Posts by biddibiddibiddibiddi 329 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Dec 2023
Is that a pre-paid or post-paid plan at that point? Considering those free ones are not their standard plans, what plan do they put you on automatically? I'd assume their very lowest to be a close match to the free one, so it would at least be a small amount you might have to pay for one month and then cancel (if you can stand to lose that phone number at that point now that our lives are tied to them), although "small" is relative.
Just in time for me to (hopefully) get approved for Social Security Disability so that I would have possibly qualified for the ACP, after almost 2 years, 2 denials and a final hearing with a judge last week.
But I'm sure all those ISPs will simply offer an equivalent discount to formerly-eligible customers and take the hit to their revenues because it's the right thing to do.
There are "copy as plain text" extensions, but I usually have a Notepad window open already anyway and don't copy from browsers to other apps that support formatting so I don't use them now, but I did for some years. Of course those extensions require using the context menu to copy instead of just Ctrl-C.
I don't even like tabs in browsers or any other applications, and use them very sparingly now that it's become completely impossible to disable them and everything defaults to opening in tabs. I have a taskbar for that already, didn't need every app to have its own taskbar, and I don't need to keep 72 websites open at all times, I have bookmarks to handle quick access to them later, and I hate grouped apps on the taskbar. I'm fine with the taskbar filling up and making an additional row with a scroll arrow. I guess always-on-top could be useful, something that many utilities type apps ought to have, but I have two screens if I want to watch one thing while typing in another app, and even when I don't I'm very proficient with alt-tab (which Microsoft co-opted in Edge to work the way ctrl-tab works for tabs in other apps). I won't even tile windows. Huge file capability becomes important when you're trying to read system logs, and the current Notepad considers 5MB to be "too big to open quickly with an SSD and a 4GHz 12-core CPU" but the log files might be 50MB or more which Notepad just hangs on.
I wouldn't even mind if a replacement program WAS a couple of MB in size due to use of current coding methods or whatever, rather than being written in assembler so it actually results in negative disk space used, if it was just a standalone program, maybe even a standalone executable, that could be dropped in any folder and have a shortcut point to it, with no requirement for any DLLs or anything else in another folder, and the only thing it put in the Windows registry was its own application folder that held the simplest information like maybe recently used files, default save location, display font settings, default printer options, that sort of thing. A quick option to associate common text file types to it would be nice, but not required as it's pretty simple to associate file types by browsing to the executable from the properties of one file. (I think the program has to register itself somehow as an installed application to be listed as an option when you change associations that way, too, or in the Default Programs list.) But most importantly is that is opens quickly.
Interesting, and I might do it, but they could easily break the ability to do that, and even make it so just copying executables didn't work. (Really weird that they still include the old version as an Optional Feature, but it doesn't actually work if you install it. I guess they just crippled it enough and then didn't want to put in the effort to really remove it, since that would be invisible and make no profit.) If I coded my own I could make it do exactly what I wanted without having to work around MS's breakages, which is why I wanted to try to learn to code decades ago just to make things for myself and throw them to the wind for anybody else that found them useful. But coding was confusing.
Find and replace works just fine in Notepad. But they won't be able to make it open 100MB+ files. All that memory will already be used up running the executable and associated code for the AI features.
It's almost enough to make me keep a paper pad on my desk to write notes, but it's hard to copy and paste a URL that way. Maybe shit like this will be the thing that finally makes me attempt learning to code again 25+ years after the first time, just so I can write a 250KB shareware notes app that doesn't connect to the Microsoft Store and doesn't send my notes anywhere outside my computer.
Did you mean to type "911" [or 999 in the UK] instead of 555-1212? Would you like to dial 911 now? BUTTONS: (Yes / Continue)
We noticed you typed 555-1212. Cowriter Copilot OpenAI Bing Search has located 555-1212 associated with 73 accounts on Instagram, Twitter, Truth Social, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat and Zoophilia.org and followed them on your accounts on these sites. Your searches will help us provide more relevant advertising and search results in the future you goatfucker.
Please, don't. I already hate that every application now uses the Windows display settings for things like color and dark/light mode so that you can't have one app look different from others, and they're all starting to use the built-in Windows spell-checker so you can't disable it in only one app if it's an annoyance and can't customize for a single app. I don't want every app to pop up AI suggestions when I'm typing even when it's completely useless and unnecessary (not that I'd leave the global setting turned on, but they may take that option away). The operating system should not contain application features that every application uses so that there's no differentiation.
Notepad++ is always touted as an alternative to Notepad, but N++ is even more overkill and less simple than all the changes to Notepad (which at least are just out of the way). Anything that isn't just a blank window where text can be entered with a menu to save the file, plus basic text manipulation like searching and copy/paste, is more than I need. Formatting is mostly just to make it easier for me to physically see, or when I need to use large text to make a sign and just want it to look cute. The Notepad executable is 197KB on my system; I bet it could still be ported to run on an 8086 computer. Even having been open for over a day it's using less than 2MB of RAM, so make it a 286 CPU. The Notepad++ executable is 7MB, not counting all the other stuff in the portable package that makes it 20.6MB (I don't know what libraries and stuff Notepad really requires in total). Just Notepad++'s executable probably wouldn't run on a 486, and it hit 15.4MB of RAM as soon as it opened so it wouldn't even have run on my second and very expensive PC (without paging to disk).
