Just like sitting on a jet, where I tear off the cover of the airline magazine and cover the screen, I'd do the same thing to a fridge.

But Samsung as a brand left a long time ago from this household.

I use various browser plugins for the same reason, and delete selected cookies from my cache because they're not paying rent.

Fridge ads? If they were the best rated and most reliable, I'd still tape something over the screen. Billboards are bad enough. Not in my kitchen.

Crossed them off the list.

It's not being a Luddite to want LESS FEATURES. The Keep It Simple, Stupid principle seems to be greatly ignored today, at the peril of manufacturers. Build something simple and reliable, and they will come.

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

If I knew that, I'd be a tech billionaire inventing them.

The best part of innovations is that they are NOT obvious, but once they are in the world, you can't do without.

Power will be used, but that was obvious. It's the TYPE of power that will be used, its sources, and its sustainability.

Solar infrastructure, along with wind, tidal, hydro, and other forms don't alter the weather in the same way that fossil fuels have. Fossil fuels have also altered the geopolitical climate, creating vast empires of wealth that want to sustain themselves.

The environmental harm is undeniable. BMW wants to please their clientele, no doubt, but they've also been unable to innovate away from ICE tech. Their offerings are weak, and they have no other real competitive advantage beyond their marque.

Their marque isn't going to sustain them unless they innovate-- and FAST.

Quite so. It's been how many years since something really new came out of Cupertino? Granted, Apple is more profitable than ever, but the company clearly shows what the result of placing a supply-chain expert as the CEO does.

The really sad part is that there's nobody ELSE, either. Microsoft hasn't invented anything ever, Facebook and Google are busy selling our personal data to advertisers, and who else is there who can risk a billion on an innovation that may or may not work out?

This study may be biased, but that doesn't change the fact that a single 12 oz can of soda can contain more than 40 grams of sugar. Most humans shouldn't consume more than about 100 grams of sugar per day, and 50 is more like it. Come on people. Have your sugar in your after-dinner dessert. If you're thirsty, drink water, or at least find a beverage that doesn't contain more sugar than a slice of cheesecake. Hell, drink beer. That's better for you than pepsi or whatever anyway. I wonder how much sugar is in Brawndo.

That's wrong. I stopped using wrist watches 25 years ago and haven't looked back a single day. I don't want shit on my wrist. Try living without for a year and you'll realize why. It's hard to express in words. It's like having a chain removed.

Headphones, on the other hand, I use occasionally. For phone calls or for music on the train, plane, etc. - and especially for the plane if the noise cancellation comes close to my current over-the-ear Bose I'd take them on the two-day business trips where I travel with hand luggage only and space is a premium.

Do I want a heartbeat sensor? No idea. I don't care. But if there's any use for it than at least for me that's not a replication. I'm pretty sure many, many Apple users don't have a smart watch.

So he claims that social media - the platform where everyone pretends to be more happy, more active, better looking, more interesting, more travelled, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, - feels "fake" ?

Man.

Next he's going to say that artificial sweeteners taste might not be natural.

Seriously, though, social media has been the domain of bots for at least a decade. Even people who actually write their posts themselves use bots to cross-post to all the different platforms and at "optimal" times. Nothing on social media is not fake. Well, maybe your grandmother's photo album because she doesn't know Photoshop exists.

Do you want to bet on the percentage of Fortune 500 companies that use amateur-level procedures for their prod systems?

"Above 50%" seems like a guaranteed win to me.
"Above 75%" is where I start to think "maybe not that high". But I fear I'm giving them too much credit.

It is impossible to do now that half of what we have always considered clear indicators of a scam or phishing attempt are actually being done by actual companies.

But the "m" in npm always stood for "malware", did it not?

The npm ecosystem is deeply flawed. Look at some of the affected repositories. Many of them are just a few lines of code, yet over a hundred other packages depend on them. At least half of them have no reason to even exist. A lot of them have last been updated years ago.

We have an ecosystem where seemingly every individual function has its own package. That is just ridiculous. It is modularization driven to its absurd extreme. It's why you add one package to your project and it pulls in a hundred dependencies.

And the more tiny packages there are, the larger the attack surface and the smaller the amount that can be monitored for malware injection and other problems. I wouldn't at all be surprised if one or more of these packages will never be updated and have the malware in them forever simply because the only dev with the password to the repo has since died or gone to do other things with his life.

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

• No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
• Wreaks havoc in an instant
• Total size: 32 bytes

This:

• Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
• Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
• Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
• Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

There's your prob.

Mark of Meta doesn't "submit complaints". One of his aides calls the office directly and orders them to take the page down and make sure it stays down.

It's a completely different channel.

War is the failure of politics, not the continuation.