Exactly. The only solutions is to make keeping people's data a liability rather than an asset. That if there is any sort of beach there are criminal investigations and make the company liable for any and all losses stemming from that breach. Plus if their security was found negligent, than every one of their customers gets cause of action to personally sue them.
The next company to have a breach like this will go bankrupt. And that will sufficiently frighten the others.
AI or not, I feel like everybody has had "the incident" at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.
Yup!
Also totally unrelated helpful tip- triple check your inputs and outputs when using dd to clone a drive. dd works great to clone an old drive onto a new blank one. It is equally efficient at cloning a blank drive full of nothing but 0s over an old drive that has some 1s mixed in.
Probably the same thing as the other drones. But keep in mind in open space the force of an explosion radiates out in every direction and quickly dissipates, in an enclosed space all of that force is captured by the structure so the shock wave that would have just gone up into the sky harmless instead is completely absorbed by the roof. Which probably wasn't built very well to begin with.
OpenAI made secret deals with DRAM manufacturers, not for memory chips but for finished wafers straight out of the Fab. Then announced them both on the same day, meaning they had a one fell swoop purchased 50+% of the world's memory supply for 2026.
OpenAI does not (as far as anyone knows) have the machinery to process these wafers, to slice them up and package them into memory chips.
Which means the only purpose of this move was to kill the global DRAM supply and drive up prices for the competition.
Personally I wish regulators would take a hard look at this deal.
There is no real primary. Not until all primaries happen at the same time.
Right now the first state gets a full slate of choices, the last state may as well not even bother voting because the winner's already declared victory.
Or we could get someone who's a batshit wingnut radical and says things like:
'I think Americans should get health care without going bankrupt''I think big companies shouldn't be allowed to pay their workers so little they need food stamps to survive''I don't think private equity should be allowed to make housing unaffordable''I don't think we should allow ingredients that cause cancer in food'etc.
Welcome to the world of electronic gadgets. You're right there's nowhere near $100 worth of hardware in this thing. I'd also love a color touchscreen. But I'd rather a color touchscreen that I could integrate in HA than one running some proprietary cloud connected ThermostatOS.
You could do that yourself- put an old tablet on the wall, run power to it, then get something like a zooz zen16 multi-relay or an ESPHome relay board to drive the hvac. Then the thermostat becomes a totally software defined virtual thing in Home Assistant that pulls data from a temp sensor in the room and controls the HVAC as appropriate.
American here...Easier said than done. He is still in his presidential term, which means the only way to get rid of him anytime soon would be with an impeachment. That is not based on popular vote but rather by vote within our legislative body. And that body has become relatively corrupt because Americans don't pay attention to representatives they vote for other than selecting one party or another. And there are really only two parties that have any chance of getting elected, both of which suck in their own special ways.
That means it is unlikely we will be rid of him before 2028, when his term expires. He has already had two terms in office so our constitution prohibits him from having a third so in theory that should be the end. In practice he has made mention of "deserving" a third term and some of his supporters have 'Trump 2028' flags and stickers.Should he attempt to run again that would likely create a constitutional crisis.
You should however be aware that from what I can tell, this war does not have the approval of the American people. We have seen what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, how a 'short victorious war' usually ends up being anything but. We spent 10+ years and $trillions on Iraq and Afghanistan and got little or nothing of value in return. And this looks an awful lot like the same shit happening again. A great many Americans are not happy about this.
The best thing that is likely to happen is a revocation of the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force'. Per our constitution, the President is Commander in Chief of all US armed forces. However, he cannot declare war on another country without Congressional approval. AUMF sidesteps that, it was a bill law passed after 9/11 which gives the President broad authority to initiate combat without Congressional approval or an actual declaration of war. Since 9/11 it has been used to create military action in 22 countries. That could be revoked by Congress with a lower barrier to entry than impeachment.
The sad thing is, there are some people who actually need the help. Is possible to get psychologically addicted to porn and masturbation just like social media or food or sex or any other pleasurable activity. And there are some people who really do need help cutting down or stopping.Unfortunately NoFap swoops in and there is a bunch of snake oil bullshit like mental clarity through semen retention and other pseudoscientific nonsense. And thus more members get sucked in. Not so different from Scientology's AlAnon type programs.
And it often makes it very difficult to have a serious productive conversation about what is a healthy use of porn and masturbation, because as soon as one of those guys swoops in and claims everybody who uses porn is an addict or a sicko it all goes to hell.
I hope they lose horribly and I hope the people who wrote the paper countersue for abuse of process.
