Well, it’s definitely non-existant…

Ffs, have the tiniest goddamn sliver of class people.

It doesn’t take long to associate an IMEI to a new user.

Then there’s apps, accounts, etc. Gobs of data out there to associate a person - including tower and wifi connection data, which would easily associate a person with a device with a location with a time stamp.

I saw some CNC controllers in the 90’s that were loaded up using paper tape - essentially punched cards but in a tape format.

The admins said they had to load a machine maybe once a year, so no reason to switch to anything else.

These things ran non-stop for years at a time, in a rough environment. They had added some kind of networking (not sure what back then, may have just been a serial connection) so they could send jobs to specific CNC machines using a desktop on the network.

Agreed on it all.

I think a big driver for cloud clients is bean counters - cloud is an expense, while having your own systems is capital investment.

They’d rather have the waste of leasing too much compute than have to pay taxes on systems plus the cost of staff to run it.

We won’t really see this get addressed until companies have to truly own the risks they take on (see all the hacks that happen on a daily basis because CIO won’t pay for the security that IT management is screaming to build). When fines for these breaches are meaningful, cloud will be less interesting.

Exactly.

I’ll admit to being lazy and not enabling encryption on my Windows laptops. But if I deployed something for someone, it would be encrypted.

And this “everyone” thing is a straw man.

If everyone in my neighborhood alone set them off, it would be thousands of people doing this in an area about 0.5 Sq mile/1.29 Sq km/129 ha.

As is, it’s about 20. And even that is quite entertaining.

Lol.

May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?

I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.

Hahahaha, suckers!

And yet when I put quotes around something… It ignores that. Well Google would anyway. Decent search engines don’t.

Signal sucks from a UI/UX standpoint, when they dropped SMS support I lost any ability to convince people to switch, and everyone who had already switched left.

Then there’s the seamless switching between devices…which it doesn’t do.

And yet searx respects operators.

Standing by your bed while you’re asleep and berating you isn’t manipulative?

Nah, to needs to leave, now. No sense hanging around to see what this escalates to. Not worth putting in the effort for someone who’s demonstrated they need to grow up.

Her standing by your bed and behaving like that is childish and she’s demonstrating manipulative behaviour.

Laugh tracks were extensively used long before the Fran Drescher thing though?

Nearly every show I watched from the 60’s to the early 80’s used them. It was noticeable when there wasn’t a laugh track.

Look into your municipality’s recycling process, see how it’s done, what the inputs are, what the total energy use is, etc, etc.

I’d bet a year’s salary it’s far less effective (if at all) than most people think.

“Recycle” was/is a marketing grift developed by the oil industry in the 70’s. It largely isn’t effective.

As someone else mentioned, aluminum (and steel) are very recyclable, and are already extensively recycled in manufacturing (don’t forget that reusing scrap within a factory is considered recycling).

Everything else largely isn’t, yet. Glass is very recyclable, but the transport costs are exorbitant, so I suspect it’s a negative for things like drink bottles, while the energy costs on most plastic recycling makes it not yet viable, from what I’ve read.

Someday, just not today.

If the 3 R’s, Reduce is the one that truly makes a difference.

If you currently have an IP camera setup, add Tailscale to your network with the Subnet Routing feature enabled.

You can then access that camera from anywhere.

Optionally also enable the Funnel feature, and you won’t even need the Tailscale client.

Oxygen has an interesting plot, similar, but not it.

I think the prison angle in this film wasn’t the main premise. Just how a technology was used.

There was an eye drop that delivered a drug or something that could…do something to your brain.

Uggh, wish I could remember more.

There was another movie around this idea very recently, maybe a couple years ago. Can’t remember the name though.

Young woman in isolation, think she helped create the system, maybe was on Netflix like 4 years ago?

Lol, have my upvote for a great backstory!

Also, I think the word you want is “apprised”, which means “to inform”, while “appraised” means “to evaluate”.

Lots of homonyms in English, another pair is “weary/wary”. Weary means fatigued, wary means cautious.