Agreed.

Only that Putin has done a long string of wars like that before. The difference is that Ukraine has been able to fight back quite efficiently. I guess Putin got used to winning and lost contact to reality along the way.

So, no, this claim that Russia was provoked or had no choice is Russian propaganda. It cannot hold water on closer inspection. They just want some of that victim bonus, so they twist reality beyond all recognition to convince some useful idiots.

Probably old training data that implies Slashdot is important. Also probably very cheap to do this type of propaganda, so they just push the mind-rot everywhere they can.

Yes. But the more support Ukraine gets and the less some really evil people with power sabotage Ukraine, the better for everybody. This war has to end. Obviously with Ukraine getting back all of its territory and Russia getting a deal bad enough that they will not try this crap again for a long long time, ideally forever.

Will the stupid and disconnected claims that LLMs are somehow intelligent, have agency and are a bit like people ever stop? Well, probably not before the now inevitable crash.

These LLMs were given tasks and tokens. They did not "play".

Banking regulation is for the banks to comply with. These here are technical regulations, so how much money the customer has does not play a role. Financial regulation is a different area.

Most of the cost is from digging, not from the fiber. If you coordinate that well with other things that need digging the cost goes down. If not, it goes up. If done well, you end up with something like $1000 per home or below in a city.

Your replacement costs are off. Fiber basically lasts forever (Wikipedia says 60-100 years), you typically replace it if you need a different fiber type. That will probably not happen with modern fiber. What you need to replace regularly (every 5 years or so) is the optical components and the switches, but that is a lot cheaper than laying fiber because everything is readily accessible.

Note: If you cannot do it at that price, but several of your competitors can, there is a problem on _your_ side.

Indeed. Most people are not educated enough to get that comparison though.

There is no absolute protection against user stupidity. Incidentally, banks here will refuse that login. They require machines to be registered for online banking. And they have time-outs.

Bind has gotten better, but 10 years ago and longer it was utter crap with regards to security.

What the AI does is not impressive. Finding use-after-free requires you to be competent and wanting to find them. Approaches for finding and avoiding them are well established, the current slop-coders (with or without AI) just do not know or use them. AI is not needed in any way. AI is just the ElCheapo approach when you do not care about finding all of them (due to LLM unreliability).

By the user against the AI agent? Yes. But online-banking needs authorization by the bank and that involves more than just the act of logging in. It includes tools used, geolocation of login, etc. and does even include what the user does and recent usage history and even things like cards issues, credit rating, etc.

The bank is _not_ talking about the login itself.

So he does not understand what the banks are talking about? Also a possibility.