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There are two very important lessons here. 1) Don't trust #Adobe. For real. Adobe has been pulling shit like this for *years* and yet people still continue to use it or go back. Why? Are you masochists? There *are* alternatives. Both open-source and commercial. **Use them.** 2) It's safe to assume that any new software update will probably include features you're not interested in. Whether it be the #Cloud or #AI or AI in the Cloud. I don't know about you but I *religiously* go through every single setting and configuration page of every new software I install (or update) prior to me using it. It's a great way to learn new things about the software you're about to use.
Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
As someone who is forced to use multiple Adobe products at work, I concurr 100%. Adobe are sneaky shitty mcshittersons. And the amount of sneaky shit they sneak into your software is astounding.
The one and so far ONLY thing I have found that any Adobe package still does better than anything else is Acrobat comparing two PDFs.
No idea why my overly religious IT dept. is OK with Adobe crunching our IP in PDF form in their cloud, yet I can't use some foss tool that doesn't leave my PC.
Before I retired from the InfoSec group at the power company I worked at, we were an Adobe shop for decades. We had a lot of critical business processes built-up around Acrobat and other Adobe products. Especially in Supply Chain and Vendor Management.
Then it came down to money. (That and the constant patching.)
Finally the bean counters in IT realized how much money we were throwing away at Adobe and in less than a year we completely switched and re-tooled those business processes to move away.
It wasn't that hard.
Maybe one day your Company's bean counters will see the same light.
Hm, die Georgetown-Website kennt den „Politologen Thomas Greene“ nicht, Wikipedia kennt ihn nicht, das gesamte Internet kennt ihn nicht, nur die Fake News-Schleuder kennt den Mann. Laut US-Verfassung sind aber auch die „Wiederwahlchancen“ von Trump eher gering, dafür braucht es keinen „Berater“. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rp2kl…
OK, so let's ask; @tzimmer_history, we're wondering whether a German rightwing fake news outlet made up (or probably had some chatbot make up) a politicial scientist named Thomas Greene or whether he really exists.
Thanks! To clarify: I knew you're not a political scientist in terms of academic discipline, but I've seen you write detailed commentary on U.S. politics...
Can we talk for a minute about how completely ludicrous a $4T valuation is for a company like NVIDIA or Microsoft? Investors often talk about P/E: the ratio of the share price (P) to the earnings per share (E). Or, if you simplify the equation slightly, the market capitalisation (price per share multiplied by number of shares) divided by the annual profit. This is, roughly, how many years it would take the company to make the amount of money that it is valued at. For NVIDIA and Microsoft, these ratios are, roughly, 50 and 40, respectively.
The simplest model of share ownership is that you get a share of the company’s profits. In practice, that only applies to companies in the ‘cash cow’ phase, where they are no longer growing and are just redistributing all excess income to shareholders. This kind of P/E would be ludicrous for such a company. With a P/E of 50, the company would be returning at most 2% of your investment each year, which is the kind of return you get from bonds at much lower risk. The idea for growing companies is that they’re investing a lot of their profits (and money raised by diluting shares) in growth. Putting money in now lets them become more valuable and that means that you’re happy to not even get the 2% return now because you expect to get a larger return on a larger valuation in the future. If a company has a share price of 100 and, instead of giving you a 2% return, it spends five years investing in growth and turns into a company with a share price of 1,000, then gives you a 1% return, you’ll make as much in the fifth year as you would have in the first five years in total if they had just returned the money, then you’ll make the same again in the sixth.
So far, so good. But let’s think about another ration: price to maximum-possible-earning-in-shiny-pixie-land. Let’s call it Price to Pixie ratio, P/Px. There are 8B people in the world (roughly). A trillion is a thousand billion, so a 4T market cap means that you have a valuation of $500/person. That’s more than the annual disposable income for a large proportion of the population. The median wealth for people is around $8K, a number somewhat skewed by the large number of people with a lot less. These valuations are all assuming a lot of growth, but how many people can actually afford to spend more on NVIDIA or Microsoft products? Of those, how many of those would choose to? These companies are making a lot of money at the moment because of lock in. Microsoft with Win32 and Office / SharePoint, NVIDIA with CUDA. That’s very fragile.
