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Because if you believe all of the hype around AI, one of the top 5 AI companies should be able to use the AI to move the needle pretty significantly here. They have lots of money, …

Its being pounded into their head almost daily (and from all directions) that AI is the future and the more AI the better. Their boss, the industry, other managers, heck probably e…

Or its a phone alternative for younger kids that keeps an actual phone out of their hands, allows for worry free communication while they roam the streets and is backed by arguably…

Just so you know, hardware hackers have been doing this for 20+ years. Hacking satellite TV (google smart card glitching) was done the same way. Its more that its really hard to do…

Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on. My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube acr…

What happens when Ford updates the ToS on my vehicle (via an OTA update) and I cannot see the backup camera until I "accept"? (Insert about 1000 other examples of very awkward ToS …

I think this is a very strong and simple argument to use with regulators, politicians etc. When I put my credit card into Apples ecosystem they take a 0.15% cut of the transaction …

I wanted to try Googles Image generation models, to compliment my Claude API sub. Holy Crap, I got about 45 minutes into setting up billing and just gave up and un-did everything. …

I would prefer to take it broader and codify it in law that: 1. The terms and conditions of a product, service, etc. "primarily" aimed at a consumer have simple, human readable ter…

...or ensure you have backups of data in a non-AWS location?

Z-wave also uses 900mhz in the US, which penetrates walls better and has less competition with 2.4 (Zigbee). So while its closed, it usually more performant than Zigbee (in my expe…

Yes this is indeed a problem. You can get around this by piping the Z-Wave or Zigbee information into a MQTT server and basically run them as separate networks, with Home Assistant…

On paper (aka the laws of the United State) FISA applies to things that physically reside in the US. "The FISA Court’s only jurisdiction is “to hear applications for and grant orde…

There is absolutely an opportunity cost for all of the stuff you own. I won't publish my entire thinking on this, but after seeing my parents collect, hoard and store things for ye…

Texas is not, according to the article they are making it harder every year.

But this was doing the opposite...it was effectively making the test harder every year. If one wanted to game the No Child Left Behind Act, shouldn't you endeavor to make the test …

Companies have software to manage this for you. We utilize https://www.cyberark.com/products/machine-identity-security/

I utilize pfSense to hijack all outgoing port 53 connections and just re-route them to the local DNS server. From there, I allow AdGuard DNS out over port 953. I then use pfBlocker…

International users that have Advanced Protection enabled would in theory be safe from all of the 3-letter agencies (like safe from those agencies getting the data from Apple...not…

Yes, a large percentage of of the consulting / services business that you would know the name of are organized like this. For services / consulting it makes a lot of sense.

I mean he has a point. Things are incredibly complex now adays, I don't think most people have time to "understand the system." I would be much more interested in rules that don't …

Not really, the more textures you can put into memory the faster they can do their thing. PC gamers would say that a modern mid-range card (1440p card) should really have 16GB of v…

FYI, this POSIWID concept has been heavily thought about, researched, reasoned, etc. within the cybernetics (or whatever you want to call it) community. I am not going to do it jus…

The Reddit /accounts were talking about this earlier this week and I think most of them had a pretty reasonable take. 1. If one uses an asset as collateral for a loan (be it stock …

I would say it's not that "young workers aren't interested in being machinists" it's more of "Society has not incentivized young workers enough to want to become machinists." It's …