This is your brain on #ai: "Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display Your non-personal data for its business purposes."
Someone out there wrote "as a user I want my printer to steal my documents to train LLMs" without hesitation.<…
No - they’re in the “trying different ways to rip you off” business.
“HP is in the rent-a-printer business now”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/2/24088867/hp-all-in-plan-printer-rental-instant-ink
HP OmniBook 800CT (release date: 1996) with built-in mouse - cool piece of computers history
#HP
VoilŠ le but de HP et pourquoi il ne faut plus leur donner un centime !
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/
My brother pointed me to this entertaining but also cuttingly accurate essay
Goodbye to Publications, by Bert-Jaap Koops
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15751/10284
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Finally started work on the new #Pathfinder Second Edition character sheet. I'm trying to keep the same feel as the one I made for first edition, but since they are significantly different so will be the layout. The goal is to keep the first page very dense info-wise while still keeping it readable. #ttrpgs
The USPTO is hiring utility patent examiners: https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?l=&l=&a=CM56&hp=public&k=patent examiner&p=1
@… FreeBSD can not boot a slightly different G10:
https://codeberg.org/grahamperrin/freebsd-src/issues/8
8 - Boot failure on HP Eli…
HP reports Q1 revenue down 4.4% YoY to $13.19B, vs. $13.56B est., Personal Systems revenue down 4% YoY to $8.8B, and Printing revenue down 5% YoY to $4.4B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-misses-firs…