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Pretty sure I know what the top Halloween costume will be this year!

So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.

Interesting, that's got to be intentional. Microsoft was so slow to webbify their Office suite (and probably thought why should we?it's printing money!) that they lost out on a generation of startup companies.

The thought of switching back to Microsoft hasn't even crossed my mind since I moved everything to Google around a decade ago. But now I'm actively de-googling because they're starting to mess with the core solutions.

There was a time when gsuite was a scrappy little service that gave you a serious option that wasn't Micro$oft (which at the time was deep into shady monopolistic practices) at a fraction of the price with replacements that were good enough for most small businesses.

If memory serves, the initial price was around $20 or perhaps $50 a YEAR per user. It was a steal if you were used to paying 10 times that for an annual subscription to Microsoft Office Pro plus needing to support a local NT server running Microsoft Exchange and probably a file server that needed backups and antivirus and on and on.

As more and more businesses have gone SaaS and put the whole thing in the cloud, Google has capitalized on this by cranking up the prices while probably scanning and using our data for their benefits somehow (mostly without adding additional features... Google Sheets is nowhere close to feature parity with Excel).

Thankfully we now have way more FOSS and private cloud solutions such as Nextcloud.

I still can't help but notice, however that feature-wise we really haven't gone anywhere in 25 plus years.

Injecting AI buttons into Google Workspace or whatever they call it now is probably not a feature that too many of their customers are asking for. But in the never ending push to increase revenue, it seems like now we're going to get it and that's the justification for the latest price jump.

Websockets are often used for quality of life features like notifications and websites that are dynamic without needing to be refreshed. Almost went website with any kind of chat will use WS for example. Turning it off will make web browsing a little more annoying.

However websockets are also sometimes used for anti-fraud related software that can also leak information you may deem private. Disabling websockets might prevent that data from getting out but of course all this depends on your threat model.

Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine

Yes. Nobody wants to be first because they and the next xx% will be the sacrifice.

Yes

It's an interesting observation. Chinese tend to run scrappy operations with something like a "do it no matter what, ethics be damned" strategy.

But it doesn't bode too well for OpenAIs current level given how much funding and talent they presumably have.

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If some applicant has been posting "death to America" or about how they plan to do some white collar crimes for years, or it turns out they are the brother of some guy who is on a most wanted list, we probably shouldn't let them inside.

If they post some opinions about how things are going like "hey their president is kind of a blockhead and I think the people deserve better" then I would be against blocking them for that reason.

I'm American but live outside the US. I'm fully subject to their immigration laws which includes passing their screenings, and unless I were to disagree with their sovereigty I have to accept that reality. I can hide my social media but then I might have to go.

Ctrl+Shift+V in KeePassXC should autotype username and password in another window, but I believe is still broken out of the box on Wayland.

There may be some workaround that I haven't tried yet.

Ok I'm a proponent of right to repair and despise manufacturing techniques that lock repair shops out, make spare parts from 3rd parties impossible to install, or create planned obsolescence, or any shenanigans like this. It's basically anti-everybody else and suggests weakness and fear instead of quality and strength.

But help me understand how it's possible that our "free market" is enabling this, unless it's just a controlled market charading as free?

Is John Deere giving the hardware away for free to those who sign long term subscriptions or something?

If John Deere is the Apple-esque ecosystem of tractors where is the "PC" diy manufacture and why doesn't the market support them.

Working on it means he forwarded a screenshot to somebody who works for him with a bunch of ???

Meanwhile, depending on office politics, that guy will unfortunately have to spend the next 3 months figuring out how to alter the facts or just suppress data made by the AI that the boss doesn't like.

Domestic flight records being given to the CBP?

Wtf does the CBP need domestic data for? Keeping tabs on expired visa holder's movements?

That may be a valid reason but those individuals should still benefit from due process.

Citizens who have every right to move around the country should hate this - it's no different than facial recognition cameras on the streets that give the cops a detailed record of your everyday movements. They don't need that information to do their jobs and it creates an unreasonable vulnerability to misuse as we've seen time and time again.

Why the fuck are our representatives not representing us.

I remember playing Quake 2 in the dorm at university. This was right as everybody was getting LAN access in their room. Absolutely nostalgic.

It makes me think about how low background steel has become a precious commodity. Steel that was made prior to the first atomic bombs has a unique value because it's uncontaminated.

We have archives of the internet prior to AI as we currently know it coming into widespread use. It seems like the future of all LLM model designers are going to need to be very crafty about their source of data and not just ingest everything they crawl.

Always liked the melody to this 王七七Wang QiQi song:

https://youtu.be/8VzNV0YDhuA

Whoa. I can't imagine having to make this kind of call as Zelenskyy.

On the one hand, retrieving the children of Ukrain from whatever hell they are in seems like it's worth any cost.

But on the other, negotiating with terrorists only invites more terror.

Wow.

Also "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, and the very next day you nsejrjfnf f rmdkdjjdnddnd"

Ahhhhhhhhhhh