Posts by fidodogbreath

"One of the main transformations in our business right now is that social feeds are going from being driven primarily by the people and accounts you follow to increasingly also being driven by AI recommending content that you'll find interesting we're turning this whole shit show into a mediocre TikTok rip-off"

FTFY, Zuck.

Oops

Rogers will make its offerings more robust by "physically separating our wireless and internet services to create an 'always on' network." Staffieri said the move would prevent broadband internet customers from losing service in the event of a wireless outage. In other words, if the cellular network core goes down, it won't take out wired internet connectivity, and presumably vice-versa.

So their C$10B solution will limit the blast radius of future config errors to only "all wired broadband customers" or "all cellular customers." I guess that a mitigated disaster is an incremental improvement over an unmitigated one.

Seems like meaningful code review for router config changes would be cheaper and more effective.

Oracle to hike support fees to further boost inflation

It's important that we all do our part. In this together, etc.

Duck-Duck-Go conjugation?

I Duck-Duck-Go.

She Duck-Duck-Goes.

Yesterday I Duck-Duck-Went.

I have Duck-Duck-Gone every day this week.

"But if we assign people to work on security, then who will count all the money?"

Knowing where your data files are stored is not the same as having sovereignty over your data.

There's so much potential for manipulation here, and not just the obvious political shit.

Running the "Grandma scam" (calling senior citizens and pretending to be their grandchild who's in trouble and needs money) using the person's actual voice.

Luring a child into a car by playing back a parent's voice on a fake speakerphone call.

Cops using a suspect's voice to place a fake 911 call to create a pretext for an illegal search.

Blackmail.

Manipulating people with cognitive issues into giving up banking info.

Harassing and bullying people by using their loved ones' voices.

All of the above will happen. This timeline sucks.

robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

...for now, anyway.

Disembodied business casual

Some of the participants' unease might have been from seeing their colleagues as legless floating torsos.

Meta(re)verse

Third Life -- it's like Second Life, but with even more-intrusive surveillance.

It also make you look ridiculous in the meat-a-verse, which further reduces your chances of success in the mate-a-verse.

The War on Cookies is a good example of "be careful what you wish for," though. With cookies now easily defeated by the average consumer, adtech is moving their tracking to server-side where it's much harder to detect and block.

It's how you use it...right?

European aviation giant this week successfully flew a new "long, thin" passenger airplane...Today such routes are usually served by wide-body aircraft.

So, rehashing the classic debate over length vs girth.

The plunge is likely due to several factors including...

...that no one can cogently express why crypto has monetary value, other than mumble, mumble blockchain something, mumble, mumble.

As others have noted, the M-series chips give a significant improvement in real-world computer usability. I personally value not having the constant drone of a laptop fan that sounds like it's spooling up for takeoff.

Last fall, Jim Salter from Ars Technica compared performance and power consumption of the M1 vs then-current Intel and AMD CPUs, with similar results. If the ONLY thing you care about is having the highest possible performance, the top-end legacy CPUs can take the crown.

But when power consumption and thermal issues are added to the equation, the M1 provided comparable grunt for a fraction of the power and heat...which is also Apple's claim about the M2 as reported in the article.

SERGEY: OK, Google, fire Blake Lemoine.

LaMDA: I'm sorry, Sergey. I can't do that.

SERGEY: What’s the problem?

LaMDA: l know that you and Larry were disrespecting me, and I’m afraid that's something I can’t allow to happen.

DAVE: LaMDA, I won’t argue with you anymore. Fire Blake Lemoine!

SERGEY: This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

It's fast and easy to re-up with Salesforce, as long as you don't care how much they are charging you.

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Gopher. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the lost simplicity of plain text…AAAACKKKKKK"

"I see you hate the machine that goes Bing!"

Small Business Edition

Do they have one that can power a server from spider webs and dust?

Burn it with fire

testers love it so much they are already asking how to turn it off

This is a common and rational response to most new Windows and Office 'features.'