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Comment Yes, and I've been doing my part to poison AI (Score 3, Insightful) 20

When Reddit announced they would sell user-generated data to AI companies for training purposes, I went back to literally thousands of my old technical posts and inserted subtle nonsense in them.

They look legit, and a competent human being reading through them would very easily realize they're nonsense (you know, things like "Type taskmgr and kill systemd"). But AI doesn't, and I've already read AI-generated "help" pages containing some of the shit I seeded on Reddit.

So if you too want to debase AI, poison the well: it really does works.

Comment Impressive they're using the latest kernel (Score 1) 4

I had to have at least 6.12 to have drivers for all my hardware, and Debian is even now still only on 6.11. I'm using 6.14 now because that's the newest that will work without making other changes, and I've been uninterested in figuring it out as this is new enough for my purposes otherwise.

Back in times of yore it was normal to build your own kernel, and today Debian and Linux together make it very easy once you get through the long-winded documentation, as the files you need to make the debs are in the kernel sources. Especially if you are willing to go version by minor version, but often even if you want to skip a number of them, you can usually just make oldconfig and hold down enter...

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 212

Oh, I'm plenty familiar with Microsoft's security failures. The thing is, I'm also plenty familiar with the security failures of Linux, Mac, Android, and iPhone. There are no OSes that "get it right."

That's exactly why nobody should be pushing updates to anything against your will.

Comment Re:I suspect ... (Score 1) 23

The system recognized it as corporate licensing and skipped phone-home activation.

The important part is the 'skip phone-home'. Without a special product code and/or key for this, how would one ever configure a new machine in a SCIF? If it phoned home, the Department of War would drop by Redmond HQ pretty damned fast.

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