Wow this is so good. Love the judge in this case:

Proven had demanded a preliminary injunction that would stop McNally from sharing his videos while the case progressed, but Proven had issues right from the opening gavel:

LAWYER 1: Austin Nowacki on behalf of Proven industries.

THE COURT: I’m sorry. What is your name?

LAWYER 1: Austin Nowacki.

THE COURT: I thought you said Austin No Idea.

LAWYER 2: That’s Austin Nowacki.

THE COURT: All right.

When Proven’s lead lawyer introduced a colleague who would lead that morning’s arguments, the judge snapped, “Okay. Then you have a seat and let her speak.”

You’re going to go to cast iron hell for this

It’s really a no win situation though if the boy complies. Newsmax will show footage of a game he plays in as evidence that boys are playing in girls sports, and the idiots who watch will believe it and support even worse politicians and laws.

How else can you get reoccurring revenue through a subscription if you can’t remotely brick the device someone paid $2700 for?

I’d like to believe, but the source for the article is a random Medium article which claims there were leaked document, but the headline is clearly click bait. The medium post doesn’t go into any details about this, it just outlines some open source tools with “ai” to do basic tasks to run your infrastructure in AWS, not what any engineer working for AWS would actually be doing.

Is this a sauron riding a Kyurem from Pokemon?

I think with your example of “call mom” there’s some relationship thing in contacts you have to setup, even if the name of the contract is mom. I’m not sure how you tried with calling other people, but I’d suggest changing the contact name for your mom to a very specific name, and then try using that name and saying something like “Call Mary Elizabeth Jones” and see if that works.

Also I’d try initiating voice input different ways. Your car button might just trigger the input and send it to Google Maps. what if you hit the microphone button in Google maps on the screen and then said the command. What if you said “Hello Google”?

Personally I’ve always found voice input hit or miss, and Google has been constantly changing things it’s hard to even keep things straight on what you’re supposed to do. I would say your best bet is to try every conceivable option till you find what works, and then use that for as long as you can until Google breaks it.

This feels like some important content you could add to the post, as it’s pretty specific to your situation.

Yeah I don’t think this is the best analogy, but the point being is brand loyalty can only go so far. Like if you’re going to run out of gas in the next 20 miles and there isn’t an Exxon station within 100 miles, do you just pass all other gas stations and have your employees break down on the side of the road?

I just can’t imagine any actual competitors to AWS would impose such restrictions on their employees that put them in a worse position to do their jobs, so it’s a bit silly that it’s coming from Walmart, when they don’t compete in that space.

Totally, I understand that, but seemed to be an extreme measure they are inflicting on their employees that doesn’t really change anything. It’d be like if ExxonMobil didn’t allow their employees with company cars to fill up at a Chevron station.

Ancestry.com and findagrave.com are kinda the funniest examples that could be picked from the sites being affected today. Obviously there’s the parallels of AWS being dead today, but I also can’t imagine there would be a lot of updates to those sites that not being active on there for some amount of time would miss out on some timely update. I totally hate being in the grove when something out of my control impedes my workflow, don’t get me wrong, and can totally see how the outages would be annoying.

There’s so much vendor lock in with AWS, migrating to another provider over an outage even lasting 24h would be a tough sell. This isn’t unique to AWS either, each of the cloud vendors have their own lock in and their own problems. If you had the money you could run in multiple clouds, but for most businesses who were only running in a single region, I can’t imagine they’d choose this option.

Can confirm, about 10 years ago, the company I worked for migrated to AWS, and I managed the transition. We planned everything meticulously so that there would be no downtime, and used it as excuse to fix a lot of tech debt. No one was supposed to even notice the cutover, and when we did it, I expected the only feedback to be that things seemed faster and were working as expected. A few hours later, we get a complaint from an Account Manager for Walmart that they can’t access the platform at all. There was a lot of confusion and back and forth, turns out their IT department had an allow list or something in the corporate DNS to not resolve to AWS owned IPs unless approved. We eventually got them to add our domain to their allowlist, but it seemed insane that they would spend the effort to implement and maintain that level of control.

stream torrents

It’s called leeching

When I bought an HDMI capture card years ago, it came with a little card that said “Do not use HDMI splitters to bypass copy protection”

mission failed successfully

What’s the right way to do money math without floats?

Actually how does Lemmy and the Fediverse even work for search engines with regard to duplication? Do each instance only show posts from communities which are moderated on the instance, and dynamically show a robots.txt to ignore federated communities? Or since posts federate, does each instance a post federates to show up in search results? I could see the latter being really annoying to someone who doesn’t understand what’s going on, and keeps getting results for the same exact post, although would be nice to have a replacement for adding site:reddit.com to some search results.

That’s how it is for everyone, right???

I don’t envy them at all. They were also exposed to sickos on the internet in the early 2000s who created countdown clocks until they were 18 or publicly fantasized about them while they were underage. It was so gross. That’s when we should have learned the internet was not the utopia we thought it would be.