It'd be one thing if ChatGPT was trained on the law, given all jurisprudence to digest (with the ability to restrict everything to a particular country) and able to be directed to lend significant weight to that over any and all other Intarwebbynetz content. It's quite another to include so much of the garbage out there.

Side note: four days ago, someone posted over at that alien site that he'd asked ChatGPT to write a message in the style of a bookFace MLM hun trying to recruit, with emoji. The result was indistinguishable from the real ones. The story grew legs long enough that two days ago the response was a serious message about the dangers of the corrupt business which is MLM.

I want to know which services they were using &/or applications. Either they service (or app) they used has shit "encryption" or there's now more than the last number sieve used by RSA/PGP. Thing is, I'm really glad that criminals are stupid/ignorant. I'm a huge privacy (and Free Speech) advocate, but with some incidents over the past 25 years or and only made possible by breaking encrypted communications (like this kiddie-abusing senior Met officer or [pdf] these shitbag, would-be bombers, and which aren't just dog & pony shows designed to take away more of our rights.

These and others weren't just suspects harassed by police but have been proven cases further investigated and found guilty based on overwhelming evidence, I find myself no longer the complete absolutist I used to be. Which is why I don't know if I want to know what they used for "encryption". Not so much as /.'s ever-beloved security through obscurity so much as the fact smart people will figure it out (and already have) but most criminals are dumb and I don't want to help them.

> People in the science community don't just go, 'Oh that's great!' when some scientist, you know, publishes their results. No, you go in for this big period of peer review. It's got to be vetted and checked.

The science community, sure. And look at how well people are listening to that community and to others actually knowledgeable about anything. You can't get the Dunning-Krugerites out there to pay attention for 30 seconds to listen to driving directions they asked for and you think they'll actually make the effort to vet their spoonfed news provided by companies and orgs with a profit motive to make it as sensational as possible

We'll have those flying cars long before that ever happens.

It wasn't lousy internal security, it was a company violating all terms on a server which is open to the public, which also got its customers to act illegally for it, scraping the content servers for documents, patches and updates which they would then diff and repackage as their own updates. And SAP knew that's what TomorrowNow was doing when they bought them.

The difference between what TomorrowNow did with Siebel software and what Larry did with Red Hat Linux is that RHEL is open; Siebel doesn't have a line of FOSS code in it.

Since the island itself is in the northwest the Conamara (or Connemara) accent is probably the one to use, so it would be OH-lun ree. However, most Irish Gaelic speakers would pronounce it OH-lun r(ue)-ee'. Fun, huh?

People are proud of a 1Mb connection? What's the latency? Even here in Germany a provider would be ashamed to show his face if he couldn't do at least four times that for a fucking rural area!

A year and a half ago, 100 times that speed was considered good and in a year and a half from now Korea expects to have ONE THOUSAND times that fucking speed. I know people in US states who can still only connect with a fucking 33.6Kbaud modem.

Sending multiple 50M aircraft into ash clouds to prove what we already knew: that even a brief encounter with volcanic ash will fuck your turbines up but good. And your surfaces. And your Plexiglass. And your ventilation system. And and and...

A company can require a cert as a condition of employment but if they require maintenance, they must foot the bill for time to learn/study and for the (passed) testing (no paybacks for the failed attempts). It's a matter of "reasonableness", "human rights", working hours laws and social justice, the latter being very important here.

Unless there's something in the contract explicitly putting all the burden on the guy needing certs (nearly impossible and unenforceable), the company pays to maintain. If you think that's bullshit, remember that the company itself profits from that maintenance and a n experienced worker.

I see a commenter who's never been tased.