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- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 4 days ago:
All that aside, I just wanted to say I really like your name.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 days ago:
My take on this is a little more fundamental than the whole ID/age thing. We all knew this would happen, and why? Because nobody has addressed the first problem. Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and companies are not transparent with customers.
Companies spell out in their Terms and Privacy statements that they have Affiliates that data gets shared with. And they want you to accept them all blindly, without clarifying who they are and what they do.
Even here, with a reported breach, they are not naming them and just calling them “third party”. So they screwed up and many people have their information and IDs out in the wild because if them, but we don’t even get to know who they are?
His are we to trust a company of we don’t know who they’re in bed with? How are we to rate their security and assess our risk of using their service without all the information?
As far as I can tell Discord handled it pretty well as far as breaches go. But maybe if I know they are using a shit company as one of their vendors I might think twice about using them.
Its the same logic as the next article in my feed, where crunchyroll is getting pushback from the subtitle service they are using. And that’s not even their own security in mind. People make choices based on what companies do, so be transparent with it all and we will have the warm fuzzies if things match up. If they don’t then the company gets customer feedback so they can adjust.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 4 days ago:
Is that an internal KB article or something you send to the customers? If it’s public I’d like to read it for a chuckle.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 4 days ago:
I get what you’re saying, but my point wasn’t really about viability of their price structure vs cost.
It was the fact that they are offering a personal M365 license AND CoPilot license for $20. If they can do that, they’ve already done the math and are OK with the price.
So if they are OK with the price, why not offer that same discounted bundle to business, adjusted to whatever business license is included?
But no, they want to charge business $30 for CoPilot alone, with no M365 license.
So this strategy is clear, they are trying to compete and gain adoption in the personal space, competing against $20 chatgpt or similar subscriptions. With that in mind, its a great strategy. They gain market share, gain your personal data for their advertising, and further cements people in their ecosystem.
So, lengthy way to get to the point of, they are screwing over businesses without a similar (if not comparable) deal, and then forcing problems because people will just start using their own LLMs for business use which adds a huge shadow IT strain and risk. So business will react in turn and shut it all down, which then kills adoption.
So they’re purposefully shooting themselves in the right foot so they can take a step with their left. It won’t work out in the end.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 5 days ago:
Their logic is: Workplaces aren’t buying copilot licenses So make a good price on personal licenses
If price is the barrier, maybe bring down that $30 license fee for business (which is on top of the M365 license) to see if adoption grows.
This is not going to win any friends in the business world and will most likely result in blanket bans of AI tools in the workplace to counteract this.
- Comment on Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds 1 week ago:
If 12 modems simultaneously handshake and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? You’re damn right it does and probably shattered glass too.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
Oh definitely. Xlookup and sumifs are probably my most common formulas. But I also source and combine data sources on a regular basis which is the real hitch in my use.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
LibreOffice is great, but one of the problems is its not a business product. So sure, most everyone can do basic stuff and its fine. But if you’re a business, it really won’t cut it. And if you’re a power user of any of the app types, shifting away might not be possible.
But yes, my goal is 100% shift from MS. I just can’t shake excel until there’s a better alternative (or I stop having the need).
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 weeks ago:
No, they shut down Wordpad since it was the awkward step between simple notepad and full blown word processing. It didn’t do anybody any harm, but it never really had a home.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I use excel (2019, not 365) frequently and I’m never prompted for anything. I had to jerry rig the installation so only excel installed and not the full suite of products, but other than that it’s been clean and perfect. Sure, I’m missing some features from 365, but one of those missing features is copilot. Everything else is perfect (and I need data sources and some other functions that aren’t in Calc which is why I still use it)
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
It could be viewed as reasonable if viewed alone. I think that its fine and could make a lot of sense for control over their platform.
The history of reddit sheds a different context in my mind though. Mods are volunteers. Subreddits were established to moderate themselves, implementing nuanced rules for their specific topics that might differ from other subs that need completely different rules and approaches. Its part of what made reddit unique compared to alternate sites.
