Not sure how it compares but we did some trials with Azure AI Document Intelligence and were very surprised at how good it was. We had a document example which was a poor photograph of a document that had quite a skew, and it (too our surprise), also detected the customer’s human legible signature and extracted their name from that signature.
I wouldn’t be surprised if people connected to the Chinese government are not also taking advantage of the fact that Trump is extremely easy to trigger, manipulate and predict.
I was caught out in the same way. I now take out a BahnCard subscription online and immediately cancel it. I know I have the BahnCard for one year, and have the security that it should not automatically rollover without me having the choice.
Back in the late 90’s we were at a tipping point of how to monetize the world wide web. It turned out that selling advertising was way easier than figuring out micropayments. Advertising turned into a billions of dollar business. Facebook then turned the World Wide Web into a snooping platform. We then moved into a global propaganda engine on a mass scale.
I wonder if micropayments had been solved before taking the easy route, we would have been in a much more healthy global scenario today.
Yes I regularly use it for things like “I remember communicating about subject X in 2023, please find all references to that topic since that date”, and it will search and summarize all Teams, Outlook and OneDrive datapoints that I have access to in the organization and neatly summarizing it and linking directly to said datapoints.
I also use it to play around with data and roughly graph it to understand trends without having to roll out a Jupyter notebook.
The 2015 Australian Senate “wind turbines” report wasn’t neutral fact-finding, it was a politically driven hit job.
The inquiry was stacked with senators openly hostile to renewables (John Madigan, Bob Day, David Leyonhjelm, Chris Back). At least one (Back) had direct ties to the oil & gas industry via Shell. Others were aligned with think tanks and lobbying groups that consistently push fossil-fuel interests.
The report’s Chapter 7 hand-wrings about “subsidies” and “market distortions” while ignoring wind’s documented benefits: lower wholesale prices, emissions abatement, and diversification. It selectively cites contested modeling, downplays contrary evidence, and then leaps to prescriptive recommendations, like cutting subsidies, tightening planning laws, and federal overrides, which just happen to chill wind investment.
Even Labor senators filed a dissent, accusing the majority of misrepresenting evidence and overreaching. Meanwhile, fossil-fuel lobbyists have long had privileged access to Australian policymakers through donations, revolving-door appointments, and consultancies (McKinsey, IPA, Barton Deakin, etc.).
This wasn’t about “evidence”, simply it was about protecting fossil incumbents and kneecapping a competitor.
It’s pretty much the same on windows. It’s not an ideal workaround but I recently turned of C-states in the BIOS and since I’m always plugged in anyway, it seems to have stabilized a bit.
It seems to be connected with the WIFI card and the machine going to sleep. People have had their entire motherboards replaced and it hasn’t solved the problem. It’s annoying because I spent a lot of money on my XPS and it’s basically junk.
That website is an absolute eye cancer on mobile. Actual reading content is curtailed to a third of the screen. Its defaulted legitimate interest cookies include a bunch of predatory firms including Facebook (and I’m in the EU).
In one hand these publishers have just cause in complaining about companies like Google and Apple stealing their content, but they really are not helping themselves either. Their website are completely user unfriendly.
It's much more readable by default on an iPhone than the archive.is version. Viewport seems fine, don't know what you are using. I have a bunch of gaps in the page content which are probably ads my Pihole ate, but it's pretty readable.
I've seen worse, there's at least not much layout shift there.
People will complain about paywalls and they will complain about ads. The money needs to come from somewhere. For ad-supported sites, increased ad blocker use means higher saturation of ads for everyone else.
It's always very nice to see a nonprofit journalism outlet with no ads, but donor funding does not scale up to a large newsroom.
