[–] 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It affects a lot more than just Microsoft and their services. Imagine all the 2 factor logins where the code is send by mail, such as payment processors or other services with high security. They'll still work but the users can get locked out. If this continues for a little longer, we'll start to see some real consequences worse than just email being down.

Other mail providers are working, so we could just send mails through those, but with Microsoft having the majority of business market share, you probably shouldn't expect to receive a reply from anyone using it. Just another way it is disrupting a whole lot of people who have jack shit to do with Microsoft.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    In the near future or already, the skill of writing essays will be as useful as having neat hand writing or horse back riding. It's great to know it, but it's not going to be the industry standard outside of school.

    Fuck AI and all, but it will eventually become the standard tool for anyone who wants to put a lot of words on a page for whatever reason.

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  • [–] -4 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    Nobody reads college student essays over the ocean.

    Anyway, you misspelled "were" and forgot to capitalize "I". I will forgive your comma mistakes, because I am not in a position to correct commas in English.

    C-.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    It is luxurious. It's approx. 5 m² , but well worth the space.

    If we ever buy a home without one, I'd gladly sacrifice 5 m² from any other room to make this kind of preparation room. It works great for a family.

    If I were alone, I'd probably build a tiny house with a combined shower/toilet, but I'd keep my toothbrush in the kitchen.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago (1 child)

    You'll learn from it. (which is the purpose of universities, rather than grades or papers anyway)

    In this case though, it's more because the system clearly doesn't work, so something has to be done eiher way.

    They (schools) can't fight AI forever. It will over burden them with slop no matter what they try. It's futile to think that it can be detected, f.i. if the students put the AI in speech mode and writes down the answers in hand etc.

    It's better to rethink the entire purpose of what they're trying to achieve. Hundreds of pages of written paper probably isn't it to begin with.

    They're trying to educate: To get knowledge into the head of students. A written paper won't really show what's inside the head of the student regardless of it being written by the student, their parents, Indian fiver hirees, AI or simply paid to pass.

    IMO the validition process has to be rethought, and it's only good that AI has broken the system.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    My wife and I bought an old house which has been rearranged many times over the years. One upstairs room has a sink, but no toilet or shower. The toilet is in a separate room with its own sink. It's the weirdest arrangement, but it works great.

    We call it the toothbrush room. Most houses don't have such a room, but I do recommend it. It gets more use than most rooms. Obviously the entrance and kitchen gets the most use, but the whole family comes through the toothbrush room at least twice daily.

    We've set some cabinets, make up mirrors, the ironing board, all the hair appliances and such. It's perfect for getting ready, ironing a shirt, flattening the hair, shaving or putting on makeup without having to stand in shit fumes or shower moist. It's the perfect ready room.

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  • [–] 10 points 22 hours ago (16 children)

    I don't why so much of it is dependent on writing a long paper and having several people read through it. It's a waste of time even before AI.

    Just do a quick 10 minute oral exam and you'll know if they understand it.

    Some things take more than 10 minutes to explain, but only if you need to start from scratch, so for more advanced topics they should just ask questions from the top down and assume the basics. Anyone who fails to understand the basics will obviously fail the deeper meaning as well, or shouldn't have been able to come to that level of exam anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    I've only seen it in practice when someone is throwing a large party and wants to bring their own cheaper wine. It can even be the exact same wine.

    Paying the full restaurant markup on the wine can be excessive if you hold a wedding for 70 people and if you can find it much cheaper from tax free or bulk purchase. It would still make sense to pay the corkage fee then.

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    I recently got fed up with spending hours making my MIDI devices work in Windows. Everytime I plugged the USB hub with my controllers into Windows, it would reassign the ports and I'd have to use the ancient Korg utility to remove dead ports. This is a really old issue that Microsoft claims was fixed ten years ago, but never was. So I decided to test if Linux can handle MIDI devices better.

    It seemed to work fine on an old Mint laptop that I have around, but since I'd rather use the newer laptop and since I still need Windows on that for work, I decided to try out putting everything on a USB stick for portability. Also, the old laptop which I might use sometimes is a bit too slow for Mint, so I needed something smaller.

    So, the idea is to put the OS, the DAW, the plug-ins and samples on one single stick. I happened to have a 8gb USB that I found on a parking lot. It's kinda dirty and broken, so I figured it was perfect for the experiment. Yes, I do know that flash drives aren't good for this, and when I'm done playing around, I will probably get an external SSD for this purpose instead.

    8gb is not a lot for this, but I like the challenge.

    At first I wasted another evening trying to make Slax boot. I gave up and found Poppy Linux instead, since I do want the tiny and persistent kind of installation. It's a bit slow to boot into ram, but it's nice and quick once at the desktop.

    For a DAW I got Reaper working just fine simply by extracting the files from the official webpage. No install required.

    It recognized my MIDI devices and audio interface instantly. No issues at all, no missing dependencies or drivers or whatever, and better yet: It's still works after rebooting. I made a setup of the devices to control mixer actions in Reaper and that also saves fine as expected.

    Now getting plugins is a bit of an issue. It seems that most people run Wine to use VSTs, but I decided to stick with free native Linux plugins and those are somewhat more difficult to find.

    So far I've found Helm for a synth and LSP for a samples. I plan on recording real instruments mostly, so I only need the essential stuff.

    I was pleasantly surprised that the linux download for LSP also ships with a bunch of effect plug-ins. Highly recommended: https://lsp-plug.in/index.php

    I have yet to make any music other than test tracks, but it seems that my idea works so far. The installation is completely independent of which computer I have available, so I guess I will be using Linux in one way or the other to make music going forwards.

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