When I saw a clip of a baby Yoda slinging the force around willy nilly I realized that Lucasfilm had literally no clue about their own lore any more and had just compromised the whole concept of the force worse than even midi-chlorians ever did. The force requires both discipline and Purpose. They compromised the whole concept of the force for a cheap sight gag.

Besides, the whole story line blowing Boba Fett up into an anti-hero and then building a whole race around the concept was just another case of the tail wagging the dog.

For both reasons I will never watch an episode of the Mandalorian, and definitely not any movie based on it.

Indeed. They simply applied the standard translation matrix to a US company's PR-speak:

This...

...is why...

this.

When they can slop any swill into the trough and the pigs come running, why put in anything different?

so don't blame others for your inability to copy and paste.

on the screen when it's a one-liner

What OS was he using before?

If the executive director wasn't already using it almost solely, that's an OS I'm going to use exactly never.

To propagate through a huge network, 23 minutes max from deletion to all nodes honouring that is pretty respectable. The title "Google API Keys Remain Active After Deletion" while technically true, as a headline it implies something more at work than simple propagation delay. And the text of the Slashdot post "...despite Google Cloud's UI claiming that once a key is deleted it can no longer make API requests..." is a disingenuous clause that also strongly implies darker forces than propagation delay.

While I'm no lover of Google, this is not Slashdot-worthy. Even by the standards of what Slashdot has become.

Anyone with legal experience answer, I'm curious how a question of statute of limitations went to the jury. Is that not a decision of law? And if that was a major factor, how was that not decided first? A full trial wasn't needed to decide whether or not there was even grounds to sue.

I've been wondering about the links between models for some time. The GPT's are easy to tell from everyone else, and from each other. Not just because they are dumb as stumps, but because of their arrogance about finding the hill of some wrong "fact" and dying on it. Normally it's not too hard to tell them apart, but recently I've noticed that Gemini and Claude are almost indistinguishable. And I would agree, there are certain interesting phrases each use. Like Claude's "Spot On" which Gemini has been emulating lately.

I'd be very interested in running a fingerprint on the both of them to see what comes up.

You are missing the fact that a remote exploit to run unprivileged commands is a far lower bar to achieve than priveleged. And that there are many, many, MANY systems that intentionally give access to unpriveleged commands through web interfaces to a wide audience.

SSH can work very well with non-aes primitives, with chacha20 being both more secure and faster

Please show your work that any major distro creates ANY aes key on install. If you are conflating ssh key with AES, then see above.

1) Because outside WDE, AES is not often used in any performance critical way for 99% of users
2) Because AES-NI is not universally trusted
3) Because in most places where AES previously was beneficial, there are now faster and more secure algos
4) Because every compiled-in default is attack surface that can't be mitigated without a new kernel command line + reboot, or if there is no command-line disable for it, a new kernel

In short, EVERYONE can load a module to get functionality. Only some compiled in drivers can be turned off without a new kernel and none can be turned off without a reboot.

You are treating like RAM that Edge has now will always belong to Edge,

Memory allocations are not sanitized by the OS. They are not automatically zeroed before being handed to the process on malloc or purged after the process hands it back to the OS on free. Any ole user process can a) see what other processes are running and, b) allocate RAM almost without limit. So all a user process has to do is look for whether or not Edge is running. If it is, then when it stops allocate as much memory as possible to grab the RAM that Edge just freed.

...the reason I pulled the trigger on a 15...

...is that you nevertheless enjoy handing Apple control over every aspect of your life?

From the article...

Odds? Conditions? Analysis? Best bets? Expert picks? This isn't the LLM doing any work. It's an LLM being used as a calculator to sum the combined human-generated odds.

If you want to use an LLM to pick horse races, this is what you do. You let it watch every horse race that each current Kentucky Derby horse has ever raced in. You let it watch every sort of training session each horse is put in. You let it see the data from every veterinary treatment and inspection. You use every hoof movement of every race as a training "phoneme" and you let it build its associations database on the language of horse racing. Then you tell it to predict a race.

This isn't an LLM predicting a horse race. This is an LLM having a conversation based on common word associations on an upcoming hourse race and discussing a weighted average of human-generated odds.

Please stop trying to treat LLMs as something they are not. The ability to string english words together somewhat (and sometimes) coherently doesn't imply the ability to do something magical with that.

The idea that all the "AI layoffs" aren't actually because of AI, but are snow jobs... I thought this was so blatantly obvious as to be a tautology. This can't be something that is just dawning on people, can it? Please tell me that this has been obvious to most people who can rub two thoughts together in a row.