Elon Musk predicts that optional work is the future in the next 10-20 years and that AI will make work unnecessary and money meaningless. But what do the experts say?
Source: Optional Work Could Be Yours In 10 To 20 Years, Elon Musk Predicts
Except that as Mr Musk is heavily invested in AI, it is likely the narrative will align with his business interests first. Money cannot become meaningless, unless Musk proves he can live without his.
Another snag I’ve run into while using Mu4e was that sometimes I also use Apple’s Mail on macOS and iOS and any messages I delete there would only be flagged as “trashed” in Mu4e, so they would show up in the inbox, cluttering things considerably. The fix for this was to set Expunge Both in my .mbsyncrc file. Also much better! That one has been bugging me for a long time.
As with all its services, Apple offers no real troubleshooting when iCloud Drive synchronization stalls in macOS. Glenn Fleishman encountered a problem that took months to diagnose and fix. In the process, he went through the wringer of trying nearly everything suggested online, via Apple support, and from colleagues. In the end, the magic that fixed it was undisclosed engineers.
Source: Cloudy with a Chance of Insanity: Unsticking iCloud Drive – TidBITS
Reddit threadsters are suggesting that certain 5400rpm 8TB Western Digital drives are actually rotating faster, at 7200rpm, and using startup sound profiles to back up their claims. There are a group of reddit threads, like this one by u/sbjf, saying WD 8TB EMAZ and EZAZ drives, used in WD’s Elements and My Book external storage…
via What madness is this? WD 5400 rpm 8TB drives sound like faster 7200 rpm spinners — Blocks and Files
Email rcv’d this morning:
Hi, My name is Oksana and i’m writing you to tell you that you are super cute
GREAT! GO ON…
from your photos on Facebook. I myself am from Russia
DAMN! ?
A tweet was recently posted featuring an advert claiming Firefox is the better browser in terms of respect for privacy:
Shots firedfox pic.twitter.com/yaKS2hwOyS
— Kit (@meatcomputer) July 2, 2017
Sadly, this isn’t the case, as this Pale Moon update clearly describes:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=16154&p=117375#p117375
So, if you use #Firefox, best to expect information leakage back to #Google anyway. If you value your privacy and want a functional browser, check out Pale Moon!
