In 2020 when they moved to virtual events they gave out digital store access for attending some of the first conferences. I bought up enough years of 365 to last me through 2030. Also bought a bunch of Windows Pro licenses since they were insanely cheap.

So I shouldn't be buying collectable DRAM modules right now??

Always has been. In the past it was beenie babies, basketball cards, baseball cards, comics, tulip bulbs. There's always something people latch onto, get super hot for a while, then the market collapses.

Zuck either wants their software or hardware team, not the product. They already shut down sales, are giving away the subscription services for free to existing users, and promise "at least one year" of support, which of course means "exactly one year then we brick your gadget". Well if you are in a now-supported country. If you are in Brazil, China, the European Union, Israel, South Korea, Turkey, or the United Kingdom them you have already been bricked and have until December 19th to download your data and GTFO.

It is when you throw "ChatGPT" on their to try to lend it credibility. Literally the definition of the fallacy.

Because the user didn't delete them (before the court order prevented that). If you go on ChatGPT you will see all your old chat sessions on the left. Those are the "logs" they are talking about. Prior to the court order if a user deleted a conversation it was removed (according to OpenAI), but if you didn't then the session persisted so you could go back to it.

Oh good, the "appeal to clanker" fallacy has made its way to /.

They are easy to offload and hard to trace once you get away with the initial theft. Sell to a sketchy local distributor who sells them on to stores (convenience stores, mom-and-pop bodegas, etc.)

Outdoor 6ghz APs require AFC (Automated Frequency Coordination) capability in the US. Since phone hotspots could easily be used anywhere and they donâ(TM)t have AFC and they canâ(TM)t use 6ghz

Apple did just do a round of layoffs with their sales team but that's the exception not the rule for them. They vary rarely do layoffs. They seem to manage their staffing levels better than most of the other tech companies.

I have a bunch of older SSDs sitting in a bin in my hardware horde...er...closet. Occasionally find a use for them but for the most part they were replaced by larger drives over time. Luckily I don't care about whatever data is on them, anything important is backed up.

Most organic food is still treated with pesticides, just from the "organics allowed" list. Bt and pyrethrums for example.

Could? Yes. Absolutely. Will? Not a chance. There is just not enough political will to try to solve the issues preventing it, not to mention funding it.

Well, pretty sure the cops thought it was a great idea.

No, it doesn't mean they are going it "one way or another". This is an feature you can turn on or off in powertoys. And since it's open source, you can audit it yourself if you have doubts.

You mean the MS Recall that processes data 100% on device and doesn't send any of it to Microsoft? Now I have to ask WTF are you trying to say?

You just making shit up to strawman now?

Going back to this

The last line of OP's post is to a article titled "New Research: AI Is Already the #1 Data Exfiltration Channel in the Enterprise". So yea, I think they were implying data exfil even with local AI processing in the powertoy application (you know the thing we are actually talking about here).