i used a 7a because it was the smallest and not old. 8a isn’t a lot bigger.

Still bigger than my old zenfone–that also had a headphone jack. Small is good

Yep, been doing used pixels for a while now. They’re all the same anyway. I don’t care about the camera.

My kids are dopes and constantly break screens so I’m not about to buy anything nice. We all have the same model and a spare. Broken, eBay screen, bring in the spare, fix the broken one, is now the spare.

You’ll get a new phone when it doesn’t get updates anymore, then you’ll just get the next one up.

Spending more than $300 on a phone is nuts to me. They’re all the same candy bar anyway.

May as well just buy a used laptop or desktop.

I only know the term gambled and lost to describe a fart that is accidentally a shit.

Work in security.

We have been able to do this since the beginning. No need to clutch your pearls.

It is just https traffic. We have been collecting and decrypting this since the late 2000s.

Remember, your work computer is not at all private. We have telemetry on EVERYTHING you do with your Corp laptop. Been this way for a long time.

You also get quietly whisked off to a prison that isn’t a prison where you are charged as a terrorist.

I would like to see power in the hands of the people, but using technology to do it is really risky. You have to be extremely good at covering your tracks or you’re fucked.

How does one shoplift lumber?

exposed/unprotected azure storage bucket. in 2026.

Jesus tapdancing christ, how is this still a thing?! You have to go out of your way to set up publicly exposed storage like this!

Even the most basic of AI tool, assuming they used them for their terraforming, would know better. Only a complete and utter muppet would set this up and leave it like that.

My current company has 40k Corp employees and 100k retail. That’ll run you.

We can’t even get basic time entry systems to work right. We could never build a home made system.

Am boss. Work in information security. My team builds the surveillance tools.

We are not using ai powered spyware. You know how expensive that shit is? I can barely convince my bosses to spend money on things we desparetly need. You know how many fucking business cases and useless PowerPoint decks I’d have to produce in order to get funding for something like this? I can hear my boss now “OK so if we did buy it, we don’t have the headcount to operate it, nor maintain it.”

Sorry, but do NOT discount how cheap most of these companies are.

Also, non,-ai tools work just fine. The only thing they’ll do with it is build a case for firing people. It is super easy to do that anyway. Put someone on a pip. Set the rules to get off the pip. Make them unachievable. If someone actually does the things, just say they didn’t do them just so.

Its called regulation. You know, that thing we don’t have for guns in the us?

Now let’s be honest here, work slop is absolutely nothing new. I’ve had coworkers who will spend countless hours on a fucking useless “walking deck” which is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve ever heard of. Its just a slideshow full of pretty pictures that morons like but says almost nothing useful. Just departmental marketing wank. At least slop is more democratic now, I can pull one of these turds together in 5 minutes, impress the dipshits that like pretty graphics that look good, but mean nothing.

Most people cannot. Anyone using Spotify has probably never even gotten into the audio quality settings to change the bitrate as it defaults to Auto. Auto shifts the bitrate down unless you’re on WiFi and you’ve set it to max quality. If you’re on mobile data it goes way down. I’ve had friends who are listening and it sounds awful, you can hear the aub-mp3 quality compression. They never care when I point it out.

This is one of the rare times I’ve heard more than one person say something reasonable about ai.

I am also over it with people who stuff their heads up their asses and declare all ai useless, likely having never done any meaningful reading about the topic. As stated, it is a tool and like all tools it can be used for important work, it can be used for nonsense or it can be weaponized.

Until people collectively understand what it is and that its not going away, getting effective regulation is going to be very difficult.

Until then, it will be the tool of those who understand it, the plaything of the lumpenproletariat and the weapon of the ultra wealthy. If that’s the status quo y’all want, then just keep doing what most of you are doing–nothing.

Y’all forgot to read the article. They are targeting the EU since there is a greater push for tech sovereignty.

Replace the useless greedy politicians with AI. Prompt: See what those assholes are doing? Do the opposite.

What a lovely world it would be without the insufferable type of wankstains that feel they need to run for public office. I’m sure there are all of six good people that are really trying to make a difference, but they usually get buried by their opposition who gets into bed with rich douchebags.

Burn it to the ground.

I mean, they make poor-tasting coffee. That seems like it’s the worst thing of all.

When you roast and then grind coffee, it releases carbon dioxide. If you seal it up after processing, it will usually inflate a bag; that’s why most coffee bags at the grocery store have that little one-way check valve in the bag itself.

The only way to keep coffee from offgassing is to let it go stale first. That’s what they do to most coffee that used to come in metal cans. They have to do the same thing to the pods. At best, your coffee is pre-staled and only gets worse from there.

Then you have all the stupid non-recyclable waste. A plastic pod that gets boiling water run through it, I’m sure that it’s leaching a fun mix of chemicals into your coffee. There is also a paper filter in there and a foil top. No way to recycle these things unless you separate all three parts and the plastic body weren’t made of unrecyclable frankenplastic (aka #7).

Fuck those pods and any twat who is too lazy to make a damn cup of coffee without one. Get a cheap ceramic pourover and a box of #2 filters. Grind coffee, boil water. add grounds to filter, pour hot water. The only waste is a soft paper filter and some grounds, both of which can be easily composted if you like.

I mean, don’t put it on the network. Now it is dumb again. Mostly. Probably not, ok fine, so just don’t buy one with that shit in it.