Comment Swiped Customers? Funny! (Score 3, Insightful) 7
They drove customers away with the changes and price increases. TBH only the willing captives are using VMware at this point.
Comment Re:What process locks which file (Score 1) 49
Process Explorer. Not quite as integrated as you'd like, but it lets you search for any handle, including part of a filename, to see which process(es) are holding it.
Comment Re:Yawn! Never joined any of those either! (Score 1, Informative) 139
The EFF does some good work but they need to be mindful of their Activist, Blue Sky, Crazy lawyer side of the org chart and stick to the basics.
Disclaimer
I subscribe an email address to the eff so I hear about their activities. And I use Let Encrypt ssl certs when ever possible.
Disclaimer
I subscribe an email address to the eff so I hear about their activities. And I use Let Encrypt ssl certs when ever possible.
Comment "confident the courts will ultimately agree" (Score 1) 33
Guess Not!
Comment Yawn! Never joined any of those either! (Score 3, Interesting) 139
"Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube"
Social Media is like a second job with no pay for most users. The ROI on being their sock puppet is pretty low.
Social Media is like a second job with no pay for most users. The ROI on being their sock puppet is pretty low.
Comment Re:Done. (Score 1) 209
Given that one of the first bombing targets in Iran which the US hit was a girls' school, and that got a lot of press, your comment goes beyond ignorant into wilfully ignorant and offensive.
Comment Re:The CEO ignoring the locals' advice == red flag (Score 2) 106
It's not about hand-washing so much as not being exposed to the local microbiome. When I travelled in Latin America the advice was to soak vegetables in diluted iodine for at least 20 minutes before using them to make salad.
Comment Re:Funny! "Pivot Away From Newspaper Journalism" (Score 1) 27
"doing real journalism, uncovering and reporting truths that the people in power would rather were not made public" unless they are your team!
Comment Funny! "Pivot Away From Newspaper Journalism" (Score -1, Troll) 27
Not much pivoting left to do, the AP went full on Activist Group long ago!
Comment Re:'Entertainment Purposes Only' (Score 1) 66
"we can throw co-pilot on the same pile as" No! No! No! it is now an integral part of everything Microsoft and can not be removed.
Comment Funny! Maybe Microsoft needs to tell Microsoft! (Score 1) 66
"Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS" and "The machine learning-based intelligent rollout has expanded to all devices running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11"
believe what Microsoft says "consumer grade for consumer tasks".
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believe what Microsoft says "consumer grade for consumer tasks".
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Claude Code Leak Reveals a 'Stealth' Mode for GenAI Code Contributions - and a 'Frustration Words' Regex (pcworld.com) 38
That leak of Claude Code's source code "revealed all kinds of juicy details," writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
- An 'undercover mode' for Claude that allows it to make 'stealth' contributions to public code bases
- An 'always-on' agent for Claude Code
- A Tamagotchi-style 'Buddy' for Claude
"But one of the stranger bits discovered in the leak is that Claude Code is actively watching our chat messages for words and phrases — including f-bombs and other curses — that serve as signs of user frustration." Specifically, Claude Code includes a file called "userPromptKeywords.ts" with a simple pattern-matching tool called regex, which sweeps each and every message submitted to Claude for certain text matches. In this particular case, the regex pattern is watching for "wtf," "wth," "omfg," "dumbass," "horrible," "awful," "piece of — -" (insert your favorite four-letter word for that one), "f — you," "screw this," "this sucks," and several other colorful metaphors... While the Claude Code leak revealed the existence of the "frustration words" regex, it doesn't give any indication of why Claude Code is scouring messages for these words or what it's doing with them.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
- An 'undercover mode' for Claude that allows it to make 'stealth' contributions to public code bases
- An 'always-on' agent for Claude Code
- A Tamagotchi-style 'Buddy' for Claude
"But one of the stranger bits discovered in the leak is that Claude Code is actively watching our chat messages for words and phrases — including f-bombs and other curses — that serve as signs of user frustration." Specifically, Claude Code includes a file called "userPromptKeywords.ts" with a simple pattern-matching tool called regex, which sweeps each and every message submitted to Claude for certain text matches. In this particular case, the regex pattern is watching for "wtf," "wth," "omfg," "dumbass," "horrible," "awful," "piece of — -" (insert your favorite four-letter word for that one), "f — you," "screw this," "this sucks," and several other colorful metaphors... While the Claude Code leak revealed the existence of the "frustration words" regex, it doesn't give any indication of why Claude Code is scouring messages for these words or what it's doing with them.
Comment Good bye anonymity! (Score 1) 43
"If you don't verify your age, then you'll be treated as a child or teenager" so every adult will now be properly marked for surveillance and monitoring. Which will allow for better ad targeting and higher data value when sold.
Comment cleaning things up! Great! (Score 3) 33
Re secured things Good! But the real problem is not this remote repo! The real problem is "using" remote repos that are out of your control!
Fun Fun "downloaded roughly 100 million times per week and is present in about 80% of cloud and code environments"
Fun Fun "downloaded roughly 100 million times per week and is present in about 80% of cloud and code environments"
Comment Microsoft Pulls Then Re-Issues (Score 3, Interesting) 78
Just Microsoft being Microsoft, Hey! never mind the pot holes in "The machine learning-based intelligent rollout" they are there by design.
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