I think they just patented it because the system rewards patent trolls with thousands of patents, even if they have no intention to ever use said patent.
This is unpractical and will cost them more (replace all the tooling, rethink supply chain) than it will supposedly make them (rich customers would go to official repairs anyway, and poor customers will just get a copy from aliexpress)
government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state
a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens
I never saw such talent of choosing people like Trump. Not a single one has a working brain. Not a single one, maybe chosen accidentally. Zero. This is real talent.
Ah maybe for NASA? That billionaire maybe had some talent and that's why he had to replace him with a totally incompetent one.
I silently replaced windows in the home PC and it took 2 months for the tech illiterate SO to say "WTF, why you put Apple on this PC, I thought you hated them" (put same username/password, same wallpaper, even Microsoft Edge)
At work I was shocked that I could login directly as [email protected] without any extra configuration. Plain vanilla fresh install, typed my active directory account for laughs, it worked 😲
Also at work I was shocked to see that I could just run the exe of the windows-only accounting software and everything works. I even installed LibreOffice in wine, lol (the accounting software needs soffice.exe for generating spreadsheets). I could even install foxit reader for windows 😂 (sorry, all the Linux PDF readers completely suck when printing, I need previews and booklet and all the extra features)
that means it's almost useless then, because SEPA offers absolutely zero fraud protection. Once you sent the money, it's impossible to get it back even if you contact the bank 1 second later.
Exception: some hacker did some social engineering and posing as the ministry of defense, persuaded one of the richest men in italy to send him a bribe via SEPA. In that case the banks were able to reverse it one week after. Normal people instead gets only a FUCK YOU.
But an iPhone 4S nowadays is completely unusable, it's impossibile to run a browser that doesn't use a ten years old engine. For reference, a galaxy Nexus from the same age could run android 6 (custom ROM, otherwise android 4.3) and can still run most modern apps.
If you can find parts for the iphone 4s it's because some warehouse is still full of them, not because Apple is still manufacturing them if needed
The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology.
Most of his assets are in meme stocks, not cash (otherwise he would need to pay taxes, completely unacceptable for him)
Tesla stocks are 1000x the real value and Will crash as soon he's no more the CEO.
Same for SpaceX shares that have artificially inflated value from a bullshit valuation of xitter+xai. Not being a public company they can value that at any price, it's not actually worth the 1 trillion they claim themselves
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That opening video of the Olympics was disgusting, how they could approve it to show "Italian excellence in design"????
Btw I find hilarious that openai themselves used traditional methods to make their codex ad while everyone else is using the slop generators "we can save $5000 if we bruteforce our way with thousands of prompts"
Not really, it sends a combination of 3 really fast button combination on press and doesn't report to the os when your finger releases the key. You need to run a daemon that detects that specific combination and emulates a finger release after a specified time
Assholes. Couldn't they just remap one of the useless "internet" keys from the 00s like KEY_HOMEPAGE or XF86Mail??
Or create a brand new scancode since they could change the kernel without any problem, especially because the manufacturers would need to change the keyboard firmware anyway AND because copilot requires special hardware, it doesn't need retro compatibility with older windows versions that don't have the scancode in kernel or in the keyboard driver
I have a Lenovo usb keyboard with a fn Key in place of the Ctrl key that has absolutely no purpose. It's for volume control like fn+F7 BUT... IT ALSO HAS DEDICATED BUTTONS FOR VOLUME CONTROL!!
After the nth time I accidentally switched fn and Ctrl I took a screwdriver and popped it out permanently (being USB it doesn't report fn status to the os and of course the BIOS doesn't allow FN remapping because it's not a laptop)
But there are many in American soil that are significantly cheaper than Walmart and similar. Of course if a commissary is placed in a base in Okinawa, in the middle of the ocean on the other part of the globe, then stuff is much more expensive
The Epstein PR team at the time was doing a "sciencewashing" operation donating millions of dollars everywhere to let the rapist appear as a genuine philanthropist
It's not secret, it was their defence when they got sued for copyright infringement. Instead of download all the books from Anna's archive like meta, they buy a copy, cut the binding, scan it, then destroy it. "We bought a copy for personal use then use the content for profit, it's not piracy"
“No matter where [people] come from,” Melania announces during one of her grating voiceovers, “we are bound by the same humanity.” Though she speaks with a thick Slavic drawl, she refers only obliquely to her “country of birth” (Slovenia is referenced, directly, once). A parade of immigrants, including French-born ...
I'm using Gmail as an email client. I tell Gmail to go to fetch emails from my other accounts and so I have unified email. I don't use @gmail.com as my primary address.
Problem: from today Google discontinued the feature and they warned me only yesterday.
Which webmail has almost feature parity with Gmail?
I need filters and fetching emails from multiple accounts. I have a dedicated server so the part of fetching email can be done from an external program
The immediate catalyst, it seems, is an intensifying focus on capex, or capital expenditures. Microsoft revealed that its spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter, even as growth in its Azure cloud business cooled slightly. Even more concerning to analysts, however, was a new disclosure that approximately 45% ...
