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There's a VR game series (?) called job simulator that has you doing joke versions of common jobs, apparently for some AI overlord's amusement. I haven't played it but my kids watch a Let's Play kind of deal of it on youtube and it actually looks fun and funny to just make a huge mess dumping all the wrong fluids into a car or hurling hot dogs at a customer.

It's cheaper (no need to buy supplies) so you can do things you'd never be able to afford IRL. Which also allows you to experiment with more things. This also lessens the consequences of failure.

You can do the activity when there's free time (like at night) with no real planning.

You can put the task down for months on end without negative results because time is constrained to the game world. Or put another way, constant upkeep tasks and their results can be perfectly saved.

Game worlds can be tightly controlled if you wish it. Reality is uncontrollable.

Unless I'm missing something, this only triggers on browser close. I sort of agree with the proposed tab closer with timer trigger idea, since I almost never close the browser on my main machine.

Looks like it's already in v101.0.1. It's under the Settings | Privacy and Security tab with a new checkbox to allow you to "Test Pilot our newest..." It is not automatically checked for me.

I think the change might just be they will be setting that checkbox to on now? Although I don't remember seeing this option until now.

I find games that have a linux build, even if I can't get it working, usually are a lot more likely to work well with proton. So it's a plus even if you're clear you aren't going to support it.

Yeah, the TPM requirement is awful for it's own reasons but the silver lining for me was I could just make sure the TPM was disabled and not have to run defense like with the Windows 10 stealth upgrades. But of course, I knew that was to good to be true.

That said, I only personally run Windows in VMs these days and I have them all set to seabios so I have a second defense.

Maybe Windows9x doesn't get along with non-4:3 aspect ratio screens?

It's not desirable at all, but it is inevitable and in many ways already here. While I'm not sure I agree with the argument, I think the idea is holding this stuff back just means it's more powerful and nefarious for those that do have it because the population at large will remain unaware for longer that trust is already gone. And that means innocent people are going to get hurt while that knowledge asymmetry in the population is delayed from catching up.

I suppose they might want to encrypt a pendrive in case it was stolen from the friends housse. But you could do something similar with a piece of paper.

Pendrives aren't known for storing particularly well over the long term so they probably aren't a great choice anyway.

I remember being blown away by how intense and visceral the experience was, it probably helped I played it on my uncle's top tier 486 with a great sound system. Whenever I look at screen shots these I'm kind of shocked how pixelated the sprites were, I guess it wasn't a concern at the time.

Is that Fozzie Bear in the mirror/backdrop of the Stranger Things one? Or am I seeing what I expect to see...

I thought CNN became a big deal for it's 24 hour news coverage of a kid getting stuck in a well.

People who have exited the workforce may rejoin it if the bait is good enough. Gas and used cars cost so much now I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these jobs are money losing to the people doing them.

Zuckerberg answered this long ago. He had a bunch of people's social security numbers because he asked for them and they gave them to him. Facebook will ask for anything they think a few people might cough up.

We're talking about the company that used 2FA numbers for advertising purposes pretty much immediately after saying they would only use them for security.

> Something similar happened to me. I had to upload photo id, then it disappeared into the block box.

I abandoned my account awhile back, but I remember them suddenly demanding a photo id for "security reasons" or else they wouldn't let me in. I just closed the tab and decided I was all done with facebook since I wasn't crossing that bridge. A few months later I tried to login again and suddenly they didn't need the id anymore.

Or they wait until the return period has passed and then demand an internet connection before they'll continue to function.

I think you're underestimating how cheaply a manufacturer could negotiate a one time fee low bandwidth 5G connection for. If it's setup to only upload in off peak hours it's going to just be free money for wireless carriers. Maybe they'll double dip and buy the data for themselves as well.

I even saw the newer broadcast TV standard was going to have 2 way communication for ad tech.

AMD and Nvidia were in talks to merge at one point, apparently the talks fell apart because Nvidia's CEO insisted on being the new CEO of the combined company and AMD would have none of that. So they purchased ATI instead, probably overpaid for it and probably pushed the bulldozer concepept to hard in an effort to prove it was worth it after all.

