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Just as an interesting tidbit while we here are talking about UK companies it doesn't even exist in the US. The SCOTUS said so:

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354

I do not trust the current tech bros at all for very, very good reasons even with the current so called "AI" much less with AGI. We shouldn't work towards that until we have fixed the incentives and ethics. This is very hard but think any dystopia and multiply it by a thousand if we were to reach AGI any time soon. Luckily we are not. As Doctorow put it, no matter how good you breed horses they won't give birth to a locomotive.

It's good that it's not cross platform, we do not need any more product monopolies, we have enough. Still there's a chance this will hurt the password manager market which leads to an even better outcome: we still have a monopoly but it doesn't make the product available on platforms most people use.

You'd try Bitwarden...

Well, that's fairly self evident. It's not like we are auditing thousands of lines of code: ssh.Dial("tcp", serverName, config)

the tricky part , really , is the syntax for ssh config but again that's easy to understand even if it's very hard to write.

well, it's client. What could go wrong? I mean, it might not connect, right? I did understand it to some degree.

Well, we are currently at the "we tried nothing and we are out of ideas" stage so something needs to change.

When I was coding https://stackoverflow.com/a/77210784/308851 well, I had no idea how to open an SSH connection using go, I barely knew basic Go so I asked ChatGPT. The meat of the SSH connecting code is still pretty much ChatGPT written (bad chx!) but it contained a couple defers like defer session.Close() which I needed to understand and remove before it became usable as a utility function. I did search for ssh.PublicKeysCallback(agent.NewClient(sshAgent).Signers) to see whether others use it and I found they do and their code was very similar so I decided to trust ChatGPT code even if I only understood it enough to understand but not enough to write similar code. It's just an SSH connection, the risk is quite low, the expected result of bogus code is just not working, I wouldn't expect subtle errors here. The rest of the logic is hand written, though.

It's not specific to deep learning, practically every industry will look at security as a cost just not worth it. When we start throwing the CEO into jail instead of making them pay a 18.5M fine for losing the data of 41 million customers that's when things will change. Until then, it's just the cost of doing business.

Yeah but they just added

> through both automated and manual methods ...

to how they access content and everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that automated means LLM training.

That might be the change but the problem is 4.2 let me quote in full

> Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate as intended, such as enabling you to share photos with others. Separately, section 4.6 (Feedback) below covers any Feedback that you provide to us.

If Adobe says, training an AI on subscriber content would improve Adobe service then IANAL but I think this section gives them the right and then said AI might leak creative content. Further since they can sublicense to say OpenAI, hell knows what happens to it once they do.

Hungary, Budapest has been running battery augment trolleybuses since 2005. They are super handy if you need to divert them for any reason and also it allows for more flexible routing but their range is quite limited, only 4km.

They also experimented with a few electric buses and that also had range problems but much more importantly they realized if they had hundreds of buses charging overnight it would be a significant strain on the electricity system. Distributing the buses throughout the system and their charging in time by charging them at stops would be a solution to this.

Someone needs to keep the ember of sanity burning in this vast darkness

There is a massive difference between switching on your new laptop and having a flaming big "look how cool recall is, do you want to switch it on? No? Are you sure" versus finding recall.ai or openrecall.

It is much the same with airtag.

Yes, much as airtag was sheer moral panic.

Techbros never admit their myopic view.

Probably the Sicilian mob too. So what? Criminal enterprises do not count.

But this article is about market cap not revenue. But even revenue is almost meaningless for the things you mention -- it's profit per employee which would be interesting. And for that, tech companies are nowhere near the top.

Check this https://airleasecorp.com/press/air-lease-corporation-announc... they made 753.6M in 2023 with 163 employees or 4.6M per employee. No one comes even close. No one.

I believe Fannie Mae is the second who made 17400 with 8100 people or 2.17M per employee.

To compare, nVidia made 4368 with 29600.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

This is nothing.

