Remote worker with a very secured laptop. Came back from vacation to a BSOD, and after an entire weekend of teams video calls from my phone with our support team, they gave up trying to remediate since our security was so strict. Ended up getting issued a new laptop overnight, and sent mine back for reimaging. I just smiled and sipped coffee, while browsing lemmy on my system76 personal linux laptop. You literally cannot do anything off company resources, of which i had none for 3 days.
In mid-June, Forbes reported finding its content within Perplexity's Pages tool with minimal attribution. Pages allows Perplexity users to curate content and share it with others. Ars Technica sister publication Wired later made similar claims, also noting suspicious traffic patterns from IP addresses likely linked to Perplexity that were ignoring robots.txt exclusions. Perplexity was also found to be manipulating its crawling bots' ID string to get around website blocks.
So hang on, they were caught stealing content, and now they're trying to sign up the people they stole content from and get them to pay? If that's not the textbook definition of racketeering and extortion I don't know what is.
Honestly, it wasn't the $7 coffee that turned me away from starbucks. It was the $7 coffee that taste like toilet water, when there are no shortage of local, cheaper coffee shops with amazing brews made by people who actually want to be there, who also won't be fired for unionizing.
I get the idealism, I really do, but if we waited for the absolute perfect version of everything, we would never get anything done. Besides, with a term limited scotus, you have a lot better position to argue for term limited politicians.
It doesn't alter the query itself, it just makes maintaining larger and more complex queries easier. Without that statement in a dynamic query, you would have to dynamically add or remove the Where clause entirely in some situations, and this way you can keep it in and only add conditions as needed
His views on exercise are indeed bizarre. Apparently the moron thinks all humans have a finite amount of energy like a battery, which is why he never exercises.
It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. " how many categorical degrees of separation are your YouTube channels from wacko right wing nut job shit?"