Were his pupils dilated or something? Maybe he needed a bong hit to get through all of the craziness going on.

Microsoft will continue to falter if they don’t fire Nadella.

Can someone explain to me when Presidents suddenly got the power to tariff everything? I could have sworn this was congress’ role.

Maybe. Depends on what you are asking. If you havent signed up with a carrier, i dont think you can enable wifi calling. But if you have no cell tower connection and youve previously set up wifi calling, it looks like you can still make emergency calls:

“Emergency calls on your iPhone are routed through cellular service when available. In the event that cellular service isn’t available, and you have enabled Wi-Fi Calling, emergency calls may be made over Wi-Fi, and your device’s location information may be used for emergency calls to aid response efforts, regardless of whether you enable Location Services. Some carriers may use the address you registered with the carrier when signing up for Wi-Fi Calling as your location. When connected to Wi-Fi calling, your iPhone may not receive emergency alerts.”

https://support.apple.com/en-is/guide/iphone/iph78f4697ca/ios

Google AI search says it’s a federal mandate in the US. I couldn’t find the related legislation though.

SOS is what a phone displays when it can reach a cell tower, but cant find an valid account associated with its SIM card. Its so you can make emergency calls to things like 911 from any phone, regardless of whether you’ve paid a carrier for service or had your service cut off. Or the only cell tower you can reach has no connection to your carrier, but other carriers on that tower are available to make emergency calls.

What they’re saying is that a web server can create a traditional jpeg file from a jpeg xl to send to a client as needed. So you’re saving backend storage space… sometimes. Until widespread adoption by browsers, you’re still creating and transmitting a traditional jpeg file. And now you’ve increased the server space needed because you’re having to create and store two copies of the file in two different formats.

Developers are already doing this with webp and everyone hates webp (if your browser doesn’t support webp, the backend sends you the jpeg copy). I dont see any advantage here except some hand waving “but in the future” just like has been done for most new formats trying to win adoption.

Its still natural gas. Getting it out of the ground is an ecological disaster.

How is it backwards compatible? Everything I’ve read so far says the opposite — That it requires recoding the image into the new format, and keeping around or generating an old copy of the image in current jpeg format for older software.

Are you saying a browser or app that currently only supports Jpeg can open and render a Jpeg-XL image?

Edit: Yeah. It’s not backward compatible. And system admins are already doing the “make two copies of an image thing with webp and the current jpg format.

Just as many people don’t give a shit about jpeg XL.

Alternate headline:

“New shiny thing distracts idiot CEO into moving funds from one money pit to another.”

So are stockholders going to figure out Nadella is killing Microsoft? Or will this be another Elon situation where the company loses customers, but the stock price continues to rise?

Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.

And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”

And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.

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This has been going on long before Clinton. Regan got everything deregulated.

More recently though, we had Elizabeth Warren and Lina Khan who tried to unravel this mess. But of course Khan is gone, and Warren has been defanged by a Republican-controlled house, senate, presidency, and judiciary.

Trump supporters are a lost cause. They are brainwashed. They will never change course. And yes, they vote.

In the US, it was the fault of the 30 percent of Americans who don’t give a shit and couldn’t be bothered to get off their asses and vote.

Letting all your media consolidate into the hands of a few oligarchs will have that effect.

And nothing really has been done to prevent these disasters from happening again. I fully expect New Orleans to flood again, and California to catch fire. We will continue digging up wetlands and converting the land to condos and then wonder why they don’t hold up in hurricanes.

I wonder what the IKEA product name is for anti-tank mines? I couldn’t find it on their website.