Look up a product called Thrift. You can get it on Amazon. It's a type of flake drain cleaner, comes in a bottle. Basically run your shower on super hot for a few minutes to heat up the pipe, then pour a bunch of this stuff down, and a bit more hot water. Leave it alone for a few minutes, then flush with hot water.
Unlike Drano, this stuff actually works. Originally I found it on a plumbing subreddit. I've done it to my shower a few times and it seems to have a longer lasting effect every time, like it's actually cleaning out the pipe.
Also, the brain sometimes presents useful information like this in a not useful manner.
I am among other things a Private pilot, several years back I attended a seminar on this subject. The presenter was an accomplished pilot and mechanic who owned his own airplane. One day, he had just finished engine maintenance and he went out to fly. Just as he got out to the runway, he got a strong sense of dread, of 'my airplane is gonna kill me today'. So rather than take off he went back to the hangar to investigate.
He started walking around the airplane, running his hands over the metal, until he got to one specific spot on the engine cowling where his mind said 'there! Something in here wants me dead'.
So he starts disassembling the airplane in that spot and eventually gets to a thing called an oil separator. It's a simple device, just an empty box basically. A mixture of oil and air is pumped into it, the oil falls to the bottom and exits through a tube back to the engine, the air goes out the top.
Inside the oil separator he found a little loose bolt. It was right next to the hole that went back to the engine. If he took off, when the plane rotated the little bolt would have been sucked into the engine, causing massive mechanical damage. If he lost his engine on early takeoff that can be a very dangerous accident.
Obviously, he is not psychic. His airplane doesn't want to kill him. It's just a piece of metal. But, when he was doing maintenance the previous day, part of his brain remembered that he didn't secure that bolt correctly. And thus, the brain presented useful information (you didn't tighten the bolt and it's going to destroy your engine) in a non-useful way (your airplane wants to kill you).
The moral of the story here for pilots was if something feels wrong, don't assume it's just nerves. Look for a reason, look for a cause, trust your instinct.
This isn't limited to pilots though. Over a million years we have evolved it. It's the same reason why little noises at night freak you out, because a million years ago when we lived in caves a little noise might mean the saber-tooth tiger was trying to sneak up on you and eat you.
They should sell it, because whoever buys it can't possibly run it any worse.
When I was growing up, there was a Pizza Hut near us. We lived kind of out of the way so it was the only real restaurant for some distance. They didn't deliver. Would have made millions, but for whatever reason they didn't. That location closed.
Years later, I lived near one. I ordered from time to time, watched the quality go downhill as the ingredients got cheaper. Last time I went there I was ordering $100+ worth of food for a party, I asked the guy for a couple extra sauce cups. He said management had a new policy he couldn't give out extra sauces without charging $0.10 each. This is while I was carrying an order so big I was worried the stack of boxes would fall over in my hands. That was the last time I went to that location. It closed a few months later.
In their heyday, their food was really good. They had a good recipe, but they cheaped out and put idiots in charge of their stores.
Whoever buys it should get back to their roots. I think there's a place for it. But the current management obviously has no idea how to make it work.
If they're only spending hundreds of thousands to stop your union, you need to try harder :P
I was once years ago talking to a guy who ran an industrial shop. In the area there were a lot of other similar shops that had gone union, his wasn't. And when asked about it, his answer was 'everyone around here that's gone union has deserved it. I pay my guys above prevailing wage, I don't overwork them, and when they need time off I give it without a ton of HR paperwork. That costs a little more but it's worth every penny because I get the best workers, and when the union comes knocking, it's the workers who tell them to shove off.'
A number of years later the company was bought out. I only assume that guy left, because a Google search shows that shop is now union and employees gripe online about how management is continually squeezing their pay and working conditions.
I'm usually not in favor of this sort of thing. But I think there are some instances where that may be justified. This screen serves ZERO public benefit. It's just there to annoy you. So IMHO doing something like 3d printing a cover that you leave on the screen is a public service.
You had to be at least a little smart to connect, and the not-smart or uninformed could be easily identified as connecting from a webirc gateway.Of course maybe what I miss was just the old Web 1.0- no 'platforms', peoples web pages were unique and individual not generic, there was no 'like comment and subscribe!!' crap. No algorithms. Discussion was overall more intelligent.
I'm sorry but I don't believe that privacy violations and massive online tracking is the only solution to that. There are other platforms that don't track nearly as much, and emerging decentralized platforms where one could build a similar following if that platform got the same kind of mainstream usage. This is not a faustian deal anyone needs to make.
What about second breakfast? I'm not sure they know about second breakfast Pippin...