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The lenses would also need to be hot-swappable for changes in prescriptions. No point in glasses that don’t properly correct vision, at least for those who need it.

Also anything with a sensor on it or some kind of input-gathering mechanism from Meta is an immediate no-go for me.

I don’t and won’t ever use these platforms, but to me this seems like a good thing? Option to not have ads is huge.

Edit: given of course that free users can still opt out of targeted ads

I hope so.

For example, Apple said it had had to delay certain features, such as live translation via its AirPods, to make sure they complied with the DMA’s requirement for “interoperability.” The EU rules specify that apps and devices made by one company need to work with those made by competitors.

Apple realizes that compliance with law takes time and is mandatory as opposed to optional. In other news, grass is green (when watered, anyway).

The DMA requirements basically come down to “don’t be an anticompetitive PoS that manufactures e-waste” which of course ruffles their feathers since that’s their entire business model.

So where’s the leaked data? Asking for a friend.

Bribery and backdoors? Which government are we talking about here? Those are features.

They lost me on LLMs getting good.

Same situation for me (lots of family and friends who have autism), and I agree. Talk to people with autism. They will be your best source of real information.

Also, everyone has different needs, and autism differs quite a bit between male and female, so try to get a wide range of experiences.

It also helps to consider what level your kid was diagnosed at because the needs for a nonverbal L3 are very different from a L1.

I don’t work for Comcast and I never will, so let me say this for all of the affected workers:

Fuck him. I will not mourn him. He registers as nothing more than a statistic to me. I’d much rather spend my time mourning children getting mowed down at school than him.

Anyway, hope that gives the workers some relief.

You can get something like a NexDock that has all of that built in. Just 1 cable.

Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this more convenient than a laptop? It has the form factor of one, so you’re already stuck carrying around what is basically a laptop. Wouldn’t a super cheap Chromebook or similar be more convenient since it’s a full desktop experience with all you’d expect from a desktop environment?

Anyway, working entirely on mobile is a thing these days, so if that works for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If all you need is a bigger browser, I’d also recommend a tablet with a detachable keyboard. If you want to keep the experience consistent between devices, honestly I’d suggest an iPhone and iPad (as much as I avoid Apple myself).

Friend lives further than Bainbridge, but works in Seattle. Ask me why I know the ferry commute lol. He got his home for pretty cheap due to the distance.

There are some maps online of the connector routes, and what you said seems to align with them. Based on those maps, seems like lots of focus on Seattle and surrounding communities, with some extension north and south from Redmond.

For what it’s worth, there are a lot of people across the sound who either work remotely or commute everyday (mostly to Seattle). The ferry, in travel time alone, is ~45m (from start of boarding to end of getting off, assuming you take the car you’ll need with this commute). This is of course assuming you make the ferry and don’t end up waiting for the next ferry or two due to traffic (each ferry carries only so many cars), and assuming no issues with their schedule (they are behind all the time).

Brinnon is a weird example, but an example involving the ferry isn’t too far fetched. I have a friend at a big company who lives on that side, and I considered it myself (and would have, had I been able to afford the home I wanted anyway).

Without traffic, Bainbridge Island to Redmond is ~1.5h. With traffic? Not happening.

Good news about MS specifically is that it does have the connector (their commute busses). It doesn’t go everywhere, and definitely not across the sound, but does help with some commutes if you happen to be close to a stop.

Anyway, RTO has historically been a terrible policy designed to shrink the workforce without layoffs and has resulted consistently in worse outcomes for companies.

Been using Kagi. It does everything I want, so as long as it continues to not serve ads and doesn’t force me to use AI overviews or anything, I’ve got no major complaints. I hear there’s a lot of other great options too though.

Can someone TL;DR on what “AI mode” is? Haven’t used Google in a while, but it sounds like a chatbot to me.

The models themselves are nondeterministic. Also, they tend to include a hidden (or sometimes visible) random seed that gets input into the models as well.

Generally speaking, a person making fan art and not selling it is going to be protected under fair use.

This is not generally true. The fan art also usually needs to be sufficiently transformative, and could still be violating, for example, if a character is widely licensed.

Fair use is really complicated. Usually it’s better to see if the copyright holder has any public policies on community creations, like WOTC’s fan content policy.

Fair use, in the US anyway, is based on four factors (source):

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Not selling fan art helps to bolster factor #1, though that alone isn’t enough. Fair use itself would need to be determined by a judge, but ensuring the work is transformative enough and doesn’t disincentivize someone from purchasing the original work is probably enough commercial or not, but noncommercial theoretically should help.

(Not a lawyer, but I’ve followed this a bit)

Edit: note that fan art could be fair use but violate a trademark or other similar protected mark.

This is a title of all time. Seems like it’s supposed to teach how to express empathy, not how to have empathy. That title goes in the books for being a fuck up of all time.

Stop vaping. Cold turkey.

Vaping (nicotine products) is harmful to children. Even if you pretend like there are no other health effects, it is a chemically addictive substance and will have at minimum potentially significant financial harm to a child as they advance through life until they break the addiction (if ever).

Once someone’s mature enough to be responsible for their own decisions, I don’t really care what they do. Until then, I’m not really sure there’s any reason to advocate for an unnecessary additional addiction beyond the already prevalent caffeine and sugar addictions developed during youth.

Having worked with a no-code product for a family member who ran for a local position, you can get pretty far with them. The issues are usually when you want to go outside their happy path and do your own thing, and unfortunately a large part of campaigning is branding. The tool we used let us write our own HTML though, so that’s where I came in to bring some custom CSS so that the website could look a bit more unique.

In general, for a small campaign, I agree with the author’s decision to go no-code. Writing a site from scratch is doable and maybe not that hard, but hooking up stuff for campaign donations, emails, etc was way too much for me to try to do on my own in my free time. Better funded campaigns can probably go further, though not sure if it’s even common there to go custom or just use one of these tools.