I don't facetime because I have a Galaxy, but every now and then I wish I could facetime. I know darn well that they could make it so that every phone would be able to facetime with every other phone regardless of the type of phone. This is a no brainer and would make everyone happy. Just my opinion.

AI Cloning should be illegal. And I think it might be. It feels self-evident, but we may need to wait for the courts to be sure. This morning, I took a full Windows application from Microsoft, had AI reverse-engineer it using NSA's Ghidra into a set of atomicizable actions, then translated those actions backward into Rust logic, then compiled the Rust into a brand new application. And it did it. In one shot. So the process is: C Code -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe then Exe -> OPS -> Rust -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe So you feed it an application, and it produces a Rust version of that same application with 100% of the same functionality and appearance and "none" of the original code - just the logic behind that code. I don't consider this coding. It's not even vibe coding. It is piracy. This might be a hot take, but cloning an application when the application itself is used as an input does NOT, in my mind, yield an independent work. I'm even dubious about letting the AI base its work on the application. I specifically did NOT do so for TMOG (tmog.org) because I didn't want it just copying. So I wrote a huge spec instead (which I guess could just be copying via indirection, but I'll leave that aside for now). This time, I chose an in-the-box Windows application as a proof of concept, but there's no reason this couldn't be applied to Photoshop. Or heck, have the AI port Final Cut from the Mac to Windows. That's a bigger ask, of course, but we're not far from it. And so I propose we ruthlessly distinguish any process that uses an application binary itself. Prompt -> Code -> Binary == OK Binary -> Prompt -> Code => Binary == Clone

I knew I was faceblind, even if I didn't know the term, by the time I was 5. Lots of embarrassing moments but I think the worst is when I kissed my brother-in-law because he was wearing my husband's coat. I just assumed he was my husband.

Time for round two.

Hanging or firing squad. Both work every time.

How absolutely-not to show up to court

A Greenland Shark that was located in Arctic Ocean. He’s been wandering the ocean since 1627.

Guess what : People from Iceland eat it. It's call Hàkarl. Never tried yet, and it's something like Blue cheese. Very Smelly and strong.

All of this could be avoided if we saved sex for marriage. It’s almost like God was onto something.

But is it really with this precision ? 399years for the example : I don't know. But I guess, the first guy who ever discovered their lifespan was shocked too I'm sure 🤭

through radiocarbon dating of the proteins in the nucleus (center) of the eye lens. They have skeletons made mostly of soft cartilage. Unlike many other sharks, they lack hard, calcified structures such as: Otoliths (“ear stones”)

This is who runs this account

It is the longest-lived vertebrate known. Around 270–500+ years (most likely ~390–400 years for the oldest known individuals). Sexual maturity is extremely late: females often do not reproduce until around 150 years of age. Yes, 100+ years is just a teenager 😙

I finally understand offshoring. It was brought home to me when I learned the day rate charged to the customer for one of my Indian colleagues. His billable rate is half my salary. His pay is even less than that; a pittance. My days are numbered.

Happy Birthday, Windows 11... It's an amazing operating system with massive power just below the surface. I would change and add many things, but there are many, many more I wouldn't. These are the hidden gems, pieces of Windows that people take for granted. Like the subsystem model. Win32 was never the operating system. It was a personality bolted onto NT, same as the old OS/2 and POSIX subsystems. That design decision from 1993 is why WSL exists at all. WSL1 ran Linux binaries as pico processes against a translation layer; WSL2 runs a real Linux kernel in a utility VM, and your distro still shows up as a normal Windows process tree you can attach a debugger to. People treat that as a feature. It is Dave Cutler's subsystem idea, still paying rent thirty years later. ACLs on every object, not just files. A process, a thread, a section, an event, a mutant, a token, a job — each one carries a security descriptor. The Object Manager doesn't special-case "files get security, everything else is a free-for-all." Open a handle and the Security Reference Monitor checks the ACL. That is why you can lock down a named pipe, a registry key, or another process with the same model, and why "run as" and restricted tokens actually mean something. The Object Manager itself. One namespace. \Device, \BaseNamedObjects, \Sessions, \Registry. Handles, reference counts, and a consistent lifetime model for almost everything the kernel exposes. Most of what you think of as "Windows APIs" is a user-mode wrapper over an object you opened by name or by inheritance. I/O completion ports and the I/O manager. Overlapped I/O is not a later bolt-on. IRPs, cancel routines, and a completion port that a thread pool can drain are how a service handles tens of thousands of sockets without a thread per connection. NTFS sits on the same path: journaling, the USN change journal, reparse points, sparse files, hard links, transactions when you want them. Cloud placeholders and symlinks are reparse points. They are not a hack layered on later. Job objects. A process is not the unit of resource control. A job is. CPU rate, memory, I/O, kill-on-close, nested jobs. Windows containers and a lot of sandboxing are just job objects with a nicer hat. ALPC for the cross-process calls you never see. Services, RPC, COM activation, the window manager talking to win32k — local procedure calls with security context carried along, not a pile of ad-hoc shared memory. And under it all, a type-1 hypervisor. The root partition is a guest. VBS, HVCI, Credential Guard, and the WSL2 VM are the same machinery. Memory integrity and isolated LSASS are not apps. They are partitions the kernel agreed to live beside. None of this shows up in a screenshot. It is why the thing still runs software from the 90s, a Linux toolchain, a GPU game, and a hypervisor-isolated credential store on the same box without each of those being a separate product. The shell can be argued with. The executive underneath it is the part I would keep. You could slap a new face on it tomorrow, and it would look entirely fresh while being incredibly stable thanks to 30+ years of dedicated engineering.

In our team meeting Me: I discussed it with them and they agreed to do it My boss: You might say it was a Gentleman's agreement (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Windows 11 was released 5 years ago. How would you rank this operating system today vs the field

Nothing sickens me more than the amount of Jew-hate I get in my comments. It is as baffling as it is stomach-churning. If you think that calling me a Jew is an insult, it is not. I love my Jewish siblings. Of course, criticism of decisions of Israel's governments isn't anti-semitism. But it is so often used as a smokescreen by those who are consumed by Jew-hatred. That much is obvious. Israel has the right to exist. It is surrounded by countries whose inhabitants aren't interested in peaceful coexistence, but those who want to wipe every Jew off the face of this planet. If you want to call me a "Jewess" or bang on about conspiracies, please bugger off. You ain't going to convince me.

No one is stopping you from loving Jews. People are trying to stop some Jews from genociding non-Jews.

“Accidentally”. That’s bullshit. Which of their mates bought it ??

It’s probably a no, honestly.

IT admin. We have a device that can very accurately locate and identify WiFi/Bluetooth devices. We have detected not one, but TWO Bluetooth enabled sex toys in the office this month. Who is bringing these things to work??

Bold of you to assume it’s females.