Police also get conditioned by being around the absolute worst examples of human beings on a regular basis. That can corrode the soul of a regular person. Especially one that joins with the intention of really making a difference. All too often it will seem like making no difference at all - and that will corrode you as well.

Police are like a bilge pump - all we ask is to make sure the boat doesn't get swamped. It's a thankless, never-ending job, and the pump may despair in the end because it can never, ever, make the bilges dry.

Well, initial stupidity can come at a very high price.

Yes. Funny thing: There is a regulatory requirement here for any financial service provider here to have a cloud replacement strategy. That includes cloud providers. Would be a good thing for everybody to have that, but people are stupid, full of themselves and greedy.

I would have though that by now they are all gone. Probably those left are the ones that stupidly painted themselves into a corner and never thought about exist strategies.

Tschernobyl blew up, no shutting down. TMI melted its core. Fukushima melted its core. Windscale had a burning graphite core. You were saying? Oh, right, you just claimed total crap.

I thought it was Mar Florida (Sea of Florida) - that's what I've been calling it since this fiasco began.

You are arguing on the level of "you are holding it wrong". Pathetic and marks you as not very smart. Which, incidentally, makes you the primary LLM target group.

That is a nonsensical statement. One size does very much not have to fit all.

I would think that Teslas get stolen far less often because they are difficult to sell and difficult to turn into parts and, on top of that, you have to do a lot of work to disable all the electronics in there. Hence not an effect that would transfer to any external cameras.

Also, who would want a bad-quality space-NAZI car anyways?

The main problem is that the police does not really care about cars getting stolen.

I think you have a problem counting there. No, most hardware is NOT involved in booting.

For special-purpose, there are better things. For example, for teaching the Big Blue Button is quite a bit superior IMO. I have used it last semester with no issues at all. But it is not really suitable for more general use. For example, it requires you to schedule meetings and upload your slides before. That is fine for teaching, but does not work so well in many other situations. It also uses LibreOffice to convert PP slides to PDF, but since my teaching slides are LibreOffice anyways, I had zero problems.

That said, a Teams replacement does not have to be better. It just has to be about equal or not too much worse and it has to not be made by an US company or a company beholden to any other authoritarian regime.

People do not stop stealing cars because of cameras. But I guess Flock is desperate for some good press, so we get propaganda lies now.

Forget it. This person threw together what they mistake for a good spec of a browser and then asked Claude to build it. They do not have the skills to do any real work, LLM support or not. This whole thing is just yet another meaningless stunt that impresses the clueless.

That depends. For example, a Linux kernel basically clears everything out and does everything itself. Hence the drivers for most hardware can be taken from that. Also note that for booting you only need a small part of the "full range of modern hardware" to work and there are quite a few standardized interfaces for storage.