The fediverse is more like a string of hit and miss mom and pop shops no one has heard of. Some are great, others are real dives.

Seems like there aren’t many centrist communities where you can have nuanced discussions.

Nearly all social media is full of eco echo chambers… I still post and follow stuff on several of the platforms. There is very little nuanced conversation… Seems like it is more and more just an up vote or downvote storm, or people claiming one thing or another without any supporting evidence.

The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.

X can’t reuse the inforwars account due to the trademark, but they are also not required to transfer ownership or continue providing access to that account.

Who owns your outlook.com account? Who owns your gmail.com account? I will give you a guess it is the company that owns the domain to the right of the @.

I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux

None of our end users know how to use Unix/Linux… MacOS or Chrome books would be more likely looking at the youngest in the work force.

Everything else you listed basically comes down to end user / power user preferences. 99% of our end users barely remember what to click on if it is not on their desktop.

Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind

Being able to mass configure, secure and monitor all devices with many different vendor tools remotely is nice. Have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux laptops in the field?

now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient

sounds good

but we really know what it is actually going to be used for

Contradicts the first statement and the next statement

They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.

OK you do know what they want to use it for.

But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.

Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.

But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.

Well not one based on capitalism.

The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…

Well the ones that can’t do research and can’t look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new…

You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.

When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)

There are have also been some exploits that are possible ONLY while the machine is booted and already in that state unlocked state, rebooting relocks all the HW encryption and clears main memory.

• Code examples
• taking point form notes and turning into formal paragraphs
• Answering random questions that have static answers and exist in places like Wikipedia

I work in IT I am well aware.

Not spending hundreds to upgrade my server to support 4K to 4K transcoding. Even accelerated on a VERY recent CPU or GPU Encoding in AV1 is costly while at the same time decoding H.265.

Again Essentially every major browser supports HVEC now, other than Firefox.

It is generally hard to have an opposing opinion or need discussion on the internet without people feeling attacked and start name calling.

Na man I have modern 4k cameras, I need a modern browser… They have literally build chipsets around this and many standards call for h.264 or h.265. That isn’t changing.

Mozilla decided over 8 years ago not to support HVEC because of patents…

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136

Core web app compatibility vs … “enhanced” ad blocking. MS teams and some other business tools also don’t support Firefox but work fine in Chrome and Safari.

It is something the Firefox team needs to work on again. I used Firefox from when it was released until Chrome came out and mopped the floor with it. At the time Firefox became the bloated beast and went through a reset.

Unfortunately trying to have a firm stance on not implementing HVEC when they no longer had the largest market share was a bad move and they seem to be slowly back tracking on that.

Not when you are using an NVR with scrubbing and everything in the web UI. https://frigate.video/

All in all it would be an inconvenient workaround for something that already works seamlessly across Safari, Edge, Chrome etc.

Night, windows only, and needs to be enabled with about: config… ie it almost has some support maybe. Also doesn’t work via webrtc so it doesn’t actually help me with the viewing the security cam feeds.

H.265 is the defecto standard on Security cameras, and I am not going to migrate content to AV1 that is already in H.265.

No, HVEC / H.265 codec support so no modern 4K security camera or plex/jellyfin etc high quality video support.

It kills the full version of uBlock but there is a lite version that has fewer functions as well.