Nvidia actually used to develop chipsets for AMD processors include onboard GPUs, they did for Intel as well but they had a much more serious relationship with AMD in my estimation. This stopped with the ATI purchase since ATI is nvidia's main competitor the two companies stopped working together. Intel later killed all 3rd party chipset altogether and AMD had to do a lot of chipset work they weren't doing before.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if they had merged back then. I personally think a Jensen Huang run AMD would have done much better than AMD+ATI did in that era. I could easily see ATI having collapsed. What would the consoles use now? Would nvidia have been as aggressive as it has been without the strategic weakness of now controlling the platform it's products run on?

> I managed to link my email address to another Microsoft account, but I'm not confident that someone still doesn't have another Microsoft account with partial control of my identity.

I'm not sure I'd rely to much on that new account though. It's easy for me to imagine the first renamed account being banned for fraud and then any "known associates" being banned as well.

I would expect a phone number link request at that point for suspicious activity, which actually is suspicious this time. And that is assuming it's even possible to deactivate the account without going into a black hole phone tree which is what I expect these days. Even if you successfully deactivate it, a service you aren't using now has data on you that won't ever actually be deleted. Trying to fix it feels like it's almost playing into the scammer's hands.

> In fact, crypto is completely dystopian because there is absolutely no space for cash in it, and further, by being distributed and therefore pseudonymous at best, it actually opens massive privacy and security pandora boxes.

Is this true of all coins though? I know little about crypto, but I gather from reading on here while the privacy of bitcoin was greatly exaggerated/false other coins use actually privacy respecting schemes. Of course, that would assume that the schemes they use work perfectly which is probably a ridiculous assumption.

Is blocking on a DNS level even sufficient? I'd imagine there are hard coded fall back IPs involved at least sometimes.

I'm guessing that (like myself) he probably just isn't that picky about it. The only IQ issues that I see that frequently bothers me is washed out dithering in dark scenes or low quality due to connection hiccups. I don't think UHD would improve either of those.

Yeah, I see this repeated a lot but I haven't really noticed a difference. Maybe I'm just not picky on the topic. But my understanding was it was never traditional SD, but 720p.

Regardless, I use firefox and Amazon, Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max all work reliably for me. I believe there was a period were a couple of them didn't work for a month or two on linux when they came out but I wasn't subscribed to them then and they've always worked for me.

A buddy of mine said the touchscreen on his Chevy Cruz (I believe) didn't even work in the winter until the car was warmed up.

Seems like a poor safety feature to have it also turn on when you're cleaning.

I've never seen one of these soft touch control designs on a cooktop but I did hear they existed and at least one cat had turned one on by standing on it resulting in a house fire. The only dumber idea I can think of is a touch screen, which I'm sure they're hard at work integrated right now.

I never played on the xbox, but I remember when traveling between cells in Morrowind (like into a dungeon or building, etc) I never could figure out why it sometimes only took a few seconds and other times I was sure the game was locked up. I saw this behavior on several PCs and don't ever remember it going away.

Morrowind had a much more interesting world than Oblivion, but I really appreciated that Oblivion did not do that. And that NPCs could chase me out of buildings.

Yeah, there's a lot to be said about the daisy chain but the real news for me here was that 4 CPU lanes are added from last generation. I personally would rather they be used for a m.2 slot than a thunderbolt controller and hopefully they will in some boards. (I don't see the point of thunderbolt on a desktop)

While the daisy chain is interesting, it doesn't sound like it gets you much at the end of the day and will double power usage (which was a real sore spot with x570 vs the asmedia chipsets) The dual chipset sort of seems like it's just a luxury item without a purpose in most cases. Maybe we'll see some interesting designs with server oriented boards but doubling the power usage doesn't seem worth what it will get you to me.

Tony's personal assistant may have intimate knowledge of everyone at the party, but probably knows nothing about people outside the industry. And she probably spent a fair amount of time prepping for the party. So she's bound to an upper limit of what a person can reasonably do.

And his personal assistant is a person which is a building block that innately fits into society. Any given person has some level of morals and integrity which would limit what they were willing to do with their knowledge. And even if they don't, people can be brought to justice if they abuse their knowledge/skills or otherwise have some kind of public pressure used against them. An algorithm cannot be imprisoned or even really destroyed and doesn't care one bit what it's used for because it doesn't care about anything at all.

Some of these things seem inevitable, but that doesn't mean they aren't creepy!

I played with demos of various cloud providers, a lot of it comes down to difference of opinion it seems as I've had people exclaim on here something was fantastic that sounded like a robot.

My opinion is Microsoft's Azure TTS is the best and IBM's Watson TTS was a pretty close second. I remember finding Google's disappointing as well.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...