Ah. I'm a Windows user from the days when it did not have a version. Played my first computer game, Balance Of Power, back then. Used every version, even ME, supported and maintained my clients machines on everything from Windows 3.1 when I became a tech. Reinstalling 95 and 98 I don't recall as being a big thing, but I was supporting a fairly homogeneous population then. I installed 95 Upgrade Edition and ran it continuously for over 30 days without rebooting. Then the first update broke that, and I learned as many did to reboot occasionally, or more often. I found 98 and 98SE to be improvements. ME we will consign to the manure pile of MS. NT was a greater leap forward then most realize, that kernel is still the basis for Windows, and it is superb despite the naysayers. Vista was a great leap forward also, though it was an interim step towards 7, perhaps the most durable and resilient Windows yet released.

8, 10 this was an era of genuine improvement. 11 also but it suffers undeserved complaints. To this day very few understand that Windows has to, and always had to, tolerate drivers from manufacturers of varying quality and performance, which Apple hardly has to at all. Also Linux has an army of obsessive (often) coders noodling over drivers as well as the benefit of a Unix-like kernel that can tolerate more abuse than commercial software does, and only because it gets so much more attention from a huge volume of coding expertise. But as you know, Linux desktops can be changed, sometimes grammatically, on a whim of the 'owners', the GUI world under X was complex and inscrutable, Wayland is a seismic disruption, and while I think for the better, it took some time to become fully featured and adopted. This event is similar to the 10>11 migration, though perhaps oversimplified this?

But in all this, I encounter disgruntled Windows users with unusual problem histories. Unusual because these are single-digit percentages of users. Not that you experience should be ignored, no. But on the desktop Windows 10 and 11 is working and performing to high levels. In the server room nobody much bothers with anything but Linux, the advantage is huge. The vocal Windows complainers I see are too often making what seems to be a religious argument. I've encountered this since the 90s, and the 'Helpful Internet Community' responding to my Windows questions with "oh, Winblows", get a real OS" in the days of Slackware 1.x. yeah, I did run that, but not as my daily, and 'Windoze' was working. Fortunately they are much less offensive than before. But Windows 10 has run its course. The objections have been answered. Old apps are overdue, mostly, and that's expensive, but your complaint may be with the vendor. And that's software, and that's a problem even with FOSS. Just the cost being in effort.

But, after all that, if it works, use it. If not, go and find the solution.

Ya forgot the /s flag...

There's so much excess bullshit in American that many World Cup fans visiting from away wish they could stay. Forever.

Now complete with garbage misogyny, antisemitic genocidal nutbaggery, and the rest of the horrible baggage of the Saudi Terrorist Crime Family.

Sure. And, true to form, you didn't offer a reason why you changed from Windows. Your wife's reason seems to be she 'didn't like it'. Choice based on individual and subjective enjoyment, I understand. Rejecting Windows based on security and privacy concerns out to be based on objective analysis, but if to often based on rumor and 'reports' (but I repeat myself).

I've stopped relying on Cory's rants vigilantes. Long time ago.

But insofar as I can tell, that original 404 Media story largely amounts to "my friend heard from another friend that they're doing it with RARE books". Â\_(ãf)_/Â

Why would LLMs benefit from scouring RARE old books? What benefit would the rarity serve, when likely the texts are reprinted in umpteen subsequent editions that - to put it bluntly - nobody wants?
Are they buying an original copy of Samuel Pepys diary (first printings $4000) when they can get the umpteenth reprint for 17 cents? So yes, they're "destroying an old book" but rare? Why would they pay for rare?

You know how I know? Because I've been trying to unload a cache of 'rare old books' for a decade and nobody wants them.

1935 Platt & Munk Indian Series 3 pics â" Iâ(TM)ve only ever seen sets of 8, this is 16
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Maximilian I., der Grosse (2 pics) 1876
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Massive Norwegian Bible 1891?, rough shape, 7 pics gorgeous rebinding candidate, probably 14â x 10â x 4â?
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Worldâ(TM)s Great Classics, The Federalist Papers 3 pics, 1901
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Roman London â" 1926? 1 pic (contents on web at https://archive.org/details/in... )

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William the Silent 2 pics, 1911

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Knightâ(TM)s History of England, 4 vols, first American Edition, 2 pics 1880

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Guizotâ(TM)s Concise History of France 1881? 2 pics (Curiously, different than the version in the Library of Congress in that itâ(TM)s missing the printing date (see pics) â" LoC version here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/c... )

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A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe 1927 4 pics great maps.

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England and Germany 1740-1914 3 pics, 1918

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Schillerâ(TM)s Thirty Yearsâ(TM) War â" 3 pics â" 1897?

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History of the United States, vol 1 ,Ridpath 2 pics 1911

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Operation Greenhouse â" briefing pamphlet, 2 pics 1951 âoeRestrictedâ

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Home Life in Far Away Lands (textbook) 1928 clearly loved

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Simondâ(TM)s Travels in Switzerland Vols I and II , 1822

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5000 New Answers to Questions 2 pics 1933

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Union Now With Britain, 1941 4 pics

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Advanced Geography 2 pics textbook 1925

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Christian Stockâ(TM)s Hamiletisches Real-Lexicon 3 pics, 1890s?

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Thoresbyâ(TM)s Letters 4 pics Vol I and II, 1822

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Praediekener 2 pics, 1760

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On the Field of Glory 1906

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A Primer of the War for Americans 1914 2 pics

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Sabotage! The Secret War Against America 1942

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Vore Husdyr 2 pics 1902

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Maori & Settler 1900? 2 pics

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The History of England 2 pics Vol V, 1910?

