As an American, please don’t let this spread, our system is stupid and annoying

Sometimes Wario’s the only one keeping me going

Something this article glosses over is the fact that Microsoft knew all of the web URLs he was visiting. I don’t know if that’s because he was dumb enough to sign into Edge with his Microsoft account or if they were collecting that a different way, but the GDID wouldn’t have been nearly as useful without that info.

I’m talking about literally displaying ads in the TV’s UI, which you wind up seeing constantly even if you don’t use any smart features at all

Privacy issues aside, there have been a lot of instances where a TV manufacturer or other smart device manufacturer loads a whole bunch of anti-features and obnoxious advertising into the interface permanently with a firmware update, with no ability to perform a factory reset to restore it to its original state. That on its own is enough to have convinced me never to connect any expensive device to the internet unless I buy it for that purpose.

Funny enough, I was playing most of these games on emulators even back in the late 90s and early 2000s since I didn’t have a console, so the CRT computer monitor look is the ultimate in nostalgia for me, even for 8/16-bit games.

Also known as the “boob tube” with “boob” being a synonym for “idiot”. I’m not that old…

Awesome, nice to hear some rare good news in this area

Hey Google, could you not dictate what I’m allowed to install on my own damn device for my “safety”? I don’t need a third parent, and if I had to pick one it wouldn’t be you.

Hilarious, but also pretty cool. Could actually be nice for working with code cad!

Walnuts, peanuts, pineapple smells,
Grapes, melons, oranges, and coconut shells!
Ahh, yeah!

I recently finished setting this up on my system after having a plan to do it for years beforehand and never following through. It turned out to be quite a bit easier than I thought; LUKS has built-in support for keyfiles, so all you have to do is add the keyfile as a valid key for your disk, then modify the mount options to use the keyfile by default. There’s a dedicated option to fail over to password-based authentication as well.

No way, I’ll have to try that. Guess I shouldn’t have thrown out the manual 13 years ago!

Facebook treats all their users as a resource to be exploited: 🤷‍♂️
Facebook treats me (their loyal employee) as a resource to be exploited: 😱

It’s Windows 10 where I’ve seen that actually. Also can cause weirdness on Linux because it is emulating key presses to make the shortcut happen. Maybe it’s because mine is actually a K400r.

I’ve got a K400 too which I bought like 13 years ago and have gotten a ton of use out of. It’s still going strong, even after my wife spilled tomato soup on it, but my real issue with it is that damn hard-coded Cortana shortcut that launches when you swipe the trackpad from the edge. Sure wish I could disable that.

She was almost certainly paid by OpenAI to share this. Any time the Kardashians publicly interact with a brand in any way, it is safe to assume that money has changed hands. It’s the basis of their incomes.

Again, while this may be currently true for the most part, this is not considering the future evolution of technology. Models are only going to continue getting cheaper to produce. While it is possible that it is prohibitively expensive today (and I’m not convinced that that’s the case universally) that will not be the case in the future as model training is essentially guaranteed to get dramatically cheaper in the coming years due to hardware advancements. Burying our heads in the sand now isn’t going to help anything.

This really isn’t true though, even if it is currently true in many cases. Case in point, if I wrote something and published it right now, it wouldn’t be part of any AI model yet. A party with a lot of money (like, say, a tech corporation) could easily create a bespoke coding model that is trained on everything but the desired libraries, thus achieving “clean room”.

Nice, I’ll have to remember that GitHub trick. The main thing I’ve found lacking so far is config examples.