Agreed, trump's book should never have been called the art of the deal, the art of the lie would have been far more accurate.

Maybe, but in August, FB was ordered to pay almost 1B for its failure of child protections. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnmdoj.gov%2Fpress-releas... A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we are talking real money. And kudo's to NM, they seem to be leading the pack in terms of going after the once untouchable social media tech co's.

I also have a small site. I used to provide some of the code/schematics I did for home projects like a pool controller. Used to. The number of hits from the AI co's is thru the roof. I took that stuff off the site. I don't care to train an AI with more hobby work. If people really want it, they'll ask. Kind of makes me sad when I have to stop sharing with people because of scraping to train machines. I cannot imagine the bombardment of AI scraping that large forum hobby/tech sites must endure.

Smart home would more likely be pico's I think. And I thought RPI org designed those themselves so maybe a bit more profit (percentage wise) than the broadcom based pi. It also says that RPI can go beyond the board and do chips. I've used the pico's and found them pretty easy to use, and so far quite reliable. In some applications, better than a pi with rock solid timing, near instant on time, much lower power. And bonus, no occasional SD card corruption on a power fail.

Don't kid yourself. This is a way for wealthy people to meet wealthy people that are connected to the VC world. The price is a gate to keep the undesirables out.

I'm with you, I'm baffled how it can be hard to find stuff. From stainless steel screws I recently needed to .1% smd resistors to spline tools for screens, to specialized brass shutoff valves, to misters I just don't seem to have a problem finding sources and getting stuff. And that was just last week. And generally I avoid amazon. There have been a few things I've never found. There is some stuff that just doesn't exist. Market too small I imagine.

From what I've read it seems the AI co's are under-reporting cap ex numbers by stretching depreciation schedules. If that 3 year old GPU is worth zilch and you've binned it, but your depreciation schedule has it at 7, it will still be an expense from years 4-7 when there is zero value coming from it. Those finance guys have always been just as creative as AI.

Someone needs to mod this up. Wasn't it google that just bought some bankrupt companies chats, voice recordings, ... for peanuts. In bankruptcy court, there just doesn't seem to be any restriction on privacy rape.

I was surprised too, but its been years since it was revealed his like for fish. I was also pretty amazed when he invited I think a BBall team or maybe a football team to the WH and he served McD's and included the fish sandwiches. He thought McD's was a treat for the players. The man is as dumb as a rock. I'm thinking Ruth's Chris would have been a better option.

I thought it was widely known donnie likes the filet o fish at mcd's. Here is just one reference. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertai... His only complaint is not enough tartar sauce.

I'm still hoping for gagging on a McD's fish sandwich and all the aids are trumpers who don't know how to do the Heimlich. Another possibility and unfortunately a real one is a resurgence of COVID. RFK jr has cut back on vaccines. Who knew, measles is making a comeback without vaccinations. Polio could be next!

Great line about the car keys. Made me laugh. And I need all of that I can get these days.

True that. Paxton has been running ads about trans heavily. I did note in the ad it said something about father, AG, ... Oddly it was missing husband. Oh how could I forget, he cheated on his wife, used state funds to cover it up and she divorced the creep. Funny, none of that was in the ad.

I think I saw somewhere he uses AI. I'd always assumed he used it to stroke his narcosis. From what little I've seen about AI, it does stroke the user incessantly.

Which fortunately looks like is happening. When TX and FL stop supporting them, they are toast. It appears to be neither the left or the right is happy with the surveillance. Just a few here on /. seem to be supportive of the invasive tracking.