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Who still uses Google in 2024?

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What I've done is wired a different type of USB port to each door where the doorknob would exist. My kids and spouse all carry a different thumb drive for each door with the proper conversion adapter permanently attached so they know which door it belongs to. Each family member only uses the door for which they have the "key". My wife prefers the back door. The USB port solution helps to deny access to certain rooms inside the house too as I've wired ports on those doors too. For instance I have a room where I keep the liquor that I can block the kids from accessing.

Each port is connected to a different RPI5 that runs software that upon a device insert reads a special file named for the date. Inside that file is the name of the family member so the script knows who it is. It then updates a spreadsheet hosted in Google Cloud so I can view it from anywhere. Google sends me push notifitations when this happens.

The beauty is that if one of my family loses their thumb drive I just make another and rotate the adapters so the old one won't work anymore. My wife is the biggest culprit of this. She doesn't work and is home all day but she still has a pretty busy life based on all the action that back door sees. But it has lead to a bug - more on that later.

It's a pretty flawless solution - I'm so proud of it I've given my tech savvy neighbor a thumb drive of his own to help test the system. Like I mentioned I have one bug to fix tho.

It seems like every time my wife loses her thumb drive there is some ghosting in the logs. For instance, I'll see a push notification with her name and a the back door opening and then a few minutes later another rear entry with her name attached but never an exit between events. Maybe an hour later then I'll see an exit.

My neighbor always seems to do his testing while I'm at work too cuz I'll see his name show up. My wife has mentioned he'll stop by for a half hour or hour a couple times a week and answer questions about the system and tech. I think she wants to get a job in tech.

Another bug I've only seen happen a few times is the back door opening with my wife's thumb key, the neighbor entering the back door, and then my wife's name showing another back door event. I've called her on the phone to have her (and the neighbor if he's there) troubleshoot during this and she is definitely home but she sounds really hurried and out of breath. I don't know what she is watching on TV but it sounds like several guys arguing and when I ask why it's so loud she gets worked up and has to mute the phone for a bit.

Actually now that I think about it I've started getting notifications of back door entries after my wife has gone to bed and I'm working on projects in the basement. It's soundproofed down there so I can listen to music without waking her. I swear tho I'll hear some off-timed thumping after these events.

But yeah, I really like the tech I got going on and my wife thinks it's the best idea I've had. I think for v2 I'd like to implement a secret knock each family member has instead of the thumb drive so there's nothing to lose. It would be much easier for my wife's back door entry. I swear she squealed with delight when I told her how much time would be saved on entry just by a few properly timed forceful hits to a sensor on the back door. She wanted to try it out immediately!

Good luck!

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Kids lose stuff like keys. Adults lose companies, their minds, and other such things. Leave the kids alone

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Can't wait to see these driverless trucks on an icy highway during a blinding snowstorm where a massive pile-up of vehicles has already occurred. /s

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Republicans talk of a completely free market where monopolies are free to flouish. Democrats talk of a free market with regulations to spur competition and keep the consumer safe - like from being sold only rotten meat unless they pay top dollar.

Unfortunately the American gov't is now just a revolving door of C-level execs to plunder tax dollars for the bottom line and to fuck over they very same people generating the labor and paying the taxes.

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There are a million startups chomping at the bit to create or have their existing app become the TikTok replacement in the event it does get banned.

This is the nature of American Capitalism. A monopolistic entity is broken up for this reason or that thereby making way for competition. According to all those economists, competition is good and breeds innovation.

I don't have a problem with this. Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

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Everyone calm down. They're just going to use it for training AI and if you love tech you love AI. So this is a non-issue.

The trained AI will make their public offering so much more desirable

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Childish and pathetic. Who the hell do they think they are? Could you imagine the absolute shitshow if Palestinian or even Syrian tourists attacked a pro-Israeli demonstration?

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Bibi is attacking everyone knowing full well he can force the hand of the West now that he sees everyone bending over backwards to defend Ukraine.

I mean if you're already getting away scot-free with exterminating an entire race then what's the harm in manipulating others to pick up the tab and get the blood on their hands while you call the shots exterminating a few more? In true authoritarian fashion go all in and lay those cards on the table you sassy boy, you. Playing it safe don't get you land.

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I laugh every time a right-wing nutjob gets all high and mighty about Biden for "his Alzheimers". Mention to them that their darling Reagan actually had Alzeimers his entire second term and watch them foam at the mouth. They lose their smooth minds.

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Who can bothered with silly driving when there are calls to make? They only bought a Tesla to have an electronic chauffeur. Even though it's not supposed to be used for that.

