or Nash Equilibrium. If EU wants to get away from MS and GOP's flakey tribalism, they have to agree to all (or most) moving at once, and accept a learning curve.
I'd go with Nash Equilibrium here. DVORK is not inherently better than QWERTY for typing speed, although it is less prone to causing RSI. The big downside is the learning curve and making shortcuts like Ctrl-V harder to press.
To that one user: "Tough shit. You're getting and using the updated software or you can find yourself a new job." Assuming you have that power, of course.
User: The annual report is nit ready because IT forced a software update and it broke the report generation. I tried to warn them but they did it anyway...
No browser is going to bring back the good old days.
I want Ludwig Plutonium, AFU, Kibo, Serdar Argjic and the Zumabots, Ted Frank, and Joel Furr vs. The Green Card Lawyers...
These organizations are offloading their technology deficiencies onto the poor and incapable user.
I, as a seasoned professional that has seen every trick email that has ever been sent, cannot determine if certain messages are malicious or not. The users will never be able to do it themselves. And punishing them, whether that's reprimand, scolding, mocking, making them resit training, is NOT the right way to do it.
Exactly. IT orgs should put defenses in place to catch the majority of fishing emsils, using sender info,AI to recognize patterns etc. You won’t catch everything but can greatly reduce the chan crew s they get through.
I use AirBNBs as locations to produce adult content. I'm not joking.
An AirBNB is perfect for my needs; it's a literal godsend. I want a clean home-like setting that is relatively generic and free from personal items, that also doesn't look like a hotel and can be unique for the amount of content being produced there. I believe this is a relatively common practice.
That being said, I bring my own bedding, towels, pillows, cleaning products and tools and I take my trash with me when I leave and dispose of it elsewhere. I am conscientious that I'm staying at another individual's property.
In one case, I found out the property owner was still home, in his basement, while I was working with performers upstairs. He wanted to know what we were doing and didn't actually have a problem with it, but talking with him informed what I should do going forward. Even if I wasn't responsible for messy human activities, I'd still choose to leave as little work as I can for service staff.
I realize that many AirBNBs are owned by property management services and in some cases even hotel groups, but what I'm paying for is exactly the thing I want: clean and not-a-hotel.
You know you don't have to install Adobe Reader, right?
FWIW, I had an interaction with the person responsible for PDFGear online somewhere and I've been using it since I found out about it. It's a free (gratis) PDF viewer and editor. Maybe the full, paid Acrobat product can do more things, but if so I haven't noticed.
The thing you are looking for is the Group Policy Editor. There are Group Policies that can disable the prompts to use Microsoft accounts and the ability to use OneDrive or Windows AI features, the hook Bing has in Windows Search (i.e. no more searching in the start menu and having it list web sites before the file or application you wanted) and all the "consumer experience" features in non-Enterprise Windows. There are a few GPO settings that get ignored unless you're on Windows Enterprise or Education. Most of them related to Microsoft Datamining.
It is also possible to transition a Microsoft account back to a local one without losing your Profile. This is done in Settings > Accounts > Your Info in Windows 11.
gpedit.msc is normally only available to non-Home Windows SKUs, but it is unlockable with a tiny bit of Powershell:
Get-ChildItem @(
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package*.mum",
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package*.mum"
) | ForEach-Object { dism.exe
Open an Administror-elevated Powershell or Terminal session, paste that in and even your $200 Acer vomit-grade notebook can work the way you want it again.
The reason we need GPOs for this stuff is that Microsoft's software updates will occasionally re-set registry changes. If the changes are made with GPOs, the settings get reapplied and overwrite changes no matter what state Windows is in. This is particularly annoying for stuff like OneDrive, CoPilot and Edge preferences. You either have to regularly re-run scripts to alter the registry to the state you like it and hope nothing makes a structural change to where those settings live, or you set a GPO.
I mean it's a cut and paste of three lines of powershell.
I wouldn't call the ins and outs of operating gpedit.msc trivial, but enabling on Windows Home is a couple clicks and maybe six key strokes.
I really do agree.
I maintain system images as part of my job, but it always made sense for me to extend that to individual devices since I am asked to help with them anyway. For me, this has been just adding a tweak here or there that grew over time. GPOs for Windows Home didn't become standard in my image management until Microsoft started inflicting Onedrive on everyone. Now I view it mandatory.
