Yeah, they are thinking of 2000s xbox live chat. It's been a while since then.
nik282000
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The Epic store sucks ass, the EA store sucks ass, Nintendo hates it's fans more than Trump hates women.
As a counter example, Mincraft is a stand alone game, it came out long after Steam was established and it runs on Linux as well at it does on Windows.
If independent games came with a launcher/update experience as good as Minecraft I would have no problem buying outside of the Steam ecosystem.
Have you met middle management? I'd take an LLM running on a Core 2 Duo over the decision making skills of someone who thinks an A3 sheet of paper can solve every problem.
LLMs can not replace actual productive humans but I will not shed a single tear if they wipe out the e-mail spamming, bean counting, micro-managing twits, who desperately want "AI" to improve their "workforce."
Creating tons of needless ewaste and forcing users to re-buy otherwise working devices.
To be 100% un-trackable you need to put your phone in airplane mode or turn it off entirely.
His hobby is yachts, which tells you how well Steam is doing for him.
Chinese law mandates that Chinese auto manufactures participate in international espionage, collect and and all data required by the Chinese administration and to not admit to any of it for any reason
The US government can compel US automakers hand over data but they can't compel them to collect specific data or to track an individual in Canada.
China is an adversarial nation, they have interfered in Canadian elections, they installed secret police in Canada, they take Canadians hostage when we refuse to comply with their demands. It's incredible that we have basically put all of our manufacturing eggs in the basket of a man with a penchant for extorting and murdering his neighbours.
They can correlate data from many cars to track a person who does not own or use a Chinese car. When you have 100k war drivers you look for a particular mac address being pinged over and over by your fleet.
So you get close to your target at some social or diplomatic event, record all the macs you see then look for them to show up on your war driving fleet's logs. Each car will only collect a few MB of data per day, so little that it won't be significant compared to normal useage.
You can track phones by their bluetooth mac even if you dont connect to anything.
You've never worked construction.
Isn't that how it's always been?
Warning there are some tall-ass images in this post.
A few years ago I got mad enough at the temperature gradient in my town house that I designed and build a bunch of ESP8266 sensors to feed data into an RRD so that I could have some pretty graphs to be angry about as well. (As of this week I have also started logging stats from my UPS and server.) Using the minimum of HTML and CSS I threw those graphs, a map of the previous day's incoming network traffic, and some convenient links onto a homepage that I use on all of my devices. At a glance this tells me if the furnace/AC is working, if my server is having a fit for unknown reasons, and if the local power grid is playing it fast and loose with the voltage and frequency (which I suspect they do).
Clicking the temperature/humidity data leads to a long term data page covering 2 years of data in varying resolution. The gap last fall was when the garage sensor failed and I was waiting for Aliexpress.
There are also long term trends for the server load and UPS but they have only been logging for a few days so there is not much to look at.
Clicking the map on the home page leads to a text file containing a summary of all incoming traffic to apache and ssh. The ssh server is on a high port number and doesn't see much traffic but occasionally a persistent bot will find it.
Everything but my landing page (this animation in p5.js https://old.reddit.com/r/cellular_automata/comments/1djwjbu/waves_processingorg/ with the text "Hey this isn't where I parked my car" overlayed) is behind basic auth or better and I have push notifications set up for every ssh login (even my own), in 5 years I have never had a successful login from an attacker, this is not an invitation, have mercy.
All the data is gathered with python scripts and stored in RoundRobinDatabases or, in the case of network data, digested down into a CSV. The climate sensors respond to requests on port 80 with the temperature and humidity separated by a comma to allow for easy polling. The map is generated by looking up the IPs' information on Shodan then plotting the location data if it was present.
Absolutely none of this is the ideal solution, there are existing projects that cover literally every aspect plus a dozen extra features I could never hope to implement. I wrote as much as I could from scratch just to see if I could, it's more fun to drive a shitty car that you built than one you bought from the dealer.
Aaaand I accidentally made the UPS database only 24hrs instead of the 10years I had intended. Lucky for me rrdtool has a function to expand an rrd without wiping out the data!
Got lucky with a clear night.
Using a vinyl cutter and mini-sand blaster I made some alternate universe corporate schwag! I like the idea that someone might have swiped these during an interview before both companies had their 'accidents.'
I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!
I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum's basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it's never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.
Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn't want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.
Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn't have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).
So what were your favorite games from the 90's and early 2000s?
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Paywalled shit source.
At least 3 times a week I hear some middle manager tell me that "AI is going to replace everything!" I 100% agree that LLMs can replace micro-managing money-holes but that's only because those are parasitic non-jobs to begin with. A middle manger is someone who can not DO anything useful but also can not make any decisions without their boss' approval.
Actual productive Canadians, who have to do something with their hands or create something with their minds are not replaceable. They are not machines who generate easy to read e-mails or nicely formatted document summaries. They are skilled humans who have years of experience that has not been included in an LLM, because it has never been included in some publicly accessible website or database.