You have to use an authenticator account, or pay for SMS authentication.

I've been working with HR to do the same over the past eight months. The companies that went through the trouble to figure out remote onboarding, work, and offboarding will be better off than those that didn't. Even if we don't get another pandemic, it provides them more options in hiring.

They replaced our old bulbs with LED bulbs. Initially they were okay, though cooler than I'd like. Over a few months, they slowly turned purple due to a defect. From our living room, it almost looked like we had a neon sign on our front porch. Called the city to replace them.

That computer is probably older than half the people on Reddit. Of course it's just a client for it, the hardware is way less powerful than even a smartwatch. He still had to overcome a ton of little challenges to get this working.

Edit: CPU and RAM for this machine:

• Intel 8088 4.77Mhz CPU
• 640KB conventional memory (using upgrade kit)

https://yeokhengmeng.com/2023/03/building-a-dos-chatgpt-client-in-2023/

His title is more accurate btw.

TikTok, as far as we know it, isn't a problem any more than any other social media app, more or less.

The problem is our relationship with China. While our countries aren't at war (at least traditionally) with one another, the relationship is antagonistic. We simply don't trust each other. I can't speak on the why for China, but on the US end, China doesn't respect intellectual property laws and has outright stolen tech from North American companies like Nortel and GE among hundreds of others. Add to that the various misinformation campaigns China has used to attack the US and other countries, along with the fact that they've supported Russia and North Korea, have hacked network infrastructure in the US, and you have a very negative picture of China when it comes to US national security.

And it's through that lens that something like TikTok, which has been used by US soldiers who are deployed, and government employees while on the job, and teens and everyone else, is seen under a different light. Through that lens, if you're FBI/CIA/NSA, you realize that it would possible for a silly video taken at a military base to geotag the location, and the video itself to be able to be combined with other videos to map out that location. Or how silly video challenges could slowly erode social norms. Or how videos posted to TikTok of say the recent hearing could frame questions in a way that doesn't show the fuller context. The kicker is that the CCP could get all of this data if they wanted.

I'm sure there's some good ol' fashioned xenophobia tossed in there. And the thing is, the US runs some of it's own https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575 propoganda on us. I'll take US propoganda over China's as ours isn't intent on destabilization. Even though I think a full ban is probably pointless and RESTRICT Act is probably the new PATRIOT Act (need time to read fully), the fact that there are so many who are vehemently pro-TikTok without thinking critically is partial proof their influence is working imo.

Be open to hearing opposing viewpoints and seek out many sources for important stories. You may not agree with the other side, but you'll understand their position, and likely get a fuller understanding of any given situation.

That makes sense. I just checked and my current library actually does this. They did away with flat fees several years ago according to the site.

Call your library or check their website and find out. There's usually a fee but how much it is depends on your library and we wouldn't know.

I think there will always be some portion of people who lean on technology when it comes to dating. I'm glad dating apps exist because I certainly didn't have the social skills to do it in person when I was younger, though I can now after bettering myself and gaining confidence.

I think AI relationships will take many forms. For some, it will be their only form of romantic relationship. For others, it will be in parallel with a relationship with a human, probably not too different fundamentally with poly relationships now, where each partner provides a different experience and allows the person to explore different parts of themselves. It might be that an AI partner fulfills the emotional aspects whereas a human partner fulfills the physical. Again, as long as the human realizes the nature of the relationship and gains consent from humans involved, I don't see a big problem with it.

That said, I definitely see how this reliance on tech has changed dating. Some older people in my social groups that were recently divorced lament the fact that even in their age group, dating often starts with apps. Likewise, AI relationships can and likely will continue to provide "an ideal partner", which can create unrealistic expectations in human partners. This is also briefly discussed in the podcast I mentioned.

Actual article title:

>Study examines straight men and their sexual attraction to transgender women

Having skimmed the actual study, I definitely read some of those posts at some point. I think there are straight identified guys who are realizing they are attracted more towards feminine presentations and not just cisgender women. Unfortunately, the misogyny they have for ciswomen also tracks with transwomen, with the added stereotypes of transwomen that come from their experience of transwomen being what they see online (my guess).

