I guess they caved to anthropic’s urges.

I don’t think they would so that. Kelog has calmed down a lot over the last few years.

They can, but if they ban you for not allowing them to check, that’s illegal, and you can sue. If they ban you for theft, they need the cops to prove it.

Keep in mind, you must be kind when you refuse. A nice smile and kind “no thank you” is enough. If you’re combative, they can ban you for that. If they’re dicks that ban for the sake of banning, fuck em

Is it a subscription based store, like a Costco?

If so, you signed up for the cart checks. The only thing you can do is not shop there.

If not, once you pay for it, it’s yours, and they have no legal right to touch it or check it unless you give them permission.
All you have to do is kindly say “no thank you” and keep walking. If they stop you, they’re violating other laws.
If they suspect you of theft, they can calls the cops. Otherwise, they must let you pass.

The corpos and cops know the laws and, as such, your rights. It’s time we all know them, too, so we can put them (corpos and cops) all in their place on the ground.

Why is it called SQL, if it’s the first one?

I’ll see myself out…

Can’t fix stupid.

But I don’t have to interact with it.

I don’t understand what people have against Al. I thought we all loved Al. Al is the coolest. A little weird, but I mean, that’s Al’s appeal.

Nobody will see it coming. Except Bill, I guess.

And, now, us.

It’s by design. If you missed the first round of those six stories, you can just listen to them in 20 minutes. If you get distracted on story number three, you got 20 minutes to go before the next time story number three comes out. It’s designed for ads, like you said, not for information.

If you use metric on the regular, you converted from metric to imperial on the fly, and ended up with lbs because your brain went “kilo to… lb, that’s it”. Hahahaha that’s me quite often hahahhaa

I’ve heard that from many folks haha language is so interesting to me

Written language can be confusing without it.
“Please take your children, luggage, pillows and blankets.”
Pillows and blankets are together here. This and that. A parenthetical, so to speak.
“Please take your children, luggage, pillows, and blankets”
The pillows and blankets are separate here. This and/or that.
Yes, Oxford commas are not required, but they make the sentence less open to interpretation.

Maybe those were bad examples, but you get it.

Damn. I use the em dash all the time. LONG before LLMs. Also the Oxford comma, which, apparently, is also an “AI thing”. Fuck it. I’mma keep using them, because it’s grammatically correct.

You can’t tell me it wasn’t intentional

Correct. This is more of a “sit down and shut up” motion, than anything actually meaningful.

Not TMI at all! This was super interesting! I did video editing for a while, and always converted to WAV before importing into Final Cut or Adobe Premiere, but that was more because MP3 files always lagged and (with AP) caused crashes sometimes. Yes, this was years ago. I will stick to FLAC!

Sticking with the image format examples, like PNG maybe? Anyway. Great comparison and super helpful! Is it better than OGG, or about the same?

Won’t happen. I hope I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.

The white and audiored are bundled together, so it’s easier. I mean, it wasn’t easier, and you always ended up with the very sudden, and oddly louder than a bomb h̶̤̞̪̞͒̄͘ͅȇ̷̛̳̠̲̟̑͂̐͋̋̔̄̇̿͂̈̕͝͝à̶̢̙̭̦̝̭͉̻̒̈́̏̍̌̀͆͆͟͠r̵̳̫̤͕̦̥̠̥̟̼̈́̃̐̓̄̒̔͟ͅi̷̱̗̮̪̜̫͖̖̳̔͝n̵̦̣̾̉͒̃̈̃̃̅̀̕͝͝g̸͔̹̔͒̈͋̍̿̂̎́ ̶̯̯̦̳̄͛͜c̵̡̟̰̻̱̤͔̓̍͌̏͛͋̏̎͘ơ̷̢̡̢̡͖̹͉̭̗̏͊̔̐̿̎̀̅̃͊͒̀̂̔̒͜ľ̷̡̧̛̞̭͖̗̖̲̫̪̙̽̅̑ͅó̵̠͓͕̣͇͍̥͚̌͆́̾̆̒̈́͆̒̅͜͝͠ŗ̶̺̱̰͉̟̩̣̉̒̔͟͜s̴̩̙̦̯̗͈̮̙̤̝͊́́̚͝ͅ

Newspapers editors write this stuff with the assumption that you will read it, not just screenshot it and post it online.

Have they met people?