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Comment Can ChatGPT identify text that it authored? (Score 2) 59

If it can't right now, it should be possible to make ChatGPT add a hidden embedded cryptographic signature into the body of the text that would let it be identify it as CGPT sourced and identify the person that requested it. Ideally, even fragments of broken code after editing should make it forensically possible to identify CPGT text.

Comment You'e omitting a step between floppy and thumbs... (Score 1) 134

Before flash drives we had USB CF flash media readers and writers. In late 90s I remember blowing the mind of a fellow at a seminar by copying a 30MB file to a 64MB CD card then moving the reader to his laptop and copying the file. Short of burning a CD, there was no way to do something like that then.

Submission + - Musk gives Twitter employees ultimatum to stay (nytimes.com) 3

smooth wombat writes: The ongoing theater of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter continues unabated. First he fired half of all Twittter employees, then turned around and asked some of them to come back when he realized their experience was needed to keep the lights on. Musk then went on another firing spree by getting rid of 80% of contractors, without notice.

This was followed by his announcement that people would need to pay $8/month to gain the vaunted blue checkmark for account verification, which inevitably led to both outrage by users and a whole host of trolls scooping up celebrity and company names and posting as them. One of those "verified" accounts was Eli Lilly whose stock took a dive when its "verified" account said it would be offering insulin for free.

Stil further, Musk has a serious revenue problem as companies stop buying ad space on Twitter due to Musk's free speech stance which has led to a barrage of hate speech appearing which companies want nothing to do with. However, that free speech apparently does not extend to Twitter employees who corrected Musk on certain topics. Further reports indicate Musk has also fired other employees who corrected him.

Now comes word Musk has given Twitter employees until 5 PM Eastern time to decide if they want to continue working for Twitter (and by extension, him).

Mr. Musk made the announcement in an early morning email to employees on Wednesday; The New York Times obtained the message, which had the subject line “A Fork in the Road.” In the note, Mr. Musk, 51, reiterated that Twitter faced a difficult road ahead and offered employees three months of severance if they did not want to continue working there “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”
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In his note to Twitter employees on Wednesday, Mr. Musk said they would need to work hard — very hard. “In an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” he wrote. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

Engineering would be the primary focus, Mr. Musk added, with design and product management taking a back seat. He included a link to an online form asking employees to confirm their interest in working at Twitter by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday.

Comment It a tug of war between MSFT and OEMs (Score 1) 265

Every major version of Windows has a constituency that drives it's reason for being. In most years new PC OEMs are pushing Microsoft to issue a new Windows as a way to push new PCs and create the impression their old one is obsolete. Win 10 was a bit of an exception as Microsoft worked to try to make as much old hardware viable so gather up that huge existing Win 7 (and smaller Win 8.x) install base by making upgrades doable and giving better perf than those old OSes. And Microsoft was still trying converge tablet users onto a more common interface. However PC OEMs were really unhappy that Microsoft didn't help drive a lot of new PC sales with this universal Win 10 runs on anything philosophy
Win 11 is worst Windows since Vista or ME is a very UN-compelling, problematic version that breaks a lot of things. (Esp UI preferences. For instance, in an era of common 16:9 displays putting your taskbar on the sides (far left for me) makes sense to eat up less of the premium vertical space -BUT Win 11 will not let you move taskbar off the bottom of the screen.). And Microsoft seems to know this so they let OEMs talk them into setting artificial minimum hardware specs like arbitrary cpu gens supported and security features that could have been optional just to force any user that wanted the "new Windows" to buy a new PC.
I imagine after some months when
1) OEMS have squeezed most of those gotta-have-new-Windows buyers into purchasing new hardware and are somewhat sated
and
2) Microsoft starts getting really worried about this low adoption rate ...then MSFT will roll back the requirements for Win 11 to allow most Win10 PCs to upgrade again.
If you don't see this happening, it probably means MSFT realized what a turkey Win 11 is and thinks it can rush a Win 12 into the market within a year or so. We can only hope MSFT repeats the mea culpa of killling the dumb Win 8.x interface elements they abandoned when they made Win 10 more Win7-like and makes Win 12 look more like Win 10 (and as configurable)
It's been disheartening over the last decade how much Microsoft thinks advancing Windows is just jerking users around on the UI without addressing a lot of the fundamental problems that this hairball of an OS has which users don't even know about. After all, where it counts, in Microsoft Azure datacenters, Linux is more used and Windows is drying up. Linux desktops have been better for just about everything for years now except gaming and it's catching up there.
It's only a matter of time before Microsoft inverts WSL and just runs a Win subsystem over Linux and Windows (14? 15?) will just be that layer packaged with a distro (licensing will of course be tricky) - As presciently predicted in this brilliant 2005 Gary Wolf Wired piece)

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