I'd second the one about work laptops having powershell scripts for whatever the IT wants them for. However if it's your personal property then it could be just about anything, maybe something innocuous you've installed that you wnat but maybe something malicious..
Personally, I'd take this as a sign to do a fresh install of the entire OS. That can feel like a chore, sometimes, but it's the best way to be nearly absolutely sure your computer is clean.
His source is Musk, who also gets money from selling the book where this quote originates. He's also an idiot.
The fact is though that Starlink was never premitted to operate in Crimea or any territory under Russia's control before the 2022 invasion. Occupied parts of Ukraine (excluding Crimea, which is also really an occupied territory) are something of a grey area, and it's possible that Russians have subverted checks that SpaceX had to prevent Russia from using the technology, but Crimea was always a clear cut dead zone for the service.
They couldn't really "turn it back on" as it was never on there to begin with. The submarines simply left the operational zone of the service, they weren't switched off.
It's not just their blackbox drivers, though, it's the way they entice businesses to work with them and use their software for their products such that no other players can perform in the market.
I'm not familiar enough to confirm, but it would be entirely unsurprising to me if NVidia cards only work well with LLM's because LLM's have been designed with NVidia cards and with support from NVidia. On the one hand, it's nice that the manufacturer is supporting developers, on the other the way NVidia historically does this drastically limits consumer choice.
I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM
Well there's your problem. You've been blindly loyal to a brand that has shown no loyalty towards consumers.
According to an excerpt from the book, Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet.
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson.
That's a much more convoluted line of reasoning than Starlink simply never working in Crimea. It certainly gets people talking about his book, though.
Because Musk's businesses operate in the US and are subject to US sanctions.
Hopefully there will be consequences - although that might depend who is in the White House next year.
Get up, come on, get down with the biscuit!
Classy argument.
Nah Russia always uses the stick alongside the carrot.
I'm not confusing anything here. For clarity, CPD is the parent company, CDPR is a department within the parent company that develops games. The two are basically synonymous.
What I'm doing is inferring that their statement "online services including..." is in no way an exhaustive list, and directly implies that other things are migrating also. Furthermore, when I logged into GOG Galaxy I could no longer shop for new games (not just CDPR games, but recent games from other publishers - only old titles were available), which further leant into the idea that games were being removed from the GOG store. I've since checked gog.com and they're still there, though.
In any case, even if it doesn't happen right away this move absolutely is a step towards CDPR games not being listed on the GOG store and potentially even coming with DRM.
I've created a support ticket with them asking for further details about the change.
That's a start, but on its own pretty meaningless. A suspended sentence means he does not go to prison, so long as he behaves himself for a year or however long.
The article doesn't go into it, but I hope he was also fined heavily. All we have is "the court determined it could not be resolve through fines, a prison sentence is warranted".
Yeah but the young are all going to be sent to die in the upcoming wars, so why bother?