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I used two command hooks and cable tied them together to close the gap, tried faffing around with tape but it was never perfect. Not too pretty from the backside, but that shouldn't be relevant to most people

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Proceeds to look at calendar: "It's a bit early for April, is it not?"

No but seriously, unless they somehow prevent AI bots (they won't), it's going to be a massacre. The unpaid mods won't be able to deal with the influx. I imagine some subreddits might require accounts to be multiple years old to post etc..

I can maybe see it as a way to attract more "content"-whales - I remember reading a statistic that something like 1% of users generate 99% of the content, so they might be trying to curate those, but this seems like a very... Crazy for lack of a better word way to do it.

Summary
Reddit has decided now is a great time to turn your fake internet points into real money, not crypto!
 
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My thoughts
This is, for lack of better words, idiotic. Bots galore are going to invade Reddit, welp I guess that's one way to kill the platform 😄
 
Sources
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/25/1719232/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/?guccounter=1

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

I looked at it from an European standpoint, on their EU site (for the Cover, not Matress) and it doesn't feel right. Sure they mention a "limited default warranty" that'll cover it for the legally required 2 years, but it's hidden away, and the marketing heavily implies the warranty is linked to the subscription.
 
IIRC AppleCare+ was actually discontinued here in Belgium, because it was marketed the same way.

Anyway back on topic, the fact that you cannot use it without a subscription at all makes it so completely worthless. I first thought that you could at least set a 'static' temperature without it, but it seems the (cloud) app is required for any/all functionality. Company goes under, your 3k€ purchase is fucking e-waste. Ridiculous.

Given Linus' insistence on self-hosting, hate of subscription and hate of cloud-based solution, I am surprised it passed the muster at all.

Summary
Under the slogan of "Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture", Intel has published a draft specification for "X86-S". This variant of the venerable x86 CPU ISA would strip out all of the legacy 16 and 32 bit components as well as several obsolete features, leaving only x86_64.
 
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My thoughts
I think clearing cruft is an admirable goal. It's kinda crazy that a Ryzen 7000 or Raptor Lake processor still has to act like 8086 when it turns on. Less architecture also means less places for bugs and vulnerabilities to live.
 
Sources
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-X86-S-64-bit-Only
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html

Re the Eightsleep subscription discussion.

Out of pure curiosity ... and a definite desire to avoid fixing my dual zone mattress cooling issues by way of building a home made system a-la Linus and Alex video on May 20, 2023 ... ... I take a deep dive at the sponsor eightsleeps website to see their plug and play product, and am hit with a serious misgiving:

- Sure ... it costs $2,700CDN up front, before tax, but lets assume I'm fine with that outlay ... then you realize you actually cant buy it without signing up to a monthly/annual membership which provides access to the 'Pod'.  To be clear, the website doesnt in plain language define what is the 'Pod'.

You MUST purchase this membership for the initial one year period at the $240CDN billed annual rate. From one side you could say that its just a scammy way of charging $2,940 for the upfront purchase (before tax).  Welcome to 2023 ... Moving on.

Lets just start by immediately discounting the more expensive 'lifetime warranty' option. One: 'lifetime' means nothing. Who's to say that upstart eightsleep will even be around in 25 years. Should they survive for even 10 years, I will have put an additional $2,400 (plus tax) specifically towards the warrantee ... you see the problem, as that's basically the value of the system. At the end of the day, we dont know if the warrantee will be valid in 10 years, and we will be able to repurchase the product by then anyways ... wait ... what?  Thats not a warrantee, its an insurance policy.
 
Not even a car manufacturer will charge the value of the product after running their scammy sub system for just 10 years.  For a $50,000 car that would be almost $500 a month for a warrantee.  For eightsleep ... this is a flag all on its own.

