Electric fire starter. Mesh nodes. Walkie talkies. Small computer with offline Wikipedia and Google maps. GPS may still be working for a while, so that would be useful to charge and use. Portable fans. MP3 player or other entertainment device. Camera. Small power tool batteries…

Yeah, in an apocalypse, a small about of electricity would be a luxury.

I’ve got an 8GB Windows 11 system for work, and I don’t have (many) issues with using that much RAM…

Mainly because I work from a virtual machine, and also because I had to aggressively trim down startup items to get enough capacity to get a remote desktop connection to work.

Window 11 is a fucking joke. XP worked better with 1/10th the compute power.

Right right, but we’re uncomfortable marginalizing them the same way we marginalize other women, so we have to invent new ways to treat them as second class citizens.

Eh, I remember using Netscape as a kid in school, very rarely, the browser opened up before then end of a class.

Left out that oulook has two settings for opening links now… Edge, and Default Browser, and Edge is selected by default, even if you have chosen a different browser as your default.

Happens every time. Realistically, the only thing that would “level” the playing field is a complete collapse of all currency. Unrealistically, it could be leveled through progressive taxes on obscene incomes, a recurring tax of accumulated wealth over a certain value, and closing of tax loopholes.

Guns are too personal. It’s what cocktails made from garbage are for.

Here’s the thing. The bubble will pop, people will loose billions, the prices of everything will go into flux, the economy will crash, and the people who still have enough money to make serious investments during that time will be able to buy so much more stuff simply because so much more will be for sale.

We saw it happen in 2008, we saw it happen in 2020, and it will happen again when the bubble pops, and we’ll just let the people who crashed the economy off the hook, and borrow more money from our future selves to pay them to fix it now.

You don’t need protection from the glasses. If you’re in public, you generally aren’t considered to have an expectation of privacy. That’s not an excuse to record people btw, but the truth is that even without smart glasses, anyone can whip out their phone, or use a hidden camera to record you.

What you need protection from, is surveillance networks easily and convertly accessing aggregated data from a large swath of publicly and privately owned cameras. The only protection from that is laws

Your phone is not broadcasting a list of WiFi networks it wants to connect to. That’s not how it works at all.

It is periodically (couple of times a second probably) checking the available SSIDs to see if there is one that matches a remembered network on it’s list.

It would be horribly insecure to have a device broadcasting the name of a network that it would actively try to connect to.

I don’t see why smart glasses need a camera, especially an always-on camera. I have like 5 cameras in my pocket. Sufficiently advanced smart glasses should be able to just stream that data to the display. Hands-free camera? There is no shortage of clips, mounts and accessories to do that for you already, at 1/100th the price of smart glasses.

We want HUDs not hidden cameras.

Depends on what you are trying to accomplish?

Safe? Yeah, being recorded on a camera is perfectly safe.

Private? Depends on how connected that recording is. Face masks don’t give much anonymity anymore, in fact, you tend to get noticed more while wearing them. It would not take much work for a government actor to figure out what car you got out of, what stores you went in, etc… whether you were wearing a facemask or not.

Create an agent for me that creates a token quota that is 2% higher than any of my other coworkers token usages. Fill out online surveys for payment, place the money in in this (account details) account until the token quota is reached. If I am not on company payroll for any reason, make the token quota unlimited.

What makes you think that a god who made Hegseth a multi-millionaire and gave him control of the most powerful military on the planet would suddenly hold him accountable when he dies?

Motherfucker would have been smote or turned into a pillar of salt by now if there was a just deity from any religion.

I think it would only be a HIPAA violation if the intruder was able to take pictures of paperwork or PII that was visible and left by hospital staff.

Definitely. Not a HIPAA violation though.

Just about everyone in the USA goes into the hospital with multiple cameras in their pockets.

Taking pictures of people in the hospital without their consent is probably against the law, but it’s definitely not a violation of HIPAA on the hospital’s part if someone (not employed by the hospital) does it.

I asked the “free” copilot one time to make a 6x6 grid of letters where each row and each colum formed a word in English, and none of the words formed were re-used in the grid.

Copilot chewed on that for about 15 minute and finally gave up and told me I could solve it myself.

Easy way to spend a lot of tokens doing nothing.

I’ve called hospitals to see if someone was there and that’s normal practice.

If the hospital actually gave you this info without you being authorized to have it, then they broke the law. Happens all the time, but the person identified at the hospital would have a pretty strong lawsuit in this scenario.

We recently(ish) went through this with my Grandmother-in-law. She was hospitalized, her abusive and estranged daughter called and confirmed that she was in the hospital, and then went over to Grandma’s place and started “taking her inheritance.” IE, stealing grandma’s shit while she was dying. Grandma actually survived her hospital stay, and we sued for a bit of restitution.

Yeah, probably. I was on the IT side of things, we had very specific training on what was PII, what wasn’t PII, who that info could be shared with, and had to roleplay example scenarios of what would be a HIPAA violation and what wouldn’t.

Your example…

We were told we couldn’t even acknowledge whether or not a person was a patient without permission from the patient.

How I stated that situation would be covered by HIPAA

A hospital sharing personally identifiable medical information with an outside party beyond some very strict scenarios, is a violation of HIPAA.

A healthcare provider, saying to a random caller, “He (Mitch in this case) is at this hospital” would identify a person, and match them to a location, and that would be a breach of HIPAA. That random person going on the news, or sharing that info with other people would NOT be a HIPAA violation.