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Of course, if you do an official copyright filing, they’ll likely reject the script and then generate one using AI that extracts the most interesting bits but in a totally non-infringing way.

Welcome to scriptwriting in 2026.

I move through the fourth dimension constantly? It tends to be a continuous thing though, just like the other three.

Now adjusting the fifth and higher via the Higgs field could get a bit trickier, as you’d have to be VERY precise about what went where to avoid annihilation. Each dimension you add increases by a power of magnitude what the coherence calculations would be.

Just make sure to shove the salmon into your lips instead of between them.

And after that it’s just about relentless practice.

Picked one up last year for $35? Some generic Chinese brand; CD/DVD reader/writer. Haven’t had any issues with it.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Agent Orange.

If they know exactly why it happened and the probability of it happening again is within tolerance, there’s no reason to ground the entire fleet.

Some instances are slow handling deletions or don’t honour them at all….

Somehow I lucked out. Following my lead, my kids refused to get social media accounts.

I taught them from a young age to value their privacy and showed them what I could find out about virtually anyone who had an online presence. Then I showed them what showed up about me, and challenged them to find out more. Then I pointed out that I could do the same thing with their identity whenever I wanted.

I’ve always ensured they have totally unfiltered access to the Internet and an open door to my office. Being their only reliable Internet safety net has it’s advantages.

TL;DR: my kids know that there’s nothing in place protecting them from the Internet. So they act appropriately, just like when using knives and burners in the kitchen.

In this case it’s Patnou, so it’s a shared home account and a theoretical question framed to spur discussion.

But because it’s Lemmy, there’s no deleting posts anyway. While some instances might honour the delete request, it’s guaranteed that not all will.

Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

No, because the sabotage of the last decade will take at least half a century to repair.

Other countries have already started to figure out how to depend less on the US. It’s that dependency that was artificially lowering prices in the past.

There are two acceptable ways to leverage technology (including AI) to increase profits: one is to maintain/decrease operational costs while maintaining service (this means enhancing existing delivery, not replacing humans with AI), and the other is improving service without increasing costs.

Everyone who goes for options 3 and 4 (replacing employees with automation and automating fleecing your customers) is after quarterly earnings at the expense of long term company profitability. This is essentially the VC vampire model, and companies rarely survive it for more than a decade.

Everyone else has answered your question, so I’ll answer the one you didn’t ask.

For physical backup, you want two local network backup drives that alternate in backing up your data hourly when you’re on the local network. That way, you have three copies of the data and if one fails, you can swap it out.

Then you ALSO want rotating backups that get stored off site (eg in a safe deposit box). Every 3 months or so, you take the one of these at home that’s 6 months old, back everything up to it, take it to the offsite and retrieve the other one.

This means that if something corrupts your data and you don’t notice until your local backups are also corrupted, you have two older snapshots — one of which is somewhere else, so if your home gets destroyed you still have a backup.

The cloud backups can be layered on top of this as desired; they all serve different backup purposes.

https://archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book_202107

That’s how to do it the right way.

I take it you haven’t shopped at a Best Buy? They do two things well: have department “experts” who will shadow you and let you know in no uncertain terms that they know everything there is to know about their department and confidently give you incorrect answers (they have supervisors monitoring them to ensure they are behaving in this manner) and sell you extended warranties.

Generally when I go to a store, I just want to buy a specific thing I already know I want to buy. I just want the salesperson to sell it to me. That’s almost impossible to do at a Best Buy. It’s not a salesperson issue; it’s a management issue.

Circuit City and Radio Shack… their customer support was probably part of their downfall.

I’ve attempted to shop at Best Buy over the past 30 years or so.

The problem is, no matter which era, none of the staff seemed to even understand my questions, let alone be able to answer them — this isn’t just electronics, but on ANYTHING in the store. “Does that washing machine have a direct drive or belt drive?” “What’s the theoretical maximum power of that amplifier?” “What are the manufacturing tolerances of that Monster cable you say is so much better than bulk electrical wire I can get at Lowe’s?”

I mean, even the Geek Squad guys just read the details off the packaging or off their reference document; no actual thought ever went into trying to help me solve an issue that would result in a purchase.

In the early 00s I made a fair bit of money as a side hustle fixing stuff that the Geek Squad had messed up.

I wonder if it would be possible to implement Firefox or Chromium in webassembly and run it on top of WebKit — it wouldn’t be as performant, but would be an extra layer of sandbox. You could theoretically do this in any app that uses WebKit too.