NotYourLawyer
Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know Americ...
on Saturday March 29, 2025 @08:05PM (#43519885)
\>be me
\>be a green card holder
\>support terrorists
\>get deported
Shocked pikachu face.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:23PM (#43511849)
> valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it
It’s more than he paid. There’s 12 billion of debt you’re not accounting for.
Re:Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microso...
on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:10PM (#43511357)
Windows 7 was legitimately pretty good. It’s been downhill ever since.
Re:AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:01PM (#43497529)
Yeah, racists always make excuses.
Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:08AM (#43481878)
An 800 page lawsuit full of conspiracy theories? Sounds legit.
Re:Shift-to-Middle Array: A Faster Alternative to Std:Deque?
on Monday March 24, 2025 @02:40PM (#43464117)
Middle out?
Re:'Bluey's World': How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a $2B Juggernaut
on Friday March 21, 2025 @06:57PM (#43441604)
They don’t on streaming. I’m always having to google it.
Re:The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why
on Friday March 21, 2025 @06:53AM (#43434115)
Civil asset forfeiture needs to go.
Re:SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:51PM (#43429983)
Puts on Masa.
Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2...
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:17PM (#43419618)
I hadn’t heard that he died, sad.
Re:Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:37PM (#43406553)
I’m kidding. Slightly.
Re:Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:23PM (#43403781)
You can’t buy them in the US though. They might as well not exist.
Re:Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipp...
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:20PM (#43403745)
It’s useful only to let big tech companies listen in to everything that happens in your home.
Re:Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipp...
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:03PM (#43403502)
Ehhh but I just bought one of the M4 Mac minis. And it’s pretty nice.
Re:Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipp...
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:58PM (#43403407)
It’s almost enough to make me try Linux on the desktop again.
Re:Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipp...
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:58PM (#43403397)
Throw your wiretap in the garbage where it belongs.
Re:When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#43400793)
I bet it would burn just fine. Lots of blubber.
Re:Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal
on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:39PM (#43394895)
I can’t really explain why (there’s no L!) but the name struck me the same way for some reason.
Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of...
on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:11PM (#43391795)
Ok.
Look, I’m not saying the cranks should be dragged out back and shot, just that they are a net negative.
Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of...
on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:10PM (#43390016)
Sending them manuscripts, publishing nonsense on the arxiv, reducing the overall SNR of research.
Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of...
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#43389800)
It matters because they waste the time of serious researchers.
Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of...
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:14AM (#43389434)
There’s some truth to that. But there are also a LOT of “self-taught” cranks out there who think they’ve discovered an amazing new theoretical framework… but if they’d done any background reading, they’d know it’s been tried and didn’t work.
Re:Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmwa...
on Saturday March 15, 2025 @11:48AM (#43373259)
> I was able to disable the "telematics" in the same vehicle
This is only sufficient if you trust software, which you shouldn’t. Hardware disconnects are reliable. Cut the power.
Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:52PM (#43369512)
This is a laughably bad take.
Re:Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmwa...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @08:48PM (#43368902)
YouTube. I think in most cars it’s gonna be a discrete component that can just be unplugged. The big question is what functionality you lose, and whether you can live with that tradeoff.
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks
on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:30PM (#43366323)
Exactly my point! They wouldn’t, and shouldn’t.
Re:Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmwa...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:30PM (#43366313)
Just get a receiver and some standalone speakers. It doesn’t need an OS, and there’s no reason for it to talk to the internet.
Re:Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmwa...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:16PM (#43366176)
Before I bought my most recent vehicle, I did my research and figured out how to physically disconnect the modem / telemetry unit.
Re:Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmwa...
on Friday March 14, 2025 @03:13PM (#43366136)
Why are these things connected to the internet at all?