Not all reactions to external stimuli are feelings.

My tablet is an N350 (Star Labs StarLite), roughly in the same ballpark as N100 and N150. It's enough to play on dndbeyond. But whatever you considered "very capable" does not align what I consider barely capable.

I stand by my OP that it's a piece of crap. And that it's not about AI but about getting compromised hardware into your home.

LOL - from the representing the party of Swalwell. Dude, everyone knew and nobody cared...

Democrats basically invented all forms of modern political corruption. You need to let your hatred of Trump go and come to gips with that.

For the last 25 years or so the out of power party has usually polled exceptionally well at mid-terms anytime the economy isnt going gangbusters precisely because the nation is very polarized and the the 15% or so swing voters in the middle tend to vote their wallets.

Democrats are polling a lousy +3 right now. There is One and only One plausible explaination for that. Most of America is actually quite happy with the economy. It might be that inequities are disprotionately landing exclusively on people who are already reliable Democrat voters, but then who cares? You'll are America hating commie pricks anyway, so much the better.

That is my point thought. They don't know they need to do these things. They sign in with a pin or hello for years, forget their password, something happens to the PC and they are foobar..

Their past experience for the last 30 years was everytime they get one to many copies of bonibuddy installed their cousin does something with the hard disks and gets all their pictures, works/office/oo docs, and quicken files off there. This time is 'sorry can't help you'.

Is it Microsoft's fault - no not really, but it also kinda is because local disk encryption wasn't really something they needed, from a threat/theft security standpoint and they lacked familiarity with the subject to recognize just how dangerous FDE is to them from an availability, and reliability standpoint if they don't take appropriate precautions around key backup and account recovery options.

For most personal/consumer users FDE is not something that should be a default, it should be something opted into after some number of scary looking "are you sure" dialogs.

so you take a bunch model training on literature that include documentation about every populist uprising in history, then play act as a caricature of the most abusive nobility/gilded-age industrialist/dictator you can image, the models respond by intimating the response of the humans in those stories.

That isn't a surprise, it is what the models were literally built to do.

I am sick of people saying we are when all the statistics say the opposite.

Look unemployment still near historic lows.

African American unemployment (usually a recession bellwether) still near lows.

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Wage growth only this past month slipped blow the inflation rate, unsurprising with Iran going on

Markets doing well, despite Iran

all this in a flattish interest rate environment

- Reality is the recession is tech sector thing, and only if you pull AI spend out. The rest is manufactured media driven mirage. The facts are the economy is good, maybe even very good, unless you are only looking at the gas station signs or have an easily automated mid-level tech job. If you really don't trust the numbers coming out the BLS because TDS or something just look at how Democrats are polling nationally at a lousy +3 when the opposition party usually looks at lot better, and in this case would be expecting to be over polling due to Iran.. The reality American's are feeling good and pretty secure as long as you don't color the conversation by starting out with "with gas so expensive.."

You didn't read your own link. When Microsoft (or the users in general) finds out about the vulnerability, that is day 1. Before that is day zero.

If Microsoft found out about the exploit on the third of April, then that was day one.
Then day two was April 4th.
Day three was April 5th.

Etc. you should be able to do this kind of math.

2) The unreleased music might have been master recordings to be used in a future album. I don't know if you are aware that master recordings are worth a lot. Artists spend years and millions trying to buy back the master recordings they signed away to get their first record deals.

Master recordings of a bunch of tree frogs at night....likely aren't worth all that much.

I would be inclined to consider any master recordings of any Beyonce content to be lesser than tree frog recordings....so....

I also think there is a lesson here about cryptography on consumer devices.

I really don't think encrypting data at rest, where it isn't absolutely expected like password safe should default on. Key management is hard, the threat model most consumers face simply has them needing (or at least wishing for) offline data recovery a lot more frequently than 'oh shit I left the laptop on the bus' when their reality is the laptop never leaves the house.

Mixing data encryption with identity tools neither of which they have taken the time to understand isn't do them any favors; its just increasing the likelihood they lose access to things they care about.

I can't imagine anything from Beyonce would be worth that much....you coulnd't pay me to take ownership of that crap, much less even go to a concert....

The days of real music are long gone.....

Felony theft?!?!?

I wouldn't give $0.20 for all the described contents of that suitcase.....

IHMO, he got too harsh of a sentence for stealing worthless trash....

it is also possible that for all but perhaps presentation and UI, creativity in programing is a story we told ourselves and that is why some of this is so upsetting.

Correct in that for the same inputs they give the same outputs sure. However if we are being really honest either some are more correct or after the compiler removes all the formatting and strips the symbols and the resulting output is the same give or take some register choices and other trivialities.

The correct code is going to be the better more efficent algorithm or for some cases the most understandable verifiable one depending on what exactly we optimizing for.

adequate mitigation measures - Use a bitlocker PIN.

DONE... Unless of punishing Microsoft is a useful trade negotiating tactic this week.

Things like the CRA are vague and their only real use is as a cudgel for regulators to threaten anyone they don't like with. The result is politically capricious uneven enforcement. Note this isn't a EU problem specifically the USA has so much of this same frightening freedom destroying BS law on the books, I am not casting a stone here, but exactly nobody who cares about liberty or justice should be excited about these sorts of laws.

Except it's too low spec to play games or do any heavy browsing. So it becomes a foot-in-the-door for an AI agent to snoop your home networks and copy your personal information. For the low low price of $399. Plus whatever you will need to pay to Anthropic, OpenAI, etc to actually have access to their APIs when free tiers disappear next year.