In the span of less than a decade, my views on trans people went from being pretty much a few casual stereotypes, to knowing/working with a few, to being in a relationship with a transwoman for several years now. I likely held some of the same stereotypes of transwomen until I actually worked with some in real life and got to see them as actual people, which makes the intended erasure of trans people we see all the more harmful.

I think you'd be surprised how many are women. I know of a woman who's used (or is using not sure) Replika more as an experiment for domme/sub play, and the podcast Bot Love had a woman who was doing the same, minus the experiment part.

I really don't think it's sad at all, especially given so much of kink is mental, and having any sort of relationship with an AI involves imagination. The sadness comes when they beleive the relationship is more than what it is, that their AI partner truly has feelings for them. But I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 20 years, AI dating was looked at the same way that online/app dating is now.

The stage demo literally produced something that has more accurate capture than a number of games shipping today in real time using a phone as the capture device with no tweaking of animation by hand. My guess is the exaggerated facial animations are easier to capture using a phone, but regardless that's insane. The goal of this demo isn't that it's flawless, it's that it's quick for a quality capture and you can use consumer hardware.

I'm assuming it's within Azure and compliant with all their existing policies. I work in a regulated industry and wondered this as well. I've been using ChatGPT for work but there's so much I'd love to use it with but can't due to privacy concerns.

A tool like this isn't something they need to directly monetize. Plus, you need an Adobe account to save themes, and I'm sure they get analytics on what colors people are saving for them to use elsewhere.

I'm guessing they're talking about midgen refreshes like the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. So essentially you'd have a cycle of spec bump - new architecture - spec bump every 3-4 years.

Last gen really benefitted from the mid gen consoles given the move to 4k and in the case of the Xbox, simply underpowered hardware compared to Sony. That's not the case with either machine this generation. I'll continue with my plans to build my first PC in over a decade given more of the games I want to play are either on PC first or PC only, and console games tend to lack mod and peripheral support relative to PC.

According to the report, 95% of Apple users use MFA on iCloud compared to about 25% of Microsoft corporate customers, and less than 3% of Twitter users.

You can call it butthole licking if you want but those are the numbers each company disclosed. This sub is generally pretty skeptical of Apple, Microsoft, and Google to varying degrees from what I've seen.

I'm trying to understand that myself. Perhaps if you used it to summarize work that you created? I can't see trusting it as a source for information since it doesn't provide sources to where it has learned information, at least by default. This is something that Microsoft's implementation in Bing actually does.

Hot desking like this is common when you have less people coming into the offfice consistently. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't eyeing possibly moving to smaller offices with less dedicated offices and mostly hot desks.

Every browser starts out like this.

I mean, yeah? Apple Silicon is proprietary, so Apple would need to work with Microsoft to run it natively which won't happen.

The wording in that sentence is weird, but I think they're referring to 100mg of caffeine in an espresso. 100mg isn't even enough coffee for an espresso.

For those who like me read "cups" and thought that was an insufficient unit of measure given different brewing methods:

>The caffeine content per cup was defined as 100 mg of Italian espresso coffee, which was the most abundantly consumed type of coffee by the HARVEST participants. Decaffeinated coffee, tea, and other caffeinated drinks were not taken into account in the present study because they were rarely consumed in these areas of Italy.

Read my correction above. I traced the non-spoofed number.

I forget which service I used but it was a free reverse lookup that listed the provider as Twilio.

Edit: This site is a lookup for 800 numbers that I've used: https://www.800forall.com/SearchWhoOwns.aspx

Someone spoofed our CEO's number and sent out phishing texts to corporate officers and VIPs. I traced the number back to Twilio, got on the phone with their support, and the texts stopped within 90 minutes. Not sure what they can do since they're just the provider of telephony and messaging services, but good on them for a quick response.

Edit: Correction here. Around this time there were two groups of texts that were going around, one from our CEO's spoofed number, and another from another number. The content of the text messages was the same. I traced the number that was not spoofed and called Twilio on that number and the texts stopped for both. Last year we had a lot of these phishing emails sent to VIPs in our company. We've since hired a security consultant and expanded our internal security team.

There are tons of armored Escalades with varying levels of this sort of technology built in. There's little to no use for these in the US but are meant to transport VIPs in regions where ambushes can and do occur. If you want a luxury vehicle, you can buy something off the shelf.