It really seems to be rationalized by "whatever excuse comes to hand." Right now as a result of a carjacking in DC that happened to be against a DOGE staffer,

Trump posted Tuesday that if D.C. does not quickly "get its act together ... we will have no choice" but to federalize the city, after the incident involving the man whom multiple outlets have identified as Edward Coristine, famously nicknamed "Big Balls."

Will DC be federalized? Not wholly, I doubt. The whole idea is very non-legal and non-constitutional, which makes it either very unlikely, or especially dangerous, depending on how you look at it.

But it certainly seems to be the general direction in which Trumps wants to go - whatever he says, goes. He really assumes that he knows what to do about everything and should be allowed to do it.

which would require labels on digitally altered campaign materials and ads, for violating the First Amendment.

It does no such thing. It is not prohibiting speech in any manner. The only thing it does is to notify the viewer the ads were digitally altered. The message is still there for everyone to see.

This is no different than requiring a notice on certain junk food to say, "Not actual size" for the product inside the package. No one would consider this a violation of the First Amendment, and neither is this law.

Diploma mills are getting out of hand.

What the hell were they doing fiddling with coding on what is essentially a static site? I've used that site on many occasions. The amendments aren't changing.

What is needed is the Internet Archive version of what the site looked like and said prior to this "coding error" and what it looks and says after the "fix". That will tell the story.

I imagine they think it that can be provided by private weather corporations turned defense contractors and selling the information to the government.

A huge amount of stuff that the US government used to do in-house was outsourced over the decades, first to a broad range of small independent defense contractors, then to monopolies as those consolidated, thus now costing ten times as much as it should. There's no reason weather forecasting cannot become another monopoly defense contracting service charging the government an arm and a leg, and a mere kidney from private citizens in need of advanced hurricane alerts.

I wager it also requires an endorsement certificate associated with a 'trusted' vendor, and thus swtpm would probably fail to pass their criteria...

But I don't know for sure.

In their ideal world, I suppose the AI would still be training on them, but they would pay the movie industry.

And of course, not for the price of a single blu-ray. That's the question, is training permitted under that "EULA."

Like... forever? Like New Jersey where you're not allowed to pump your own gas for some reason nobody can remember?

I guess they thought of that

https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Project 2025 has, among is many, many goals, removing from government anything and everything that competes with private corporations. This includes weather forecasting. AccuWeather's CEO, in particular, has been a strong proponent of the US government simply stopping all of it, so he can charge more from people for his company's services as the free competition goes away.

Destruction of 500 tons of emergency food aid by claiming it was about to expire, but that was because the agency involved with its distribution was shut down.

Planned destruction of $9 million worth of contraceptives, because the same agency was being shut down.

Destruction of the iconic White House Rose Garden wherein the U.S. flag is used as a waste disposal system.

Then there's the nearly $1 billion it will cost to renovate the "free" bribe, er, jet, from Qatar.

And now a perfectly good satellite because he's anti-science.

As usual, what does he care? It's not his money.

For me the "killer apps" for a high-res laptop display is maps. My outdoor hobbies call for looking at a lot of maps, including e.g. tracing out trails in aerial imagery. And lots of small labels. Maps look so nice in high-res.

Also, I find that laptops with lower-res screens generally lack the gpu horsepower to drive an external high-res screen (I'm sure there are exceptions). Plugging the laptop into my 4k tv makes a very nice setup for me now that I need reading glasses on the laptop.

But OpenAI has said they delete logs of outputs. If they're now saying that 120 million is too many to go through because more private data could be compromised, that means they haven't been deleting output logs.

Further, since the NYT and others are only looking for articles from their sites, their searches would be limited in nature. This would be no different than you using DDG and searching for how to make a toasted cheese sandwich. You would not get results for how to make a Tokamak reactor (at least we would hope so).

huh, I had thought oled was usually less power. I can see why not at least with a bright background though, many source of light vs a few bigger ones

I'm curious why you chose LED?

I wasn't looking for anything above 4k, even for that you have to get somewhat up there in the lineup.

Same 1 TB as the last time for me, almost sorry to say I just haven't found a use for more in a laptop.

My 5 year old Dell laptop recently wore out and shopping for a new one I was surprised how little, if any, specs have advanced for the same money (~$2k). In particular it doesn't look like anybody even makes a 15" 4k oled display any more. I suppose the chips are faster, so that's good, but the RAM, storage, and resolution are all about what they were.