Authoritarianism is available in many flavors throughout the world.
The best flavor is whichever one is most compatible with a nation's culture. And by compatible, I mean keeps them pacified. Here in the good old USA, we tend to go for an approach where the majority of people are certain they live in a free country and that nobody is trying to take everything away from them. (except for those rotten immigrants)
I think we can agree that Anthropic intentionally hides things, even if an LLM may not have been trained to hide things.
I understand the broad strokes even if I couldn't build a car or AI myself.
My understanding of how toilet paper is made is even less clear, so I avoid it entirely.
Yes, I agree, but the last 6 years in particular has seen the shit added to the show exponentially.
You have a short memory. This shit show isn't worse than the past. MS very much pushed out colossally fucked up updates, even back in the XP days. Heck back then, before the days of automated recovery processes shit was MUCH worse. There were actual updates that may have forced you to go looking for your Windows XP install disc to fix.
I remember XP days when our Conference rooms had a moratorium on the day after Patch Tuesday. Something was always broken. If someone really really needed to have a meeting on "Dead computer Wednesday" , I had a special computer that was isolated from Patch Tuesday. IT didn't want to do that, but I told them they had a choice. Let me have that computer, or I'd have them come up and fix the one in the conference room. They were deathly afraid of Mahogany Row.
I never said Microsoft had it all together. What I said was that it's a fantasy to assume that Linux is inherently more secure. It tends to have fewer exploits in the wild because hackers, when given a choice between going after 60% of the desktop market, and going after 5% of the desktop market, will nearly always choose the 60% piece of the pie. It's just not profitable enough to go after a tiny sliver of the market.
Hold on a second Tony. You used a security flaw in Linux as proof it was as insecure as Windows. Now you say it isn't a large enough share to care about.
Which is it - dnd why haven't this equally insecure OS been exploited with Apache servers, or Chrome, or Android, or Mac.
Once you have all of the Unix and Unix variants, the bad guys would be fools not to exploit that - especially since the meme is that Mac Users are stupid. I know a little bit about Linux and Unix, and they strike me as more secure in general. What is it in the OS that makes them equally vulnerable? Keeping in mind that there is no such thing as a totally secure OS.
But it is also generally more secure, outside of its obscurity
This is a fantasy not substantiated by evidence. Heartbleed--a Linux vulnerability in an open source library--was lying in plain sight for years before some hacker discovered it, and it was exploited in the wild for years before anybody discovered the attack.
I love how people defend Windows by pointing out a flaw in Linux as proof.
Sir, there is no such thing as a completely secure Operating system. But Is the plethora of Windows exploits because it is more secure?
Finally, I don't care - I prefer to use an OS with less exploits because I'm ore about fewer exploits, not the most "popular" OS. I want to get work done.
It's important to never be the only one who can do something. If you need someone on call, have a rotation, and trade if you can't do yours. No one should be on call 24/7. If no else can do what you can do, then you haven't done a good job of training or documenting.
I agree in principle, but there are other issues at play, at least in my personal approach. Some are a personal issue, some are an organizational. issue.
I attempted to mentor people, Accounting said it didn't have the overhead. My supervisor didn't fight that. Even after I was called back as an emergency hire - seems the idea was just for me to carry on and magic would happen.
I'm considered a perfectionist - being considered perfectionist has become a negative trait in the mid 2020's. Frankly, I find that not impressive. I get an endorphin buzz when doing excellent work and on time. But let's just assume it is a personality flaw.
I'm competitive and driven. Also considered a flaw in the mid 2020's.
What is worse, my analysis of those who believe it is a flaw may be correct, but I know a lot of people who hide behind that as a covert expression of their inadequacies. But whatever let's just say a lot of people believe that success is doing as little as possible
Another thing is that I will not lower my standards. So I retired from there. All isn't bad though - My new position pays a lot more, I'm highly respected, and the perks are great. A lotta swag, an office with floor to ceiling glass and a million dollar view, all high quality meals, all part of the compensation package.
AI slop articles that get summarized into yet more AI slop. I doubt many humans read this stuff.
It doesn't affect text so ctrl F still works. The rest can be mitigated by supplying element sizes in the HTML.
The Privacy Act of 1974 technically restricts what personally identifable information (PII) a federal agency can collect and retain. I would be OK extending this to state and local agencies. That would potentially give us a way to go after state laws that require age verfication in devices and operating systems. But it seems that there is no political will to pump the brakes on the surveillance state.
We've had averaging speed cameras in the UK for many years (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Many stretches of road with permanent cameras and often seen on major roadworks (e.g. sections of motorway being worked on for months).
Waze maps them as averaging sections with specific camera sites, so it's still useful.
In many countries including the UK, speed camera locations are public knowledge, the locations are published and there aren't that many mobile cameras (and they're housed in giant Transit vans). I don't bother with anything like Waze simply because the cameras are bright yellow boxes on the top of poles or huge transit vans with police markings. You can spot them a mile away and if you cant, you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive.
You’re not wrong. Remember when they kept saying Kamala would start a war?
Now the orange tub of shit started one himself and it’s totally different and necessary. They also all of a sudden care about the people of Iran.
I figured out years ago that what the far right claims the other side is going to do (or doing) is exactly what they intend to do.
Your good nature will bring you unbounded happiness.
