remotelove

Rock on. Thanks!

It could be worse, and tech startups like this can have some weird practices. One company I worked at literally burned tech debt. They wrote it down and burned it. (It never really fixed the core problems either. Imagine that.)

Tech startups can be a little cultish at times. I have seen super healthy cult behavior and also super weird cult behavior. Motivating younger engineers can be a challenge, so if it works, whatever. (I never cared about that kind of stuff as long as I got free food.)

As long as nothing turns religious or harmful, I don't care. Good engineers can be some very unique people and most likely have some kind of underlying mental disorder. (I am absolutely not being derogatory! Without a doubt, I am in that category of engineer as well, but I am much older and restrained these days.)

What tools do you use for downloading? There are a ton of channels I would love to download all the content from. If I could point a tool at a list and just let it do it's thing, that would be great.

Sorry to interrupt, but CEOs may have data retention laws to follow, depending on the industry. It's easier for many companies just to save everything, usually. Do they exploit that data? Yeah, unfortunately. CEOs can be blamed for a lot, but not for rules they may have to follow. You can blame them for shitty security over that data they have to retain. That's a thing! (AI companies are the ones you need to look at now as they are the ones that want everything.)

To tweak your point a little, you have no voting power over people who are put in charge of government regulatory bodies who create those data retention rules, for example. (Policy and guidelines are distinct things.)

On second thought, you can vote for the people who control policy or support increased restrictions on police and other feds. You don't have to vote for people who cheer for the abuse of power. You can look at life any way you choose, I suppose.

Your points are not generally wrong and your individual vote rarely changes your country or the world. Addressing complaints of an individual isn't really what voting is for. However, you can vote in different elections for people who have specific areas of control based on your opinion. That is why I got nuanced with my first bit about data, actually.

The people telling you to vote "harder" are simply telling you to actually vote. That is the point.

If the rumors are correct, pissing off Microsoft was probably not ideal. Nadella was supposedly livid that they were blindsided with the news.

Given that Microsoft has adopted a blatent path to enshitification, having copilot's name being tarnished ahead of schedule was probably not good.

This little hiccup exposed the for-profit and non-profit sides of OpenAI to more people, gave their board members more exposure and exposed Altman's history with his sister. This stuff was public before, but nobody cared. Now that people are curious, it's "a bad look".

Meta simultaneously disolved their "Responsible AI" team as well. While that could have been for any number of reasons, my first thought is: "Whelp! We don't need to keep that charade going any more."

My only hope is that VC money still tends to err on the side of paranoia, gets pulled out and that we have a quick collapse of the fly-by-night AI companies.

I believe the idea is, on the newer motherboards, is that the high speed (20Gbps) USB-C ports are ideal for external hubs. Personally, I like my workstations to be under my desk and out of my way and having one USB-C cable for a hub and one for my phone is clean and convenient.

USB-C to USB-A hubs are cheap. I am constantly moving thumb drives back and forth between my PC and my 3D printer and CNC so damage to an integrated port on my PC would be a real possibility.

Everyone has their own usage habits, of course. For me being restricted to two or maybe three built in USB-C ports is for the best.

I thought "narcissist" was legitimately confused with "sociopath" in this thread for a second.

After looking over the definitions again for the distinctions, my immediate thought was "why not both?"

Here's the kicker: A ton of things that are actually are stupid do actually turn into stupid products. "As Seen on TV" being the primary source of those things...

Innovation is probably one of the best, and worst, features of war. Simple concepts that do not have any other place in society could save, or cost, thousands of lives. It's weird.

This idea of remote controlled cars shuttling explosives is not new. There were probably Allied versions, but the German version of such a thing was the Goliath. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine

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Something like this?

If you can remove the app from the TV, that may work. It's probably polling for updates or trying to cache a picture or something for the login screen.

Just like every other app on your TV, Netflix probably has a running service that is collecting all of your viewing habits and piping it to Nexflix whether or not you have an account. (Smart TVs come with extensive terms and conditions that you probably agreed to.)

Smart TVs are cheaper these days mostly because the hardware costs are subsidized by having pre-installed apps like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. And yeah, they all want your data and they all want to participate in the advertising racket.

Sorry sir. That is against YouTubes terms and conditions.