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Gregg Speed Studies, Anniv Edition 2 pics 1929

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Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History 1912, 2 pics

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Swedish New Testament 1886 4 pics

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A History Of France, Arlington edition 5 pics 1881

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A History of Western Europe 3 pics 1904

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  Auswahl von Predikten 1829 2 pics

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World Politics at the End of the 19th Century â" 1902

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Republic or Empire: The Philippine Question by Wm Jennings Bryan SIGNED BY WM JENNINGS BRYANT 1899 2 pics

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Psalmebog 1833 3 pics

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Danish-English Dictionary 3 pics, 1845

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Collection of New Testament Histories 1805 3 pics

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Slips of Speech 1922 3 pics

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Biblehistorie 1888 no cover 1 pic

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Contes et Recits 1896 2 pics

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A Handbook of the War for Readers, Speakers, and Teachers 1918 1 pic

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FM21-100 Basic Field Manual 1 pic July 1941

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Look to Jesus 1904 2 pics

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Seven Chances (play) 1924 2 pics

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Sherwin Cody Nutshell Collection of Books 1927 3 pics 12 books (2 maps pictures NOT included in this set)

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Minneapolis and St Paul Street Maps including streetcar lines â" year not yet determined

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Just for context, when its predecessor RIPA, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, came in it was said to be used only for cases such as terrorism etc.. Instead, it was found that councils started using to check people were putting things in the right rubbish bins for collection.

Robust safeguards indeed.

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I guess not.

A simplistic view. '"really" don't like' comes down to, in my experience:

- Rejection of change, Doesn't matter what the change is. Just move the Start Menu from left-justified to centered. That's juvenile.

- No more than rumors of enhanced telemetry becoming a serious privacy concern. Rumors are enough. Add in captures of new data and the screamers will blow it up into disproportionate danger. Ignoring their browser, every web site that clandestinely keeps logs that describe your activities, etc. That's a little juvenile also.

- Any launch bugs or flaws. Claimed as proof of rushed release, danger, and well just keep going on.

- Any security concerns, any. As if not merely Widows, but Linux, BSD, even Apple software suffers a security flaw at leas occasionally, some undiscovered for a decade or more.

- And other juvenile complaints and reactions.

Occasionally, Microsoft has hit a release out of the park. W4W 3.11, NT4.0, Windows 8. Mostly because these were preceded by less than excellent releases, though some were leaps ahead that could not be compared to predecessors. Windows 11 is working. Get over it. Or hide behind some excuse and cling to Windows 10 like an infant to their mommy's leg. Linux isn't winning Windows 10 clingers, nor Windows 11 runaways. And if you're paying attention, it's not even winning security and privacy wonks, since they know it takes some effort to secure Linux and hold on to even the illusion of privacy on the modern Internet.

I've honestly no idea if it's possible, but if they could find a way to get Steam Input into there or the equivalent of their own then I could use it. I have an original Steam Controller, you used to be able to use it on non-Steam games but for a few releases now Steam took that ability away. Some way of emulating or creating an alternative to Steam Input would be superb.

Millions of books are dumpstered every day. MILLIONS. Ever go to a library used book sale? Ever notice that - in MOST cases - 75%+ aren't purchased, even at 50-cents a book?

Sure, some get donated but a lot of book donation places are filtering as they don't need a 100th set of Encyclopedias from 1981.
I know of at least a couple of organizations that fill 20' containers and send to some associated groups in Africa to provide books for kids, but "Morning Glory Milking Farm" as well as Chilton's 1999 Pontiac Minivan manual isn't going to make the cut there either. It costs $ to ship them and they don't have money to waste.
Largely...they get thrown away/pulped. For some reason I'd once noticed that a local library (part of a county-wide metro association) was dumpstering books. Like... a LOT of books - talking a half-full 5 yard dumpster EVERY WEEK. I'd look and there were dozens of heavy duty black garbage bags FULL of books, and not just shitty old ones, there were multiple copies of popular fiction titles, NEW periodicals, all sorts of good stuff. I recognized the dumps were clearly by section as one night several bags would be "history" for example. In the bags they were totally clean too.
I probably dumpster dived 1000 books over the better part of a year, before my wife drew the line bringing home 1-2 shopping bags (eventually i just left a heavy-duty recycling tub in my car for it...) every week. I'm a big reader but that's a lot.
This was a library in an extremely wealthy suburb of 50,000. So I called them and asked about it. IMMEDIATELY the library *insisted* they only threw away damaged books. When I provided pictures, they claimed they were moving to a new facility and someone was just being a little overzealous in their cull.
Their new building was - I shit you not - MAYBE 50 yards away.

Anyway, the point is, I am saddened by the loss of any book, but let's not cry fake tears over this just because it's AI and people are 'shocked' to find out that the public doesn't give much of a shit about books anymore. Because they don't.

It feels like the simple requirement of needing a warrant to search rather than "bored officer looking up his ex" would solve 99% of these issues.

Maybe you're just committed to rage (look, it's Mr Social Media) but IT SEEMS like you're "too stupid" to see that I was very, very specifically criticizing the commenter in the story that complained "How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?" eg, that data centers don't provide satisfactory employees per area numbers (when that land likely was being used for agriculture, which is generally EVEN FEWER employees per area).

That IS a stupid take.
What's even stupider is misreading my comment as some sort of criticism about agriculture, which it wasn't even faintly.

L2READ, dipshit.

"AI safety experts said the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control."

No, it paints a picture of incompetents who don't know how to air-gap. Cutting edge? Lab agents: "Please hack this thing". LLM: "I have hacked this thing". Lab agents: "OMG. Sentience!".

If it's drawing on training data that has humans talking about, lets take a recent example, model x on Hugging Face being a good way to break a boundary and its been told it break boundaries then of course it's going to go to Hugging Face and talk to model x. This isn't unpredictable.