Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
Keep digging, “Leon”.
expect quality at Amazon to decline.
They’ll have to dig a new basement for it to get any lower.
They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.
Nope, it’s not worth that level of privacy invasion.
Alternatively, don’t connect your TV to the internet
Until the first use menu gauntlet requires an internet connection to complete setup and enable the device for normal usage.
Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick
And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.
Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.
“Smart” devices are getting increasingly difficult to avoid in many products categories.
Try buying a non-smart TV without going to high cost commercial/industrial models.
Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers.
Stephen King is going to be in big trouble if these AI thingies notice him.
Edit: I agree about junior devs not blindly trusting them though. They don’t yet know where to draw the X.
The problem (one of the problems) is that people do lean too heavily on the AI tools when they’re inexperienced and never learn for themselves “where to draw the X”.
If I’m hiring a dev for my team, I want them to be able to think for themselves, and not be completely reliant on some LLM or other crutch.
If it also shifts their current load off the existing grid, that might be beneficial.
So I guess if they just replaced the control system with a modern computer that would fix most of the problems
Introducing new Clippy For Reactors.
with some maintenance and upgrades.
Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual “move fast and break things” approach.
they can function even if cellular networks are not functioning, at all or optimally.
When I worked for a cell company, our on-call technicians carried a pager that was on a different company’s network.
how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside
You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.
Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.
besides the direct deaths and injuries, this attack also targeted lines of communication and trust
Exactly. The psychological impact of this attack should not be underestimated.
It will have Hamas’ leadership and operatives second guessing so many of the mundane things that they interact with on a daily basis.
unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.
Also, unlike most of the IDF attacks.
It seemed odd to me that a Web site could write to or read from the clipboard without the user approving it
Yeah, that’s a security hole that I hadn’t been aware of.
What we want doesn’t have any impact on what our corporate overlords decide to inflict on us.
That’s why I choose open source whenever I can.