Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.

In theory.

If you follow actual notability discussions, they are largely about "this isn't important".

The deletionists are one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. It's not like you need to fit into a 20-volume print edition, idiots. You can give every damn porn star who's been in one clip you liked their own page, why not everyone else? For all I care, every human on the planet could have their own page, and every house with a story, and every dog and cat.

Just imagine if the amount of time and energy spent on the deletion discussions alone would go into improving WP instead.

Or, you know, you could use the time to do something about the people hogging their favorite page and considering it their property and reverting everyone else's edits just because it wasn't made by them. Or one of the other dozen issues the site has. But no, whether or not Xav deserves a page, that's what needs discussion. Fuck off.

Headline from 1845.

Indeed. If they are stupid enough, this may be the point where the deadly mistakes happen.

Hahahha, no. Well, the stupid ones do. But the rest is very suspicious about this tech.

Cisco software and firmware is notoriously insecure. While LLMs will probably make that worse (and there is no way to do it with actually competent review in a few weeks), it may not be that much worse. Of course, "Comprehension Debt" (where nobody really knows the code anymore, and hence nobody can fix vulnerabilities) could still make this a total catastrophe.

This guy will now say anything, regardless how stupid.

I was occasionally looking at things there, but that has become a non-option now.

And the LLM assholes fully deserve that. The rest of the AI field, not at all.

Not my experience.

No argument about that. Blockchains have good uses.

Indeed. Although the Swiss system has some real safeguards in place and cannot be corrupted by a single person put in power by voter failure.

Ok, thanks. I agree that all these are annoying. While it is not actually a lot of work, the memories of it not working stay with you. Of course, if you are not an expert, this can be a lot of work.

As SPF provides no real security advantage (and DKIM, DMARC and ARC do not either), I only add something when needed to get email accepted on the other end. The only thing that actually provides security is PGP and that is not part of the mail transfer system.

If you cannot rely on PGP, yes, then you want them all. But do not expect them to do much.