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Shit I have so many tabs open. Bookmarking is essentially the same as closing them because I'll never find them when I want them let alone remember I bookmarked them. Then I'll head to a search engine to relentlessly try and remember the term I searched for in the first place but not see any visited links or the visited links were the non-helpful sites and the one I want is gone.

After all that I'll just give up and some weeks later find the bookmark I was looking while looking for another non-related bookmark.

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And in a couple years when for some odd reason people have built up content, Facebook will pull the rug out and charge for API access. Tale as old as time.

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Fuck off Google. This makes me think that RCS is a steaming pile that is easily susceptible to hijinx unless Google blocks power users from their hardware.

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Now read the article again but replace everything China with America and it's still a HUGE privacy invasive piete of shit. Fuck network-enabled smart cars no matter where they are made or by whom.

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Like Musk with Dogecoin.

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No, you're doing Ra's work. Thank you for your empathy.

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I dunno man, anytime a power-hungry fascist wants power the terms Communist, Socialist and Leftist apply to political opponents, brown people, Jews, intellectuals, gays, athiests, immigrants etc.

They're said to be poisoning the blood of the nation and enemies of god. The fascists call the "right denonination of religion", patriots, and other nationistic jingoistic terms the true and pure blood of the country.

Go back and listen to Hitler's and now Trump's speeches if you want to see for yourself.

The propaganda from the "most powerful empire" didn't start that, it's human trash like Hitler, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Luther Pierce, Father Coughlin, and Joesph McCarthy.

And now we get Chinese and Russian int ops perpetuating shit memes like this when they are more to blame for current shit perceptions than the horseshit blame contained within their memes.

And yea agreed, fuck corporate interests too right along with it.

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why?

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And that goes back to the engineer's original ask to show him what companies have employee loyalty.

Replacing full time employees who at least have a slight stake in the company with easily replaceable contractors there to complete a project doesn't put the best foot forward in the loyalty regard.

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Right on. I did ask why after all and even tho I wanted to know something specific from the post above mine I was generic with my question.

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The woman. It's always the woman in christian fundamentalism.

X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

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working lock-step with putin and trump

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (www.bloomberg.com)

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO::Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

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Long-awaited, said no one. Is AI going to fabricate even more of the bullshit on reddit then?

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Reverse engineer denuvo and other kernel-level anti-cheat gaming software and use those methods to write a real sudo command.

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Nice. Thanks for sharing this!

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And then the answer is posted twice in a row from the the same expert and reads: "thank you for contacting Microsoft Answers. We are closing this thread as it's reached the maximum age of -21479632".

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One time I uninstalled Edge and Cortana from Win10. Some time later Windows Updates started to fail and would rollback. This continued for 6 months and by that time I stopped giving a shit since Win10 is malware anyway.

Another few months went by and I was bored enough to follow the usually useless links to MS knowledge base articles that are given after a failed update.

After another week of trying everything I came across or could think of, I downloaded the install for Edge and reinstalled. Ran the Windows Update again and the god damned thing was successful. Apparently it contained an Edge-specific update but didn't check if it was installed or not and fail gracefully if it was the latter.

U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... (www.vice.com)

U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker...::Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB and...

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Citizens are jailed all the time, did you mean corporations?

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Start spinning up githubs poupulated with broken code and incorrect processes for other jobs to train the AI and make it worse

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Microsoft ruins everything good.

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I really appreciate this comment. I feel the same.

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I'm gonna throw just throw this out here. Maybe I'm the last to think of this but I don't think so. Here goes.

Google search is only a search engine for low-quality websites that have little actual content and are riddled with more Google ads than a diseased sex organ has sores. That's it. Sites with actual content are ignored because they don't keep the viewer on the site anywhere near as long and they can't be forced to play hide-and-seek to find anything between the ads.

Google doesn't need those workers to make search functional for the same reason they don't need content moderation on Youtube. The sole purpose is to dishonestly keep you engaged clicking as many sites as possible viewing ad after ad after ad - ad nauseum.

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

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If shitty non-real person AI-generated image deformity porn with body parts like this image isn't real, I bet it will be. There, you're all welcome.

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YES! AI is cool I guess, but the massive AI circlejerk is so irritating though.

If OpenAI can infringe upon all the copyrighted material on the net then the internet can use everything of theirs all for free too.

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Altman said he wished the world would embrace nuclear fission as an energy source as well.

"Ugh, everyone should just like accept fission so I can have my own nuclear power plant"

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So just websites then? They're all designed to maximize ad space over content anyway.

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These CEOs forget what a punch in the nose or the solarplexus feels like. They need the wind knocked out of them.

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