Yeah, I meant for AI stuff specifically. Their main products are...well I wouldn't say "good" but they successfully choked out all competition in the 90s so...
Microsoft has nothing worth using. Microsoft hasn't made anything that's even worth talking about. Anyone with an OpenAI key and an afternoon to kill could make something every bit as good as what Microsoft has done. They put the absolute bare minimum of effort into everything they've done with AI.
The only advantage they have is customer lock-in. Historically, that's usually enough for them. I hope it's not this time.
Eventually Microsoft will probably buy a company with people who know what the fuck they're doing. I think that's their only way forward because it looks like the brain drain has finally caught up with them.
Binary Eye
It's a QR/barcode/etc. reader. Very simple, and after trying like a dozen different QR readers I've found it to be the most reliable.
I know that a lot of brands' built-in camera apps can read QR codes nowadays, but I find a dedicated app faster than the all-purpose camera apps I've used, and if you use open-source camera apps like AOSP's or OpenCamera, then you won't have that feature built in anyway.
The problem is that they are naively inverting the colors, which doesn't work for photos. Lazy, yeah.
In principle I think it makes sense (as much sense as the feature in general, anyway). Personally I do not understand the push in iOS and Android to make all icons look the same, but if that's what you want, then excluding shortcuts would be an eyesore, right?
Nobody tell her about daemons.
Sounds like an excellent class. Probably should be a requirement rather than an elective tbh.
Buying anything on Amazon hardly seems viable anymore. There's so much counterfeit crap there, and a million low-effort rebrandings of the same stuff you can get on AliExpress for cheaper.
Shop local when you can, and at least shop not-Amazon for the rest.
For context, original lyrics:
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Super tame.
In the New Year's show, they changed "a redneck agenda" to "the MAGA agenda". Okay, little bit more explicitly partisan, but basically the same thing.
They've stated that they are using Mac minis as relays. They claim that they do not store messages or credentials, but I don't see how that's possible if it relies on a Mac or iOS relay server that they control.
Not once in the entire article do they measure energy in a unit suitable for measuring energy.
Measuring batteries in km is misleading and nonsensical. Batteries do not have a distance range. Cars have a distance range, based on many factors, only one of which is battery capacity.
Similarly, please stop measuring light output in watts that an imaginary incandescent bulb from 30 years ago might theoretically have used to produce that amount of light.
The best way to make money in the gold rush was selling shovels.
Same idea here. Nvidia is making bank.
Good advice but let's be real: in practice, this means having no social media profile, and even that is a half-measure.
Even if I carefully curate my friends list (most people don't), and share my photos with only my inner circle (most people won't), I have no control over what my friends do. If my cousin posts a photo he took at Thanksgiving, it's probably going to be visible to all his friends, and even friends-of-friends. That's thousands of people I've never met and there's not much I can do about it.
There are pictures of me on Facebook, and I do not use Facebook. The social cost of getting on everyone's ass about taking/posting pictures with me is too high even for a grumpy old fart like me. At least I'm not tagged (since I don't have a profile), so it's not neatly pre-sorted for potential attackers. But that's at best security through obscurity, and it isn't even very obscure. Anyone targeting me specifically would have no trouble finding pictures of me, and none of that is realistically within my control.
It's more like "beater bike security". Any bike lock can be thwarted by a dedicated thief, so the best strategy is simply to be a less attractive target than the other bikes around.
This is a systemic problem. It goes beyond individual choices and even beyond social media policies.