Interestingly, that was the episode that made me stop watching.

I suspect I just don’t normally like watching shows about miserable people making other miserable people even more miserable, which made the fact that I really enjoyed Boardwalk Empire a surprise.

Guess there must be some other element to it.

Misleading headline.

Should be: copilot adds functionality to open links inside of it’s own sandboxed copy of the browser.

Copilot sucks, fuck AI and the hellscape it’s creating on our planet, but, dear news media: please use accurate headlines.

Weirdly, every Gen X, wannabe “operator”, tacticool, Gadsden flag, black rifle coffee, stolen valor asshole I know LOVES that drum solo.

This pic actually made me wonder if that was somehow universal among them and not just limited to the few dozen in my sample size.

Or maybe it’s just a good enough drum solo that nearly every white dude in the desertstorm1 age group likes it.

PIN is the best way to go there. It only works on that one machine, although you can technically set the same PIN again on another computer.

I believe the typical intent is as follows:

It is now possible to brute force things that were previously considered “complex” passwords in a semi-reasonable amount of time.

This necessitates longer and more complex passwords

People can’t remember those so they have a tendency to write them down or do other relatively insecure things with them.

Forgotten passwords can generate a lot of helpdesk calls and are also an attack vector

If we insist on really complex passwords that are too long to reasonably brute force with current technology, we need a way for users to log in that’s not going to make 3 and 4 a major issue.

If the simpler PIN method is locked to a per machine basis, it matters a lot less if the PIN is compromised because you also need physical access to the computer or the PIN is useless.

This should, in theory, allow workplaces to set requirements for really complex passwords that only need to be reset once a year or so, without breaking helpdesk, inconveniencing users, or leaving gaping security holes.

Whether or not that all happens depends on the workplace, but that’s the general thought process in most of the places I’ve worked where a modicum of sense prevails

Michael Warren Lucas. (mwl.io) Prohibition Orcs/Frozen Talons/Spilled Mirovar/Fair Balls/Yellow-Eyed War.

TREK: Total Interface

It’s Total Launcher with an LCARS theme.

I’ve been using it for 4 or 5 years now across two different phones.

I absolutely despise the entire smartphone menu paradigm so this is as close as I can get to departing from it and sticking with something static that doesn’t move about or spontaneously change behaviors every third update.

That’s a static menu system sorted, now if I could just get my pixel 8 pro to stick to 30 minutes screen timeout after I set it once, that’d be great. It flips back to 30 seconds nearly every time I put it down and sometimes while I’m holding it.

Why isn’t there a developer option for “never let the phone change settings on its own”?

good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.

I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.

That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?

I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…

What’s next, Apple creating budget systems?

According to our IT department at work, a Mac is now on-par for price in the Q1 2026 numbers we have for our region with the Lenovos we have been getting and cheaper than comparable (hardware spec enterprise type) HP models, so kinda, yeah.

Currently it sounds like any member of our workforce that wants a Mac can get one now, where previously it was deemed cost-prohibitive and required an exception and approval.

Who knows if that will hold, though, those numbers might be based on Apple’s existing stock of RAM and subject to change when they need to re-up.

I’m curious. Economically speaking, what would happen if Nvidia pulled a “Steam” and had a “February sale” where some models of video card were discounted enough to lead to a massive spike in sales numbers? A big enough discount to generate a greater total net return on sales for the quarter despite the fact that they were sold at a lower profit margin per individual sale? Assuming limitations like “you must create an account with a residential shipping address that can receive no more than x cards at the discounted price per street address” or some such to limit scalping, would simply showing increased profits do them any good?

Or is the problem due to a lack of product quantity?