I think they're talking about rack-sized UPS and up, not desktop size.

The bjg ones I've used have an LCD panel on the front with status, including current time.

Anyway, I avoid ever setting my cron jobs to a 0 or 5 for this basic reason. */15 style is the unavoidable exception.

The fact that they make sure to include that repeatedly tells me that the real reason is they have their own AI agent that they want you to use, possibly for an extra fee, definitely trained to not bypass all the dark patterns they use to upsell you shit.

Oh, and there'll be absolutely no problem with giving THAT one all your personal and financial data, because trust us bro, we're the airline, we're famous for being totally not sleazy...

Perfectly described - much kudos.

We still don't even see leaks of the unredacted Epstein's Files and that's the most egregious material possible to be illegally concealing.

Not like in the 70's when a Mathematics professor orchestrated the raid on an FBI office.

> people are still using the 'we had no backups' as an excuse?

Why pay someone with considerable practical experience when a kid out of an Associate's Program "knows computers"?

Survival of the Fittest, perhaps.

They could have set the QoS tag to the lowest level for capped welfare accounts but it sounds like they just wanted to be dicks about it.

Had they behaved decently it's unlikely NY would have taken notice. Maybe other providers will take notice?

I dunno, patronize a better company if you can find one. Higher prices will likely nudge customers to switch even if they don't know the cause.

This guy, along with Al Gore and Hazel O'Leary led the effort to kill the Integral Fast Reactor which was operational by 1991 which simultaneously solved the nuclear waste and energy generation problems.

From what I can tell getting this going was the only thing GHWB did right.

It's said Gore did it to pay off Greenpeace, Kerry did it for the Lincoln Labs tokamak project, and O'Leary did it for Big Oil (like Ford killing Project Liberty). Later Gore parlayed this betrayal into his slide show grift.

Now 35 years later we need cleaner energy, huh? Yeah we flippin' told you that in 1992. And we'll be buying our new reactors from China.

PS China still runs 90% coal. Be careful with the analogies.

Testing AI isn't an enumerated power of Congress.

NY is just doing their job* yet have to bitch about it. That's a clue about how well this will work out.

Given the pace of government it's not crazy to think that a two year old model will be certified as licensed and NY residents won't be allowed to use newer models.

The effectiveness will be as a jobs program for a few people. Or for a few politicians to take corporate bribes for a repeal.

* I haven't read the NY Constitution in decades ... "presumably"

That guy breaking his contracts and agreements?

How preposterous!

As a Conservationist I'm a big fan of game preserves.

Who at Nintendo is coordinating donations?

I have a preserve just a mile up the way from me.

That's because EVs are perfect for taxis. Many short distances, never far from a charging point and time inbetween rides where you can recharge in the supermarket parking lot while getting a bite to eat. And in the city, with stop-and-go traffic, EV are much better at handling that than ICEs who hate that. Plus the lower cost-per-km-driven matters even more when it's a profit margin thing.

As long as the US State Department is letting the "Chinese Spy" stay in the US we need to question the narrative

France wants the US to enter its war against Russia directly so it's trying to merge the Ukraine and Iran conflicts.

Ukraine already attacked an Iran boat to curry favor but backed off when Iran threatened missile strikes.

El Cheeto is participating by saying 'he' will blockade Iranian commerce in the Caspian Sea.

US has no assets there but Ukraine has long range drones and Flamingo missiles.

"Iran melted our ice cream" is a freebie to the DC Warmongers' narrative.

It'll help Macron get the ECB job he wants.

It's been long proven that outrage gets more traction on the internet than positivity...really, it predates the internet; nightly news stories have led with rage bait for decades.

The existing social media platforms have gotten to the point where everyone is outraged about something - whether it's The Orange Man or The Illegals or The Guns or The Abortions or The Terrible Men or The Terrible Women...and even if we somehow managed to make a new social media platform, tomorrow, that was 100% bot/AI free and exclusively human-made content with no import of content from existing social networks, all the Chronically Online humans would bring their rage about those issues with them to the platform.

The solution, then, is highly restrictive moderation to keep the outrage out of the space. Many vBulletin-style bulletin boards did exactly that to keep users on topic throughout the 2000s and 2010s...but such a heavy-handed moderation system requires dedicated moderators and a group of people who generally agree with the moderation for the sake of group cohesion on the topic. A general-purpose social network would find the required amount of moderation prohibitive. Reddit's moderation requirements basically meant that anyone who was successful at being a moderator, was commonly a Chronically Online person who isn't great at separating disagreement from justified moderation.

So, yes, any new social network, save for maybe a Mastodon server of known friends or an extension of an in-real-life social club, is going to speedrun itself into the flame wars and spam that made Usenet fall out of favor. Personally, I think that it's a result of the removal of the online/offline paradigm of dial-up internet - when there were limits on time and connectivity, it helped keep some distance between our Internet Selves and our Real Selves. Once the internet was always online and in our pocket all the time, there was no stop-and-think, it was just an outlet for every impulse. Any new social network will inherit that problem.

Feds: Chinese spy.
Also feds: Not revoking her visa.

Hrmmm.