Funwayguy

Amazon eBook formats have DRM that encrypts it to you and your Kindle’s unique device ID and they can just stop reissuing, or revoke the decryption keys. They make it extraordinarily difficult to export/download them in a DRM-free format that would otherwise be unaffected.

Is anyone really that surprised that they’re bring back the pre-civil war slave trade.

I think anyone who’s paid any attention to targeted advertising has know this long before LMMs were a thing. Removing the ‘easy answer’ is just a legal formality at this point and does little to nothing for the privacy it claims to protect. Advertisers like Google like it that way and will fight tooth and nail against any ‘reconsiderations’

Except countries don’t fund the whole game and certainly not without conditions and criteria.

This also ignores indie devs who often only get their start self funding their project via day jobs. We could have so many more new ideas in niche genres if actually gave two shits about supporting new devs and not some AAA mega corp churning out the same uninspired garbage.

I have my reolink cameras setup on an internal network without direct internet access, but have a server running Frigate and a VPN that I can remote into from my phone. Gives me full control of where the recordings are backed up and remote access controls. This setup works for their doorbells too which is neat.

The first mistake was thinking OpenAI gives a damn about privacy given they’re more than happy to sell that out to Police. Whether it’s a judge or a hacker, it’s only a matter of time before someone gets a hold of that nuclear bomb worth of data.

My tinfoil hat theory is that this instance is less a cashgrab and more an attack from AI slopbros to drown out criticism their billionaire overlords.

Really keen to sit down and read this book though.

I switched to KeePassDX for this reason among others.

See that’s the fun part. Google is the ad company so it’s all 1st party data. Google can package the Trojan horse however they please, which why it’s such a fine line for the blockers to walk.

It wouldn’t matter whether it was intentional or not. Put simply, Google can continue indirectly punishing creators for tolerating adblockers then redirect blame, even though they could have easily separated the metrics from the advertising and telemetry endpoints that blockers filtered. This way they get their money either from unblocked ads or from creator’s reduced view counts, win-win for Google.

As an added bonus for Google, by ensuring view metrics get fucked up, it double punishes creators featuring sponsored content that rely on those metrics to determine how much the sponsor should pay them. Meanwhile Google could, in theory, sell ad placements attached to their own internal metrics that differ from the affected ones publicly visible.

More of an assisted drop than a mach 5 launch (though that kinda liftoff would be fun to see), but yeah it would have to take the armour with it, not that it makes much difference if the battery is ready to toast everything in the vicinity.

If airbags going off at highway speed isn’t an issue, we can probably do just as well checking several conditions (controlled stop) before pulling the trigger. Then again, this is assuming the brains are smarter than the ones yeeting a burning battery into a sidewalk.

Interesting idea, horrible execution.

If they really wanted to go down this route, a better idea might be to push the battery out straight down and have a fireblanket deploy itself like an airbag to act as a flame shield and buy time.

Fire fighters are then free to move the vehicle from the fire to better assess and respond based on the circumstances.

The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and ‘attacked’ for the obvious BS.

Running that much power next to a data line sounds like a terrible idea for signal integrity, especially if something shorts to said data lines. It just sounds sketchy or filled with so many asterisks that it’s functional impossible to reach their claimed throughput.

If you want to go full dystopian…

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It really isn’t. At best it can generate short snippet solutions but it absolutely botches projects that require contextual knowledge of the program stack.

My job actively avoids because of the havoc it tends to cause not to mention legal issues.

How else are they going to milk their talentless techbro cash cows? Can’t have China popping that imaginary wealth bubble now can we. /s

A road near me added obnoxious speed bumps in an industrial zone that was already reduced to 50km/h solely for the gambling seniors to get to the RSL (Returned Services League, a glorified casino for seniors/veterans), again built in an INDUSTRIAL ZONE with frequent semi-trucks.

For devs who routinely boast about their (ineffective) anti-cheat, this is truly some amateur hour code. No wonder cheaters run rampant in their games.

As much as I agree the 30% cut can be a bit steep, I do appreciate that part of it is going into ongoing R&D like Steam Deck and Proton benefiting the whole gaming industry. I’d like to think of it like Valve are investing into PC innovation similarly to the way Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo do for their new consoles.