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Professionally: a lawyer. I do law stuff. We don't need to talk about that here. None of my posts are legal advice, and you are not my client.
Professionally: a lawyer. I do law stuff. We don't need to talk about that here. None of my posts are legal advice, and you are not my client.
@JenMsft Swiftonsecurity : corn
Jenmsft : hay?
I'm up for it!
@baldur This piqued my attention because I noticed the "d" key thing, too, a few week ago, and found it very, very confusing. Thought it was an issue with my wireless keyboard, but then it suddenly started workign again.
@davidgerard @jimray @dwineman @anildash The slight distinction I'm driving it is that their stated political aims are secondary to simple greed. They're not *trying* to subjugate the working class (for example), they're *trying* to earn a bigger bonus this quarter, and promising to replace the working class happens to be what plays well with investors to make the line go up.
@davidgerard @jimray @dwineman @anildash Do they talk about replacing the worker/creative class: yes, but I think that comes *second*, after first deciding they want this technology to be the next big thing, and needing to come up with use cases to support its infinite growth.
Politically, these guys are incoherent. The same clowns pivoted from supporting crypto, with its libertarian, anti-government politics. Now they're all about empowering oligarchies and government surveillance.
@davidgerard @jimray @dwineman @anildash I agree there is a dishonest intent and strategy behind the implementation of LLM technology, but I'm not as sure it's political (at least at the CEO level steering it). They, and the investor class to whom they're subservient, are always trying to get ahead of the next hyper-growth curve, the "big thing". The hook of LLMs is that they are an impressive tech demo; it's new, exciting and has vague "big potential". The rest is all hammer in search of nail.
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@froztbyte I saw that you seem happy with Virtuawin, but I'll also suggest PowerToys (the official Microsoft "make Windows better" set of tools, actively maintained), and specifically its "Workspaces" tool.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/workspaces
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/workspaces
@Mutedog @ThomHartmann I am very suspicious that it is, especially since it is not sourced to anything and doesn't seem to exist elsewhere. Very shallow depth of field is a large part of what's odd, combined with it being underexposed. (a) with live action photos you don't really want shallow depth of field, it adds risk that you'll lose focus and get a blurry photo, and (b) it corresponds to wide aperture, which you don't *need* outdoors because it's very bright. Yet somehow it's underexposed!
@davidgerard lol, I didn't even know about this yesterday. https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/
@davidgerard I really think they could have made a play for business instead, as a competitor to Slack and Teams, and maybe actually made money (rather than bilk investors, irritate users, and float off in a golden parachute shortly before the company inevitably goes bankrupt). But that would require giving a shit about security, which they absolutely do not.