Then they made moderating much more difficult by eliminating third party apps. Then they started implementing their plans to take the platform where they wanted it, which is fine because its their platform, but they wanted all their mods to do a bunch of work and in a certain manner to make it so. Very demanding on free labor.
So there’s mods still around and they want to restrict them more? Who knows, maybe that’s a great idea but they made the mess they’re in. This decision isn’t a single on on its own, its part of a stack of them.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 3 weeks ago:
Make sure to ask the contractors about the subfloor. If its flexing at all (you can step on the empty space and see if your weight shifts it) then no matter how good the fix it’ll pop again.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 3 weeks ago:
I would lead with questions for both context and for you to determine your plan of action.
Its “always been” squishy…how long have you lived here? 1 year? 10 years? It matters in the context of if it was a quick flip install to sell the place and you’ve only been living there a short time, the rest will probably be falling apart soon too. If its been a long time, it could point to just that spot being an issue and needing repair.
There’s also the question of your time and budget. There’s a good chance the entire floor needs to be replaced, but if that’s just out of the question then a patch job could keep it together a very long time if done right.
What room is that? Bathroom? Mud room? There’s tile on the wall too so I’m wondering if water is playing into the problem (either in the tile install or damage to the sub floor in that spot).
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
I wholeheartedly agree with this perspective.
I started on a privacy journey because I didn’t like that I’m being tracked (by basically everybody) and feel that the technology that I pay for should be service to me, not me as a service to it (and its related parties).
Anyways, along the way I did a few things. Namely, I turned off mail notifications (this was an inadvertent feature since my mail service couldn’t send notifications without google services that I removed). I also removed my sim and use data only via a hotspot, to which I don’t always have on. These sound like crazy things, and admittedly they aren’t for everyone, but the resulting mental shifts are exactly to this point.
Just because I have a device that let’s me be available to anybody in any place at any time, doesn’t mean I should be, or even need to be, available unless I want to be.
Now I protect my time, and the mental clarity that comes with it. I never was a doom scrolled, but even now that concept is even more reduced. The phone is my tool, and I use when needed.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 4 weeks ago:
insurance companies need to be holding the car manufacturer’s feet to the fire by not insuring cars
I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately that screws over the owners far more and for far longer before it even impacts the car manufacturers.
Maybe a better attack (aside from government regulations) would be banks to not provide financing for loans to buy those cars. In the end, if the car is stolen they are at a loss so that makes sense.
People can’t get loans, so don’t buy the risky vehicle. It hurts a little in the now to direct them towards cars that will not be a problem in the future. And the car companies feel the sting of lost sales right away.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 weeks ago:
This company needs to get shut down. Invasive. Illegal. Immoral. They are ushering in a police state and anti privacy world, and of course profiting from it.
You can piss on us, but don’t tell us it’s rain.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Not only does it not exist, it isn’t wanted. People are content watching videos on YouTube and Netflix. They don’t care for 4k. Even if they pay extra for Netflix 4k (which I highly doubt they do) I still question if they are watching 4k with their bandwidth and other limiting factors, which means they’re not watching 4k and are fine with it.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 weeks ago:
I’m OK with your opinion and I appreciate hearing an alternate view to offset the echo chamber effect.
But for a lot of us, or at least me, its far deeper than just cost and ads.
It’s the fact that steps keep being taken to make the platform worse. They don’t want the platform usable unless you pay, and in this case they’re even taking a stab at the people who pay…you don’t pay enough in their mind.
If they had balls, they would just make it a closed platform. Pay to access, and restrict that per account IP. But they’d rather gaslight everybody and slowly turn up he heat so the frogs don’t jump out if the pot. This way they maximize their profits for longer. Point of all of that is, they don’t care about he platform or service at all.
For me, its not even about that. Their algorithm was so jacked up I was sick of being fed videos I didn’t want to see over and over, and videos I’ve already watched over and over. That’s why they added the subscription bell…because you would subscribe to things you wanted to watch and they never showed it to you. It wasn’t “you” tube it was “their” tube.
