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.

This reminds me of when I used the first iPhone at an Apple store when it launched. Doing a smooth screen rotation by turning the phone, and pinch-to-zoom on a map app, looked like alien technology. Then Motorola, HTC, Samsung, Blackberry, LG and others scrambled to release touchscreen phones. Most were awful in terms of screen responsiveness to touch, and they were laggy.

Competitors in space vehicle re-use will come, because re-use will be table-stakes for space.

KnowBe4 staff should watch The Inside Man season three, it will give some tips on personal identification, AI deepfakes, etc.

Fair Use Doctrine had been around way before CDs (and in some forms, way before recorded audio works at all). For example it was not illegal to buy a CD (or LP), copy it to a cassette, and play that cassette in your car for your own use (ref final codifying of this right in AHRA of 1992). If you sold or gave away copies, that is where you ran afoul of the law because you interfered with the distribution rights of the work's author, which is what copyright laws protect.

An issue with this approach is you also have to train younger people in the older tools, or else when the geezers retire off there's no one to hire to maintain those products. And that means you have to find younger people to willingly spend time training in older tools.

I don't know about you, but when I was younger I didn't want to learn the outgoing COBOL, I wanted to learn Delphi, Java, Linux, etc, the brand new stuff. I'm sure there were plenty of geezers back then saying the COBOL interfaces were fine and those new-fangled event-driven RAD tools weren't needed. You can't just drive out the youthful desire to hack at new tech, we didn't hold ourselves to that same standard, and if we did we'd be 20 years back in tech innovation, still manually-setting IRQ and SCSI IDs.

On the one hand, I don't want to touch this, lest someone someday might say I didn't create the music I composed, recorded and published.

On the other hand, my music likely was included in the AI training, so in effect I'd arguably be, at least partially, ripping off myself.