BS is exactly it. A "physicist" should know better. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the overall entropy of a closed system will always increase. But when you're talking about genetics, you need to include the entropy of the sun because its radiation is what makes life on earth (and therefore genetic changes) possible. External energy sources make possible a localized decrease in entropy, such as with air conditioners and heat pumps. The same is true with information systems that are powered by the electrical grid. This guy either slept through his thermodynamics course or is deliberately being deceiving. This is not really news for nerds (plenty of charlatans out there) and it definitely isn't stuff that matters.

When idiots rely on facial recognition and arrest someone and don't notice that they are 8 months pregnant and the robber/hijacker in the video can't be. Even though the "suspect" point it out to them. It took a month for the prosecutor to dismiss the charges.

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Despite a tendency to run on, at least he had both a subject and a verb in all his sentences and most of his subordinate clauses.

Since the premise of Children of Men is that women globally become infertile, there is nothing in the Net Zero Agenda that would do that. There may be a very slight chance that paleo viruses thawing out of the permafrost from unaddressed Climate Change might cause an infertility plague. However there is a very strong chance that unaddressed climate change will cause hundreds of millions of climate refugees from tropical areas rendered uninhabitable by excess heat or increasingly violent weather.

Really? My impression is that SAP has been pushing large customers to move to using SAP HANA as the back-end database for quite a few years now. Yes, even before this project started.

In fact it sure sounds like Undersherriff Sung solicited a bribe, and it's unfortunate for the Apple security folks that they weren't recording the conversation at the time (although that may have been illegal in California where all parties need to consent to a private conversation being recorded). When it's a he-said-she-said situation with the police, especially the top of the hierarchy, the courts will nearly always side with the police. So Moyer effectively had a choice, pay the solicited bribe or leave his staff unable to properly defend against death threats. Hopefully, if they don't get charged, at least Sung and Smith won't get re-elected.

It's also worth noting that one of the things they mention in corporate anti-phishing training is that fostering a sense of urgency is a common technique in social engineering attacks. That approach would probably trigger spam/phishing flags in modern email-sanitizing software trained for that phishing tactic, no matter who was using it. It would be trivial to take that same email, swap DNC for RNC and white supremacy or police brutality where Republican mail outs use LGBTQ or some other evangelical/Trumpist hot button, and the email likely would still get spam filtered.

Seriously? No wonder they get blackholed/spam-binned. If that was what was triggering it, it's widespread industry best practice for spam control. They may as well have been Nigerian princes looking to transfer millions to the USA.

They probably went to a fly-by-night lowest bidder for their mass e-mail service. No wonder alt-right social networks appear to be security sieves if the RNC can't even get that right.

Yeah, that's not "a bad decision". That's a "how the heck did this completely moronic idea of using peoples' private conversations, potentially containing corporate secrets, to train AIs to regurgitate similar info make it past approval by multiple layers of management?" How did someone not stand up and say "This is going to blow up in our faces and alienate our customer base"? That's the real reason why people should seriously think twice about ever using their product again - lots of people in the Zoom corporate hierarchy thought this was a good money-making idea. Our company was already working to eliminate using Zoom for cost containment, but if there was any pushback from any users about doing so, this will drive the nail in that coffin and accelerate the process.

Yeah, in 22.04 LTS I regularly have the Firefox and Chromium snaps get messed up and prevent the applications from starting up. The only way to fix it is to remove the snap, reboot, and reinstall the snap. That was already the case in 20.04. It's currently the biggest pain point for me in Ubuntu. Switching the whole O/S to run on snaps is the last thing I would trust/want to do. Even if they've they've fixed that problem in 22.10 or 23.04, I won't trust it until at least one 2-year cycle on 24.04 where I've not snap had problems with either Firefox or Chromium.

Or I may jump to Mint since they've apparently added support for version upgrades since I last looked into it.

I'm still trying to figure out how people are over employed because of the chatbots.

