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Tell me again how #GenAI will extract meaningful trends from and answer queries about your data set.

#chatgpt4o #fAIl

Capitalist discovers Capitalism 

This is a most hilarious LinkedIn post which I screenshotted for you (and alt-texted).

Nothing like a "founder" discovering that re-inventing the wheel, predatory pricing and then being honest about pricing is what pretty much all "new tech" has been recently 🤣

Proofreading a book about the history of soccer/football and it appears that the original sport was essentially 17776 rules

PS if you don't know what "17776 rules" means then i highly recommend grabbing the nearest computer with a big screen, setting aside 3 to 4 hours, and enjoying the most successful piece of multimedia science fiction published in the last decade sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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Windows 11 -> Windows Update -> Error encountered: We could not complete the install because an update service was shutting down.

Ain't that a mood.

It has been 0️⃣​days since a website served me a completely blank page because it uses JavaScript to reinvent bog standard HTML poorly.

re: Windows11 wat 

The PC in pieces was a laptop with broken hinges & a touch screen surface so thoroughly cracked that it sensed 10-20 fingers touching & swiping the screen in different spots constantly, rendering it unusable without teardowns more expensive than just yanking the HDD & borrowing a USB enclosure to do an "archive everything now, extract the required bits later" recovery.

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#Windows11 wat 

I'm restoring files from a customer's PC-in-pieces to a new PC, extracting 15 GB of files from a 7z archive on the same SSD as the destination directory.

The built-in File Explorer treats the 7z archive like it does ZIP archives: fancier directories. But using File Explorer to extract gave a duration estimate of "More than 1 day", spun up the fan to top speed, & genuinely took longer than a whole day do reach 1%.

I installed 7-Zip, used it instead, & was done in mere minutes.

Hold on... let me get the tech manual out for Vore day.

The local Blues Brother cover band absolutely understood the assignment. #vermont

If you are the tech-savvy person within your family or friends group :blobcatcool: :

Never ever shame someone for coming to you for advice after being the victim of a scam, malware, or for using an unsecured product.

If you do this,
they might never come back to you later. They might just feel so ashamed they will just stay alone with their tech problems.

Instead, always tell them:

1. It was a good idea to come to you with this. Be empathetic with them 💚

2. Give them advice on how to minimize the damage now. Actionable advice 🚑

3. Help them harden their security for now and for the future. Recommend better products to them. But be careful not to overwhelm them with advice. One step at the time 🔒

4. Talk to them with respect and empathy. Tell them how the people who abused their trust are horrible and anyone can fall for the right scam. Remind them there are things to do to reduce the risks of being victimized again in the future, and help them slowly implementing these 💪

5. Be thankful they trusted you with this. It means they think highly of you 🥰

#Security #Privacy

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