And 2 ... it speaks to a manufacturer that ONLY warrantees their product beyond 30 days, if you pay a lot more for it. Auto red flag.
  Beyond all that, we dont actually know what the warrantee covers.  Lets say at the end of the first year, I decide to not continue with the 'membership' ... then what?   - Does it simply mean a loss of any future upgrades or updates eightsleep come up after this date? Sure ok, if 100% of the system still works, then Im fine with that.  That would be like running Win98 on an offline closed system that works perfectly well for the low end industrial task it has to do ... fine. It could continue to work for years and years.  I would be a happy mattress cooling product owner.   - or does it mean I lose connection to adjust the dual temperature system or lose access to the software at all? Or do I lose connection to my parallel health devices that eightsleeps software links to?   - The website details the service as 'Automatic temperature, vibration & thermal alarm, sleep & health reports' ... but what does that mean? 'Automatic temperature' ... sounds like a basic function ... no?  Thats all it says ... its undefined.   - The problem here isnt the limitation really, its the company being open and forthright as to exactly what will not work the same, or at all, if the membership is cancelled. The way it is detailed on the site ... we just dont know what will happen and how my near $3000 purchase will operate post 12 months.   For this reason, I backed away from the site.  I wont be buying in.

In addition I felt it to be reasonable to discuss this with LMG here about eightsleep as a sponsor, and the reality of just what their followers are actually signing up for.  I'm not saying cancel the sponsorship, but perhaps someone on the LMG team could head over to the eightsleep website as a potential purchaser and try to parse through just what are the actual risks involved for their followers. 

If you cancel the warrantee, what actually happens?  Should this staff person purchase the product and summarily cancel the warrantee, to see what happens? Should Linus and Yvonne cancel theirs and report on what happens?

If that someone walks away feeling unsure on behalf of their viewers ... perhaps some follow up with eightsleep to have more clarity on their website regarding this warranty issue ... is warranted.

Thank you.

I will personally give you $10,000 if you can find our backpack or our screwdriver on aliexpress or some other direct from China marketplace. 
 
Now there's no excuse. 
 
Do it. 

I do wish @LinusTech  had given the real tech tip: Leave your microphone on and in a situation where you might need the plate SAY IT OUT LOUD. 
 
Got drilled into my head during research faze and it did pay off for me.  Hit and run at an angle, so odds are even a great camera would have had a hard time getting the plate.  Spoke the plate right after I stopped moving, the guy took off 2 seconds later.  Thankfully he got a nice visit from the police within the next 24 hours.
 
Obviously this isn't fool proof, but its a good tip to keep in your back pocket for a rainy day...

I would love to see a video that compares the top brands for remote desktop software: Teamview, Gotoassist, Anydesk, zoho, splashtop, ect... Their pros and cons, network vs remote connections, how easy is it for the customer to use or install if needed. (walking somebody through having to enable screen recording and accessibility on mac is starting to drive me insane). Pretty much anything a smaller IT team would come across who helps internal staff and external customers from a remote position through remote access software. 
 
I understand for longevity the video wouldn't age the best as new brands come out and systems change but just to focus on the ease of use in 2022 as most customers are still pretty hesitant of 1 time use remote access software even when they are looking for support. 

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I sure hope google thinks it cannot fail at this point because the sheer loudness of the thud from them falling is going to be so epic to hear. Haven't heard a nice booming thud since facebook decided to go all in on a vr chat knockoff.

I mean this is bad practice but also kinda based

Yea, yea, has a political backdrop, but this is about the bigger picture of the technology, not this specifically relating to Ukraine/Russia.
 
Summary
A team in California was able to track Russia's movements into Ukraine using google maps.
 
Quotes
 
 
My thoughts
What a crazy way to use google maps. I never imagined using traffic data from google maps in such a sophisticated way. Imagine invading a country and having your army's locations revealed by google maps. This is absolutely a tactic that will be heavily used in the future. As he says, its not even tracking the Russians specifically, but the people around them, so even though the soldiers may have no tracking devices, the people around them do, and their affects on them, even just causing a traffic jam, alerts others to their position.
 
Sources
https://wapo.st/3HxfZyw

I wonder how much better a gen1 Surface RT tablet will be with ChromeOS compared to the shitty Windows 8 install it got.