I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

Came for this comment.

AI is poo.

You're reading my mind. FWIW I've been loving Go the past few years.

Ob: "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."

When I subscribe to internet service, it is offered at various 'speeds'. When I pick an item off a restaurant menu, I get a certain amount of food.

ISP want to then charge you extra for finishing the full plate they've served you. Yes, you ordered that off the menu, but you're only allowed to eat, say, 25% of it.

If you're a modest consumer of data, then get a lower speed, and get a lower rate. But letting ISPs charge double for bandwidth, first in the monthly fee for the data rate, and then on usage for actually *gasp* USING THE BANDWIDTH, is just bait & switch. If a Restaurant tried to charge us extra for finishing the plate of food we ordered, we'd all laugh in their faces.

Somehow, for ISPs, it's different....

Don't use the app, it tracks all your accounts. Instead use Reddit in a browser with uBlock Origin. Otherwise it is insufferable.

DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

Being ordered by a court to do something doen't make Apple a part of that something. What it does mean is Apple has to respond to court orders, and typically the US Courts find there is no user privacy right in data held by a third-party provider. When Apple is subpoenaed for the contents of an iCloud account, they legally have to turn over that data.

But Apple has made design decisions that have reduced the visibility of data in the cloud, as over time Apple has encrypted more of it when it's sent to their servers from user devices. But Apple has been moving to protect more user data, instead of leaving protections as-is. Apple led a change of the needle on messaging security, as other platforms have worked to catch up to the end-to-end encryption of iMessage.

It may be that the US Government sees getting iMessage to use the same color for iMessage & SMS as a way to help keep people on older, more spying-friendly systems...well, at least the dumb criminals.

The US Government at various levels has been rattling the saber at Apple for a long time, long before quantum-secure key exchange was a thing. But Apple has been a consistent thorn in the side of American law enforcement, as they have legally demonstrated they cannot recover data from a locked iPhone. The curious bit of the timing may be more about Apple getting an improvement out ahead of concerns that the government could compel them not to.

The US Government's investigative agencies want access to iMessage conversations. That's just within DOJ. It doesn't require any coordination with multiple agencies. It's the DOJ potentially aiming to get a consent decree that lets other services federate with iMessage, including their own servers that could try to intercept (and decrypt) data in flight.

The DOJ's competence is getting court orders to tell companies to help. Apple has been good at delivering systems they can show to a court and legitimately say, "sorry, nothing we can do, it's about the security." Apple's own commentary about how opening up would weaken security could simply have been chum for the DOJ's staff.