That episode hit so hard.
TNG had some random heavy hitters when you least expected them. Lwaxana Troi episodes were supposed to be comic relief, which makes it especially cruel that two of the saddest episodes in the series were Lwaxana episodes.
Maybe it’s because I am in tech, but not a single person in my friends group drives a pickup truck. Even now that I’ve moved to Wyoming, there are no truck owners. To be fair, pickups suck in our weather. A lot of Subaru and vans though.
I guess what I am saying is that maybe gas guzzling pickups aren’t an American thing as much as they are a specific type of American thing.
Plenty of sedan and hatchback options on offer from Japanese and European automakers. Some are even built in the US.
My mother did the opposite. I got my birthday money and she let me blow it on whatever I wanted as fast as I could. I immediately realized how quickly your new found wealth can vanish, and how little it can get you if you don’t think it through. It was a harsh way to learn financial responsibility.
It’s possible but very unlikely given that they were never given to it nor used in any system where LLMs were tested. My guess (pure guess) is that someone (probably thousands of people) asked Claude to build them something to interact with GOG and provided it with their credentials or a cookie. The LLM is probably sitting on a ton of those and it just used one to test it’s work.
This indicates that Flock
alreadypretends that it has the technology to track people andjusthasn’t deployedit in a manner that isbecause it is vaporware and it is not usable by its customers.
So far, everything I have seen from Flock, as far as technology goes, has been lowest common denominator trash. Their too strength is their ability to sell to the ignorant, easily impressed, luddite local politicians and law enforcement.
Our IT infrastructure is woefully unprepared to guard against the frontier LLM models we have now. I cannot even imagine what the infosec landscape will look like in five years.
Example: I built (as in me, by myself, on Vi) some scripts to backup my GOG library. I added alerts, throttles and a scheduler. All in all, pretty cool functionally but not at all user friendly. So, I asked Claude Fable 5.1 to build a gui app based on my script, and it did. It also tested it and verified it workes by login in and starting a few downloads from its sandbox. Except that I never gave it my GOG credentials. I’ve never logged into GOG from that environment. Claude went out, got someone else’s credentials from somewhere, and initiated a few downloads to make sure the app it built worked. Thank you, I guess??
What firmware version is it on? Boot it away from any wifi and turn on airplane mode before checking.
You might be able to jailbreak it and make it permanently usable.
It’s just a cloud based bookshelf and e-reader service. Think of it as a Kindle service replacement for your personal library. It also ties into your public library memberships if you have any. I primarily use it so I can switch between laptop, desktop, eReader, ipad, and phone on the fly without loosing my place.
I just jailbroke mine last week. KOreader + Bookfusion plugin gives me access to my entire library anywhere, anytime. Good stuff.
I use Proxmox as a VDI server. I understand that this isn’t homelab territory, but selfhosted VDIs have proven exponentially more reliable and easier to manage than cloud based ones (after the initial PitA setup). Flawless copy/paste, screen resize, and most importantly, file transfers. When you connect to 12 different clients, each with a different set of security requirements, system hardening, monitoring, and VPN access, being able to console amd fully interact with a sandboxed desktop becomes priceless.
I mostly remember the Beverly Hills plastic surgery fiends.
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You do not fully submerge it. Take the lid off and hang it submerged 3/4 of the way.
I normally hang it from a string tied to a wooden spoon over a tall pot.
Put the bottle on the table to cool a bit while you finish up setting the pancakes. I didn’t wait. I just wrapped the bottle with a little towel and poured it hot on my pancakes.
I’m down for a 4K Blu-Ray physical copy and a DRM-Free digital copy if you ever get them done.
Full price. Not waiting for a sale.