> may get back some surprises along with the files you expect - older files revealed in the sediment
One time a customer brought their computer in. She had wiped and reloaded the system through the recovery partition and didn't understand the big red text stating that all of her data would be removed.
I let her know we might be able to recover some of the data. She agreed that only the photos were important, so I let PhotoRec do its thing.
A few hours later, a panicked husband called worried his wife would find porn in the recovery. We charged him extra to clean up what was basically junk from the Internet Explorer cache. Not an extortionate amount, but extra. I think we could have asked for anything at that moment.
Ah ah I was asked by my boss to repair his work laptop after windows shat itself, and the porn stash was one of the first thing to become restored among his work documents
> My experience is that most people don't actually know what they want. Or they don't understand what goes into what they want.
1000%. This is why people whose job it was to figure out how to make a thing are thriving with AI tools, and those who operate in the conceptual/abstract are flailing and frustrated with it. (it really is a mirror in this case, and the frustration they have is unknowingly directed at themselves)
They're shutting down Sora, not AI-generated video.
From the article: "OpenAI […] is not getting out of the AI video business (AI video is one of many tools that can take form in the ChatGPT app), of course, but it appears the standalone Sora app will be a casualty of its evolving ambitions."
Dunno, from the WSJ scoop: "CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either."
If they were just shutting down the dedicated app and offering the same capabilities in the ChatGPT interface, I don't see why Disney would exit their deal?
Because Disney's deal was specifically and exclusively related to Sora, which was OpenAI's bizzare attempt at a TikTok like social networking site but using AI generated videos.
It was not a deal that allowed the use of Disney's characters for general purpose AI generated content using OpenAI tools.
Join clubs / sign up for recurring things* that interest you and keep showing up.
Odds are there are at least a handful of people like you in those groups … and odds are that the everyone else connections to people who could be your contacts.
Just by being there regularly, you become "one of the people in tech I know" of everyone else. And connections and opportunities start magically coming your way.
*It does help if these are the types of things that attract energetic, helpful, confident people.
My original comment was just a counterpoint to the doom in parent: not all is lost, and in fact, quite a lot is not.
The situation of “things we care about are far away and require intermediaries to connect with” and “our ability to trust intermediaries is gone” are both human creations, and totally addressable.
Talk to anyone from the midwest about not owning a car and they'll laugh you out of the room.
Well, unless it's because youre proposing they switch to ATV's and Snowmobiles, in which case there some people can technically get by without a traditional automobile.
As another commenter noted, create an exact dupe/image of the volume as the very first thing you do.
Also: if it doesn't successfully retrieve files on the first go, try another configuration. I think it took me 3 attempts to get it right.
A fun perk, also noted in the article: you may get back some surprises along with the files you expect - older files revealed in the sediment!