They are morons, yes, but the "AI" providers also set them up for failure. Default configurations matter, and these "AI" tools are given way too many privileges out of the box. Presumably because that makes them easier to set up and hook into existing infrastructure in order to be more immediately useful and/or "powerful".

It's the fucking binary browser plugin security nightmare all over again, but with "AI" this time around. And just like you could harden your Internet Explorer to make it less susceptible to ActiveX malware and whatnot, you can set these LLM-fueled spicy autocompleters up to not be able to nuke your production database or whatever, too. But in both cases these precautions make the tools less useful and/or more difficult to use, so that's just not going to happen in the vast majority of cases.

Wouldn't that be a scorched earth approach to low-earth orbit? What kind of time frame are we talking about for enough debris to burn up to make it possible to launch satelites there again after such an operation? Years? Decades? Centuries?!

That's exactly the kind of thing you'd claim if you were trying to dodge a terrorism charge, isn't it?

Think about what happens if that's a NaN.

If you set it up such that mails from, say, VeriSign are sent directly to <bobfromaccounting@example.com>, then you're DOING IT WRONG and you deserve what you get if a mail accidentally gets dropped because Bob got fired last year.

One obvious solution is to run your own mail server and create <certificates@example.com>, a forward to <bobfromaccounting@example.com> and finally a bit of logic such that a big scary warning is sent to the administrator account for the mail server if the forward should ever fail. Whatever you do, the account that the CA is sending mail to should NEVER have to change for any reason and it should always be assigned to some person in the company.

MS's employees in Ireland might be criminally liable in the EU if they transmit the data outside EU borders. They might really really like Microsoft, but to the point of being willing to go to prison for the company? I think not.

We could potentially end up in a situation where the main branch of MS screams at the EU branch from across the Atlantic and no one over here is willing to comply.

I... eh... what? Oracle owns MySQL, not PostgreSQL

This discussion needs a soundtrack and we're so lucky that the perfect one already exists. I'm of course talking about one of the most "what do you mean it's not awesome?" pieces of music ever made, Canvas Bags by Tim Minchin.

"Ascending some stairs," you say? E-LE-VATE!

And facebook does business in Italy? So Italian courts have jurisdiction over facebook. They can argue US 1st amendment all they want, it's just not relevant.

The worst kind of 3rd party javascript is the stuff from *.cloudfront.net, where * appears able to be any random string. It (and amazon web services) are the bane of trying to keep a neat whitelist of domains for NoScript.

And so another salvo was fired in the war on general purpose computing.

Sometimes I wish we lived the Schlock Mercenary universe where people could be executed for grand spamming.

If you don't want your images to float, then don't use the figure environment. The whole point of figure, table and other floating environments is that they float. If you don't want it, just use \includegraphics. See also: TeX.SX: How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

Don't. Put. Periods (or spaces) in filenames for anything to be read by TeX. Stick to [0-9a-zA-Z_].