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The ransomware attack had its desired effect: It forced several MGM-owned casinos and hotels, including the Bellagio and the Cosmopolitan, to stop using their computers entirely and instead check in hotel guests manually and provide customers with cash payouts. Caesars, which was hit by the same attackers a few weeks earlier, reportedly avoided similar disruptions by paying a $15 million ransom (half of what was apparently a $30 million ransom demand).
The catalog contained product listings, essays, and articles on a wide variety of topics, including alternative energy, sustainable living, self-sufficiency, and personal empowerment. It was known for its eclectic mix of content, its DIY ethos, and its commitment to a holistic, systems-oriented view of the world.
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG."
The quote by Steve Jobs in his famous stanford commencement speech - stay hungry, stay foolish - was from Oct 1974 edition, last page.
Direct link: https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-epilog-october-1974?fo...
1. Early Tech Stack Emergence: Generative AI is at the infancy of its tech stack development with startups creating foundational models and AI-native apps.
2. Real Market Gains: Generative AI is making strides with models like ChatGPT and applications achieving significant revenues within a year of launch.
3. Value Accrual Uncertainty: It's unclear where the value will accrue in this market, though infrastructure vendors seem to be gaining substantially.
4. Generative AI Stack: The stack comprises applications, models, and infrastructure, each with distinct roles in the ecosystem.
5. Retention and Differentiation Struggles: Early generative AI apps face challenges in customer retention and product differentiation, impacting sustainable business growth .
Linux on the Web is primarily a way to allow people to use their web browsers in the same way that they used their computers before the web started becoming commonplace in the early 1990's. Computers are called "computers" precisely because they let us perform general computations. But due to the high resolutions of modern displays and infinite variety of media content, it can sometimes be difficult to perceive the possibilities that general computing machines offer us.
It is based on The Good, The Bad And The Accountant (https://jplusplus.github.io/the-accountant/#/), a game by Journalism++ (https://jplusplus.org/en/.
The world China is reorienting itself to is a world that, in many respects, looks like China did a generation ago. On offer are the basics of development — education, health care, clean drinking water, housing. But also more than that — technology, communication and transportation.
Our outward-facing posts are getting less engagement & we’re less inclined to share them. We’re growing silent, lurking, sitting in these digital rooms out of habit & not because we really want to be there
Historica integrates various types of data into a unified ontology, thus revealing humanity's past in its vast temporal and geographical scales, unfathomable complexity, and infinite diversity.
In its outward manifestation to the user, Historica is a dynamic, interactive map that visualizes the global development of civilization from pre-state epochs to the present moment.
Vanilla flavor has been prized for thousands of years, and can be found in every ice cream shop on Earth. It’s the best-selling flavor in the world.
Vanilla’s universal appeal is why it’s the default. Is your default as good as vanilla?
Insomnia Coach is based on CBT-i Coach and the therapy manual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Veterans
Feature list: https://mobile.va.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Insomnia...
“They cheer for their place like a favorite sports team, they envision its success beyond and after themselves. To the unpracticed this may sound scary, to tether your heart and being to something you can’t fully control. But down that path lies great reward. There are particular joys afforded to being a member of a community, of finding esteem in your peers, of contributing what you can, of seeing wildlife thrive, fruit drip from trees, of being helped by your neighbors when in need, of tangibly witnessing the results of your efforts. ...
“The formation of intimate relationships depends on four elements: proximity, frequency, intensity, and duration. We won’t save places we don’t love. We can’t love places we don’t know. And we don’t know places we haven’t learned.”
Twenty years ago, if you had told people that one day they could get paid for not mining Bitcoin, they would have said “what?”
But now it is possible.
Modern finance created the problem (Bitcoin mining) and the solution (paying people not to mine Bitcoin); the overall result is that nothing happens and yet people get paid.
Just a miracle of financial engineering.
Arthur Brooks has written about this a lot—what do you do when you are in professional decline? Trading is a young man’s game. Sports are a young man’s game. But even after you age out of those careers, you have so much wisdom and experience to offer the world.
As Ellis Boyd Redding once said, “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
* Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
* Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md
Also see
* sshocker: ssh + reverse sshfs + port forwarder, in Docker-like CLI (predecessor of Lima), https://github.com/lima-vm/sshocker
* Lima-GUI: https://github.com/afbjorklund/lima-gui
* Colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
* It in the “R&D” phase of cloud gaming which lets players stream games across the internet to any display rather than using a console or PC, calling as interactive storytelling.