This takes me back. I worked for a software company a long time ago that used these types of physical dongles and they would serve two purposes. One to prevent the software from running, and also to store data in one or more registers with more detailed license entitlements beyond just will it run. Like how many client connections are allowed, license expiry, etc. There was a switch to USB based dongles at some point and then software licenses often tied to physical attributes of the server that the software was running on.

Physical dongles remained popular with customers for longer than you would expect mostly in my often air gapped previous industry where the ability to rapidly deploy new hardware in the case of a failed server, transferring a dongle based license was a simple matter of plugging the existing dongle into the new server and you were up and running again. Many soft licenses required internet connectivity or required you to revoke the license from the old server and reassign on the new computer taking into account the new hardware identifiers for locking the license down to the specific server.

I can still hear them rattling about in my top work drawer as I opened and closed them.

Server Bay Watch

True, and both potentially illegal depending on where in the world you live.

They can exit either left or right easily but I wonder what the visibility of oncoming traffic would be given the drivers position seems a little more set back from the lane of traffic versus a traditional park where the driver is directly adjacent the moving traffic lane with mirrors also giving them a clear view.

Need to think outside of the box.

Sounds a bit dicey.

Seems like Maduro was ripe for the taking.

Gotta poke 'em all!

Looks like a specific breed of corn dog, the corn husky.

“The Taco Belle”

You’ve got a friend in Epstein
You’ve got a friend in Epstein
When the road looks rough ahead
Just fake his suicide in his nice prison bed
Just remember what your old pal said
Boy, you’ve got a friend in Epstein
Yeah, you’ve got a friend in Epstein

On the web UI they sneakily slide in the Gemini icon exactly where the settings icon is after about 2 seconds of loading the page which caught me out for the first account I was updating. Really annoying.

Microsoft announced a while back that the end of EWS is coming for exchange online which means M365 accounts. They will start blocking EWS requests from October next year and only support access via Graph API. I understand the Thunderbird team are also working on Graph API support.

EWS EOL

She did wear tight leather pants in an attempt to resemble a Chesterfield leather lounge.

Is that why it is called cross-dressing?

“Don’t hide abuse allegations yourself. We have teams of people to handle that for you. As a senior member of the church you need to be able to delegate.”

“What did you learn at school today champ?”

“D is for cookie, that’s good enough for me
Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with D”

AI Education for American Youth

“All crime in America” should cover content theft by any other model creator.

Does that include the content theft used to train the AI models?