1/6th scale figures and minis; tech
I think they may benefit from relaxing their hardware requirements across the board in a cost of living crisis. The CPU list — no rules to determine if your CPU is valid, there’s just a list of acceptable ones — is particularly hostile imo.
There was an older senior engineer at a company I used to work for who insisted on referring to non-technical staff as “business critters”, and it made everything he said sound sarcastic and condescending.
So I do get where you’re coming from.
While I shorten Microsoft to avoid algorithmic and AI attention, I can see how it may detract from my comment. It isn’t a “20-year-old meme that was only leveraged by teenagers when WinXP was retired” — it may seem that way to you, but everyone I know in tech types it for the aforementioned reasons and because it’s faster.
Microsoft has proven repeatedly that they are a hostile, monopolistic force in the tech sphere, actively and successfully lobbying to retain their stranglehold on desktop and productivity markets. They support genocide and silence internal opposition at all costs. It is not an argument in poor faith to point that out. They are motivated solely by money and always have been. They are not a good entity in the tech space for anyone who prioritizes user experience, privacy, non-violence, security, and accessibility.
While I appreciate your input, and will strongly consider limiting my use of that abbreviation in “mixed” tech spaces, I cannot and will not pretend that Microsoft deserves better.
OP has indicated they’re hostile to advice, which is unfortunate since, assuming a person insists on keeping Windows, they need to switch to Win 11 for best security practice.
Your advice is good. I hope they read it.
I replied in earnest and was thanked with an immediate downvote. Your response is the right one: This is a technology space, let’s support contributions that keep that in mind. This was a dull read expressing nothing but a backwards mentality.
I get the frustration, but at this point, Windows 10 is no longer supported and the push to get people off of it is partially related to the inevitable flood of hacking that follows an OS deprecation. Vulnerabilities are immediately exploitable for any user still on the old OS.
Microsoft is indeed evil, and Windows 11 sucks, but running an unsupported OS carries real risk. I agree that there should be some way to finalize the decision to keep using it and to waive liability for Microsoft, but of course they’re motivated to get you to switch. There are means of bypassing the hardware requirements. There are also some very well-supported and user-friendly Linux options.
Win 10 is ten years old. It’s time to let it go.
…using several AI tools, Wales’ husband and Yentzer managed to create a convincing video using about a 4.5-minute-video of Pelkey, his funeral photo and a script that Wales prepared
Emphasis mine.
This was not testimony. It was part of the victim impact statement and was scripted by his sister. AI was only used to recreate the voice and visage. I am usually a fan of 404 Media, but that should be explicitly stated.
The use of the word “testimony” is not entirely accurate in the sense that that term is used in court.
Reminds me of this research from a few years ago, though the technical aspects of that are hard to find online. It seems much less interactive than this, but contains some precursor concepts about manipulating a shared projection of a physical object.
security researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that implementing so-called “lawful” backdoors is inherently flawed as such vulnerabilities would inevitably be discovered, accessed, and exploited by cybercriminals and black-hat hackers.
Yes, that. Every time this comes up, it requires a rehashing of just how dramatically bad it is as a practice. There’s no such thing as a “back door only for the good guys”
Notably, the European Commission makes no mention of new partnership initiatives with the United States.
Probably wise.
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Add “cancel” after the X in the url for workaround access. Like any other workaround, this will only work until it doesn’t anymore
“Nothing there said the spokesperson is not a source”
They said in their statements that they wouldn’t identify a corporate spokesperson as a “source familiar”. That language — corporate spokesperson — is intended to avoid describing the representative as an actual “source” in the sense of identifying them as a leak.
A corporate spokesperson spoke to them “on background”. A “corporate communications professional speaking to [them] in [their] official capacity“ has the option detailed in that section to request anonymity while being quoted.
There must have been an agreement between The Verge and the corporate representative to speak without being identified beyond their affiliation with the company, as described In the section titled “on background”.
Take the link and scroll down to the section titled “ON BACKGROUND”
Edit: I never learn how to not try to be helpful to hostile commenters. I’m legit just trying to clarify or explain.
I tried to help someone who prefaced their confusion with an assertion that they were unwilling to read the linked material. This one’s on me, I guess.
There is no shame in your ownership of the vehicle based on your intentions; I would humbly assert that anger is a more appropriate reaction to the current leadership of the company that made it. If strangers judge you, that’s on them.
If I had had the means to purchase one 10+ years ago, I would have. Most people who claim they wouldn’t are not being honest with themselves or disapproved of the virtue signaling associated with them at the time.
Temporary plates could be someone moving out of state. Are you sure it was the latest model?
Someone needs to tell Downtown Doug Brown about dark and muted background colors to alleviate eye strain. The white is like staring into the Sun.
Edit: Whhoooaaa, definitely poked the bear on this one. This comment was intended to both make a tongue-in-cheek point and be funny. Didn’t mean to ruffle so many feathers.
I was curious why someone downvoted you, so I took a look at the video.
That is absolutely 100% CGI and I’m not sure why anyone is doubting that. I’m on mobile and I can still see it.
Take my upvote.
The archive link is failing for me