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  • Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

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  • Companies would only do it in response to an incident.Same as any IT related thing. IT will block bad websites, maybe have some alerts for common stuff, but will only sift through logs when something goes wrong so they can assess the extent, impact and fixes for things.

    The exceptions are probably like Amazon where they have the processing power and dev-time to do things like this to their own employees, which might also turn into a marketable product for other companies.Military contractors might as well (Boeing...)

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    Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

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  • Training will never stop, tho.New models will keep coming out, datasets and parameters are going to change.

  • Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus)

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  • I'd expect anything that has a battery which defines the lifespan of a piece of electronics to make that battery replaceable.

  • Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus)

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  • Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago

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  • That was the UK Govs approach for a lot of industries: "Just do cyber"

  • Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry

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  • So small imported EVs aren't actually a threat, then?

  • Stack of floppy disks: Am I a joke to you?

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  • Oh yeh, saved my skin a few times.And you can use it like a normal USB stick once your OS is up, so you can have some installers on there to speed things up

  • Stack of floppy disks: Am I a joke to you?

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  • Ventoy is an OS.It's a live Linux that boots from the USB stick you format/image with the ventoy tool. The rest of the space on the USB stick is configured to be essentially a standard USB drive.The live Linux's sole purpose is to boot another image stored on the USB stick.

    So, once you have "ventoy"d a usb stick, you can plonk gparted live iso, Ubuntu, Debian, Eos, W10, W11... whatever isos you want. When you boot from that USB stick, you get the ventoy menu screen and select the iso you want it to continue to boot.

    Basically, a bootloader on a usb stick

  • Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

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  • It's a quadlock case, so it kinda makes sense for it to be thicker. But previous phones/quadlock combos haven't been as thick

  • Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap

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  • Yeh, but the late fees are good for people. Free market and free market. Drain the swamp etc. Just pay your debt on time. Or something, both side the same, yada yada.

    A great example of the current presidency trying to do something good for a lot of people.

  • Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

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  • I got a pixel 8.I'm really enjoying it.But the camera doubles the thickness of the phone where it is.And the case I have for it just gave up, and made the whole phone+case that thickness.I'd have liked the actual phone to be that big, have a bit more battery - maybe even replaceable battery, a 3.5mm jack at stuff like that.At some point, things get too thin to hold and use comfortably. I think the Nintendo switch highlights this, whereas the steam deck is much more comfortable to hold.

  • Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

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  • Actually, it highlights the importance of a proper distributed backup strategy and disaster recovery plan.The same can probably happen on AWS, Azure, any data center really

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Yeh, that's where I'm at with it.I've seen comments that chromium does 48khz, and the high quality is 44.1khz, so there's is sample rate conversion happening yada yada yada.I'm not going to let perfection stand in the way of good.

    Hopefully Tidal releases a native Linux client. That would be ideal.Either way, it's better than Spotify. I'm not bombarded by podcasts, I'm not funding podcasts I wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole, and Tidal pays artists more than both Apple and Spotify.It ticks enough boxes for me, and I'm super happy with Tidal

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Yeh, the electron wrapped Tidal HiFi for Linux. I just checked the GitHub, and it says it supports High and Max settings thanks to Widevine.I swapped from Spotify to Tidal on windows and was blown away. Shortly after I started daily-driving Linux. I haven't done an A/B between the Linux electron version and the windows desktop version, but it hasn't annoyed me like Spotify did.

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Yeh, it's pretty amazing.Only thing I miss from Spotify are the user generated playlists, where I can search for something like "liquid drum and bass" and get a bunch of playlists

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Unfortunately, I've only found a wrapped up web client thing. Using the web page is probably similar.

    The wrapped up web client works better than the native client on windows, tho. Not sure on sound quality, I haven't had an issue tho

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • I'm enjoying Tidal

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • I'm enjoying Tidal

  • Beeseball

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  • A rollercoaster of edits