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  1. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to LumosDC in OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board   
    Summary
     
    Friday: Dismissed as CEO
    Friday: First interim CEO is named
    Sunday: Second interm CEO is named
    Monday: 95% of workers say they will quit if Altman doesn't return
    Tuesday: Panic deepens and negotiations are well under way for a return
    Super early Wednesday: Altman is brought back as CEO
     
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    The utter lack of transparency is a problem itself and seems like the reason for it is that there is little to nothing that would've been grounds for dismissal. The only thing I can think of is that they were frustrated by the lack of progress and/or a cautious approach by Altman which meant less earnings long-term. 
     
    Sources
    Sam Altman: Ousted OpenAI boss to return days after being sacked
     
    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/22/openai-brings-sam-altman-back-as-ceo-days-after-ouster.html
  2. Informative
    Cyberspirit reacted to GlenTiki in Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI   
    With how directly the blog has called out his behaviour, this reads like the board trying to get out ahead of something, big. The chairman of the board is also stepping down.
     
    We’re probably about to find out something problematic soon.
  3. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to Arika in Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI   
    i would have a light chuckle if all of the jobs he wants has been replaced by AI.
  4. Like
    Cyberspirit got a reaction from StDragon in Windows 11 in Europe Will Have Fewer Ads and Uninstall-able Edge Thanks to the DMA   
    Would someone who's located in the U.S be able to install a European version to get the benefits?
  5. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to IkeaGnome in Amazon and Hyundai launch a broad, strategic partnership—including vehicle sales on Amazon.com in 2024   
    I'd like to know if shipping this to Alaska will be free since I have Prime.
  6. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to TVwazhere in More bandwidth than your storage capacity! Flagship RTX 50 Series card rumoured to have GDDR7 memory and 384 bit bus   
    Okay but Blackwell is a strong architecture name. 
  7. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to Mojo-Jojo in Valve Tricked Me… and I’m SO Happy! – Steam Deck OLED Review   
    Two kinds of people.
  8. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to Arika in Omegle.com shuts down after 14 years of connecting strangers on the Internet   
    Paedophiles everywhere are in shambles.
  9. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to Kisai in Omegle.com shuts down after 14 years of connecting strangers on the Internet   
    Omegle was infamously known for this:
    https://jezebel.com/virginia-catfish-cop-california-teen-family-murder-1849970506
     
    But on top of that, omegle was basically known for creeps sending inappropriate photos/video to minors. 
     
    To say shutting it down was a good thing, is an understatement. It get's lumped in with chan sites for "do not let your curiosity lead you there."
     
  10. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to WereCat in It's coming, finally. GTA 6 trailer date before GTA 6 trailer   
    If I can't grab a kid and throw it on another kid and kill them both like I can do in Baldurs Gate 3 then BG3 still remains a game of the decade for me. 
  11. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to Senzelian in My pool leaked and killed my computer   
    How could one not trust this wonderful man? Isn't he just bursting with confidence with his rainbow colored pony paper?


  12. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to DrMacintosh in Android phones disabled remotly in Mexico   
    The problem is that people paid real money for these phones. Illegally imported or not, the consumer likely had no part in that and simply purchased a phone from a store/private seller. These people have no phone and are now being graciously given a 30% off coupon to buy a new one. 
  13. Like
    Cyberspirit reacted to CerealExperimentsLain in I should have done this in the first place   
    I feel like a lot of this house stuff has been repeated cycles of 'We're going ALL OUT, ULTRA HIGH TECH, IT'LL BE AWESOME' and then falling back when realizing 'Fuck tech, it's failing me, we're going to something simpler and less failure prone.'  It's like a series of warnings on what not to do when trying to 'Nerd' your house.
  14. Agree
    Cyberspirit got a reaction from kirashi in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    Realistically the tech's should be signing a paper that states that they aren't allowed to access data they aren't supposed to.
     
    Why flip the blame on a customer who doesn't know better or God forbid they trust the repair tech not to be nosy?
  15. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to LAwLz in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    It's a bad mentality to say things are conspiracies when faced with facts you don't like. 
     
