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With a signed warrant being the key differentiator vs invading privacy by default.

Is that supposed to be a lot? The US is some 3.8 million square miles.

A decade old Reddit thread estimated there are 60 square miles of just McDonalds. That is, a McDonalds footprint of solar panels alone is 39GW.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2bq7l2/so_i...

People can also distribute heinous things through snail mail, but we are not yet at the point where the government reads all letters looking for wrongthink.

Just because we technically can make a privacy destroying drag net does not mean we should. Had phones existed 250 years ago, I have no doubt the founders would have thought it obvious that a cellphone’s contents were your personal papers which could not be freely searched.

No wiggle room to come up with a workable solution. Let’s go shopping instead.

Didn’t the Supreme Court just rule that agencies could not set policy and instead must rely on specific guidelines set by Congress?

Cannot wait to see how they inevitably decide that this case is different.

The world is more than rich tech bros living in the woods. Normal income people also wanted to use this service without being bankrupted.

Rural homes do have roads that can be reached on a rusty pickup.

People feel entitled to the advertised rate structure. Was there anywhere in the promo material that you might get slapped with $1500 connection fees?

If you are not big tech, that’s a lot of money. For the home in the middle of nowhere, $1500 could be more than you would pay in monthly rent. Plenty of rural people without access to good internet were hoping for Starlink to save them from garbage DSL connection options.

The best I have heard: It makes you fully independent of the terrestrial energy grid. There is also some nebulous freedom from governmental authority possibilities.

Both of which strike me as poor arguments. We are in a short term energy crunch. I expect within five years that most of the energy problems will be resolved and the eye watering financials of launching a GPU into space will look absurd

Governments also do not like to cede authority, so I find it hard to believe that they will not claim jurisdiction over any business operating within their borders (all of those ground stations).

Pre-publish to official security orgs. Does not get released into the wild until k of N auditors agree.

All of my services are internal, yet I am continually getting red alerts that there is a novel denial-of-service that needs to be patched immediately.

That is infuriating to read. I have been using virt-manager and sleeping soundly that it was a secure isolation level.

VM guests should be considered trusted? Are you kidding me? That’s my number one usage -to operate software I do not trust.

Prior to the temporary blockade cessation, oil execs were saying we could hit tank/operational bottoms in mid/late July. The reprieve has probably pushed that out a few weeks, but oil supply will vanish before November.

I don’t know what to say. I went to the migration site, entered my information-no dice. Contacted support and got no assistance. There are others with a similar experience.

Microsoft could have gone above and beyond to manage the forced migration. Instead there was a convoluted process which left many cheated. They could have just punted and automatically emailed brand new entitlement codes to all of the original purchase emails. Yes, people who switched emails would have been missed, but that would have covered 95%+ of customers in a single action.

That sounds like deletion by proxy. If there is no way to redownload it, seeing the title listed on your account does little good.

Beat me to it. I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I really am curious to see some of the changes that have happened since I last played (when still owned by Notch), but I refuse to repurchase it.

I would be willing to count those Android HTPC devices you plug into a TV. Those come with a web browser, so it would be greater than zero.

Renewed calls just today! Give us Greenland or we pull out of Europe entirely.

I mean, it is currently on sale for $1.19. Normally $6

https://www.gog.com/en/game/dungeon_keeper

If it crashes, why would you want to buy it? If reality ever comes a knocking, I would not expect fantasy valuations to hit a second time. EV competition is only increasing and Tesla is no longer especially notable vs the competition.

I suppose Elon would for some financial manipulation games to prove he is the richest, but otherwise seems like a bad deal.

Any chance of making it onto GOG? I prefer to pickup games from there whenever I can.

I hope someday we can get out of this local maxima of PDF documents. The format is terrible, but was right place, right time and might be impossible to dislodge.

Now come on, there was a recent post where the author argued that infallible management knew this would happen, but was part of the double-secret-probation strategy to get the cogs to finally start using AI.

That invited stranger is probably not recording footage that will be stored for all time. There were leaks about how Tesla employees were sharing images/videos of customers.

The admin has also said that many of those arm shipments may be delayed by years because the US first needs to restock after blowing their inventory in Iran. So, sign a deal for US weapons which may not be delivered as agreed or may be denied the latest required software patches. I expect many countries to look elsewhere for future armaments.

There is (was?) a mandatory list of vaccines all military had to receive upon enlisting.

Woof. Microsoft pre-announced a bunch of layoffs in the gaming division next month. Also had a disastrous price increase in Xbox Live membership followed by a large number of cancelled subscriptions.

Clearly more expensive hardware will bolster the financials.

Update: while I am terribly unhappy to give them money, there are still retailers who are listing the previous price and I was able to scoop one up before the hike went into effect.

That’s infuriating. I was hovering over the buy button last week, and now that’s a deal breaker. I was already going for the premium price point for hard-to-justify reasons.

I thought the compressed size of the LLM book corpus was a mere 100-200GB.

GP has big plans.

It has perfectly usable buttons. Adding touch feels like straying from the core proposition to have a minimal reader.