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sleep_deprived ,

Ever heard of Mr. Hands?

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's...

sleep_deprived ,

That's the point. Malicious compliance.

sleep_deprived ,

Holy shit. I highly recommend that anyone who has the time read this.

Also, fuck Ron DeSantis. An innocent man was freed, and DeSantis nearly saw him imprisoned until he died. Just because someone was reluctant to prosecute nonviolent crime and provided shelter for trans people and people seeking abortions. What an evil human.

sleep_deprived ,

IIRC it's an APU thing, and last I heard it was just a rumor (could be out of date). Either way, non-LTSC is EOL in a year and a half. If you're putting in a Zen 5 CPU, the best choice is realistically either Linux or Windows 11 Pro, since Pro can turn off all the bullshit through group policy. My Windows machine I have to have is on 11 Pro and it's basically Windows 10 with a slightly different taskbar. No Copilot bullshit, no ads, no Bing in Windows Search. If you're ok your taskbar on the bottom of the screen, IMO it's the best choice as long as you have to use Windows.

sleep_deprived , (edited )
  1. This is the first administration in decades to take antitrust and consumer protections seriously
  2. The DoJ Antitrust Division has been very busy this term. See the assistant AG's Wikipedia for some details
  3. Taylor Swift

If you haven't been keeping up with US antitrust litigation this year this would seem a little out of the blue, but the DoJ and FTC have been, at least comparatively, knocking it out of the park under Biden.

For more information, the term for the more corporation-friendly philosophy that's been dominant since roughly sometime in the 90s is the "Chicago School of economics". The Chicago School's ideas on antitrust are pretty ridiculous:

  • If a merger won't result in immediate price increases or output decreases, it is generally considered acceptable. There is little concern for long-term effects.
  • There is consideration for the intent of a merger. Lack of evidence of an intent to monopolize is given serious consideration in determining whether antitrust law applies.
  • The argument that mergers result in increased efficiency through scale is generally given more weight than concerns about market consolidation.
  • There is a general assumption that, if a company does become monopolistic, the market will self-correct. The idea is that new entrants to a market segment or other competitive forces will act as a natural corrective agent.

The Biden administration marks the beginning of a move away from the Chicago School. In particular, as far as I'm aware, Lina Khan (chair of the FTC) and Jonathan Kanter (head of the DoJ Antitrust Division) are very bullish on antitrust enforcement. One recent example of the progress was the ban on non-competes by the FTC, which indirectly acts as an antitrust measure.

Edit:
You can see from my outline of Chicago School antitrust philosophy that it's inherently contradictory. There's an emphasis on allowing mergers, but there's also a belief that market entrants will stop monopolies. We've repeatedly seen over the past couple decades that, when a company tries to enter a monopolized market segment, the monopoly will merge with the entrant at any cost. It would be funny if it hadn't caused serious harm. See: grocery prices (especially in Canada with their duopoly).

sleep_deprived ,

See Miyake event.

sleep_deprived ,

I'm only an armchair physicist, but I believe this isn't possible due to relativity. I know that, at least, there are cases where two observers can disagree on whether an event occurred simultaneously. Besides all the other relativity weirdness, that alone seems to preclude a truly universal time standard. I would love for someone smarter than me to explain more and/or correct me though!

sleep_deprived ,

As spacecraft reenter the atmosphere from orbital speeds, they're going so fast that the atmosphere is compressed enough (and so gets hot enough) to free the electrons from the atoms in the air. This forms plasma. The special thing here is that we got live video during this portion of reentry; the free electrons in plasma heavily interfere with radio communications, so in previous missions there has been a full communications blackout at that time. Starship did not experience that blackout, which is unique. I'm not qualified to say exactly why, but the team was stressing that Starship is big enough that it "punches a hole through the atmosphere". Another factor could be the 4(?) starlink terminals on the leeward side providing redundant communications signals.

sleep_deprived ,

My experience with single GPU passthrough on Proxmox to a media VM was pretty positive, especially for it being an old Nvidia card. Even as someone doing it for the first time, it just took about 10 minutes to figure out the passthrough itself and another ~15 to figure out some driver issues. And it's worked perfectly since then. All in all much better than what I'd expected.

sleep_deprived ,

The GPU I used is actually a 1080, with a (rapidly declining in usefulness) Intel 4690k. But I suppose laptop vs desktop can certainly make all the difference. What I really want is GPU virtualization, which I've heard AMD supports, but I'm not about to buy a new GPU when what I've got works fine.

sleep_deprived ,

The CAD files needed for making an expansion card are open source so you could make your own if you have the expertise. It's been tried before, but to my knowledge nobody's done it. I could be wrong though.

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