Disappointing.

I interact with all kinds of people and I have never encountered a single person who (admits to?) using Truth Social.

Do it now while you can still buy a Pi and a hard drive for less than $500 each.

Prepare for more 20 minute unskippable cutscenes.

I’m tired boss

Sam’s in many locations has the thing where you scan items (by phone camera) in real time in the app as you place them in your cart. This is a way better experience because you pay by credit card in the app, then walk straight out of the store.

There’s literally no point to going through a normal lane at Sams, unless you’re buying a gift card that can’t be activated in the app purchase.

I actually don’t hate this concept as long as you verify (don’t blindly trust) all the info it gives you.

The reason I say this?

Many local races, especially in “purple” areas can be super ambiguous. Candidates will circulate mailers and ads painting themselves as “pro economy, pro schools, and pro puppy” because they are trying to be vanilla AF and appeal to everyone. Their websites often list a few generic issues and that’s it.

AI might actually be useful to summarize major issues, actions, and voting record of the incumbent while collating information about a challenger candidate from other sources.

Local TV tends to be dogshit at their coverage of candidates actual plans and positions but you could also try that, if all else fails. Or maybe find a YouTube video of a debate (if there is one for the office in question) and have the AI give you a bullet point summary.

My house is literally a 3 minute walk from a McDonalds and I don’t eat there at any price. Use AI to model that, fuckers.

University marketing was bullshit in 2000, and when the article was written, and still is now.

They will stage pictures depicting groups of people who don’t know eachother, and situations that never happened, just to make a nice brochure or website picture.

If a target percentage of certain demographics is important to you, look at their published numbers and also do a campus tour to make your own subjective assessment.

Voting doesn’t need to be secure in Russia because voting doesn’t actually matter in Russia.

“We own your TV screen, and the contents of your TV screen.”

By their license agreement, whether you watch normie content, use the screen to display proprietary business presentations, use it to show family photos from a USB stick, or screen that private adult video you made with your wife, LG can technically analyze all that stuff, serve you ads based off it, or sell it (or provide it) to third parties including the authorities.

Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.

You would have to pay the 100% tarriff on a Chinese EV because you’d be “importing” it. You likely wouldn’t be able to register it in any state without proving the import duty had been paid.

And assuming you flew under the radar and somehow registered it without paying, the Feds would get access to the registration records and the CBP would eventually come after you.

Something free/open that basically just hit-n-runs YouTube and doesn’t serve any ads.

Examples: Kreate (or a similar fork), Metrolist, etc.

Downside is that YT will push deliberate updates that break these types of apps occasionally and you may have to wait a few days for them to be fixed. It is a cat and mouse game.

Use these apps for music discovery. If you like a particular artist, buy the album directly from them and cache it digitally on your intended listening devices. Or go see a show or buy merch directly from the artists website. The artist makes more margin on those than they will make for thousands of Spotify streams.

It is really nice to have something to show for your work besides just a paycheck. This is something many don’t consider when evaluating career paths. CS or IT related careers damn near require you to do something tangible as a side hustle or at least a hobby, because the outputs of “commits” and “ticket closure metrics” just aren’t a edifying use of our creative spark as humans.

I relate to this strongly. Many of us in this field feel catfished by our jobs. We took the role to get access to exciting emerging tech, or to fulfill some useful purpose and apply strategic thinking. Instead the reality of the day to day is business-led bullshit, drudgery of ticket work for issues affecting one user (and its probably a problem they caused), or having to report progress and “green” status to some talentless PM who doesn’t give a shit about you or your career. That and meetings. And fires and escalations and technical bridges.

If all AI really is classified as a “weapon” for export-control purposes, well… in the US possession of weapons is a protected individual right. The US gov should be training open weight models and encouraging self-hosting.

It absolutely won’t do that. You know how many millions of early generation Prusa and Ender 3 printers are in the US? Many of these models have no internet connectivity whatsoever and print from SD card.

What that means is they will also try to incorporate spyware into your CAD and/or slicer software, which is even more invasive.

This is a anti-privacy bill.

There are so many spent casings in circulation that people can already reload their own ammo to last the next 100 years. Bullets can be cast. Even powders can be made.

This is my thought also. v2.7.5 has been stable since April. I’m gonna stick with that for the moment.