@f2dbd6cd TPM encryption makes me so paranoid.  What if something happens that causes it to reset?  Upgrading the processor or motherboard.  Most people don't use an external module -- not all boards even support one.  I feel like it should only be used for volatiles.  I guess it's not as fast, but in the end, doesn't something more universal like Veracrypt just make more sense for stuff like whole disk encryption? 

 @f2dbd6cd I mean, if someone actually said that, yeah, it would would probably mean they are having a spell of some sort and need someone to slap them to help wake them up.  It's basically a service.  Who knows what someone having a fever dream like that might do.  They might walk straight off a cliff even! 

 @85aba34a That, uh, that might sound like something that I might theoretically possibly in some sort of possibility maybe do. 

 @872ab8e1 "With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?"
Of course not.  That's the nature of exploits.  And there will always be some crazy condition that breaks things.  It's impossible even to know them all.  The closest thing any software gets to being safe is just if it's not used enough for hackers to bother with it.  Someone still might hack it just for the sheer heck of it, so even that isn't a guarantee. 

 @872ab8e1 Interesting choice of words.  Not generically "quality music."  "CD quality" music.  That means 44.1KHz @ 16-bits audio files being output by the "generator," not "will sound like Beethoven's best works."

Honestly I'd argue much of pop music might just as well be AI [sic] (you misspelled LLM) "generated" for how little uniqueness or meaningfulness it tends to have.   LLMs are great for when one has no artistic talent and just wants to produce something non-meaningful minimally. 

 @425a31b8 Well, as you suspect it's not the whole picture, but yes, there are indeed limitations.  There is a lot of work being done to find new chemistries or even mechanisms of storing energy, sever of which do show lots of promise, but none are truly fully developed yet.  That said, markets are *VERY* slow to switch over (look how long it took to get away from NiMH.  Some things still use it!)  Ridiculously slow actually. 

 @425a31b8 Oh it's so much worse than that.  It doesn't even truly have USB type C fully.  They limit to USB 2.0 speeds on most models for one.  Also it's worth remembering they're doing this because they were forced to.  Actually, I think that's the biggest reason they're acting like it's some great thing.  Can't have the masses realize they can be forced to not force ultra-proprietary stuff on them... 

 @872ab8e1 Thank goodness they didn't run with that earlier BS from a spokesman claiming no one under 75 should get it.  Coming from the CDC, that's dumber I can even put into words.  Given that the vote to recommend boosters for virtually everyone was almost unanimous with only one person voting against it, I bet we know exactly who was that one.

BTW, a lot of people should probably look up the "Bridge" program. 

 @53de482a I wish everyone had an attitude this incredibly healthy.  Most have an attitude of "I suffered, so others must suffer too."  Your attitude here is so opposite it actually benefits others.  I wish you the absolute best and then some. 

 @096d2c53 I mean they literally have in the past... 

 @425a31b8 Not to mention the "legal agreement" we supposedly agreed to just by using anything.  Apparently we're all supposed to have personal lawyers on retainer available on call 24/7 to read through 35 page agreements to inform us that page 17, paragraph 3 says they retain the right to sacrifice our firstborn on the first blood moon. 

 @3967703f It only matters once it affects the rich caste. 

 @096d2c53 @98087cce There is no technicaly reason one couldn't easily do both.  If they've chosen not to, frankly they've been lazy. 

 @872ab8e1 You still just can't beat the sheer simplicity or taste of a coffee press.  Plus the extra benefits of if you lose power for a while, as long as you can heat water (I have one of those little camp stoves for such emergencies) you can make coffee since the press itself uses no power beyond that of your hand. 

 @3ddab33a I think the thing that upsets me most is that whole "opt out" thing.  The fundamental problem with opt out is you can't undo the fact that by the time you can get into the settings to click that opt out button it has already sent data.  You can try to clear data, but of course, as this says, they've already sent some of it elsewhere.  Plus there's no guarantee they actually remove it.  Of course no one in their right mind would ever opt in, so they basically just have to screw users 

 @096d2c53 How much would you like to bet it pops up a warning that you're using a non-Apple-certified cable and limits charging rate to 0.5C? 

 @872ab8e1 Am I the only one who misses when phones didn't have a huge ugly bump on the back for over-the-top cameras?  Or, for that matter, when smartphones focused on features besides just the camera to tout... 

 @872ab8e1 Ok, but the key question is how are they going to enforce anything?  Because, let's be honest, Russia really doesn't care anymore.  They've already been committing actual war crimes at this point, so what's a few cyber crimes here and there? 

 @85aba34a The guy on the right definitely steals the show. 

 @872ab8e1 I feel like this sort of thing is best maybe tested before being deployed instead of after?  I mean I'm not an expert, but it just seems like it's better that way around instead. 

 @872ab8e1 I'm still just in shock that somehow it became a thing to do subscription models for car features.  One of these days it *will* lead to harm.  A hack allowing remote disabling of a power steering module or somesuch thing will eventually happen.  The entire mechanism of being able to remote disable functions in a car is just fundamentally a bad idea.

Ngl, if I had such a vehicle, I'd disable its ability to even phone home and wire up bypasses to things like heated seats or whatever. 

 @b5cdaf1a @52038023 And even this is rather simplified and severely cropped.

There also isn't really an actual "missing link." 

 @425a31b8 I'm a bit confused as to why everything says it's an iOS bug but people are apparently having to update Mac computers too.  Is MacOSX now so indistinguishable from iOS that it can have the same bugs? 

 @5b00f2ed I seriously don't understand why they don't get this.  Instead of fixing the fundamental reasons people first started using ad blockers so that people would just eventually start forgetting even to install them due to lack of necessity, they make things so incredibly obnoxious that we have to not only have them, but start adding custom filters for all that crap. 

 @d5d9348a rofl, I forget how good the alt-text on this account so frequently is 

 @eb948c00 I still can't really decide how I feel about WinAmp in retrospective.  It definitely was the de-facto player of its time.  But I find some more modern players with much cleaner, more optimal interfaces to be so much nicer now.  (Mostly Foobar2000 for me, though I really hate that it's closed source and not available on *nix platforms.) 

 @872ab8e1 rofl, of all things, just running out of HD space.  It's weird it didn't have any error handling at all though. 

 @872ab8e1 Seems they've found a not so friendly reminder of why one should always have error handling on even the things you don't think will have an error, lol.

Bet they upgrade their harddrives too though. 

 @2388cc31 This terrifies and amazes me, lol. 

 @85aba34a What if it's actually a black hole and feeding it just makes it larger? 

 @872ab8e1 I don't really understand this enough to really know, but is there any chance that dimagnetism-like property could still be useful for something?