I wouldn’t be surprised if P/Px for these companies is only very slightly lower than P/E: if everyone who could afford their products bought them, it wouldn’t move the needle on their earnings more than 50%. For either company to be at a stable P/E, you’d need everyone in the world to be spending $20/year with them. Or the people in rich countries to be spending in excess of $200/year. Can you think of any company, in any market where that would make sense? At the moment, that spending is heavily skewed to other companies burning VC money for both. For Microsoft, it’s other companies who believe that they make more in increased productivity from using their systems than using something else, but between putting up prices for M365 for features no one wants and firing all of the people who build the things customers actually care about, that doesn’t look like a long-term revenue stream. NVIDIA’s revenue comes primarily from selling to companies that sell to companies that burn VC money and make a loss. Again, not sustainable. Which may mean that Px < E for both companies.
And that’s exactly the situation that leads you to a crash.
Catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country has killed 32 people, including 18 children, with seven victims still unidentified. Rescue crews are searching for 27 missing girls from Camp Mystic. More rain is expected, worsening flood risks. ...
On Sat 5th July 2025, Montgomery Toms was arrested for displaying a placard stating 🏳️⚧️ flag = mental illness.
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Any US state could just implement this and those cars would be federally legal. It would be such a dirt simple way to raise tax revenue Florida Man who wants to drive an ex-racecar.
Anas Al-Sharif reports names and faces of those killed in Israel’s bombing targeting a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood west of Gaza City overnight. Mostly women and children:
#IsraelTerroristState is making the movie "The Schindlers list" moving into the comedy gender. Today they shoot an old woman, who was sitting in her rooftop, straight in the head. A fucking execution because #iofcowards can shoot anyone without consequences. #deathtotheidf it's a joke when we talk about these monsters.
READ: “How are you?” For a Palestinian in Gaza, it’s not a casual question. It’s a reminder of everything lost. This essay is what it means to answer honestly—after war, after grief, after surviving the unimaginable. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/a-gazan…
Every time someone asks, “How are you?” I feel a sharp twist inside. That simple question drags me back into a place I desperately try to avoid. The truth is, I am not fine. And neither is anyone else in Gaza.
@nom xer here, I have.. I had my grandmothers sewing machine for years but after she passed one of my goofy aunts wanted it.. I bet she never even uses it.. I have my mother’s machine but I have moved on to a more modern cheapo.. it’s definitely more pleasurable to use..
NOAA has a lot of specific specialized offices their Nation Centers for Environmental Prediction, Weather Prediction Center issues the excessive rainfall forecast. You can go back through historical forecasts, I did not see any significant excessive rainfall forecast for Texas, and this was the region in Slight category, issued July 3rd. Being in a poor cellular service area having a NOAA weather alert radio would help if they issue an alert.
@Electronwarrior that’s possible. Years ago my area got 9 inches but over two days. I have sandy soil, but there was runoff in nearby dense neighborhoods with cars and basements flooded. Texas soil must be hard as a rock but with the intensity of the rainfall it’s going to runoff fast no matter what.
@CoranDeo @Electronwarrior that 9 inch rainfall I received was like a 100 year event, so they say, it was not predicted either. Many of the times we are predicted to get heavy excessive rain, we don’t.
@Electronwarrior People say they want science. They trust the science of the NWS, but they really don’t want science. Science is a method of discovery. Sometimes a hypothesis is right, sometimes really wrong. No, they want hard, proven laws of nature, which do not, and will not, exist. The map in the OP represents probabilities. Slight probability does not negate the possibility. A 2% chance of excessive rain speaks nothing about volume of excessive rain, so it’s been proven.
The map legend says (slgt) 15% chance if excessive rain within 25 miles to the right of the drawn line over the next day. Pretty unintuitive if you ask me. Again, if the probability exists, one needs to assume that if could go tit’s up in a heartbeat, and in this case it did. You get a way to weigh the risks with these things. No guarantee, no prediction, just a heads up. When peeps turn climate science into a god, you get shit results. Case in point.
@Electronwarrior @CoranDeo agreed. I find the best is to monitor radar imagery - if you see training thunderstorms that just keep coming you know you’re going to get significant rainfall. Know your regional area. I ran my downspouts off roof gutters many years ago to underground pipes to get runoff as far away from the house as possible. Our undisturbed non compacted soil can soak virtually unlimited water, so I had to get it almost 100 ft there. It all depends on your location & soil type.
@Electronwarrior As far as 100 year events go, i think you are right WRT frequency. It’s a once i. 100 year event. If the event hasn’t happened for 100 years, that ends the previous 100 without that event. If it happens the following year, it’s in the next 100 years and the probability of it happening again in the next 99 years is diminished, theoretically, but not guaranteed. I think it’s more a subjective evaluation that explains scope of devastation, not hard numbers(years)
Turtles are so weird. They can't breathe underwater, but they can show their metabolism down so much they don't need to breathe and can stay underwater for 5 hours, even falling asleep down there.
