TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt both have published source code, and third-party security audits have been published for both. Neither was found to have any significant flaws and there have been no serious indications of backdoors found in almost 20 years of their availability (first TrueCrypt and later VeraCrypt when it followed TrueCrypt's cancellation).

It was stored in the blockchain, which isn't part of a wallet, and the actual CSAM was limited to at most a handful of small images, with most of it being links to CSAM. If you have a wallet, you probably have at most a couple of megs of data, and that's basically the Bitcoin addresses and associated keys. The blockchain itself is currently over 500GB, and there is little need for most people to download significant portions of it, with even that just the most recent parts.

Obama commuted Manning's sentence. Manning did not receive a pardon and still has a felony record.

I asked it to create an image of an eVTOL flying car in flames.

It responded:

Of course *EVERYONE* who sees an image of a flying car in flames will be "inspired" to recreate that scene in real life.

What are you smoking BARD?

We are all such snowflakes that we must be protected from evil images of scenes that may become commonplace in the not-so-distant future :-(

We recommend using a .22 calibre firearm if you plan to commit suicide. It discharges a less harmful bullet than larger calibres but is still more than enough to kill you.

Sounds straight forward but any time there's mention of an obelisk you should always check for an asterisk (in case there are special conditions that apply) :-)

"...Although I am unable to go into specifics, we had to evaluate our priorities and had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the service."

"Sensors detect Microsoft OneDrive contract, Captain..."

Narrator: "It was not, in fact, cheaper to host their files in The Cloud."

Technically, it's a violation at one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Few police are that strict, but some are or can be when they're in a bad mood. Many people believe that there is a 10% cushion in the law, but I know of at least one person who was ticketed for going 1-2 MPH over in IIRC a 65 MPH zone (the judge threw it out when the person took it to trial).

It's fairly well known throughout the US that if you're driving through small towns in rural areas, you need to pay close attention to the speed limit signs (which are not always properly maintained), as local cops will often write tickets for out-of-towners for just going a couple of miles over the limit, knowing that the chance of it getting fought in court are limited.

If you claim it as your own interpretation of Satchmo's work, then no, though you might be on the hook for royalties if you too closely follow his work. It gets a lot fuzzier if you're trying to claim that it is what he would have done if he were still alive.

Don't count out the ability of sports leagues to contract Netflix to lock out anyone who had a billing address within the blackout zone in the last 90 days.

Disney, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon all have ratings and profiles can be locked to certain maximum ratings. It doesn't matter if they make an X-rated MCU film; if the kids' profiles are set to cap out at something less than PG, they're not going to get a single swear word other than maybe a rare hell or damn.

Of course it will go elsewhere, but more of it will stay in the pockets of patients, who will spend it on more useful things than the hospitals and drug companies will spend it on.

Good luck to you, whatever path you get.

Fuck cancer.

A cancer treatment that costs mere thousands of dollars is far cheaper than any other actual cancer treatment out there right now. The article mentions that each vaccine is made specifically for each patient (they have to get something from the patient's own cancer cells), so just the development is going to cost some money.

But since cancer typically means tens to hundreds of thousands (and occasionally millions) of dollars in treatment, this could be not game-changing not only in terms of health but for the actual economy. The US currently spends over $200 billion just on cancer treatments every year, and that doesn't count lost wages for those with cancer or those who are supporting them. The US GDP in 2023 was around $27 trillion, meaning that we're spending almost 1% of the GDP on cancer treatments alone. That's a lot of money to go cycling back into the economy.

I've been publishing my daily blog for almost 30 years on my own website -- hand-coded HTML (with all the associated errors).

It still has its own small community of followers and allows me to say what I want, how I want to, when I want to. I don't have to worry about upsetting some mega-corp that is engaged in full-on virtue-signalling and therefore shadow-bans my content or even cancels me completely. The freedom is fantastic -- even though most of my commentary is related to matters of technology and science.

There is still a place for individual websites in this world of X/Meta/YouTube/Tiktok/whatever.