For what it's worth, I have a similarly long list of things I do when I configure a Linux system or MacOS. I definitely have to do the most arguing with MacOS since I hate some of the OS default software and Apple has a long history of breaking things that should be scriptable.
You can exclude them from installing through an autounattend.xml (see Schneegans.de for help building one) and prevent them from display via a GPO. You really want to use a group policy object because otherwise a Windows Update might put them back; it'll override a plain old registry change or user preference any time it wants but GPO changes persist.
It is trivial to restore Local Group Policy editing on Windows Home SKUs with a little powershell.
Get-ChildItem @(
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package*.mum",
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package*.mum"
) | ForEach-Object { dism.exe
Some GPO settings are ignored outside the context of Windows Education or Enterprise SKUs, but most of those are related to user behavior data mining. I can verify that if you're just trying to supress OneDrive, Bing Search and Microsoft Account sign-ins, those are all maintained just fine even on Windows Home.
Anthropic is likely training its models with your data. If your data is cruel then the models can become cruel as well.
Considering they likely used credit,
not to review techical documentation to identify design issues
But this is exactly where AI can actually be useful — so long as you don't depend on it to identify all of the design issues. It can review mountains of information and find things in it you might not have caught. You just can't assume that it will catch everything it "should" — that is, what it should be capable of catching is not necessarily what you are capable of catching.
Yes, and it requires a multi-layerd approach to how they system raises issues. One simple prompt pass is not enough, however a multi-tiered approach can increase teh success rate. It'll never catch everything, and neither will a human, the tool is merely a way to remove much of the grunt work searching though documents so teh analyst can focus on what is important and make it easier ot find where things are referenced.
Meanwhile, that periodic report has requirements, so you're going to have to ask it to write the report, then to review it to see if it met the requirements, then to review its own statements about whether it successfully met each requirement, because it won't do any of that sanity checking without being told to do so.
There are two different types of reports to develop - one that validates meeting requirements and one that is merely reporting results or periodic required reporting. The former is challenging, the later a lot less so, and reducing the time spent on the later frees up time for the former. Of course, many such reports do not need AI since they merely compile data, and that is easy to program in any of a number of tools. AI just adds hype and market cap...
While I agree that AI is not truly deterministic, that doesn't mean you will get widely divergent results from teh same data.
Widely? No. Divergent? Yes. Run the same query multiple times and you'll get different answers. The more input you give, the more subtle the differences are likely to be, but there's always a chance it will go completely off its nut and follow some line of "reasoning" that goes someplace utterly unrelated to what you asked for. This is less likely in special-purpose models, but never impossible.
Of course, which is why for special purpose models this can work; especially since you can train it to be more accurate once you have enough real life data. This tool is not likely using the commercial ChatGpt but a bespoke setup.
Tailoring the LLM to taht can save a lot of time for an analyst/engineer/operator by identifying and collecting teh information needed for analysis and reporting
It can't, though, and for two reasons. One, a person is required to check off on the data. Two, LLMs don't faithfully represent data. They ingest it as tokens and then what they crap out is influenced by random numbers produced internally as part of the token selection process. That means a person cannot certify that the data was faithfully reproduced without checking literally every value, because that's simply not how LLMs work.
You can potentially address this with a hybrid approach, where the LLM uses a tool to collect and manipulate the data, but this is shifting the problem to whether the LLM used the tool correctly. It might be more obvious when it doesn't, though, so it might still be a win.
What LLMs seem best at when it comes to text processing, and they are still not infallible, is summarization. But you can't trust its negatives, so it's only useful for identifying other possible positives. That's not worthless, it can help you catch things, but you can't trust it to do the parts you'd most want it to do.
While I agree that AI is not truly deterministic, that doesn't mean you will get widely divergent results from teh same data. There is some run to run variant, but in my experience, working with very specific criteria, it tends to be in the ranking order and not a failure to identify relationships. That can be addressed in a number of ways. While positive hits are easier, negative ones can be checked in a number of ways to increase the confidence level that they truly are negative, in the sense they are not relevant to the tested data set. To me, one of teh keys is to work with a well defined set of criteria, something I think is possible with tehy type of information they are dealing with, especially since much of the input data will be well structured and in a consistent format.
A human must always be the final arbitrator, and needs to realize the AI is not fool proof and you can't accept everything at face value.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
