Read the legislation. It’s not just operating systems, its applications as well! All applications, there are no exceptions. Everything from GIMP to the EHR your Doctor uses to a custom Open Claude bot on Github. ALL of them.

Maybe MAGA will ignore it, but at least you are forcing them to break an actual law, which you can now hold against them.

They’re already breaking actual law and What Mamdani has done is just an Executive Order. His EOs are no more “law” than fucking Trump, Obama, or Bush Jr’s were.

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

That’s a depressingly probable reason even though you meant it as techno-babble. It is actually possible that the machine doesn’t have enough NPU power!

isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I’m already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn’t have a functional Linux version.

I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I’ve never liked MacOS.

I’ll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won’t move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

I mean I’ve already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

Why do you think this would confuse them? Their boss will spend about 30 seconds covering this one morning “I know that NYC did an Executive Order to keep us out of public spaces (room chuckles) but that doesn’t carry any legal authority. Ignore it.”

I mean they seemingly ignore most other laws so even if this Executive Orders was enforceable, and it’s not, what makes you think they wouldn’t ignore this as well?

It’s also federal law that requires they have warrants,

To enter public property? Nope, you’re wrong.

You or I can’t just walk into a school or hospital whenever we want without valid reason.

Since when? I can stroll into the lobby of a Hospital any time during business hours and so can Federal LE. Same with a school assuming the doors aren’t locked.

It also bars ICE agents from entering city-controlled properties such as schools, hospitals, shelters and parking facilities without a judicial warrant.

Yeah good luck with that. Federal Supremacy is still a thing, just like it was when the Obama Administration was fighting Arizona’s state level immigration enforcement.

It’s well established that Federal Law Enforcement can enter nearly any space or building that is open to the public. They can potentially be barred from entering private spaces, such as offices, inside a building unless they have a judicial warrant but that’s about it. Basically if you or I can walk in there then Federal LE can too and no Executive Order is going to change that.

…but truth be told I think that is just propaganda boasting.

Perhaps but we do have more guns than people and a higher firearm death rate than anywhere outside of an active war zone.

It’s just the Cartels would bring about real terror with a message loud and clear “this happened because your government thought it be smart to attack us.”

Yes and I think they’d get a gun barrel shoved up their ass to deliver the message loud and clear “this happened because you came here to start shit.”

But the terror would go cross boarder.

Where the cartels would face Law Enforcement AND a population capable who are both capable of eliminating them. I’m not arguing for it to happen nor saying it wouldn’t be awful for Cartel terror to start happening in the United States however in the U.S. both our Law Enforcement and our population are capable of extreme violence.

I seriously can’t imagine the things I’ve seen playing out in Mexico over the last 48 hours happening here, at least not outside some of our very large cities and even then only for very short amounts of time.

As an example a cartel group trying to block roadways with burning vehicles is likely to get shot to literal pieces once people figure out what is going on.

A cartel pushing an overwhelming attack on Law Enforcement would result in a public call for help and hundreds to thousands of people with essentially unlimited arms and ammo would be there in minutes.

Shootout / killing in the streets? Sure those might work for a few hours, maybe a day, but after that 1/2 half of the country would be walking around visibly armed and ready to throw down.

My point here is that fights inside the United States would not end like they do inside of Mexico and that’s WITHOUT the US Military being involved. The United States is a violent country, always has been, and groups REALLY fuck themselves when they do something to get all that violence redirected at them.

This is an enormous “No Duh” to anyone who has been paying attention. Cooperation between Mexican Authorities and US NORTHCOM has been public knowledge for months now as is what they are doing and how they are doing it.

It’s also happening in areas where education HASN’T been defended or dismantled. It’s happening in areas that aren’t Republican controlled too.

Fuck MAGA with a moldy pine tree but blaming this problem solely on them means it can’t be solved because whatever is happening isn’t being caused by them.

Used to be a video on YouTube showing the whole process.

Article about the UK, comments immediately start talking about the United States.

Stop it.

I actually don’t believe that any of the accused in this care were intentionally cheating. Honestly it seems damn difficult to make any kind of consistently predictable trajectory change with the touches we’ve seen on video.

Your math and mine both show that a touch can impact the rock but I have to imagine that curling is like golf where you train and hone your swing (release) trying to make it as consistent and repeatable as possible. With that in mind you wouldn’t WANT a touch that mucks with the trajectory of the rock because you couldn’t ever do it precisely and repeatably enough to make it worthwhile.

In my opinion this controversy is happening because some curlers have an ingrained release routine that includes an unnecessary movement / flourish and competitors have decided to make issue of it because it’s getting close to giving a competitive advantage. That’s my two cents for what it’s worth.

SMR are for site or temporary power, not grid scale. On paper they’re a good fit for data centers and other localized power needs.

What can fingers brushing against a 40-pound piece of granite do in any event?

This is a fun little physics problem.

The CoF of a curling stone on ice appears to be between .006 and .016 depending on fast its sliding.

So with a CoF of .006 that 40lb chunk of granite has an effective weight of just four ounces relative to that same chunk of granite at a CoF of 1. With a CoF of .016 it’s relative weight is 9 ounces.

So if the finger brush is in either the X or Y axis then basically anything more than what it takes to press a key on your keyboard will have an effect.

Trying to stop the stone from rotating is a whole different matter because then you’re working against it’s stored inertia and that will be much much higher. No way to calculate that though unless you know it’s rate of spin.

F2B for ddos protection?! You have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. At all.

Yachts and mansions are depreciating assets. You aren’t borrowing against those and then passing them along as an inheritance.

Getting a half dozen 24tb nas drives this morning was painful. They are twice the cost of last fall and most vendors, even big ones, only had one or two available. This is insanity.

+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.