I warned most of my family and friends this was going to happen when I de-Googled and set up Immich and they all said I was paranoid.

you’re advocating updating without checking,

Uh… no. That’s not what I said. I said there’s risk in both updating and not updating. You need to do the assessment to decide which one is best for the situation.

Every dependency you don’t update is a zero day waiting to happen. All software carries risk.

Pretty sure their comment was sarcasm.

How do you calculate speed at all with only one frame?

Wouldn’t the air resistance be insane at those speeds? If it didn’t just slow it down significantly, the friction would add even more heat to it.

No way you haven’t heard about Epstein and friends.

The answer is exactly what you think it is: laziness.

So this is malware, right?

Thx for explaining what trash bags do.

My family stayed at my house and “the TV wasn’t working,” because it doesn’t have network access and I use an Nvidia Shield instead, so they connected it to the Wi-Fi and ad overlays showed up in the menus! I’m still mad about it years later.

Luckily I dodged a bullet and it didn’t brick it or anything, and the ads went away when the internet access did. I just disconnected it from the network and manually banned the MAC address in case anyone else tries it again.

As soon as RAM isn’t more expensive than the TV.

Lmao desperately trying to justify sunk cost, I see?

You’re right, it’s not scraping, it’s worse. Most AI bots do scrape sites for data, though since MS has direct access to the GH backend, they don’t even need to scrape the data. You’re giving it to them directly.

The issue here is trust. Microsoft, along with every other company invested in the AI race has proven repeatedly that getting ahead in said race is more important to them than anything else. It’s more important than user privacy, ToS, contracts, intellectual property, and the law itself.

If they stand to make more money screwing you over than they stand to lose from a slap on the wrist in court, the choice is clear. And they will lie to your face about it. Profit machines as big as MS don’t care. They can’t. They are optimized for one thing.

Your confusion is understandable since MS has called like 4 different products “Copilot”. This refers to the coding assistant built into GitHub for everything from CI/CD to coding itself.

All code uploaded to GitHub is subject to being scraped by Copilot to both train and provide inference context to its model(s).

Basically having your code in GitHub is implicit consent to have your code fed to MSs LLMs.

Enterprise

Translation: They going to try to “marketing” their way out of this hole.

Nothing about Windows or Microsoft will fundamentally change.

There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.

“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”

This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.

I just recently deleted my account and uninstalled the app. I’m not going to lie, it was hard because I had finally curated my algo to some pretty decent content that wasn’t just brainrot trash.

But I’d rather be bored than give Oracle anything.

EDIT: Also Loops is neat from a technical standpoint, but it feels like a ghost town coming from TikTok.

Funny, but the vibration mechanism is actually very different. Whistling uses a very specific shape with your lips creates a vortex of air that creates sound waves (similar to a flute or blowing across a bottle).

Your vocal “cords” (vocal folds is more accurate), make sound by flapping back and forth due to the tension and airflow to which they are subjected. This flapping creates the sound waves (similar to blowing a raspberry or a fart).

So, saying your voice is just a prolonged throat fart is more accurate.

lol Silverlight.

In fairness, a lot of those did take over the web for a time and lead to some cool stuff (and also some wild security exploits).