I do enjoy live musical theatre, but it is quite expensive, and smaller local productions for whatever reason I haven’t been motivated enough to go to. I think the last musical theatre I saw was Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the New York Met Opera House, in January 2025. The time before that was Hamilton at the Princess of Wales Theatre in June 2023.

So anyways due to cost, I’ll settle for watching the latest musical movie at the cinema like Wicked for Good.

Proposed revision: Do not use Copilot for business purposes.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

Years ago, one of my buddies tried to open a very long spreadsheet and Libreoffice couldn’t do it. I think the maximum row and columns reached parity in version 7. I think one more cosmetic feature that is missing is the easy to access table and chart style templates.

The scammer is not going to be on the phone with the victim for 24 hours continuously.

Yeah, I take issue with that, but I don’t think it would be used if people complain to banks that reading the flag bricks the app.

I tend to favour privacy over big tech control, but I recognize we have to at least consider the cost-benefit of these tradeoffs, to live in a society. Of course I’d prefer a phone with no warnings, no nagging, if you get scammed that’s my fault and I will keep my phone that way if it means I will stay off Android 15 and de-Google my next phone. But Google’s plan is within the realm of an acceptable compromise to me because sideloading is still available to everyone without registration with Google. Each person will feel differently about it.

Taking your position to the extreme, if trading liberty for comfort is “always” a bad idea with no exceptions, you can turn off your phone and do without the comfort of it. (Only saying this because always is the word you chose to use.) To accept cellular and home internet services to communicate in the public realm requires you to give up some level of privacy, though of course it can be possible to stop a lot of the unnecessary surveillance that happens along with the necessary tradeoff.

If the process doesn’t include any phone home stuff, and is just a one-time cool off period to prevent scammers, this is acceptable to me. That should be enough to get potential victims to self-question, ask more knowledgeable people of what’s going on to avoid being unknowingly hacked, without being naggy every time for users that want to do what they want.

Making a software “foolproof” will probably invent a bigger better fool, hoping for some sort of free crypto app jumping through these hoops, but this should weed out most of the basic scams.

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Hey can we all do that, just like, all the time? That’d be nice.

100mg from one cup of coffee (in the style of a latte, cafe mocha, cappuccino etc.) on weekdays at work, on some weekdays a tea or coffee 50-100mg after lunch if I am feeling particularly tired. None regularly on the weekends, except for the odd time I meet people on the weekend at a cafe or something like that. …and I don’t drink colas.

I’m trying to keep it to a level that I don’t require it to function.

🫰Done! I’ve deleted all existing recovery infrastructure! Now your disaster recovery routine has been reduced to 1 second, which is the time it takes to put your human head in your hands and cry!

Certain units of the Japanese Army conducted a lot of inhumane scientific experiments on human subjects they racially discriminated against during WWII, and the evidence collected was retained by the USA.

I wake up between 6 and 7am most weekdays, so the sun coming up at 8 vs 9am makes little difference to me.

How about instead use black highlighter to mark all content in that binder that’s not related to the purpose of the hearing.

Windows Slop Edition

This worries me a lot. My privacy threat model since a long time has been to at least be anonymous enough that someone would have to be specifically assigned to digging through my file for days to discover my identity. With AI and surveillance by default becoming the norm, I can imagine it would be trivial to defeat my tricks and safeguards with a thorough enough dataset.

Semantic analysis of online profiles kind of feels to me like the digital version of “gait analysis” in the real-world. A thing that could be anywhere, that I don’t know how I could reliably defeat, without developing foot problems from having a pebble in my shoe all the time.

So if you see me throw out a braindead one-liner or a confident take on something completely outside my expertise, you can consider it just me throwing some “silly walks” in there to disrupt analysis of the system.

Oops, pretending to take the moral high ground is out the window as soon as MIC dollars are at risk.

Update: and seems like being ready to toss principles aside wasn’t enough for the Trump administration.

Kinda neat about the human responses… sure some are trolling but maybe we have to test our global expectations. In North America, a car wash tends to be this garage thing with either automated cleaning or a set of supplies to clean your car, and your car has to be in the shed to be cleaned effectively. But if washing your car by hand is the norm, I wonder if people in some countries surmise that the cleaning staff could just walk over with the sponges, buckets and hoses and stuff to the car, if you’re already 50 metres away from the washing point.

I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.