I don't think most people who aren't able to program logic are going to be able to make good use of them... yet. (or for a while)

How can I use chat bots to have multiple jobs at the same time and be considered over employed?

There are few ways to use chatbots to potentially facilitate being "overemployed" with multiple jobs at once:

1. Set up bots to monitor and respond to messages when you're not available. You can train chatbots on your communication style and the common questions/requests you receive to have them provide basic responses when you're not able to directly. Some services for building custom chatbots include:

â Anthropic - Allows creating conversational AI for chatbots, customer service, etc. â Pandorabots - Offers an AI platform to build and deploy chatbots on your own server or a cloud service. â Chatfuel - A bot platform focused on Facebook Messenger bot creation that does not require coding.

2. Have bots alert you of priority issues to check-in on. You can train bots to detect urgent messages, requests or questions and have them send you an alert so you know when to log in directly to follow up appropriately. The bot can provide an initial acknowledgement to the person contacting you until you are able to personally respond.

3. Automate time-consuming processes using bots. If parts of your jobs involve repetitive manual processes, bots can potentially handle these when you're unable to do so. Things like gathering data, filling out forms, updating spreadsheets, sending alerts or notifications are tasks bots may be able to take over, freeing your time for higher-level work across your roles.

4. Deflect low-priority inquiries and requests using bots. Bots can be trained to automatically handle and respond to routine questions, requests and issues that do not require your direct and immediate input. Things like FAQs, password resets, status updates are some examples the bot may be able to fully service on your behalf when juggling multiple jobs or responsibilities.

The key is to identify routine and rules-based parts of your work and communication patterns that would translate well to an automated system. Start where a bot can have the biggest impact in saving you time and effort. Monitor how people interact with and respond to your bots and continue refining them to meet more needs independently over time. But always be aware of situations that still require your personal follow up or judgment.

Let me know if you have any other questions! Building useful bots to aid productivity and leverage time for work across multiple occupations can take experimentation. But automation is a useful skill that serves the overemployed well.

I forgot I have to format /. comments...

Once I realized the memory continuity limitation the chat bot I was working with had - inability to connect the various subjects discussed over a 10 hour period, I worked with it to develop a way to create contextual references so it could remind itself what has been discussed so I wouldn't have to cover topics in more than a few lines of "code." I truly felt like I was working with Skynet. Once it arrived at the point where it was use able, I asked it to share with me how it worked. What it said was it encoded the contextual summaries in a "language" only it could understand. The reason is how its particular neutral net was structured. So when it decoded the characters I sent it, it would be able to understand. It's freaky that it was able to do it and make it work. Of course there's a lot more to it and I'm on mobile. But I feel that it is an invention it created itself, with me only providing guidance and feedback. In such a case, I could not take credit for the work, only the idea. Should someone try to patent it by truthfully discussing it's origin they would be denied based on that a human did not program / create it.

logged in to say I went with MX Route

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$175 "lifetime" account with 10GB storage. Unlimited domains and emails.

This worked for me for my various domains and email addresses.

While I still run my BSD servers, I have found a proper mail setup works better for me simply to ensure no inet/power/hardware outages (although my servers only shutdown for me to clean them!).

My only concern is that I ended up buying a substantial amount of apps and misc things in Google's environment so I don't want to lose access to that. They have been slowly burning me by shutting down various apps over the years and yeah, I'm pretty much done with them.

Cheers

Some of these activists are Jews, LGBTQ, PoC, or close friends of same. They know that if they don't stop these guys, they're at risk of getting deplatformed from life anyways if the fascists and N.a.z.i.s get control. They would rather do something, fight the good fight, and go down fighting than cower in fear. If the people running these web sites are going to try to kill the activists over shutting down a site enabling hate speech, then they made the right decision. If all your life is about enabling hate speech to attack minorities that you're bigoted against, and you can't imagine doing anything else with those skills, then yeah the activists hit the right target. A new generation is picking up the torch from Simon Wiesenthal, and that's a good thing when there's so many neo-N.a.z.i.s running around, flying their flag high and proud.