Ayep. Probably including where you live and what you do for a living.

It is worse than that. They often share your information directly, or initiate services that require your participation, and of course you must prove who you are to do so.

This is horrific.

The part of me traumatized by our society drives my cynical obtrusive thought: this will cull some of the stupid genes from the pool.

Maybe idiocracy is not inevitable. Maybe the stupid, selfish,fear-consumed will remove themselves from the healthier parts of humanity. Too bad I won’t be around for the better world.

Let me clarify: usually I have sympathy for victims of fraud. I made an exception in this case.

I’m a linux user with a synology NAS, and I scan my documents to a shared folder, the process them with ocrmypdf and move them into an archival home.

The NAS is a 4 disk RAID6, data loss is almost impossible if you replace failing disks promptly. I have a regular backup to an external drive of all the important folders.

I use OpenVPN to connect to my network when I am away from home with Android and my Linux laptop.

I use Recoll to index my documents for full text search.

It’s very effective.

The point of scanning it all usually includes getting rid of the papers.

Well played.

The real issue is the comparative lack of charging stations and the duration of the refill. There are solutions being worked on now.

Those of us who like to road-trip and camp have real anxiety about range and charge availability.

This is one time I feel those suckers deserve it.

Now, let’s see if there will be any consequences for the Trumps. I’m not holding my breath.

I’m conflicted on this one. Funny but uncomfortably so.

I like the way you analyze the bigger picture.

It might have been staged. Did anybody else see the smirk on Trump’s face as the gunshots rang out? He didn’t have any reaction indicating he thought he was in danger, either.

Ever notice how after each “assassination attempt” he has political outcomes that favor him? Anybody notice that so far, the assassins are all MAGA?

he just coincidentally leverages them?

Is it their piece, or are they circulating a report they picked up? Anyway, my point is that it is the kind of crap wingnuts like to leverage into freedom destroying policy.

I’m not sure you intended it, but that’s a pretty good dad joke right there - well done!

Well… Yeah. Who do you think is buying AI for the corps? Kinda my point.

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I’ll check these out, thanks. Hopefully they support Mermaid.

Don’t panic, we have options if it’s bad.

Seems like it could go there, but for now i believe this is primarily for the corporate and commercial customers. They rightfully need to keep up with or exceed their competitors. The aspect that decides if they are turning into Windows is how they implement, not what they implement.

Yes. Like most things, genAI is not evil. It is now it is used (or made available) that makes it evil.

I’m on board with making it easy to use and integrate GenAI as long as I have full control of which model I use and how it is used and there are no behind the curtain shenanigans.