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I'm doing my own AI facial recognition. With immich. On my own server.

Interesting, I want to try some of these solutions.

I set up luks on some of my selfhosted virtualbox instances to protect against physical theft, but power issues cause all too frequent restarts that are a serious pain to physically access.

An ssh call in a script that could be remotely used to unlock and complete the boot would be so handy.

Do you remember the era of popups before popup blockers? You'd land on malicious site and have autoplay porn sounds 37 windows deep and just have to long press the power button to get away from the shame. Twas rough then, still rough now.

Unless we're talking about the days when lynx could render the whole site. Those were days when we didn't have too many problems like this.

Send some mounties to Beijing

This is a case of stupid laws that still don't understand the internet (35+ years in to wide use, mofos)

If an http GET request initiated from country A traverses routers and wires around the globe to grab some data from a server in country B, then we have to accept that the owners of the server are not "operating in country A" and in fact the user in country A is responsible for import.

If some laws in country A have a problem with this, then they should unplug their internet wires at the border, or at least learn how to use them and/or govern their citizens.

All that is tongue in cheek to say they can fuck right off.

That was Donnys way to scratch Elon's back for helping with the campaign. After the back stabbing and subsequent fall out, I'm sure Elon took all his people out.

Yes, but stock market.

The answer to the question comes from understanding the marketplace.

Microsoft's vision in the '90s was a computer on every desk and in every home.

In the late '90s and early 2000s, devices like TiVo came on the scene and disrupted the living room. Microsoft started experimenting with Media Center which was a PC that would sit between your cable box and your TV.

Also remember that Microsoft has been in gaming forever. You certainly heard of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft's acquisition of various game studios in the '90s cemented their presence in the space.

Anyways, at the time it was theorized that some company would eventually control media flowing into the household through the TV screen and Microsoft absolutely wanted that.

The media center only found limited success, and was kind of a kludgy solution. The first versions of Xbox attempted to overcome some of this by having some media capabilities. The peak of that effort was the first version of Xbox One which actually had an HDMI input and the ability to control your cable box. Had that reached widespread use, Microsoft would have had lots of data about what TV channels everybody was watching and who was watching (remember the first version of Xbox One rolled out with a camera that could recognize who's watching) and for how long.

Unfortunately for them, that tech was too little too late and streaming services like Netflix were already catching on. Now you can see in later versions of Xbox Microsoft has pulled back and developed game pass which is a steam-like subscription service, and hasn't really tried to be a TV media player to the same degree anymore.

When a company gets huge, like Microsoft, they can't really waste time chasing business efforts that might only have revenue potential in the low billions. It just doesn't move the needle. The problem is that innovating brand new ideas that will eventually become multi-billion dollar businesses is phenomenally challenging. And people who can do that don't work for companies like Microsoft.

So the entrepreneurs who can potentially dream up multibillion dollar disruptive business ideas go do them on their own and then companies like Microsoft snap them up as soon as they're able to (if the founders allow it), allowing dominant players to remain dominant without needing to innovate.

Beholden to the AAPL ticker.

We can never let these ICE guys stop being scared.

I've seen too many videos now where ICE agents abandon their kidnappings once enough of a crowd forms. They are absolutely scared and they know what they're doing is wrong.

In the age of social media it's wild that anyone would entertain the notion that something is going on in a city that actually isn't for more than a few seconds.

It looked like he heard it, stopped, ducked, and accepted his fate.

Or maybe he was trying the idea that if he doesn't move it can't see him?