Me too, and Copilot is disabled on my work computer (and then magically reenabling itself)

Please tell me how to disable Data Detectors on MacOS, sometimes a number is just a numerical string and is not a Phone number; actually it it quite unusual for it to ever be a phone number. Even if it is a phone number, I would love to be able to just copy and paste it without it trying to connect to my phone and prank call some poor sucker.

This reminds me of when I got Spore on Optical disc for my (brand new at the time) Intel iMac. The disc was ISO9660 with both Joliet and HFS extensions, so if you put it in Windows, it would show up natively and if you put it in a Mac, it would also be native.

After a few games in MacOSX I was disappointed with the performance so I started to dig and realised it was the Windows Binary with some sort of WINE-like translation layer. I assumed it would run better natively in Windows.

I installed Bootcamp and a stripped-down version of Windows Vista and then installed the native Windows version. It installed a Root kit that broke most of Vistas security and the game ran even worse and crashed constantly.

I don’t think that Microsoft deserves all the blame for games running like shit natively. The users who pirate games and the studios who don’t trust Windows users to not pirate games deserve the blame as well.

Microsoft (and Post-Jobs Apple) definitely do deserve a lot of blame for allowing their platforms to get so bloated with so many features that users don’t want. Copilot should have been laughed out of the boardroom and Apple Intelligence is an underperforming, overly obnoxious know-nothing know-it-all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

I can’t believe that Elon Musks pet techno-SS brigade are dragging this poor Corgis name down.!

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After this he joined DOGI and went to the Library of Congress.

Time to watch Glass Onion again.

I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.

That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.

I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.

I’ve edited my original post.

Now we both look like Goofs!

No worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…

Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m

I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.

The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost 5 Million Canadian Voters are still fuckheads.

I have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!

The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.

Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.

If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.

They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.

At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…

Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.

The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).

Nature is healing!

In sectarian societies, there are community centres, free library’s and non-religious community groups with public spaces.

Even in Capitalistic societies, shopping centres and shopping malls are a place for communities to grow.

The myth that Community requires Region was created by religions so they could more easily control their indoctrinated (just like capitalism).

Sometimes you are so tired that you can’t actively engage in something, but you want to engage with it so you passively engage instead.

This goes for gamers watching gaming videos, woodworkers watching woodworking videos or people with dirty houses watching lawnmowing/pressure washing/car detailing/rug cleaning videos.

You get some of the endorphins of achievement, without having to go through the effort of achieving something.