In Dell machine from that time (like the XPS 9550) is pretty easy to upgrade the Ram, the storage or replace the battery. On some models you can sacrifice battery life (using a smaller one) for a second ssd.
On some model also the keyboard is pretty easy to replace.
If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.
But of course I am sure it will not end this way…
No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.
Fine, but maybe the update fix a bug that hit other users and that still not have hit you, be it for sheer luck or any other reason.
I would be terrified of using a bluetooth mesh network in a situation where private, encrypted communications are illegal. That would be literally walking around transmitting your intent. It’s a great idea in a free country though.
You have a point but that would means that the only other solution is to fall back to personal comunications, every electronic channel is unusable in such situation.
In a dystopia, you want to blend in.
Or you can simply have so much irrelevant data that the few important bits are lost in a sea of randomness if you don’t know where to look.
Something like deltachat has the right idea there - you have to look like boring email on the network. Maybe even layer on stenography -sending boring emails with cat pictures, but your messages are hidden inside them.
The main point of using bluetooth is to not rely on a centralized server that can be compromised and/or shut down.
If you still use email as transportation layer you could just write an app that really has e2ee, plausible deniability or any other feature you want since in the end you are relying on the same centralized infrastructure.
Honestly, I would probably go with sneakernet. A microsd card can be hidden very easily, are difficult to detect electronically, transport virtually unlimited text, and be encrypted in-case the mule gets caught to prevent networks being exposed. The latency is just a necessary evil.
The latency is not the problem, it is already known that to move large quantities of data the fastest method is to send an hard drive (or whatever else).
The real problem here is where the mule can go.
Which would not be that much of a problem if not for the first 2 weeks, until someone put out a GUI to do it, with integration with app stores to download automatically the app…
oh wait…
Switch to mesh networks could be an idea. It is not that difficult to send messages with bluetooth, problem is adoption: a system like that works only if there are many people using it.
Last time did not end well for about 6 million people…
If someone can gain physical access to your PC you are done anyway, he van simply copy the file or do whatwver he want
Do you really think that they can pay 5 trillion dollars, or even the 20% of this, to the the shareholders ?
Let’s hope that this process will continue even after Trump
Make the companies pay dearly for this
No, not the company, this would only put in in danger the employees (guess who would be fired in case of downsizing).
You need to dearly punish who signed the contract.
Partially, if OpenAI lose 11.5 billion, someone get 11.5 billion, the money is used to pay something it did not vanish in a cloud
I wonder how long it will be before investments start getting pulled back because of a lack of ROI.
Just wait for the next hot thing to come out
“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.
For the record, it also say that they should not violate any anti-discrimination federal laws.
Trump was elected because a very significant minority of Americans are racist, and the Republican party have been eroding democracy for decades.
Then where was the the majority of Americans ? Why they did not vote against someone that seems to be clearly a racist ?
Can not be the case that the opposing party did such a terrible job that people prefer someone else even if it racist since it is seen as the lesser devil ?
I mean, do you really think that normal people would agree that letting BLM (which was a minority) to devastate cities was a good way to earn votes ? Or calling misogynist or nazi everyone do not think like you will earn you votes ?
You refuse to acknowledge that trump is the instigator of a whole bunch of racist shit.
No, I refuse to acknowledge your cause-effect.
You say that people is racist because Trump won, I am saying that Trump won because people is racist.
Then it is obviously true that Trump find someone who listen to him but that people where there before Trump, do not spawned after Trump.
No, the problem is that people like you criticise diversity, equality and inclusion and like to pretend that it’s discriminatory when it’s working against racial inequality and racial discrimination.
I criticize forced diversity, I sustain that equality and inclusion means that everyone has the right to try, not the right to succeed.
But let’s assume you are right and DEI is the right thing, so why only in cushy c-level jobs ? No way, half of construction workers need to be women or from minority, half of the surgeons need to be women or from minorities, half of every worker in every job need to be women or from minorities. That would be the best diversity, equality and inclusion you could dream of… until you need a surgeon.
