To be fair your link does say "designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions", so it sounds like SSH, work VPNs, banking etc. don't count because they aren't designed to get around the porn filters.

It still seems pointless because most of the VPN services are based outside the US for legal reasons anyway.

They could, but probably the only real reason why they maintained access to the ISS is because they get paid for it, and because they wanted to keep their independent capability alive. Aside from those reasons, they probably aren't all that interested in going there.

Must keel Moose and Squirrel!"

Holistically, not technically.

Looks like an abbreviated version. I wonder what is in the 0.0057142857143 OR SO that they are leaving out.

Corollary: the older I get, the dumber I feel.

How they keep track of the differences between 6.18 and 6.17.

Do they consider it a "big" difference? What IS considered a "big" difference?

It's amazing to me that they can keep track of all this shit at all, to be honest. So much detail and specificity!!!

Geniuses, all of them.

Lots of VPNs are free.

Many others accept Bitcoin.

Getting a VPN without a bank account is trivial.

What does using a vpn have to do with having a bank account?

I did too, but mostly as a mechanism to collect passwords and then use them to log into other systems. I was a nasty little shit.

People reusing passwords goes back a long way too.

Far more likely because it isn't social media.

Neither is a phone call.

Neither is standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, declaring to "love someone a long time" or "sucky sucky".

Eh, make that $370K, do a third Calin's more like $125k or so, tax free, when sold at 1/3 value.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that OpenAI and its competitors are trying to do the right thing here and make their AIs as harm-free as possible.

Not everyone will be that responsible, however. Now that it has been demonstrated that a suitably sycophantic AI can compromise the psyches of significant numbers of people, it's only a matter of time before various bad actors start weaponizing their own AI models specifically to take advantage of that ability. "Pig butchering" will be one of the first job categories to be successfully replaced by AI. :/

Someone around me recently stole an entire truckload of chicken eggs. I think the value was over $1M. They never did find the eggs or the egg thieves, as far as I can remember.

Are you crazy?

Red Bull is at least $3/can.

A trailer full of Red Bull is about 70,000 cans. That's around $200K.

Sell for 1/3rd value and you have a good year's tax-free salary from one truckload.