I bailed on them years ago. I still watch some content on there because there really isn’t a viable alternative. I use a scraper that gives me a feed of just what I want and without ads. I watch what I like and move on with my day. I’m back in control of my video viewing.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 weeks ago:
Makes me long for the days of google music. It just worked. Streamed stuff and even allowed you to stream your own library that you had stored in drive. I would use that in the car. Then they ditched it for YouTube music, which was a worse experience and lacked the features.
- Comment on Odd wiring in a 2-gang 5 weeks ago:
Even hand drawing it on paper would help. You’ve got some weird stuff going on and it’s hard to know what is vs what should be. It’s also hard to translate terms like “hallway” into being box 1 or 2.
- Comment on I have this corner in my basement 5 weeks ago:
Storage. Its awkward for almost anything else. Not sure what the rest of the room looks like but build a cabinet or shelving unit to place larger and/or infrequently used items.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just a dumb DIYer so take this with a grain of salt. You can put in a stud to the left and right of the stud in question to bear any load. Then after the floor repair is made you can replace the original stud (I’d probably leave the 2 temp studs as well since they are already in place just for overkill support).
You’ll want to look into the structural impact of cutting the base plate though. Seems like cutting a section out might require more than just putting it back with some metal straps.
Also, look into epoxy for the concrete fix. I know they have epoxy specifically for injecting into concrete crasks to restore integrity. Seems like it might be much easier (and possibly be able to work around the framing). It’ll probably be more expensive, but pay off in convenience.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
I mean, I’m in the same boat. This doesn’t effect me except for work stuff. But here’s the thing, all of my documents are already backed up to the cloud via OneDrive settings. So this is redundant at best.
At the end of the day, one of the reasons I hate the MS experience is because they push things on you. Its not your PC, its theirs. Hey, you want to use OneDrive? No? Are you sure? No? Are you really sure? No? Why don’t I just turn it on for you so you can see how great it is. You must have turned it off by accident, let me turn it back on. OK, OK I get it you really don’t want to use onedrive. Oh, I forgot that fact once our annual update came out and undid that setting. You straight out uninstalled onedirve and altered your registry? Ok, how about we just upload Word documents for you.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 month ago:
I use the term idiot instead of fool. I also use the term resistant instead of proof. Nothing is idiot proof. Things can be idiot resistant though.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 month ago:
Well, I was trying to bring a little humor to the conversation by just saying at least as a silver lining is that this other stupid crap is gone now.
If the AI “revolution” never came, I bet a thread just like this one would exist for metaverse or whatever saying how it’s destroying the internet. And think about it, entering an entire world just to hold this conversation where all users are known and conversations recorded…kind of like AI scraping.
You can see his it could get just as bad or worse. Hint: its not the technology that’s the problem, its the companies behind them - those wouldn’t be any different.
I’m not trying to downplay AI, I’m just being realistic of the world we live in and trying to not be so doom and gloom every second of the day.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 month ago:
But can we at least be thankful that it shifted focus from augmented reality? Prior to AI, the buzz was around things like the metaverse and digital avatars in your teams meetings.
Even crap AI is more useful than avatars in teams.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 month ago:
Exactly. I tired SuSE back around 2001 and Ubuntu around 2006. It was not a better experience so I never stuck with them. I started using Mint last year and it just stuck. There are some quirks and learning curves, but it’s a good experience. Linux has changed a crap ton.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
Samnsung takes a screenshot every 500ms. LG is every 10ms. For crying out loud they can “stream” everything you watch.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 months ago:
Sometimes in the darkness of the internet where all our worst sides come out and I get trampled by the evil of governments, corporations, and people in general…a small beam of light shines through illuminating the beauty of this world.
Today, your comment is that beam of light. You didn’t mean it to be, but sometimes little things have bigger impacts. Thank you. Have a great day.
