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bygeekbelief
2026 @01:25PM
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Attached to: How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall
If I had known how much an .ai domain was going to rocket in price at renewal time, I might have thought twice before founding my business on it. Too late now.
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bygeekbelief
22, 2026 @02:56AM
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Attached to: FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You
I am getting tired of Slashdot's attempt to ensure the reader never leaves the site, by creating ridiculously long summaries that are usually written to a lower standard than TFA. Pick a damned lane - feeder summary or full write-up, and if the latter, please do a much better job, including illustrations as necessary (since these are often in TFA).
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bygeekbelief
r 03, 2025 @04:41PM
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Attached to: Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10
I moved the four Windows 10 machines on my LAN to IoT LTSC in February, anticipating this period, and it wasn't without incident. For instance, the need to install the Microsoft Store from a GitHub repo (the store has some driver-related items that I can't get any other way).
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bygeekbelief
1, 2025 @03:19AM
(#65827475)
Attached to: Is OpenAI Preparing to Bring Ads to ChatGPT?
Excessively targeted ads is why I dumped Instagram over five years ago. If this comes to GPT and can't be altered, I'm out. I'll find alternatives, it's a deal-breaker.
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bygeekbelief
27, 2025 @02:32AM
(#65820799)
Attached to: European Lawmakers Seek EU-Wide Minimum Age To Access AI Chatbots, Social Media
...using protection of kids as excuse to join in the privacy race-to-the-bottom that China has been winning for so long. UK has shown the way, sadly.
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bygeekbelief
4, 2025 @10:28PM
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Attached to: Americans Are Holding Onto Devices Longer Than Ever
Just read in this thread that iPhone 13 support set to end around 2028, vs 2029 for iPhone 14. I have a 13, and will keep it either til something essential refuses to update to anything that old, or support and security updates end. I'm hoping by then that some 'rebel' FOSS phone will be gaining traction, even if I have to live without Whatsapp and some other loss leaders that keep us all in the mainstream.
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bygeekbelief
18, 2025 @03:30AM
(#65802215)
Attached to: An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week
Opportunism. Not surprising a company would want to flood a market that has recently seen such an upturn in credibility and adoption. Right now, their shovelware is considered in that context of credible human output. Once they have created an impossible signal-to-noise ratio (which, at this scale, they can accomplish almost overnight), the noise will turn podcasting away from algorithmic recommendation and towards human-made reviews.
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bygeekbelief
7, 2025 @07:09AM
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Attached to: Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account
Headline is BS. Read the article - you can still use an answer file (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/update-windows-settings-and-scripts-create-your-own-answer-file-sxs?view=windows-11)
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bygeekbelief
2025 @01:43AM
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Attached to: Disney Struggles With How to Use AI - While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues
I saw this Johnson stuff develop over about nine months, and it was quite cool, though I doubt it ever got perfected. Ultimately, despite Trump's ban on states making AI laws, there is going to be a Hindenberg trial result that even the powers-that-be won't be able to sway, and that will be the precedent...well, not for the death of AI, but for a significant reboot away from systems benefiting from ANY non-licensed data.
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bygeekbelief
2025 @03:08PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 Security Updates Into 2026, With Strings Attached
I moved my whole LAN to IoT Enterprise LTSC in February, and be aware, it's no picnic. You'd be surprised how useful the Microsoft Store is for essential setup stuff, and you have to jump through hoops on GitHub to get it installed and working on LTSC. There are a lot of other caveats too, not least the price - I ended up paying about $100 USD per installation, but you can pay way more. I'm glad I did it, and I still recommend it, but it's not friction-free by any means.
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bygeekbelief
25 @07:22AM
(#65416171)
Attached to: Gemini Can Now Watch Google Drive Videos For You
Thank you, YES!
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bygeekbelief
25 @12:51AM
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Attached to: VMware Price Hikes? Between 800 and 1,500% Since Acquisition By Broadcom, Claim Euro Customers
After all the 2024 shenanigans with VMWare, finally moved to Hyper-V, which has its own issues, but at least its a native architecture and works very well.
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bygeekbelief
25 @12:49AM
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Attached to: Microsoft Tests AI Text Generation in Notepad
I guess I'll be giving Linux it's 4th chance with me in 25 years soon. But my previous experience was that GUI friendliness vs. CLI expertise-needed was a binary affair, unlike Windows: as soon as you need to do anything not covered in GUI (and that's a lot, depending on what tooling a Linux program gives you, and whether the devs decided it was 'for Grandma'), you're in sudo-land. In Windows, there are more layers of GUI beyond the first one before the stark plains of Powershell come into view.
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bygeekbelief
2025 @12:45AM
(#65377811)
Attached to: NordVPN Finally Gets a Proper GUI On Linux
The original post and this re-link to it all feel paid-for.
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bygeekbelief
2025 @12:40AM
(#65377805)
Attached to: Klarna Pivots Back To Humans After AI Experiment Fails
Doesn't inspire confidence in a new worker. Not that nearly any company wouldn't likely replace workers with AI, but you're joining a company with an avowed and brutal track record of trying to do it, and which is clearly awaiting progress so that it can do it again.
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