An abusive spouse will easily switch it to on. It's very likely Windows will downright push you to do so anyways.

How does Microsoft intend to mitigate that harm?

Because AirTags worked out just fine:

> AirTags have been a tool for stalkers and domestic abusers since Apple launched them in 2021. Police records show that this is a problem, and the legal system has failed women who were targeted by stalkers using AirTags. There have been several instances where AirTag stalking has turned violent, and in at least two cases, resulted in the tracker murdering their target.

https://www.404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c3-4101-b2b4-2c9a64...

How many women will beaten and murdered because of Recall? Why is it that Microsoft reacts to software security concerns but not to the concerns of women?

whao talk about gaslighting

that's not what gp said

> it's insane that there are zero governments in the entire world

He said the subset of governments for which it is true they uphold full bodily autonomy is the empty set.

He did not state anything about a country not having a government

No, it's not, read Jorge Stolfi on this. While he insists the scam should be called a Ponzi, I am not sure of that , but the name doesn't change anything at all, we could call it a Nakamoto scheme as Preston Byrne did to avoid that particular debate.

The fundamental benefit of crypto is to enrich those who collect transaction fees. There's nothing else.

This is your reminder that every crypto"currency" using a transaction fee is fundamentally a scam and everything that is happening using them is merely hype to get you involved in them.

> reinstall extensions

I've done this journey. This step is exceptionally difficult, sometimes impossible. https://github.com/exile-center/better-trading

And it's even more difficult because I can't find a link to the original store page from an addon within firefox so I can't easily share my findings. https://i.imgur.com/zh2M9YA.png I do not see a link. Perhaps fixing that should have been a priority for Mozilla instead of a bullshit alt generator but it's AI so of course it's got priority. Instead of doing everything in their power to grow their market share ... spreadfirefox reboot when.

Run Crysis :P

Every app there are gets worse and worse -- aka Doctorow's enshittification

So people will just take the sudden deluge of ads in stride and move on. Chances of this moving people to Firefox is slim.

QA costs money. Why would you spend that money? The clients are captive: replacing the system would mean replacing every room lock which is serious cost and hassle.

You contradict yourself: first you blame Windows then you blame clueless people.

Here's the truth: for any organization the most secure operating system is the one your people have experience in. That's it. Good Windows sysadmins can run a secure Windows shop and bad Linux sysadmins can run an insecure Linux shop. It's the people.

the techbros downvoting this without leaving a comment as to where I am wrong just demonstrates how right it is :D

Impressed? Here are few things that impressed me in the long decades since I am online.

In 1995 we discussed the HP48G calculator on Usenet and Dave Arnett who designed the calculator chimed in.

When my uncle left illegally Hungary in 1981 for the US, communication was sparse. We went to my grandmother for Sunday lunch and wrote a letter, together. Answers came in like two months. End of the 1980s phone calls began to happen but supremely expensive and short. By the time my grandfather passed in 2011 at the tender age of 98 he spent easily an hour every day video calling over Skype for free with his son.

I wintered out in Israel in 2007. It was almost impossible for me to get around on public transit as I do not read Hebrew. I also spent more than a week at the turn of 2015/2016 in Israel: Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, Avdat, Mitzpe Ramon, Eilat. I used public transit for all that, thanks to the smartphones with GPS and maps and real time transit instructions it was trivial.

I am easy to impress. You just need to knock down barriers of communication.

On the other hand, I can't say I was impressed by https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ -- I surely was entertained, no question about that.

When these LLMs roared onto the scene I was neither impressed nor was I entertained. I was frightened. Nothing has happened since which would have proven us wrong, to the contrary. Australia leads the way by banning deepfake porn. More of that please, most especially ban the use of deepfakes of people who run in elections and the mass generation of texts about those.

As an aside, I enjoy the translate-in-camera functionality of smartphones very much so I am not against all AI -- it just needs to be used wisely.