@DeWalt —Oh, I know. But this sounds just like Ross Perot and the other Losertarians.
Ask yourself:
Are there any Libertarian House or Senate members that strictly have that party affiliation? No, because they wouldn’t be able to get elected in the primaries.
And they sound like absolute loons when they talk.
And even worse, we always wind up with Democrats in charge.
@BlkLdyPatriot @DeWalt This is funny considering Elon has successfully alienated both the left and the right so spectacularly. So who does he expect to draw into this stupidity?
Elon may be a brilliant engineer, but he's a rotten politician.
@Julie @BlkLdyPatriot @DeWalt and yet another case of someone thinking they can be a Trump. There is only one. Trump. True definition of, “they broke the mold”.
I wasn't aware of how frequent these failures are 😰
"while it is one thing to disagree with the political views of a business leader, it is another to be mortally afraid of his products. In the Tesla Files, we found thousands of examples of why such fear may be justified." hachyderm.io/@itamarst/1148009…
Tesla's so-called "autopilot" turns off automatically a fraction of a second before a crash, so the driver can be blamed even though the driver has no time to respond.
İktidardaki her gerilemenin şiddete açık bir davetiye olduğunu biliyoruz. iktidarı elinde tutup da elerinden kaymakta olduğunu hisseden herkes, kaybettiklerinin yerine şiddeti koymanın cazibesine direnmekte zorlanmıştır.
"Soylu bir adam kendini kendinden daha yüksek bir fikirle karşılaştırır ve değerlendirir; sıradan bir adam ise kendinden daha düşük bir fikirle. Biri arzu üretir; diğeri ise hırs, ki bu da bayağı bir adamın arzuladığı şeydir." ~Marcus Aurelius
"Trust the Science" an already bullshit phrase because science is about QUESTIONING and challenging data sometimes--but is now completely going to shit because of that fucking Nazi criminal asshole and his shit friends. HOW DO WE END THIS GODDAMNED MALIGNANCY?
A post by Tadhg Hickey - "In my day, you'd have to go on gruelling training camps in South Armagh and Pakistan to become a terrorist. Now some vegan prick just picks up a sign, and he's Osama Bin Laden. They have it too easy."
Since they are closed source, we can't know. We can find out that messages are being sent at certain moments, but not what data is being contained in the messages, communications carrying this sort of data are always encrypted (for obvious reasons).
For legal reasons they often include some vague allusion in the terms of service about collecting information.. but they are never very clear on what data exactly they take when and how, so it's left up to interpretation.
He jugado solo pokemon Go (de los 47 a los 50 años, más o menos). La versión original de pokémon (esa especiie de juegobde cartas coleccionables jugado en la gamebot) no la jugué nunca.
"Robert Desnos n’est pas le seul à avoir vu en Robespierre une figure plus qu’humaine. Une « force » comme disait Victor Hugo. C’était déjà le cas de son vivant. Et cela ne sera pas sans lien avec sa mort le 10 Thermidor de l’an II (28 juillet 1794). Comme disait Hugo encore, la Révolution aura été le plus puissant pas du genre humain depuis l’avènement du Christ. Mais c’est un pas qui nous a fait entrer dans une terre inconnue. Un pays aux boussoles affolées. Depuis plus de deux-cents ans, tous ceux qui traversent l’Histoire de France et arrivent au moment de la Révolution sont soudain pris de vertige et se perdent dans le labyrinthe du Temps. C’est un problème de perception. Le 21 janvier 1793, Louis XVI a été exécuté, mais il n’est pas mort."
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Demande de destitution du Président Emmanuel Macron en vertu de l’article 68 de la Constitution
À l’attention des parlementaires de l’Assemblée nationale et du Sénat,
Nous, citoyens français, adressons cette demande de destitution du Président …
hunger may no longer be a problem worldwide "poverty" is too relative and subjective a term why does the soil need to be regenerated and is he the only one who can do it? ...
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A hitman of the Russian mafia has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer; he is sent to Berlin to pick up the watch Yuri Gagarin wore on his first flight i...
today's checkin brought him to mind, and now I need to go be a bigger fan because he gets it
Adam Duritz on counting his anxiety in new album : NPR
Duritz: I just felt there was a real callousness in our society towards women — this real arrogant, we-know-what's-best-for-you thought process returning to our culture in the last decade. I mean, obviously it's always been there, but you thought you were moving in a better direction for many years.
