This sentence has made me violently ill. Please take it back.

This has to be one of the worst ways to reinvent a filesystem that I’ve ever heard. At the very least, storing static data in an relational database at this scale should be a slappable offense.

just go loony in the heat.

You won’t just go loony. I’m pretty sure those conditions are ripe for permanent brain damage. Stay safe out there.

I’ll take it one step further and say that if you absolutely must use Office, O365 works in a browser on any operating system. You literally don’t need Windows anymore for that.

My prediction is that they’ll go full SaaS and make the non-pro version “free”, with a whole raft of features “cloud only” behind a Azure/O365 subscription.

Wow. Either someone was too lazy to turn of the default settings, or figured it was appropriate to ask. Either way, that’s some shocking lack-of-awareness going on.

Landlord: You shot me!

Tennant: Yup. Take a look. At least I didn’t fuck up the paint or the carpet.

I’ve used Inkscape for a lot of vector art. Using it to edit a PDF seems… overkill, but it’s probably less likely to screw things up. I’ll give that a shot next time, thanks!

4. Move the goalposts on “rape” and “pedophilia” because that’s kinda/sorta where they’ve been headed this whole time. It would also get a number of conservative politicians off the hook that aren’t even in the files. Basically like some kind of perverted Overton Window.

As someone who has worked in the Federal sphere before, this happens anyway; Ron Swansons are all over the place and have been for a long time. The idea that this would happen deliberately, en masse, is actually kind of awesome in a terrifying way.

edit a pdf? Edit your expectations.

I feel seen. The number of times I’ve actually needed to do this is too damn high. Sure, I feel entitled to not have to pay for the privilege, as the task was usually thrust upon me by some bank, HR department, or legal firm. But the number of scummy websites online that will happily play with your doc’s confidential info for free, is too damn high. I can’t imagine anyone with average computer skills navigating this particular turing tarpit unscathed.

There’s stuff out there now about how to poison content scrapers that are training AI, so this is absolutely doable on some scale. There are already what I like to call “golden tokens” that produce freaky reliable and stable results every time, and so I think it likely there are counterparts that trigger reliably bad output too. They’re just not documented yet.

In a sane world, commercial AI would have legally required watermarks and other quirks that give content away as artificial, every time. Em-dash is probably the closest we have to this right now for text, and likewise for the occasional impossible backdrop or extra fingers on images. You can’t stop a lone ranger with a home-rolled or Chinese model, but it would be a start.

It’s a fine line to walk, but I see what you’re getting at here. I wouldn’t want to come across as incompetent either, lest it reflect on the company. Your follow-up remark is brilliant. Delivery is everything, I suppose.

I appreciate the use of a good old-fashioned shibboleth like this. Thanks.

junk food vegan

I’ve seen this with my own eyes, but didn’t know there was a common name. Indeed it is possible to be slothful, fat, and practically live off of peanut-butter, all at the same time. The intent was there, but complete nutrition was not.

, he’s reading off the bottom of his screen.

Aw fuck.

I’m gonna have to ask absolutely bullshit questions in interviews now, aren’t I? Do you have any other strategies for how to spot this? I really don’t want to drag in remote exam-taking software to invade the applicant’s system in order to be assured no other tools are in play.

Dear Microsoft CEO and C-suite people.

Push back on your investors now before it’s too late. AI features are ruining your product and its image.

A lot of companies are tied in up this AI bubble and Microsoft is not too big to fail in this regard. Your customer-base has gotten by just fine without AI and invasive screen-capture technology used to support it, for decades at this point. Most people see your product as an operating system: a product designed to support other products. They do not want more capabilities from it, and have come to rely on good support for hardware compatibility, stability updates, performance updates, and most importantly, security updates. It is the darling of OEM PC installs, and government and commercial enterprise continue to renew their site licenses because of it. These are the core features that will continue to bring value and keep people on your platform, not AI.

If you firmly believe that agentic AI is the future, make it an optional installable product or a completely distinct operating system altogether. This is strategic since it has radically different marketing needs than Windows or Windows Professional, and supports a distinct subset of your overall install base. Foisting this feature set on your existing users is doing nothing more than artificially inflate adoption numbers, and you’re risking the entire enterprise to think your investors don’t already know this. It’s not smart, it’s not even brinksmanship or a bold technology decision. It’s reckless.

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Not only is it 30 years old, but it has searching built-in since at least 1997, if not the whole time. This puts it in a very special class: first-generation server-side web applications. Looks like it’s still rocking cgi-bin.

On the one hand: It’s downright regal and impressive. Imposing, even.

On the other: I don’t own enough land, or run enough countries, to pull this look off.

For a fun photoshoot, sure, but we’d better have other costumed people and a movie set to contextualize it as something wholly fictional and otherworldly. Otherwise, as this thread illustrates, people are going to draw their own conclusions and they’re not all going to be nice.

Thank you. I was struggling to figure out which anime this reminded me of the most.

Say what you want about Zechs, but he really made that neo-regency (?) style work.