I'm guessing the ads will be embedded in the answers of the free users (like: it will add to the prompt something like "and don't forget to plug the sponsor, ridge wallet")
You need to do a custom program if you want to do that. I mean a traditional program where variables are stored properly.
The models have no memory at all, at every question it starts from scratch, so the clients are just "pretending" it has a memory by simply including all previous questions and answers in your last query. You reply "ok", but the model is getting thousands of words with all the history.
Because each question becomes exponentially expensive, at some point it starts to prune old stuff. It either truncates the content (for example the completely useless meta ai chatbot that WhatsApp forced down the throat loses context after 2-3 questions) or it uses the model itself to have a condensed resume of past interactions, but this is how it hallucinates.
Otherwise it will cost like $1 per question and more
I like the idea of a federated version of that, but there are many problems:
When people scroll, they need an algorithm to choose content for them.
99% of average TikTok content is low quality shit and it's the algorithm to find and promote what works
All that 99% of shit is occupying exabytes on bytedance servers. Users are uploading terabytes of shit every hour, it's impossibile for a federated instance to keep all this shit on disk. Look how Lemmy is designed for example. I upload an image and then it's stored forever in hundreds of instances. For videos is untenable. Only companies that are profiting from this (for example using such videos for training ai models, or using this videos to hook people and serve them highly personalized ads) can host a TikTok clone
Top text: Like a lot of people I’d forgotten about these fucks
Screenshot of a tweet from @ClimateDefiance reads: Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.
Included image depicts a man with glasses in a pink polo, Mark McCloskey, pointing a rifle at people off screen next to his wife Patricia McCloskey, a woman in a striped shirt, who is also pointing a pistol at protestors while standing outside their home at a the June 28, 2020 St. Louis, Missouri George Floyd Protest.
BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair ( www.ifixit.com )
Adafruit: From Ultimate Driving Machine to Ultimate Rent-Seeking Machine: The BMW Logo Screw Patent. ...
Germs are scared of me!
He really fucking said this apparently. I don’t even know anymore.
What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?
Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine ( apnews.com )
Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun ( europeanbusinessmagazine.com )
I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too ( www.androidcentral.com )
Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull ( www.currentaffairs.org )
The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology.
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It Took Less Than a Quarter for NFL Fans to Be Sick of AI Ads During Super Bowl LX ( www.si.com )
AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal ( www.ft.com )
It seems like a bubble craze
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TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost ( en.wikipedia.org )
Socialism for the elite but not for the masses?
Walking is canceled
WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him ( www.pbs.org )
Hey Mr President! I represent evangelicals, televangelists and scientology like Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, David Miscavige, etc. ...
Me waiting for the cute Texas girls to DM me at 55 Water St.
Islandium
I've Hit The Perfect Weight
I've hit the most satisfying weight for my OCD and I'm trapped now
Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen ‘Melania’ after marquee jokes ( lakeoswegoreview.com )
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Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word
Hey Home-labbers/ self hosters. ...
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review ( www.the-independent.com )
“No matter where [people] come from,” Melania announces during one of her grating voiceovers, “we are bound by the same humanity.” Though she speaks with a thick Slavic drawl, she refers only obliquely to her “country of birth” (Slovenia is referenced, directly, once). A parade of immigrants, including French-born ...
'Arrest and Prosecute': Demands for Justice After Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez Named as Masked Agents Who Killed Alex Prett ( www.commondreams.org )
“It’s not a lack of training issue, it’s a culture of violence and lawlessness issue.”
My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!
Second worst reason
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Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained ( fortune.com )
The immediate catalyst, it seems, is an intensifying focus on capex, or capital expenditures. Microsoft revealed that its spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter, even as growth in its Azure cloud business cooled slightly. Even more concerning to analysts, however, was a new disclosure that approximately 45% ...
Melania humiliated as UK premiere of her movie gets single-digit ticket sales ( www.rawstory.com )
Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots ( www.cnbc.com )
TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS ( arstechnica.com )
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This is what actual brandishing looks like
Screenshot of a tweet from @ClimateDefiance reads: Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.
Included image depicts a man with glasses in a pink polo, Mark McCloskey, pointing a rifle at people off screen next to his wife Patricia McCloskey, a woman in a striped shirt, who is also pointing a pistol at protestors while standing outside their home at a the June 28, 2020 St. Louis, Missouri George Floyd Protest.
How/why does Microsoft teams exist?
Rant warning! ...
OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter
Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.
Article: https://tg.la7.it/cronaca/bolzano-coltelli-stampante-3d-a-scuola-denunciato-minore-26-01-2026-251562 ...
Nearly half of countries on Trump’s Board of Peace banned from entering US ( www.independent.co.uk )
The Board of Peace is expected to try and mediate global conflict and has been accused of trying to replace the UN ...