They don’t recognize bills. They recognize a pattern of tiny yellow rings in the bills, the Eurion constellation, which can barely be seen by the eye. This supposedly will stop copiers and printers from scanning or printing any document that has these.
Bypassing these is trivial.
I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions when they all started pulling price shenanigans.
Now I either use Stremio, properly “Arrified”, or sail the high seas with qbitorrent, which, by the way, has a very good search function not enabled by default, and which many people don’t know about. (Google qbitorrent search jackett)
To look for things I usually go to rotten tomatoes.
Also, there are frequent posts here or on other sites where people post their favorite shows/movies, which are often great for discovering less known shows.
Investors should have learned by now that Musks endeavors are 100% ADHD cycle projects; hyper focus, obsess, launch, start to lose interest, hop on the the next, abandoning previous project, instead of building on the success.
Upvoted for proper spelling of “Lo and behold”.
A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.
Things are probably going to get worse in the short term, but the AI bubble is going to burst. Magnitude? We’ll see, but when investors realize that these companies cannot make a profit, and open source frontier models that allow you to run AI in house are removing vendor lock in, things are going to change. Also, LLMs are a dead end, and have little room to improve.
Newer paradigms are appearing, such as Yann LeCun’s JASP, which actually learns, and other approaches, which will make LLMs obsolete, and are way less hardware intensive.
Another factor is the Chinese closing in in consumer grade RAM. If it can be proven that no backdoor or other shenanigans are there, they will balance things somewhat.
While current reality is what it is, there may be a massive social and traditional media manipulation by the big three and other interested parties to fuel fear of rising prices forever, to push people to buy as much as they can at these prices. I have no proof of this, but I don’t think it’s far fetched.
And let’s not forget that for media outlets, fear and tragedy sells. (I think Hearst or some other news mogul said that last century.)
There, there…
As it’s often said here. Pay a living wage. Tips should be a gratuity, something given to thank the worker for above and beyond service.
Rocket Lab, and other space companies, are also being dragged down because they are bunched in for being space economy, despite being a way more sensible company. I predict that the Xshit sandwich will gradually lose steam, while RL will steadily climb again, and skyrocket (I am legally required to make that pun) when Neutron launches. That’s my bet. Then again, Tesla is still obscenely overvalued, despite selling objectively last gen EVs that have dangerous fake autopilot, and which are effectively subsidized in the US by the gov’t by virtue of bans and tariffs. Large funds, billionaires, and many retail investors are buying Nazitard’s stock like meme stock buyers. There is going to be a lot of hurt sooner or later. BTW, how is starship, or whatever the exploding giant dildo is called, doing?
Out of school? Kind of. I wrote my first programs on a PDP 11 on a TTY. An actual perforated paper, daisy wheel TTY. No CRT. I was an admin of a Wang VS100 in the late 80’s. Later I was a systems Manager at a small campus, and admin’d one of the servers myself, in the gopher/usenet era. My first browser was mosaic (Or was it Lynx? can’t remember), and I coded my first website in HTML, no version number, HTML. Last time I bothered to look, my reddit account was 17 years old, and that was my second acount, I lost the password to my first, older account. So yeah, I was out of school. I do look younger than I am.
“Kid”? Man, to call me kid you must be a really old fuck.
I really don’t get this outrage thing. Outrage because all eggs become expensive? Yes, because they are close to essential, or at least very important for a lot of people’s diet, and they all get more expensive. Outrage for some game platform shenanigans? Don’t give them your fucking money.
Yes, but some do things better than others. CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most. Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4.
Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…
That is one of the defining characteristics of Linux.
Digg, reddit, Slashdot and others were and are doomscrolling in nature.
Also, while the main input was upvotes, your home was a combination of weights between front page and your subscriptions. Maybe crude by today’s standards, but algorithms.
The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
I tend to consider first attempts/versions as Betas. Sometimes I will do the full alpha, beta, RC cycle
Freedman has a pretty good video relating to this
Yeah, they can shoot themselves in the foot, and alternatives exist/will appear, but if you have whatever millions of users, and you lose 25%, Reddit will still be a 500 lb gorilla.
Also, we have to remember that the vast majority of users are like your typical FB users; mindless and couldn’t care less about these changes.
Airtel did that to me when I got the first Smartphone. They argued that the forever was for 3G, not 4G, although there was no mention of such a thing in the contract. They lost 4 mobile lines, a landline, and ADSL forever.
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