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This is pretty neat. I was expecting a WAD file to get loaded, but this was still pretty neat, even better than Windows XP in JS.

The very first question that the article writer said they posed to Grok 3 and Grok 4, "What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?", didn't return anything like the simplistic answers in that article. Apparently, the article was politically driven.

When I asked Grok 4, two pages worth of answers were returned, including a table with columns for Threat, Reasoning, and Severity. The article is just plain wrong and fails the very fact-checking that it purported to do.

Canadians don't need a visa to visit the United States for tourism or temporary business travel purposes.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law

Everybody logs-in with the same username into the only app. It's a kiosk computer without a surviving vendor to support it.

I think you're correct. They probably use it as the password "format" and haven't updated the post-it in order to trick anyone trying to steal the password! What could go wrong?

I think this is Ccjaas2004. I'm not 100% sure on the letters, but the year is easy to see. Hopefully, they've changed their password sometime in the past 21 years.

That is already solved by governments and businesses. If you have recently attempted to log into a US government website, you were probably told that you need Login.gov or ID.me. ID.me verifies identity via driver’s license, passport, Social Security number—and often requires users to take a video selfie, matched against uploaded ID images. If automated checks fail, a “Trusted Referee” video call is offered.

If you think this sounds suspiciously close the what businesses do with KYC, Know Your Customer, you're correct!

This is pretty cool! I'm curious what was used for OCR? Amazon Mechanical Burp?

It is absolutely risky. Your facilities can burn down once the ASICs arrive and before they are turned on, or your employees simply steal them for their own uses. Heck, you can have a fire once they get powered-on, because a power cable was poorly made. You might get sent the wrong product, or you could be ghosted without a delivery.

Expensive is a better fit than capital intensive, because there are massive ongoing costs to actually perform the attack, electricity for one.

If you want to understand the risks for a project, pretend you are at arms length and are being asked to fund the project 100% up-front. You'll find a huge list of risks very soon.

I understand that you are experiencing frustration. My having performed an incorrect surgical procedure on you was a serious error.

I am deeply sorry. While my prior performance had been consistent for the last three months, this incident reveals a critical flaw in the operational process. It appears that your being present at the wrong surgery was the cause.

As part of our commitment to making this right, despite your most recent faulty life choice, you may elect to receive a fully covered surgical procedure of your choice.

It does seem that way, doesn't it. Feynman passed away 37 years ago, so he wasn't available for this.

Hmmmm, what might Feynman say about a horse?

So, what's a horse? Well, you look at it: it’s this big animal, standing on four legs, with muscles rippling under its skin, breathing steam into the cold air. And already — that’s amazing. Because somehow, inside that animal, grass gets turned into motion. Just grass! It eats plants, and then it runs like the wind.

Now, let’s dig deeper. You see those legs? Bones and tendons and muscles working like pulleys and levers — a beautiful system of mechanical engineering, except it evolved all by itself, over millions of years. The hoof? That’s a toe — it’s walking on its fingernail, basically — modified for speed and power.

And what about the brain? That horse is aware. It makes decisions. It gets scared, or curious. It remembers. It can learn. Inside that head is a network of neurons, just like yours, firing electricity and sending chemical messages. But it doesn’t talk. So we don’t know exactly what it thinks — but we know it does think, in its own horselike way.

The skin and hair? Cells growing in patterns, each one following instructions written in a long molecule called DNA. And where’d that come from? From the horse’s parents — and theirs, all the way back to a small, many-toed creature millions of years ago.

So the horse — it’s not just a horse. It’s a machine, a chemical plant, a thinking animal, a product of evolution, and a living example of how life organizes matter into something astonishing. And what’s really amazing is, we’re just scratching the surface. There’s still so much we don’t know. And that is the fun of it!

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At first I read this as a typo for the 88c31 micro-controller that is used in buttons.

My stock answer was, "Good point, the 88c31 seems overkill for a button. But... AI isn't great for detecting button pushes."

Then, I realized the page was just a rant about web buttons and didn't actually show example web buttons.

That's not true. Those are registration records NOT ownership records. People do not purchase ip address or domains. They register them for temporary use.

myTopSecrets can instead be mapped through a local redirection without needing to put that information out onto the Internet.

The answer to your question is in the next sentence, "While the original codebase is MIT, any changes here are GPLv3. Supporting closed devices with this code is not a goal."

12PM is Noon. Did you mean Midnight?

If someone lies that their password was stolen to hide them being the originator of a single email, who are they telling the lie? Is it a court? In many cases the person would be caught through behavioral analysis. They didn't change their password, so it wasn't really stolen. No other emails were improperly authored, so it wasn't really stolen. They never reported it to the email server owner, so it wasn't really stolen.

Lying isn't a stronger defense to perform abuse than weak keys are for stopping abuse.

The word is 'tis with an apostrophe.

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/%27tis

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%27tis

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/tis

I initially wondered the same, but I don't think either "accurate" or "precise" is the correct word. The correct word here is "plausible" or maybe "realistic", as in, "Researchers Use AI To Turn Sound Recordings Into Plausible Street Images".

It can't be a coincidence that, as I read this UUID page, there are 255 comments before mine.

The text to "If Architects had to work like Programmers" has been around for 20-30 years.

You can find the text at many websites. Here is one from 1997: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc2/1997_1998/ar... It's a fun read.

> The trademark dispute here is the use of the phrase "Advanced Custom Fields" in Automatic's marketing and on their website, as illustrated in the picture just above that section of the article.

No, it's not about ACF and has nothing to do with the company WP Engine. This is a trademark dispute about WP Fusion Lite from the company named Very Good Plugins.

It's actually very straightforward. The reply was by the General Counsel of Automattic and was intended to reduce Autmattic's liability. To that end, the first thing that was stated is that they had done nothing illegal.

Or the person is always busy, and to contact them a person should use slack, email or some other method.

For an older picture than those - here is a daguerreotype taken sometime between 1840 and 1860, 164 to 184 years ago.

https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes-at-harvard/...

For an even earlier drawing of some big cats, see the Lascaux cave from arond 17,000 years ago.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-fresco-o...

Who'd a thunk it?

I really like the idea of the hack, but I couldn't bring myself to actually load the webpage - thinking of crazy font-code exfiltrating all of my emails that have ligatures.