Lol. You wrote paragraphs on why you think DEI is bad and then you blamed DEI policies for the election of trump!
Obviously. You assume that DEI is always good, I say that DEI could be good. But forced DEI is always bad. It is obvious that if people are rejected for some DEI policy they will vote for someone who say that they will delete DEI policies.
You’re part of the mindless “blame Democrats for everything whether they oppose it or not” crowd and you are incapable of shutting up about how you think DEI and Democrats are wrong.
No, I am saying that Democrats have lost because they demostrated to be even more incompetent than the Republicans.
To be clear, I think that in the last election Republicans did not win because they did everything right but because Democrats did everything wrong, and DEI policies were only one the things they did wrong.
Anyone who takes trump or his international chums at their word is an idiot.
And that is the reason Democrats have lost. Insulting the voters is never a good way to win. And I could say the same about every voters: if you take any politician chums at their word, you are an idiot.
For someone who claims to be European, you’re pretty bad at realising that there are people who don’t live in America (including me, in case that persisted in escaping your attention), and you’re pretty bad at realising that it’s possible to be against racism whilst not being part of the leadership of the Democratic Party of the United States of America.
Oh, I realize that. What you do not realize is that criticizing some ideas or policies do not automatically make me a racist I can agree with the spirit of a policy but not agree on how it is executed and I don’t think to be a racist for this.
Supporting the racist in chief for equality’s sake is insane.I don’t care about Trump, it is not my problem, in EU Trump policies are irrelevant.And yet here you are, arguing in support of his policies.
Yeah, I should find something more productive to do… you are right.
But Trump is a consequence, not a cause.
You have that really fucked up for two reasons.
Trump is instigating all kinds of racist shit policies
Racism is NOT caused by inclusive words or actions, it’s a reaction against them by people who were racist from the start.
True, but Trump was elected, he do not magically appeared one night. And if Trump was elected, this can mean two things
choose what better suit yourself, because the point is that people voted for him and not that Trump “created” the voters.
If you wanted to win, you should have put against him someone more credible than Kamala Harris who had as only point the fact that she is a black woman: she got less than 1000 votes during the primary elections of her own party, listening to her TV debates it was chilling. Maybe you should care also about all the non $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY people.
And that assuming that the Democratic voters even went to vote instead of staying at home horrified by what the party did.
You people voted for him.
No one like me voted for Trump.
Nodoby even voted for Berlusconi, yet somehow he won more than one election, just saying…
People like you voted for him then blamed people like me for their reactionary shit.
The problem is that people like me are the ones that see what happen, do not say anything but in the end vote based on what they see and what candidates say.
Supporting the racist in chief for equality’s sake is insane.
I don’t care about Trump, it is not my problem, in EU Trump policies are irrelevant.
But Trump is a consequence, not a cause. You people voted for him. Maybe choose better candidate (both sides of course)
Diversity has repeatedly been shown to be more profitable than homogeneity, in both academic and gray literature. Besides being good for societal cohesion, fairness, stability, happiness, and moral virtue.
I did not say that diversity could not be more profitable, just that it is not always more profitable.
The best candidate is indeed best, but there are too narrow and outdated ideas on how to identify the best candidate, and humans have a bias to choose/hire for safety and similarity over actually relevant criteria, which is why we have the problem in the first place.
There is no way to solve this problem. I can be the best fit as person but the worst from a technical point of view, like you can be the best from a techincal point of view but the worst from a personal point of view.
Both of us would be a problem, although in different ways, in a team.
I would say that it is more like a software company putting in their TOS that you cannot use their software to do a specific thing(s).
Would be correct to sue the software company because a user violated the TOS ?
I agree that what happened is tragic and that the answer by OpenAI is beyond stupid but in the end they are suing the owner of a technology for a uses misuse of said technology. Or should we sue also Wikipedia because someone looked up how to hang himself ?
The gun company can rightfully say that what you do with your property is not their problem.
But let’s make a less controversial example: do you think you can sue a fishing rods company because I use one of their rods to whip you ?