I have a private matrix server for a few friends. Whenever someone logs on with a new device or client it lists them as being unverified. Eventually it goes away. I really have no idea at what point verification occurs.
They verify their device. Usually means opening Matrix on a other device, clicking the pop-up, and scanning a QR code or matching emoji. One device signs proof of verification of the other and exchanges encryption keys so the new device can read encrypted conversations.
Unverified devices are indistinguishable from a hacker logging in through credential stuffing/password leaks until verification is done.
It's a process similar to adding devices to Signal or WhatsApp, except with Matrix you can still log in without having physical access to another device. Useful if you only ever visit unencrypted rooms perhaps.
When did you pay for it? There was a time when its limits were very generous. If you bought an annual plan at that time then you will continue with that until renewal. Or, alternatively, you’re using the Auto model which is still apparently unlimited. That’s going away.
It’s very easy to run into limits if you choose more expensive models and aren’t grandfathered.
And thats the AI business-model in a nutshell. Generate slop quickly that you cant understand, but works enough for you to get hope, works enough to make you forget about all your training as a dev, and profit$$ of your anxiety as it rises!
At no point in the future will these same companies offer the same rates for credits. WAtch your generated code turn into a walking, talking ad for the companies who pay for product placement.
Unsurprising. I tried it probably a year ago. I asked it what meetings were in my calendar for the day and it couldn’t even tell me that. To add insult to injury, they wanted an annual commitment with up front payment at the time.
Sales and marketing is the only thing they've ever been good at. Really.
They make their money because they can go to the largest corporations & governments, talk to the CTO and tell them they have a product for everything that checks all their regulatory requirements, and all these products kind of sort of work together.
Who else can offer that?
For Microsoft, engineering is just about checking boxes on feature lists. Quality doesn't matter and engineering is a cost to be minimized. The people who make the purchasing decisions aren't the ones who have to use their stuff.
Yes, that's the thing. I see the same. Every time we had to move from a third party product to a MS one we always had to limit what we wanted to do because the MS solution was far less capable and if we asked about it we'd just get stupid answers like "why do you want to do that, we don't work that way".
But they push it through the CTO with really good initial pricing, then when you're hooked they screw you on the next contract negotiation.
The old saying is: "Microsoft is much better at talking to your boss than you are". Which still rings true IMO.
Even office isn't that good. It's basically been static in features for 25 years (until copilot came around). It took them a decade to surpass the 65535-row problem in excel. Microsoft get really lazy when they have a virtual monopoly. We saw the same with Internet Explorer. They just left it to whither away until it was too late.
And yeah Teams, I can't stand it. Outlook too, in particular the "new" one that doesn't do half the things the old one could do and requires all your email to be in MS cloud even if you have another provider.
> Microsoft get really lazy when they have a virtual monopoly.
That's not very specific to Microsoft really. You can say the same thing about Google, Apple or any other big corp that managed to capture a market where users don't really have real alternatives.
I don't agree, for example Google hasn't done to Chrome what Microsoft did to IE, just basically dropping all development. And Chrome probably has a bigger marketshare than IE ever did.
The crazy thing is how the premium M365 Copilot has only gotten worse as the free Copilot Chat has been rolled out. When the AI assistant from Microsoft can't create a calendar entry in Outlook, what are they even doing with this tech at MS?
You either get A) hallucinations of "I created the calendar entry now" (it didn't) or B) an .ics file you need to download, then import to Outlook manually.
The difference is that Copilot will have access to your calendar _and_ associated resources (messages, meeting transcripts, etc.) and be able to relate them to files you have access to. It’s become quite useful in telling me which of the action points for a specific meeting are being handled by whom _now_ and where the resulting documents are even if the meeting was weeks ago.
I'm very surprised there's not a Bob Ross painting app. One which would have presets for every color, brush, and blade from the show. People could fire up the app and use their Apple Pencil or stylus to follow along.
I did that once on a boring Saturday. Used Procreate and a Pencil to follow along with a couple of shows. Had to pause it more than once to find & download a matching brush in Procreate. Was quite fun. I think a dedicated app would sell extremely well.
I think it would be very difficult—he does a lot with color mixing, and having multiple colors on a brush, that software painting solutions don’t support. And all of the color blending on the canvas that his wet-on-wet technique is based around…
Maybe this is the wrong site for this viewpoint, but I don't see what in the world the best damn AR/VR painting game in the world has over actually painting.
Like an expensive canvas is what, $20? And paint can be had for like $5-10 a tube, and unless you just slather the shit on your paintings, you can go quite a long ways on a tube.
Like I play Call of Duty because I don't actually want to experience a warzone. Who wouldn't want to actually paint?
> Like an expensive canvas is what, $20? And paint can be had for like $5-10 a tube
I think you're oversimplifying how much of a hassle painting can be. Sure, one canvas and one tube of paint cost you $25, but you also need to include brushes (duh), an empty jar for water, a palette or an old plate, an easel or a table where paint spills are not a problem, plus the time to set it all up, clean your brushes afterwards, and tear it down (unless you have an empty garage, which people in apartments typically don't). And then there are the lessons which, if you're a beginner, mean several one-hour chunks (and several canvases) until you feel even mildly comfortable on your own.
I think VR painting is to painting what Guitar Hero is to playing a guitar - you may not be a "real" painter afterwards, but as long as it's fun...
You describe in plain English what you want and it writes the software. If you are a programmer then you may not be satisfied with what is written. If you aren’t a programmer then you will probably feel empowered, provided you can coax it to write something that works.
I had a similar experience. I ordered four EXOS drives three years ago and one of them came DOA. They had to send me three more drives before I got a working one. I’m amazed they’re all still happily humming away in a Synology.
But are those D tier “celebrities” getting 10 requests per day? I really have no idea, but I can’t imagine people lining up to spend $145+ on birthday wishes from Kiaya, from MTV’s Teen Mom. Or is this why so many people are in debt?
Some do very well, though I don’t know if any single person is consistently getting 10 per day. I used to follow the 90 Day Fiance subreddit and folks were always linking to videos from the more well-liked cast members. Several have over $100,000 in revenue if the sites tracking these sort of things can be believed.
I get the "15 minutes of fame" thing, but it passes quickly.
I mean, sure, the current Survivor season might spit out 20 people who might make a few people happy this year. But is there really a market for Jane from season 8? Like a couple hundred a day?
Perhaps I'm wrong and all kinds of people are plunking down $50 for birthday messages all day long. (So much for a depressed economy...)
Clearly I'm not the target market and most ideas seem dumb when you can't imagine using a service yourself. Maybe there are 50000 customers a day dropping this cash.
My father was in his late seventies when he underwent surgery for back pain. Unfortunately, they discovered that the cause of the pain was that his multiple myeloma had spread and that there was really no turning back. When he woke from surgery he couldn’t remember who his children were. He was a completely different person.
Modern windows performance is bizarre. Even the “new” task manager seems to be bloated and can take forever to render. Windows Explorer is useless if OneDrive syncs a lot of files.
