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It’s funny. Security folks say how insecure Windows XP is, and how it becomes compromised within seconds/minutes of having an internet connection. It’s like Microsoft took that as a playbook challenge to repeat as an OOTB feature, instead of waiting for malware to do it.

Teams is doing the same thing. I can’t go anywhere close to anything Microsoft without some Copilot I didn’t ask for getting jammed in.

“AI” is the new “cloud”

I just listened to the Criminal podcast on that, recently. Fascinating cultural moment.

I don’t nave a citation, but in general, layoffs are usually used to cut costs. Spending less means more profits. More profits generally means the company looks better to the investors, and hence, better stock price.

That’s been the trend for more than a decade though. Some companies are more militant about it than others.

Your ad blocker doesn’t block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).

Crazy how he gets 40 years for leaking secrets, but literal insurrectionists are barely getting 1/4 that, with very few exceptions.

Yup, and you can sue Sig Sauer if someone shoots you with one of their guns. You’ll lose due to having no basis for their culpability, but you can try.

Wow, TIL.

SG1 was shot in 4:3 until like season 8 or so.

I use Voyager and my meme consumption quota is fully met

Select “All”, you’ll find them in about 7 out of 10 posts…

NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

Ah, the retail theft claim…

Their intent was to cut jobs/costs. They worked as designed. The user experience being improved was never the real goal of these, both on the employee and customer side. I’m fine using them for a small number of items/one item, but if I’m going to buy a bunch of things or anything that requires special handling (alcohol), I just skip them. I also skip them if there’s no line at a human checkout because I don’t want to drive those folks out of jobs either.

That’s excellent news, especially for the employees of Amazon subcontractors handling warehouse and delivery operations.

So Google, like Amazon, is trying to play the “they work for a subcontractor that only supports us, so it’s their fault, not ours” card. I really want to see the NLRB smack this pattern down hard and set an example for all the other companies to try to avoid unionization by way of not directly hiring people.

They are veiled layoffs

This is purely for attention. They are a non-profit, and certainly have nowhere near even 1/10th of that money. Say he did win a civil case, that’d shut down the ADL into bankruptcy, then they re-launch fresh.

He knows that, but he’s also a sociopath and any and all attention is all he really wants.