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I personally find it to be a disgusting way to get customers. The company pays for the service, yet they also get to be the product.

commonly called HALO - Hire And License Out

if you are air-gapped, any browser should be fine?

Air gapping is not a total barrier.

(you still need to get data in and out sometimes, Chips can be misused as radio antennas, loudspeakers can be used as microphone and do ultra sonic data transmission to other devices etc, so still making sure the software is under control on the Air gapped computer sounds like a good idea)


That's the point, you'd think any browsers should be fine? But only Firefox was approved after OpSec department did their research. There were definitely something that made them very unhappy about Chromium to ban it wholesale.

Probably that it tries to send a ton of shit back to Google

You can import/export a lot of data with just sound and video.

the lawyer has to use a ZDR tier of LLM, not just any llm. the lawyer using the same LLM as the client would, destroys the attorney-client privilege.

note that the client using an enterprise tier does not grant the same privilege.


> The light bulb form factor is cute but probably not that useful. Most of the light will be aimed in non-useful directions. Look into ultra short throw projectors.

gonna hard disagree! you aren't going to have 360° projector in there with wasted light going nowhere. you're going to have 1-4 steerable projectors. the "facade" as a globe bulb means you can place it at any direction you like depending on where the cord needs to go. for ceiling as well you don't want it to have a fixed throw direction. bulb makes perfect sense.


the summary presented by the drive feels like an overreach. but we live in the world of can't have nice things so there you go i guess.

i doubt there's all that many beneficial owners of montana businesses that live in california, but surely there are many nevadans and oregonians that straddle the border and will get unfairly caught up in this.


you don't even have to be rich. it's not much more onerous than a generic small business. i know more than one 2-car-inventory dealerships.

but it's only worth the effort if you are rich enough to buy cars that incur substantial tax and reg fees. you still need to have insurance and the dealership kind of insurance costs a lot. you probably aren't going to get umbrella coverage to include it either, so you'll have more limited liability.


it's tongue in cheek

they aren't in the business of selling consoles (duh). they are in the business of selling games. jailbroken consoles can run pirated games ...

consoles are sold at a loss, best information i can dig up is that this is still true today, even after all the volume.


Way back in the 90s and early aughts, Toys R Us used VAX terminals (and then, emulators on PCs) to do a lot in a local store.

Inventory of other locations, and the individual details of a stocked item were one of the functions. This additionally displayed the markup/profit percentage for a given item. I understand that these numbers may not have been completely accurate, but will be sufficient for demo purposes.

Most toys, movies, and video game titles claimed a ~20-30% margin. Private label clothes and such, slightly higher. Game consoles showed ~1-2%. When employee discounts were finally adopted, it maxed at 10%, and thusly items like game consoles were excluded.


AFAIK they stopped losing money on PS5's about 8 months after release.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells...


> services that can be used for amplification attacks, are they constantly getting patched to prevent the latest iteration of attack type?

unfortunately, no.


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