Hopefully MS won't bother with injecting this into the Windows 10 Notepad, as a rare benefit to trying to make Win11 seem more advanced and desirable, but since Win10 and Win11 are essentially the same code they may do it just so they don't have to maintain two applications on the Store.
This is due to the way capitalism and the economy work at this point. Nobody can live on being innovators from the ground up, and the companies that will pay you aren't interested in risking anything on true innovation. Even one bad quarter due to taking a risk and it not working can tank a company (unless they brutally axe enough people to satisfy the shareholders and market and promise they won't try that nonsense again), and simply maintaining isn't enough, either. So things have to be ZOOM WOW without actually being risky, and are just slight modifications or renaming of something that existed already. Or as in this case, a big but meaningless change to something that is completely irrelevant; nobody is going to ditch Windows because Notepad turns to crap, and it doesn't hurt MS if people just find some other simple text editor.
This is something that we run into regularly because of Microsoft's decisions about how these partitions are created. For a long time they were putting this partition at the beginning of a disk with a small size, and then updates would require that volume to be larger so they would fail or have other problems. They eventually started putting it at the end of the desk, but every update still ends up needing to make it larger, so user disk space also slowly gets smaller. They don't just make it a reasonable size one time and leave it, or *gasp* come up with a better solution that eliminates the problem completely. And that causes problems for users who know that an SSD needs to have overprovisioned space for long-term health. It's "640KB should be enough for anyone" over and over again.
You'd only need to gain 7 pounds to be considered "overweight" by the American medical system that uses BMI as a Holy Unit of Measurement. If you broke a leg and were laid up while it healed, you'd probably gain that and struggle to lose it for the rest of your life. But he doesn't necessarily have to do a lot of exercising to keep his cardiovascular system healthy. There are very obese people that have healthy hearts and clean arteries and livers because they hit the genetic lottery jackpot, meaning if they had cut their calories down severely early on, they wouldn't have gotten fat and wouldn't have needed to exercise which may be the way he is. He was probably destined to be a healthy weight, with good physical health, no matter what he did. His diet is probably 80% unrelated to his health and biological age, other than just not eating more than he was burning.
It's possible to live a very long time without being physically healthy, and to die quite young despite great physical health. And an obsession like this is by definition a sign of poor mental health. There are things you can do to ensure you don't die "early" due to health, but past that it's essentially random genetics that you can't predict or control in any way, and nobody's "secret to long life" will work for everyone and there's no way to know if it will work for you in particular. Just enjoy your life and be a good person so that the years you do get will be worth living.
> Looking at Juniper's stock price since the dot com era, I was quite surprised how little it has appeared to move in the past 20 years.
Some very few companies are happy having stable, small amounts of growth and profit with a steady return for shareholders that is sustainable for years and decades without trying to make every quarter record-breaking, and get themselves in the news regardless of whether it's for good or bad reasons, while risking sudden plummets that could make the company at risk of falling apart and being bought out for cheap.
I don't even understand how "AI" can have anything to do with getting packets from point A to point B. It's just algorithms, all it's doing is looking at the traffic to determine if there might be better routes or where there is a problem. It's nothing special. It's not anything new. It's just sticking the latest marketing words on stuff that's been in use for years, like Cloud.
The description doesn't suggest using it as a towel hook in a bathroom. The image doesn't suggest using it as a towel hook in a bathroom. The image suggests using it as a hook to hold something that looks possibly like a towel, in an undefinable location with absolutely nothing that looks like a bathroom item other than a towel that can exist in any room.
>> "Amazon failed to properly inspect John Doe’s camera three times—including an inspection by Amazon’s Product Safety team tasked with preventing the type of harm alleged here. ... (looking to the
defendant’s conduct in light of its own policies in duty analysis). Despite these inspections, Amazon approved the camera"
"These allegations raise a reasonable inference Amazon sold a camera knowing it would be used to record a third party in a bathroom without their consent."
"Despite these inspections, Amazon approved the camera. ... Amazon then exercised control over the camera’s product description—including over the photographs encouraging using the camera in
a private bathroom as a towel hook.<<
There is no indication that it "failed to properly inspect" the listing. You and the victim and lawyer are still basing all of this on the assumption that the image is of a bathroom towel hook. You're deciding with absolute certainty that the image is a bathroom towel hook. There is nothing in that image that implies that it's in a bathroom. So it comes down to whether a judge will think that it's reasonable that someone looking at the listing might have thought it was a bathroom towel hook AND therefore was advocating use of it in a bathroom. The victim and her lawyers are biased in their evaluation of the image, as is everyone reading about this case who knows that it was in fact used in a bathroom. A hook that is capable of being used in a bathroom is not automatically a bathroom hook, and a camera that is capable of being hidden in an illegal location is not automatically an illegal camera, just as a knife that is capable of stabbing someone is not automatically a murder weapon.
