This seems like a problem all these school districts could come together and solve. Or just partner with a cloud provider. I'm embarrassed for them that this article wasn't titled, "thousands of schools districts ditch VMware for XYZ."

Eh.

Some cultural features are neutral, e.g., what you do about shoes when entering a home. Do you take them off and leave them at the door because shoes are dirty? Do you keep your shoes on because you have guests and you don't want them to have to look at your feet because feet are disgusting? If you do take off the shoes, does it matter how you line them up, and which direction the toes point? This all depends how you were raised; it's neither good nor bad, it's just culture.

But some cultural features are actively good for society. Japanese culture has features that lead to a low crime rate, for instance, and that's a good thing. Many cultures value things like integrity (particularly, keeping your word) and hospitality, and these are good positive values, that are good for society. I think it follows that there can also be cultural features that are bad for society. To avoid offending foreigners, I'll pick on my own society for an example here: in American culture, it's normal for people to deliberately lie to their children about important ontological issues, for entertainment purposes. That's *evil* but almost everyone here does it. (One of the best examples of this phenomenon, is Santa Claus.)

Bringing it back around to the Persian example from the article, my question would be, why is it that humans native to the culture only get this right 80% of the time. AI getting it wrong most of the time doesn't bother me, that's the AI companies' problem, and phooey on them anyway, so what. But if humans native to the culture are missing it 20% of the time, to me, that makes it sound like it must be some kind of esoteric, highly-situational interaction that regular people wouldn't have to deal with on anything resembling a regular basis; but no, we're talking about a basic social interaction that people have to do every day. Something seems off about that. That's a lot of pressure to put on people, to undertake something that difficult, and be expected to get it right all the time, and then catastrophically fail one time out of five. I don't think I'd want to live under that kind of social pressure.

Eh, I kind of hope Hollywood goes all-in on AI generated content, tbh. They haven't produced much that's worth watching any time recently anyway, and if they go under, maybe it'll clear the way for better content creators to rise to prominence, maybe even someone who can figure out how to write a script from scratch, that is NOT the eighty-third sequel to a mediocre nineties action movie, or the twenty-seventh reboot of a superhero franchise.

On the one hand, yes, the job market *is* a bit down right now, and yes, getting a job, especially a decent one, has always been more difficult when you don't have any meaningful work experience yet.

But I don't think it's really significantly worse, at least here in the Midwest, than in past generations. The young people I know, generally have been able to find work that is commensurate with their qualifications, to an extent that is pretty comparable to what I've seen in the past, most of the time. Occasionally, somebody in a previous generation has gotten lucky and had an easier time and gotten snapped up for basically the first real job application they filled out, because the economy was up or whatever (my own experience getting an IT job in 2000 is an excellent example of this), but that has always been the exception rather than the rule. For most of history, getting your first really _good_ job has been difficult, and often required you to work a not-so-fantastic job for a few years first. (Heck, I worked fast food for several years, including a couple of years after getting my degree, before I lucked into that IT job. I've never regretted having that in my background, though I'm certainly pleased it didn't end up being my entire career.)

On the gripping hand, my experience with Gen Z is that in terms of employment opportunities, they aren't really any more entitled, on average, than Millennials were at the same age. Somewhat less so, if anything. If there's an aspect of their attitude that's worse, it's more social than professional and is related to how much they expect other people (especially casual acquaintances, like coworkers) to care about learning and accommodating all their personal idiosyncracies that aren't work-related. But this could be my Gen-X bias coming through: we were taught to only reveal personal stuff to people we're actually close to. We expected our phone numbers to be public knowledge, but we kept our personal feelings private. Gen Z is pretty much the reverse.

I speculate it was using channel bonding to allow cheap, encrypted broadband access for customers that didn't want to be tracked. The secret service just viewed it as a threat because they couldn't snoop into the traffic metadata. That's our reality now.

The real reason: "facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises."

Which implies they view encryption and anonymity as an implicit threat.
Also, TFA: https://www.secretservice.gov/...

Yes, that happened to me. Reddit may also earn income letting companies guide content moderation.

I tried to post on /r/EBay about how eBay had helped a buyer defraud me (they refunded them $800 and let them keep my goods) and ask what my options were. My posts were instantly deleted (by 'auto-moderator'), saying they were related to account suspension or restriction (which was not true).

I finally could post my question on eBay forums, after a few pokes to admins there. Ironic Reddit was more Catholic than the pope.

An Android upgrade of my introduced Gemini on my phone which made Voice commands slow like molasses (and slows down the phone too)

Is it possible to excise just Gemini from a phone?

Ok, so the specific formats are new, but Windows 98 supported animated wallpaper. No one actually wanted it or used it, but it was supported.

Reddit gains an irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license for user-created content posted on its site. So while the term "Reddit data" is somewhat inaccurate, it is a passable approximation of the truth. The more correct term would be "Data that Reddit has irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to". But where's the fun in saying that? :-)

"Reddit data" does obscure the fact that the Reddit user retains full copyright ownership of their comments. So if a user wished to, they could independently license their content to GOOG, AMZN, META, MSFT et al. Theoretically, all the other users in a Reddit thread could make same decision, cutting Reddit out of the licensing loop entirely.

But the logistics of organising this are onerous. Even if a few crucial users in a thread refuse to license content, there will be 'gaps' and intelligibility and utility for AI training will suffer.

But if replies briefly quote the specific content they are responding to (as I am doing here), the context becomes much more clear. In that case, individual comments become much more intelligible and useful. Legally speaking, there should be no problem here because brief quotations fall under fair use.

Concievably, GOOG and other browsers manufacturers could offer to store your user-generated content in a browser repository ("keep a record what you wrote", like Windows Recall) or in the cloud, with the option of licensing the content to GOOG. They could also generate AI-summaries of the context you were responding to.

It's small enough a nation or some billionaires could bring it close to earth and mine it.

I think the subject of your post explains it clearly: You are not a lawyer.

This is a law firm that wants to use this material to show that they have the legal muscle and expertise to do so. It's fantastic advertising if they can borrow Disney's power and reputation to make themselves a reputable law firm that took a swing at a known corporate bully and emerged unscathed.

It's also common for drafts to miss one or more cycles until there's a strong consensus. If there's a lot of controversy, then they aren't going to approve the draft. The committee doesn't want to have to replace the memory safety model with a new model and syntax in the future after thousands of companies and projects locked into the wrong model.

Getting a proposal accepted is an incredibly high bar that requires many stakeholders to express an interest in it, including the details of the proposal. The author here clearly is just being overly sensitive and dramatic. The Rust community likes mini-dictator savants. The C++ community likes consensus and peer review.

Why don't they strike their beloved South Korean home market with these "value-strengthening" ads first? :-/

Does it violate an unspoken social contract the Korean people have with their chaebols?

A few weeks ago, my 2 year-old Samsung 'The Frame' TV proposed new TOS to me. I think I rejected it... :-\