Funwayguy

Amazon eBook formats have DRM that encrypts it to you and your Kindle’s unique device ID and they can just stop reissuing, or revoke the decryption keys. They make it extraordinarily difficult to export/download them in a DRM-free format that would otherwise be unaffected.

Funnily enough I’m an under-employed software engineer hired as a cleanup crew for sprawling tech debt partially caused by AI dependence. My colleagues are sick of it but have to keep generating slop to meet KPIs demanded of us to artificially justify the company expenditure on the failing technology.

I don’t think programming will be dead forever but rather there will be decades worth of soul crushing techdebt to fix across multiple industries, with the brain drain screwing over vibe coders after the impending AI economic collapse.

All I can do in the mean time is bide my time and play the long game, focusing on diagnosing and fixing things I know the AI fails miserably at comprehending to establish a record of complex jobs nobody could vibe their way out of. I.e. become the nuclear bomb of knowledge they cannot afford to risk losing.

Is anyone really that surprised that they’re bring back the pre-civil war slave trade.

I feel like discrete GPUs could be so much faster at these kind of cross compute tasks through ReBAR/SAM if not for all the proprietary crap and half baked drivers. Unified is a view into that perfect world of what could be if we stopped with the monopolistic BS.

I think anyone who’s paid any attention to targeted advertising has know this long before LMMs were a thing. Removing the ‘easy answer’ is just a legal formality at this point and does little to nothing for the privacy it claims to protect. Advertisers like Google like it that way and will fight tooth and nail against any ‘reconsiderations’

Except countries don’t fund the whole game and certainly not without conditions and criteria.

This also ignores indie devs who often only get their start self funding their project via day jobs. We could have so many more new ideas in niche genres if actually gave two shits about supporting new devs and not some AAA mega corp churning out the same uninspired garbage.

From a techical perspective I’m still annoyed that the amorphous blobs were not the agreed default. They are the simplest to store in SVG, have no gradients to render, and being non-human makes them not require skin/gender modifiers. All expression, nothing more.

What makes this funny to me is that there’s no incentive to not violate the order. The labels are suing for such an urealistic sum that it makes little difference catering to their blatantly insane demands.

Not only that but by releasing the music after such a public lawsuit, not only will data hoarders make it damn near impossible to contain redistribution, but it indirectly pits the AI oligarchs who will inevitability slurp it up against the labels for mutual destruction.

I have my reolink cameras setup on an internal network without direct internet access, but have a server running Frigate and a VPN that I can remote into from my phone. Gives me full control of where the recordings are backed up and remote access controls. This setup works for their doorbells too which is neat.

To be fair you could just have both and allow the player to hotswap between them. This was a thing in some retro games already as tank controls were phased out. Really depends on how much work you want to put into supporting that kind of context switching of controls.

I see we’ve just completely abandoned semantic versioning. Not a good look for the future of major or even just cohesively themed updates.

The immediate issues I see are:

The bulpup arrangement gives it a moment arm that would bend your wrist rather than push into the palm of your hand on recoil.

Even if your wrist is fine, the hot gasses escaping the cylinder would be directed straight into your forefinger and thumb with every shot.

Finally, a break action or flip-out reload would now use space occupied by your hand around the grip. Not to mention a break would require the trigger and hammer mechanisms to be on opposite halves adding complexity and potential reliability issues.

I got the same treatment recently. All tech departments were issued M4 Mac Book Pros because that was more cost effective than than dealing with the non-compliant fuckery of W11. Unfortunately non-tech departments got the old inventory and are suffering the abhorrent instability of W11. It somehow refuses to play nice with just about everything in our corporate ecosystem.

The first mistake was thinking OpenAI gives a damn about privacy given they’re more than happy to sell that out to Police. Whether it’s a judge or a hacker, it’s only a matter of time before someone gets a hold of that nuclear bomb worth of data.

If you don’t use the VPN for normal things then you leave yourself open to indentification by correlation. It’s the same rule for naive Tor users. The more normal and distributed it appears in traffic, the harder it is to correlate other pieces of data they they already have access to.

My tinfoil hat theory is that this instance is less a cashgrab and more an attack from AI slopbros to drown out criticism their billionaire overlords.

Really keen to sit down and read this book though.

I like how we’re all skimming over the fact that they fed federal compliance data into Azure OpenAI seemingly without permission or oversight.

How after “5 hours” of decision making was it ever an option at try and appease any demands of the Russian government. It never works and never ends.

Heck if you wanted to even try this, make it a geolocation based visibility filter and let the VPNs do their thing.

I switched to KeePassDX for this reason among others.

Same on my M4 work mac. Tahoe has annoying graphical glitches in several liquid glass modals and the damn calendar app wont scroll through my weekly meeting schedule properly anymore. The UI overall feels half baked and far less customisable than the marketing otherwise suggests.

Also, if anyone knows how to shutoff that god awful ‘bounce’ animation on every damn tooltip that fucks with my eyes while I’m trying to write code, it would be greatly appreciated.