AGI (artificial general intelligence) will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits

nothing to do with actual capabilities… just the ability to make piles and piles of money.

the boxes i have running 24/7 use about 20w max each, and about half that at idle or ‘normal’ loads.

this was downloaded and ‘installed’ by asus armory crate, which came from malware baked right into the bios of new and ‘newish’ asus motherboards (how to disable)

it’s a huge deal for google. they control the browser used by the vast majority of users, and the engine behind the one (such as edge, opera, vivaldi, etc) used by still more. they rely on those users to see and interact with ads to make money.

besides the obvious–driving traffic to their web properties that have their ads; they get to siphon off all that sweet user data which makes their ads ‘more valuable’, and control addon functionality and restrictions as well as the primary ‘marketplace’ where those addons come from. their ultimate goal of killing off ad blockers completely, the limits mv3 puts on adblockers is just the next step in that direction.

should a third-party acquire control over chrome’s development, mv3 gets shredded. restrictions and limitations on adblockers get scaled-back or reverted outright.

that is true, it was originally ‘sundisk’. the ‘new’ name (from 1995), though, is a rather clever double play on words.

sandisk -> sans disk (no disk)
sandisk -> sand disk (made from sand)

western digital bought sandisk ~ 8 years ago as a form of self-preservation. their core business of mechanical hard drives was already in decline and being replaced by something completely different.

effectiveness of ublockorigin, noscript, or other privacy/security related addons in your browser are unaffected by ech.

a pihole on your network is likewise unaffected, as it alters the dns requests so clients like your browser or tv can’t even resolve a ‘bad’ domain to an ip.

in the olden days, one ipv4 could host one domain securely. when a client connected to that ip, the connection was encrypted with the cert for that domain it was hosting.

the finite ipv4 space was gobbled up like crazy between this and every fucking thing on the planet wanting to be online.

an update to conserve ipv4 space allows one to host multiple domains (i.e. different sites on different domains, all using https) on one ip. to do this, the client needs tells the server which domain it’s looking for on the ip it’s connecting to–in the clear. once the server knows what cert to use, an encrypted connection can be set up.

‘encrypted client hello’ (ech) allows that initial request to be encrypted.

that’s pretty much all it does.

they’re trying harder to hide that now. as of last year, a sg-based holding company owns a uk-based company which owns the original developer, the software, and numerous regional branch offices.

kinda sucks, because it is a nice program. doesn’t have feature parity with microsoft office, but it’s got pretty much everything that most users need or would want. it’s also horribly slow on lower-spec hardware.

yup. cable got too damn expensive to have just to be able to get the local channels (only way to get them where i am). really should’ve dumped them years before i finally did. haven’t had a streaming sub in a couple years either. i mainly watch old recordings (some on tape, even), discs, and other things i have here. and maybe once or twice a month, i’ll look for something different or ‘new to me’ on a free service. i get enough news and current events from public radio when i’m in the car or when the radio is on at the office.

with that many documented attempts, a judge will likely sign-off on whatever alternative means of service that jurisdiction has… like usps or legal notice in newspapers (yes, they’re still used for some things).

i have a new hp laptop here with same specs (r3,17in,8gb,250ssd). cleaned-up and updated, with firefox, the user’s av, and a couple smaller programs, but no crud from being ‘used’ yet. ~ 172gb free.

your goal of 200gb free with hp’s factory load is not going to happen. you will have to reinstall from a plain win11 installer usb made from microsoft’s utility.

then after you’re installed, put windows into compact state:
compact /compactos:always
instructions here

before you begin, i would highly recommend finding ‘hp cloud recovery tool’ from the windows ‘store’. install that, run it off the start menu (find it, right click, run-as-admin), and make a factory recovery usb for your model (the model number is on the bottom of the unit, usually, looks something like “63U47UA#ABA”). so you’ll need two empty flash drives. the hp recovery requires 32gb one. the windows installer one can be as small as 8gb i think.

all that, and you’ll probably still be a little short of your goal–and that’s without updates, junk added while used, and anything you may want to put on. and also remember ssd drives function best when they aren’t jam-packed with data. so you really should be considering an upgrade for the nvme ssd inside the laptop.

so long as it’s under warranty. yea. make sure you have a way to actually do the ‘factory reset’.

if you nix the partitions during a ‘clean install’ of windows or of linux, you won’t.

unless you’ve made a backup image of the hdd to an external (using reflect or similar), or in hp’s case–download their recovery media creator (runs on windows only but doesn’t have to be the target system) and build a recovery flash drive for your model.

subtract chrismas from the plot: you have no chrismas party filling a finished floor of the office tower with future hostages; you have no cross-county traveling hero to save-the-day. becomes a six page script and an easy in-and-out for snape and co.

two billion of them, iirc.

they could just show those few titles without ads on the ‘ad supported’ plan. i dunno. that might make too much sense.

i do with movies… and tv and books. i have bunches that i’ve only ever started and never gotten through.

but every now and then (maybe a couple times a year), i’ll get super zoned-in and watch several in a row… like every jurassic park or every indiana jones.

two is just a mere coincidence; but three would be the start a pattern or trend.

i make a pizza hotdish. noodles instead of crust, and whatever goes on the pizza gets mixed in with plenty of cheeses and sauce.

for some reason, i’m really hungry now. and i just ate an hour ago.