Well, his name IS Horner… maybe they dropped an I somewhere.

It sure is, but I have no idea from where. Picked it up online long ago.

That’s why I hate the insertion of “mindfulness” into every type of self-help.

Motherfucker, did it ever occur to you that my hyper-awareness of shit is part of the cause of my problems?

Caregiver burnout is a thing. Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Hopefully not a drawn out depression like the 1930s.

Much worse. This time it’s going to be permanent.

The 1% own even more stock than they own outright money. You could replace “the economy” in every article with “rich people’s yacht money”. The stock market is 100% dissociated from reality and shouldn’t be used as a measure of general wealth by any means.

As you already correctly pointed out, fiat money is almost as bad as digital currency for largely the same reasons.

There’s gold, silver, and everything else is credit.

I sometimes deliberately leave them to sit in the open for a day or so. Makes them less crunchy.

I have two; a male common corn snake and a male hognose. They are definitely not cuddly animals, as you stated. However, they absolutely can and do get to know their handlers, and learn how to be relaxed when handled - and they obviously enjoy it, since they often seek out being handled of their own free will (I usually open the enclosure when they’re “surfing” up against the glass and let them decide whether they want to slide into my hands). I’ve had them for a few years now and I have been bitten, but never out of “malice”. All biting incidents were my own fault due to inexperience, and the snakes mistaking my hands for their meal. A snakebite from a non-venomous or very mildly venomous snake is no worse than a bee sting. If you have cats, you’ve probably been through worse than whatever a snake can do to you.

All in all, could recommend!

Snake tax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).

You know they’re just going to drown you in “civil matter” shit as soon as you try.

For every person like you that won’t take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.

Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.

It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.

It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.

Thanks for the info!

No, the AI advised me to contact my direct superior and his superior, but mentioned their names.

I have never provided it with this information, so that means it has a lot more access to our information than is officially known. Technically we aren’t even supposed to input anything that could possibly be identifying, again for GDPR purposes, so I have no idea where Copilot got the information from.

I assume that MS lets companies tailor their instance of Copilot to a certain degree and maybe it was fed an organigram of the entire company, but AFAIK this is already not allowed under current legislation. Or maybe it is and I’m just a modern luddite.

Regardless, I’ll be even more careful about what I use Copilot for from this point forward.

Today I was “talking” to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager’s NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot’s primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.

That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can’t act on it without breaking GDPR.

Your move, corporation.

Broken clock, twice a day, yada yada.

Not afaik. You either allow it or not. Doing so selectively would require a lot more knowledge than I have.

As a workaround however, running a VM and using your browser from within that would seem like a decent-ish way to obtain similar results with minimal effort. You can use the hypervisor to set whatever limits you require.

Yeah because Grok keeps calling out his damn lies lol. Not for very much longer obviously but the gaffes published so far have been very entertaining, if not depressing.