Hidden camera recording without consent is not, in itself, a felony anywhere in the US. (Yet for some reason, audio recording without consent CAN be illegal, depending on the state.) It only becomes illegal if the recording is being done in a location where the recorded person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy for certain activities, such as changing rooms, a bathroom, a breastfeeding room. At no point in the marketing is usage in such private places mentioned explicitly, all the uses described are legal, and the image used in the claim which they say indicates that it is meant to be used in a bathroom is questionable. All it shows is some towel-like things on the hooks, and a shelf. There are no bathroom-specific items shown. So the plaintiffs will absolutely first have to get a judge or jury to decide that the image could be understood by a "reasonable person" as being a picture of a bathroom and therefore a suggestion that the camera be used in an illegal manner. IF they decide that is the case, then they have to show that Amazon willfully or negligently ignored the "obvious" marketing of illegal usage during their normal review process. The fact that "bathroom spy camera" searches bring these devices up can support the claim that Amazon doesn't do enough to block it, but it doesn't necessarily support a claim that Amazon facilitates illegal uses, since Amazon's search functionality is WILDLY variable in its ability to return relevant results and often will return results that only match a single word, or no words at all. And just not preventing people from finding items that could be used illegally probably isn't an actionable thing, legally. (There doesn't seem to be any indication that anyone actually REPORTED the item as being marketed for illegal uses and it was ignored. The plaintiff is only claiming that Amazon's normal review processes didn't catch it.)
But none of this will ever actually come up, because it will be settled before going to trial, like so many things that desperately need legal precedent to be set but never do.
The second amendment made sense when it was created because the definitions of the words used were clearly understood and not deliberately obfuscated. The militias of the time were needed because a national military could not be present everywhere or respond quickly enough to an outside invasion. They were not there to prevent the national government from enforcing its own laws in its own territory just because some dickheads thought they had the right to violate laws. (And the current "militias" and other gun rights advocates create the situation themselves that they are afraid the government will attack them for. They want to have guns to prevent the government from coming for their guns.)
Signed up after years of reading just to respond to this. You clearly didn't read the article. They didn't search for "hidden camera", they searched for "bathroom spy camera" which is an obvious illegal use pretty much everywhere, but definitely everywhere in the US. They also claim marketing of the item specifically mentioned usage that would be illegal (where someone would hang a towel and be naked), AND the product was reviewed and accepted by their Product Safety Team. All of those things are why Amazon MAY have some degree of liability, and why the judge allowed it to go forward. I'm not sure how Amazon would be expected to filter out all possible combinations of words that might end up indicating an illegal use, but they probably could with all the new "AI" capabilities, and probably before that even.
I do question the idea that the marketing showed usage for hanging a towel in a bathroom where someone might be undressed. They just show a couple of towels, no bathroom, no other items that might suggest it's a bathroom. They're not even obviously what you might call bath towels. That probably will be a strong argument in Amazon's defense that it was not explicitly marketed for an illegal use. That single image is the only thing the plaintiff could base the illegal marketing claim on. It's probably all going to fall apart on that in the actual trial, if it ever goes to trial instead of being settled. I'm kind of surprised this wasn't brought up and used to dismiss the case already.
However, the girl should absolutely be suing the actual "host" as well, either in the same case or separately, but you're right that they went for the party that has the deepest pockets. They should have also gone to the authorities and had the host arrested, as recording someone in a bathroom without consent IS absolutely illegal. I'll never understand why people let stuff like that go so long without taking the action that NEEDS to be taken, then after the statute of limitations has passed they come forward and just use a lawsuit, but I don't understand a lot of human behavior. I get that they're in Brazil, but they had plenty of time to take action, and I wonder how it ended up sitting for so long but eventually going to lawyers and a lawsuit. Did they talk to a lawyer early on? Sit on it for a long time then finally make a decision to talk to a lawyer?
As someone else said, such devices may have legitimate uses, but the illegitimate uses may be so overwhelmingly bad and so much higher a percentage of the sales as to justify making them illegal, but it's unlikely this will happen.
Some states in the US require two-party consent for recording of telecommunications, though West Virginia isn't one of them. This needs to be expanded to video recording and made a national law. I see no reason that you should be able to make a video recording of someone without consent, but just recording their voice can be illegal.
Perhaps it should just provide better mental healthcare and education so that parents don't have to struggle to get help for their neurodivergent children. Make it so that it's just a regular thing, no harder than any other part of being a parent, rather than something that can take a significantly larger portion of the parents' time and energy than caring for a neurotypical child, and often becoming simply impossible. There would still be those who don't avail themselves of the resources, because people are dumb, but far fewer.
How did it even work if they weren't implanting a functioning receiver? Did they just gaslight the doctors and patients for as long as possible when they complained it wasn't doing anything? Could they not have just made it shorter and still have a copper core, with a provision that it might not have the same power level as the full-size one maybe? Even more profit for the doctors since the implantation would still be billed at the same amount, and no reason the company would need to charge less for the smaller unit either. Small, medium or large, you're getting a device that does a thing and that's what you pay for. (The company would have to do some testing and apply for approval, so that would cost a small amount.)
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