. He's a piece of shit and people should apply social and legal pressure to account for situations like this. These sort of "nuisance streamers" are increasingly common on the popular streaming platforms and everyone can agree they're a social ill. But even with all of that, you still don't have a right to destroy someone else's property just for being obnoxious if their behavior doesn't cross the line into assault, harassment, etc. I don't think anyone should lionize this sort of thing.

Everything you said is correct and I'd recommend the same. I wanted to expand on this, though:

This is windows triggering how the computer is restarted - and that has been a problem since the days of Windows 7 where a "reboot" was not as rebootish as the name implied.

The behavior you're describing and working around with arguments to the shutdown command is typically caused by the confusingly-named fast startup (not to be confused with UEFI fast boot, which might also cause irregularities in the boot process but is controlled by the system firmware/UEFI and not Windows). It can (and IMO always should be) disabled with ctrl+r > control > hardware & sound > power options > change what the power buttons do/change what closing the lid does > uncheck "turn on fast startup." It causes way more headaches than the few seconds it saves on each boot and as there are no other benefits; I always disable it.

It's normally only a problem with a shutdown, though, not a restart; doing a restart from within Windows' UI is already supposed to bypass it, which is why we'd always tell our users to restart their PCs once a week. But, if you're on a computer with fast startup on *and* want to do a shutdown *and* bypass fast startup, simply doing shutdown /s will disable it for the next boot.

Also, I think shutdown /fw might need to be combined with an active option like /r /s or /g in order to actually function.

No. That's fucking stupid. Nobody needs to hear about politics when they go shopping for groceries or take a walk or go to the bathroom. There's a place and time for political discussion. The place is not "everywhere" and the time is not "always." Sane individuals do not want political bullshit invading every single moment of their waking life. Have some goddamn restraint.

I use catbox.moe which will store anything up to 200mb. They also have litterbox.catbox.moe which has a customizable expire timer. The anime girls on the front page may be a deal breaker for people who don't like that sort of thing, though, and for the same reason it's probably not good to use in a professional setting.

Alternatively, if you use Discord at all, it's fairly easy to create a server* for yourself and just upload and link pictures from that. There's a fairly small filesize limit and I think they do expire eventually, but it works well if you already use Discord. If you pay for Nitro, I believe you can upload much larger files. (*this is Discord's term for a private group hub, don't blame me if you don't like them using the name "server" for that). Honestly, you could probably do something similar on other social platforms.

Failing that, you can always use any of the big name free cloud platforms and just cull whatever you upload every week so it doesn't take up your allotment. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive (I hate everything about the desktop version and how it tries to take over your computer, but their web interface is usable), etc.

I strongly disagree with the direction the Republicans are going but your complaint here is about basic human nature. Most people prioritize themselves and their families. The argument should not be "you are a bad person for only caring about you and your own." Pragmatically speaking, that is not going to win votes. The argument should be "you care about you and your own, so here is why what the Republicans are doing is bad for you and your own."

The Democrats used to be the party of everyone. Healthcare, corporate greed and exploitation, pollution, trade... these are all issues that ultimately affect everyone in some fashion. Saying "the Republicans only really care about the upper 1%" is a strong argument because (a) there's a lot of truth to it and (b) it puts Democrats on the side of the 99%. Democrats have moved away from that message (I'll leave the "why" as a thought exercise for you, dear reader). Now, Democrats complain about the selfishness of a different 99% while saying that we should all be focusing on the issues of the 1% they claim suffer the most... even if you think that's true, pragmatically speaking, how does that win you votes?

Posts like yours feel good but get us nowhere. Why the Republicans are bad for the average person becomes more evident every day but the Democrats continue to fail to capitalize on this. This insanity isn't going to end until the Democrats come back down to earth and stop complaining that basic human nature isn't good enough. We all need to work within the constraints we are given. If you want to help the fringes, you need to help everyone; that ALSO helps the fringes, and when everyone is in a relatively better position, they're often more willing to talk about fringe issues.