Granted, with the MeToo movement, you got a lot of — for the first time — exposing a lot of people who were victimizing women. But at the same time, it also made you realize how prevalent it was. Half of our race, as humans, messed with and abused and taken advantage of and, quite honestly, raped. And then told what to do by the other half. It's attaching a valuelessness to half the population of the world.
I was trying to imagine what it must feel like to be a woman. When power speaks to you as if you don't matter.
Anna Feder is suing Emerson College for firing her over her Palestine activism. She says she will never stop advocating for a free Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/i-was-f…
Newsom wants Federal dollars to clean up State lands by implying the Feds aren't doing their job on Federal lands?
Newsom got $$$ to clean up State lands on Trump's first term.
The CA Taxpayer voted for millions of dollars in bonds to use to prevent wild fires here and the State used it on other issues.
Most Federal lands are not close near towns and settled infrastructure. It is the local greenery, green belts, and crap bushes growing in the "desert areas" of southern CA.
Οι σιωναζί δεν μπορούν να νικήσουν αυτό τον αντάρτη λαό. Τα βίντεο των επιχειρήσεων αποδεικνύουν ότι η Αντίσταση ενδυναμώθηκε με τον καιρό και πλέον πραγματοποιεί επιχειρήσεις που εκπαιδευμένοι επαγγελματικοί στρατοί δεν μπορούν να φέρουν σε πέρας. Παράλληλα τα χτυπήματα αντί να μειώνονται, αυξάνονται. Τόσο σε ποσότητα όσο και σε ποιότητα. eksegersi.gr/diethni/to-psycho…
6 Ιούλ 2025, 11:15 - Εδώ στη γη μου την αγαπημένη, τη γη της απέραντης προσφοράς, συνεχίζω κι εγώ την προσφορά μου. Η προσφορά μου συνεχίζεται στον ίδιο δρόμο και δεν χάνει ποτέ τον προσανατολισμό της.
"Dachau was the first step on the road to atrocity. Will America go there? Eight months ago, I would have said never. At that point, America was still a nation under the rule of law. Now, we have politicians cheering the image of people being fed to alligators" and "selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp."
no, eight months ago America was not a country under the rule of law, and if the author believed that he wasn't paying attention. America ceased to be a country under the rule of law on July 1, 2024, when the supreme Court decided that the president was not bound by law.
There is always the promise of using more computing power for a single task. Your computer has multiple CPUs now, surely. Your video card has even more. Your computer is probably networked to a sle…
Democratic party is essentially dead, so it's possible that he will either trigger a switch of the democratic voter base over to his party and leave the crazies and geriatric leadership out to dry, or else he will use the America Party to threaten the Democratic party so that he's able to buy it out for pennies on the dollar, and then purge leadership and replace them with his own people.
how elon can "buy" a political movement that was hostile to him from the start is rather absurd.
the outer shell of the dem pty may be damaged but the commies never die
after western european commies became disillusioned with the soviets in the 60's, the same commies shifted over to the environmental movement. Elon should read modern european history.
Also see the recent photo of far-right Republican leaders kneeling in prayer together in Congress after Trump's bill was passed. Every week there's another reminder that this authoritarian movement is basically theocratic.
While Trump freezes arms deliveries to #Ukraine due to stockpile shortages, neoliberal warmongering Democrats accuse the #WhiteHouse of lying to camouflage Ukraine dumping. Meanwhile #EU clowns continue to breathe inside their delusional #Brussels bubble, always pretending that they could “intervene” and “solve the problem.”
![Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7913530 "Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference")
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in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •As someone who is forced to use multiple Adobe products at work, I concurr 100%. Adobe are sneaky shitty mcshittersons. And the amount of sneaky shit they sneak into your software is astounding.
The one and so far ONLY thing I have found that any Adobe package still does better than anything else is Acrobat comparing two PDFs.
No idea why my overly religious IT dept. is OK with Adobe crunching our IP in PDF form in their cloud, yet I can't use some foss tool that doesn't leave my PC.
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in reply to Third spruce tree on the left • • •Before I retired from the InfoSec group at the power company I worked at, we were an Adobe shop for decades. We had a lot of critical business processes built-up around Acrobat and other Adobe products. Especially in Supply Chain and Vendor Management.
Then it came down to money. (That and the constant patching.)
Finally the bean counters in IT realized how much money we were throwing away at Adobe and in less than a year we completely switched and re-tooled those business processes to move away.
It wasn't that hard.
Maybe one day your Company's bean counters will see the same light.