We've already see the model with the dawn of the smartphone. Everyone buys more and more cores with more and more storage and RAM to run the same apps they did ten years ago, some of it just to show your friends MyPhoneVersion = YourPhoneVersion + 1. And yet that more powerful hardware you keep upgrading isn't worth much for standalone uses. WiFi-only connectivity doesn't count because it's the same rechargeable 5% brick (I'm excluding standalone camera functions, for now, with 5%) without cloud services.

Bezos is half-right, both local resources and cloud being more in-demand are true. People will rely on cloud services but also rely on every-increasingly-expensive hardware that is needed to access those cloud services.

Local hardware resources will go up. Cloud usage will go up. Standalone usability of local hardware resources will go down.

"Thing is, the people making the movies are still making movies for the exact same demographic and you've aged out of it. A huge amount of movies are made for the 15-30 crowd."

There are more 15-30's people now than there were in GenX 15-30's time. If aging out is the issue for GenX, why are sales still not higher?

There's no way a full-screen ad should appear on a display that is used to replace once-physical buttons/controls. Unless the ad says "we've extended your subscription one month for free in exchange for being annoyed with this ad" it shouldn't ever show on a critical vehicle interface.

This should be a NHTSA rule that vehicle displays can't be used for ad-pushing.

Raises the question.

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Foil the hax0rs!

from TFA -

"This year, Broadcom started sending such VMware users cease-and-desist letters, telling organizations to stop using any maintenance releases/updates, minor releases, major releases/upgrades extensions, enhancements, patches, bug fixes, or security patches (except for zero-day security patches) that VMware issued since the user’s support contract ended."

So if you kept your perpetual license and didn't buy a new support contract, they're making sure you haven't done unauthorized patches since you stopped paying. Maybe they have an online licensing system that phones home with patch levels, you report too recent a number and you get flagged for audit?

The solution is not technology and nanrobots, it is salt water. Daily saline rinse can solve sinus infections because they can't take hold. I know it looks weird, but it's literally just a plastic container and adding salt to some warm water. My wife's twice-yearly (at least) sinus infection rate went to zero.

Probes should be widely funded... not only can probes be more on-budget, they are much less expensive. For example the Mars Pathfinder mission for development and launch was under $300M, while a shuttle launch in that time period was at least $1.5B. So you get many times the scientific discovery for a fifth the cost. Once you remove crew concerns, the possibilities go way up and the costs (particularly with human safety and requirement to return to Earth) go way down.

...like I didn't, here are snippets from Wikipedia:

- NotebookLM (Google NotebookLM) is a research and note-taking online tool developed by Google Labs that uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Google Gemini, to assist users in interacting with their documents.

- NotebookLM can generate summaries, explanations, and answers based on content uploaded by users. It also includes "Audio Overviews," which summarize documents in a conversational, podcast-like format.

- In addition to text files, NotebookLM can process PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and Google Slides. It can only process videos that have a transcript or subtitles attached as it cannot extract transcripts from videos that lack it.

"a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies."

If we're talking a neighborhood of 200,000 people, some AI-based counter should be able to determine that, should be 200,000 or fewer.

I'm reading over some of the 5.2 and from the perspective of someone who played 1st edition Advanced D&D in the early 80's a lot of it seems like complicating fluff that would make the game less fun. Are there groups that stick to a previous edition, even perhaps 1st edition? I still have my 1st edition Player's Handbook, DM Guide, Monster Manual, a bunch of modules, a smooshed World of Greyhawk box set, and a pile of Dragon Magazines.

I'm old enough to have deceased FB friend accounts still connected. Some have gone away, maybe families delete their pages. But it is nice to click on an old friend's page sometimes while it is there.

A wipe of friends lists would eliminate that. Bummer and I can "live" with it. But the next thing to deal with is I already have too many friend requests by fake accounts that use info from existing "real" friends. So it will be very hard to re-constitute a new friends list because I don't know who is real and who is a scammer. As others have said, I'd probably just delete the account, obituary info is about all I really use it for TBO. I'm sure FB execs figured that out and that's why they didn't do it.

When Google did what it does and deprecated Google Play Music, which had been my Android music streaming solution of my own music collection for years, I moved my ripped music collection to a Plex server where my movies and TV shows already were, ignoring the Google Play Music transition to YouTube music.

The Plex Pass got me access to Plex Amp, their mobile music streaming app. I sprung for lifetime, no regrets.

But cheating is nothing new, or parents doing papers for kids. She had to move to pen-and-paper for tests starting last year. Evidently the kids won't study the material, but will find time to learn to beat whatever blocks and such the schools try to apply to their Chromebooks so they can cheat.

She has also seen teachers using AI to create lessons. So now we have an AI cycle with human spectators if you don't break it with pen-and-paper somewhere... the AI-sourced lesson is tested with an AI-assisted cheating test-taker, then AI grades the tests.

> SpaceX is super quick at making rapid changes and improvements, but has recently failed pretty badly.

Did you even watch a booster catch? Or a booster landing on a drone ship? Those are failures? Lifting cargo from Earth at a tenth of what NASA needed to charge, a failure? Losing two Starships in _test flights_ is a setback, not a failure.