    I also think it's bad to respond to said facts with whataboutism. Nobody said first party repair shops were better. Although in the case of for example Apple, the employees aren't able to look at files because they are encrypted. 
     
     
    I don't see this as a smear campaign at all. Rather, it's a warning to the public that even if you hand your computer in to a big store like BestBuy or Mobile Klinik, there is a high risk that someone will look at your private files.
     
     
    Edit: Just to elaborate a bit more.
    The reason why I brought up Apple is because they are the manufacturer with the biggest first-party repair network. THeir devices are designed so that it technicians generally won't have access to your private information.
    The devices that were used to catch the prying eyes in this video were Windows computers and Android phones, and those generally don't have a large first-party repair network. Companies like Xiaomi or Samsung generally don't have dedicated stores where you can hand in your phone for repair, and Lenovo and HP don't either for their computers. So this investigation looked at what's relevant for the average consumer using the tools they had available, and that happened to be third-party repair shops (be it large chain ones or small local ones) for Android phones and Windows PCs.
    Perfectly rational and logical if you ask me. No need to suspect conspiracy against third-party repair shops. 
  16. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to SpaceGhostC2C in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    Depending on the reason you're sending it for repair, some/all of those things may be impossible. 
    It's easy to blame people for not taking enough precautions against bad actors, but ultimately the main culprit is always the bad actor himself. 
  17. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to kirashi in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    While I don't know what country your companies operate in, you cannot legally have a customer sign away their rights if they're protected by Federal, Provincial/State, or Municipal law. Just because someone signs away their rights to live when purchasing an Alpine Ski/Snowboard lift ticket doesn't automagically absolve the Alpine Mountain owners of implementing bare minimum safety standards. Just because I sign a piece of paper saying you can shoot me does not absolve you of murder. Same goes for protecting Personally Identifiable Information in jurisdictions where Privacy Laws exist.
  18. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to TetraSky in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    I used to work in this field for FutureShop 13+ years ago. I can confirm 100% of the time, techs would look through photos and videos under the pretense of "needing to backup the data" before initiating a PC repair if the customer left their PC and left for the day. So many sex tapes and nudes were illegally saved by those guys... Seriously, keep that stuff on a separate external drive/NAS if you're into taking them, never leave them on a device that you might bring in for repair.
  19. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to emosun in Secret shop of Tech repair stores reveals violations in users privacy.   
    they only do it 50% of the time.... everytime...
  20. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to captain_to_fire in The Windows 10 and 11 free trials (I mean upgrades) are no more   
    Oh the memories 🏴‍☠️
     

     
     
  21. Like
    Cyberspirit reacted to Mark Kaine in Fedora Project and Slimbook Collaborate to Deliver New Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook   
    very nice, very slim, unfortunately completely botched by going with nVidia instead of AMD, and a 3050 Ti at that... why?
     
     
    No problemo! Enjoy~
     

     
    😊
  22. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to TempestCatto in Fedora Project and Slimbook Collaborate to Deliver New Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook   
    My dyslexia made me read that as "slime book" I think I'll buy one just for that haha.
  23. Funny
    Cyberspirit reacted to WereCat in Apple introduces a new Pencil for the iPad... it's $79. No pressure sensitivity.   
    You have very demanding needs. In your case you'll need to spend at least $6 on a pen.
  24. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to Arika in Apple introduces a new Pencil for the iPad... it's $79. No pressure sensitivity.   
    Old pencil still has pressure sensitivity...
  25. Agree
    Cyberspirit reacted to Sauron in Valve urges AMD users to disable the Anti-Lag+ feature, due to causing VAC bans.   
    Sure, that's kind of valve's problem though. If this is only happening wit VAC then I would assume other anti-cheat methods are not detecting a false positive here... not to mention AMD's tool is (as far as I know) game agnostic and not necessarily tied to online games, meaning you could just turn it off for games where it triggers the anti-cheat. This is really only an issue because Valve autobans you if it so much as suspects you're doing something fishy, which is the wrong approach imo. They should just lock you out of online play until the "issue" is resolved. DLLs could get corrupted and fail the VAC test without you doing anything at all and it seems unfair to just ban people immediately if that happens.
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