It eludes to it here: In one script, victims in India are told they are being contacted regarding claims of “illegal advertising” and “harassing text messages” sent from their mobile number. Another script, on the desk in a fake Australian police office, instructs scam workers to call restaurant owners claiming they are from a police department and need to order boxed meals for an event. At a fake Singaporean police office, a fraudulent letter stamped “notary public” accuses an individual of money-laundering. Putting myself in the place of a victim, if someone calls or txts me randomly claiming to be a bank office that is investigating a problem with my account, I'll probably dismiss it, or at most make a phone call to my bank (to a phone number I know is the bank, not one they give me). If instead its a video call where I could clearly see they were in a very convincing bank, I might give it more legitimacy. I probably helps the scammer actors to be in the set to maintain the mindset. They could probably work together with other scammers in the same building something like: "Sir, I'm contacting you from [your bank]. [Police department from another country] has reached out to us because your account flagged for attempting to pay for [illegally imported goods]. I'm sure this is a mistake, but can you jump on this Zoom call I'm in with the officer so we together can make it clear to the officer this is not your doing?"

For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is. They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me). There's an irony that the most valuable laptops for resale right now are the ones with soldered RAM. Why? Because the socketed units have their RAM stripped for resale separately from the unit. Even corporate fleets are doing this now and the bulk resale laptops are arriving without SSDs and RAM. Which units still have both? Units where both are soldered and not removable. Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for. Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS. These sell for $149 USD brand new. A general user would not spend a second of time troubleshooting a failed one. They'd just buy whatever the current model is for $149 which would probably be 4x as fast and with more storage anyway, then pitch the old one in ewaste.

Ha, go fuck a duck.

No, cops jailed her! AI can't put handcuffs on a person. It can't even make a decision. Stop deflecting the blame.

It’s worth noting that this is talking about plug in solar, so would be at standard mains voltage. Thats fair. At least in the UK, they tend to run 3 phase to a road, but only a single phase goes into a given house. You need to get a special hook up to get 3 phase to a domestic premise, and they don’t like doing it. TIL about the UK electrical system. Thanks! I'm at the edge of my knowledge but that sounds like it matches the USA system (for the number of phases).

This article is insane and proves me more that AI is product for rich people. Most of developers won’t see $100k per year paycheck in their lifetime. These days an annual salary of $100k is at the very low end for most IT jobs in the USA (beyond the junior level). Even in my MCOL area $125k-$200k is more common.

I loved in the story of that episode that the TV execs learned that blipverts could kill their audience, and briefly switched back to adverts, but when sales fell they went back to blipverts knowing the danger because it was more profitable. The writers of that show nailed a corporate dystopian future. Our own hope was our protagonist Edison Carter "live and direct from Network 23"...who was also part of the giant corporate machine.

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Lyft had been doing that for a while. Also, Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Oops, my mistake Apology accepted. Have a great day!

I'm not sure we can use the "Windows x86 vs Windows ARM" analog for this new unit from Apple. MacOS Tahoe is a native ARM OS on both the high end and now this low end unit. With Windows its a completely different CPU architecture. Apple has to know this is going to cannibalize its low end (8GB/256GB SSD) Macbook Air line. So will Apple discontinue the low config Air or is there some other differentiator that still makes the low config Air compelling?

Hey, it's not my fault English is a stupid language!

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What was once old is new again!

I mean good-ish in the lesser-evil type of thing. I don’t expect any of those to be 100% ethical but there are some that are a lot worse than others Ethics are subjective. "Good-ish" to you may mean you're fine if its trained on copyrighted works as long as it wasn't done with electricity from diesel generators belching exhaust into the local Memphis atmosphere (I'm looking at you Grok). Llama doesn't do the diesel generator thing, but its a product of Facebook corporation. So is that "good-ish" to you or not? I don't know. That's up to you. It may not be fast, but your i3 laptop with 12GB of system RAM can absolutely run a local LLM. This is where that "performance/accuracy" question I raised comes in. It won't be very fast, and you won't be able to run the most common large models like GPT-5 etc. However, if your needs are light, light models exist. Give this a read