At this scale, a geosynchronous solar power satellite beaming down power as microwaves actually seems chapter and more reasonable.
You know, other than the single point of failure in space part. I guess it’s a bad decade for that idea.
I’m sorry - paying for an audit is somehow a conflict of interest? How exactly is that?
As someone who had to contract auditing firms every year, and personally sign off in their report as part of our compliance, I would love to hear how I should have …what? Won the audit lottery? Applied for some sort of government assistance? Prayed to an audit fairy godmother?
Who the F else is paying for our audit? I want free audits! I bet everyone does.
Ah, I believe this is what’s called “a conspiracy theory” if you had more details.
The pets do need the training to understand that the sounds, when the button says them, mean communication to the human. It’s actually a pretty sophisticated intellectual jump, and not all pets necessarily get it.
Typically one starts with “outside” as a non-food common request (for indoor peta). So an owner starts by saying “outside” and associating just that word with going outside (not the full “you wanna go out?”). Once the pet gets past the conceptual hurdle is the button means the thing, after that it’s much easier to add new words.
AI isn’t needed, dogs and cats can be trained to use sound buttons to express complex thoughts and emotions. IIRC, they can have a vocabulary of something like 100-200 words used commonly in the household.
Your pets already understand you and a lot of what you say. You may just not understand them, and AI isn’t going to fix that.
With the government only willing to spend money in the DOD budget, they would be fools not to pursue military contracts.
Just remember kids, LLMs are confidently incorrect up to 60% of the time.
Agreed, I was warned off of PIA 5+ years ago.
It’s not about you being in bluetooth range of the person you want to talk to, it’s about all the people sitting in between you both that pass the message along without touching the internet.
So you can be on a cargo ship, or on a remote island, with 20 other people and all use chat. If 1 person has internet, then you can all chat globally as well.
It’s the same basic method of how airtags work. Everyone with an iPhone connects to the airtag and passes data to Apple. It’s just done in the background, so users don’t ever notice.
People are getting memes from LinkedIn now?
FFS, it’s like buying a sandwich from OfficeMax. It’s not from there, and shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Best lil’ machine I ever had was a 10 inch Dell mini Hackintosh. Loved it, and got me through grad school .
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Aside from the Ars Technica article in the xpost, there’s a lot of “it depends.”
It depends on not just the OS, but if it’s a custom image built for Dell or HP or Asus etc. computers, what settings are on, what settings were on by default, what bloatware is pre-installed, etc.
Typically, all MS or Apple really want are to know what apps you have installed, zip code, email address, IP address, crash reports, and possibly keywords they can associate with advertising. That’s their baseline wish list, which is all advertising fodder, and depending on your settings, that can quickly expand to “anonymized” (it’s not) cookie use, tracking of websites visited, etc.
If you have a custom image (i.e. a Dell specific version of Windows) the laptop manufacturer will look for access to roughly the same data.
With the whole Copilot fiasco, recording things like keystrokes and screenshots really are potentially in play now. But, again, only if you have foolishly installed Copilot and turned that stuff on. And that only after huge public outcry. So there’s always a non-zero risk of that, but do your due diligence to know you settings.
Can you strip out bloatware and tighten down Windows to a reasonable degree? Sure. But because MS can and does change system settings without your consent, you might find in 6 months an article about a setting you turned off, that they turned back on and you had no idea.
“Just” as in nothing that demands a phone number to validate. Meaning that OP will be asked to enter a phone number when signing up and may not have to worry about it being the same one as their email account.
Namecheap let me register with just a Tuta email. Payment could maybe go through an online prepaid debit card. Never had a human check AFAIK.
Tell your dad that what he sees on Facebook needs to stay on Facebook.
lol, can’t have fireworks injury statistics if you pass a bill that closes all the hospitals!
I know, it’s just kind of laughably shouting they don’t know what either an audit or conflict of interest actually are.
The hardest part some times is finding an audit firm that isn’t stupid expensive, but also won’t do a shit job and give you a report that looks like some knock-off free LLM didn’t write it to maximize their own payday. I love a good audit report with findings, it means I didn’t waste money. But my shit is (well, was, at another place years back) locked down tight, so we didn’t ever expect anything terrible.