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spogbiper··on Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?
my department manages a fleet of ~10k Windows PCs and it's pulling teeth to get the users to allow an automated reboot once a month for updates. they invent all kinds of silly ways to avoid it. your situation seems atypical.
spogbiper··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
the aliens could have planted those records tho
spogbiper··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...

“Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer,” said a police official leading the anti-drug operation in Catalonia.."

Seems like some countries/areas are already targeting the Pixel (really its because of GrapheneOS)

spogbiper··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
6?!? We had only 4 colors in low res mode and 2 in high res
spogbiper··on Surprise, pay $1000
Many years ago I met a woman that ran a "business" that simply invoiced legitimate companies for printer supplies and toner every month. A surprising number of her invoices were paid without question.

That went on for a couple years. Then one day she left town basically in the middle of the night and we never heard from her again.

spogbiper··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
"Everything's computer" - Trump, 2025
spogbiper··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
I have created a more private cloud compute that is superior to Apple's implementation. Why can't Apple users choose my better service?
spogbiper··on I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station
there are similar concerns in the US but you can legally send a signal a couple hundred feet in most cases
spogbiper··on Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
“We encourage our engineers to vigorously test and critique our internal tools; that candid feedback loop, even via our internal meme generator, is vital to how we build technology," Google said. "We continue to refine our internal tools based on employee feedback to ensure we are delivering the best experience that maximizes daily productivity.”

Can anybody comment on whether that statement is an accurate reflection of how management at google treats these memes? On surface level it seems like they don't mind the memes and even use them as feedback but I wonder if that's how it really plays out

spogbiper··on Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
They'll probably change the name a few times, there's always hope
spogbiper··on Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365

"Get the confidence to move from agentic AI experimentation to enterprise-scale operations by giving your IT and security teams a control plane to observe, govern, and secure every agent across your organization."

spogbiper··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Your wish has been granted - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491
spogbiper··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Its both
spogbiper··on Shunning AI is the human choice
I think social media is a big factor. Anti-AI posts and comments are very popular on mainstream Reddit subs at least. Not sure if its a cause or an effect or even external manipulation
spogbiper··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
I work in a security adjacent role and I know we have had a few incidents that involved Railway networks lately. Could be something to that, I don't know
spogbiper··on Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
If you're on a typical US ISP, there is probably a way to avoid all filtering: pay for a business account rather than personal. Not saying it's fair or right, but it usually is an option
spogbiper··on Gemini Omni
It seems like this super-product will have to be a thing soon or we will have to just stop using video evidence in court and other critical applications
spogbiper··on Google I/O
same here

this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

spogbiper··on Where the goblins came from
> so drunk you don't remember the night, but you're told afterwards you had coherent conversations about complex topics?

I thought that was just our short term memory failing to commit to long term, not our intelligence actually turning off

spogbiper··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
this change makes Android more restricted than it was but still not as restricted as Apple. If anything I'd guess the EU vs Apple situation made Google more confident that they could get away with this change.
spogbiper··on A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days
I'm just going from the bug description in the article, but it seems that depending on your network activity, the exact time you will actually notice an impact could vary quite a bit
spogbiper··on Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation
also distributed on thin records inserted into computer magazines

https://obsoletemedia.org/floppy-rom/

spogbiper··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
yes, as long as you signed in once while online. windows caches the creds locally and afaik they do not expire
spogbiper··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
If you own more than one computer, the microsoft account syncs your desktop contents and other parts of the environment.. desktop background is one I've noticed. That can be nice
spogbiper··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
You certainly can log into a Windows machine without a microsoft account. It's actually still quite common in businesses that you log in with an account managed by your organization, although this is changing as more and more businesses migrate to MS Entra ID. This still isn't exactly a "microsoft account" but its similar.

You can also still log in with a completely local account as well. It takes a few extra minutes to set up but once configured it works fine.

The system is full of dark patterns and roadblocks that steer users towards an MS account, but you don't have to use one.

spogbiper··on Apple Business
thats certainly a nicer input method, but is that what you're referring to when you say its an entirely different product?
spogbiper··on Apple Business
i don't understand this take at all. what did the iphone do that the existing devices did not do?
spogbiper··on Apple Business
there were tons of smartphones on the market prior to the iphone. i used several of them. mostly windows mobile devices that required a stylus or keypad for input. they had apps stores, web browsers, email, etc. copy and paste, which the iphone lacked at release. from a functionality stance there were many options very much like the iphone available. the interface on the iphone was nicer for most things, and it had a nicer web browser. not a different world of functionality at all, just a bit nicer overall but also with some big trade offs.
spogbiper··on Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)
hail RPN
spogbiper··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
i used to set up webmin for the linux challenged admins so they could do basic tasks. it was nice because you could lock them to specific functions in certain modules and make it difficult for them to break things
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