The human was involved when it told the agent to do it.

Ultimately the human is absolutely responsible for giving the agent information and telling it to go on its merry way.

If you share your identify, you are responsible for whoever uses it, like it or not. Don't sure your identity, EVER, WITH ANYONE. EVER. EVER.

These forums are full of people who barely read the users questions than boilerplate post the generic 'reboot/update/reinstall' solution ls in order to get a better badge next to their name like they are heros for posting the exact same worthless answer.

About half the time they post the boilerplate after the user has already said they did all that.

Then they'll post follow, "please up vote of i got the right answer" messages

Those forums are crap

As cultural event's go, what does this one tell us? We all want to be criminals and get away with it?

Hey, it can always get worse. Be thankful that people aren't taking the day off to play Missile Command.

In an attempt to add context to what appears to be an inflammatory comment, here's some background:

Some time ago the US Department of Defense asked Musk to turn off starlink access in the Crimean peninsula. Although officially a Ukranian territory and not recognized as part of Russia, it made sense to do this due to the Russian occupation. Some Ukranian drones stopped working, and Musk steadfastly refused to allow his civilian system to be used to kill people.

Due to fallout from that incident, starlink satellite access was divided into two parts: Starlink and Starshield, both using Musk's satellites.

The explicit intent behind Starshield was to separate civilian and military uses of the satellite constellation. Under this framework:

"Starlink" is the regular user system, and it's TOS require that it not be used for military purposes. Basically, it's an ISP saying that you cannot use their system to kill people. Elon Musk is responsible for overseeing how Starlink is run and managed.

"Starshield" is the military version, and this is OK to use this as a weapon. The US Department of War (used to be "defense") controls who uses this and how it is used, they allow Ukraine to use it for battle, and they disallow Russia to use it for any purpose.

It was noticed that the Russians were stealing starlink endpoints and using them to attack Ukraine, so a "fast moving" detection was implemented to put a stop to this. As a byproduct, some Ukraine drones stopped working as well.

The Ukranians have access to starshield, the military version, and should have been using this instead of starlink.

Yes, he made the civilian version of starlink not work for drones, but this same change protected Ukraine from Russian drones using starlink.

Some people like to find reasons to criticize Musk.

"They fly now?"
- "They fly now."

Not at all. In fact my wife is trans. And I do know a bit about the subject

And of course there are outliers. The question is what we (society) do with that. They used to be marginalized, then we went completely the other way. In particular, not only trying to convince kids that they might be one of those outliers, but offer them gender affirming care (or whatever we're supposed to call it these days), with far-reaching lifelong consequences. In the past, the incidence of regret after the surgery used to be incredibly low (around 0.1%), but it is already climbing (3-5% now). A German study showed that of people aged 5-12 and diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" (their term), more than half no longer carried that diagnosis after 5 years. Yet some people are so stuck in their ideology that they refuse to understand that the diagnosis in kids is highly unreliable, and continue to push them towards treatment. And yes, even "just" hormone treatment at a young age has serious consequences, regardless of whether the person transitions later in life or not.

That's the ideological "nonsense" I was referring to.

Really? The gender fluidity nonsense. CRT and Intersectionalism. Or half of the field of Sociology and most of its departments that have devolved into an echo chamber devoid of scientific fact, imposing groupthink instead and ousting those who do not toe the line. The nutty left is just as nuts as the nutty right. But culturally they are a hell of a lot more influential, billionaire propaganda notwithstanding. The best trick that the radical left has pulled is somehow convincing the intelligentsia that their brand of insanity was in fact truthful, mainstream rather than radical, and the only decent opinion to hold.

I can't either.

Which is why the parent wants an unbiased source, and I'm with him.

News has become an unregulated sewer of rage bait propaganda.

So they're going to disconnect themselves from OpenAI and Anthropic.

That's a bit harsh, if you ask me.

I hereby declare that malloc() may not return NULL, due to the fact that nobody ever checks for that, i.e. legacy reasons.

Maybe. I first read the headline as if the Vietnamese jails were the ones doing the pirating.

That is what Danfoss recommended after the last attack: update your crap and disconnect it. The supermarkets (and I guess blood banks) that were hit in the second attack failed to follow that advice.

Well, I should say.

Now friend, let me tell you what I mean...

The answer is to actually hold actual miscreants to account, after you have established that they are in fact miscreants. Not label an entire social class, political party or the people who voted for them as such. What is happening is part of what you describe: it is easier to label a group as "evil", especially if they aren't a particularly popular group, than it is to go after individual who have done actual wrong.

This statement exemplifies what's wrong with politics today. This attitude of "We're right, everyone knows we're right, so whoever is against us is either stupid or evil". Old-school elected officials at least tried to be a leader for everyone in their bailiwick, from millionaires, entrepreneurs, landlords, students, blue-collar workers to single mums on the dole. They might have certain priorities, spend more on one group than another, but they understood that everyone's interests were theirs to be concerned with, even if they conflicted with their beliefs or with each other. What they looked for was balance, rather than absolutes.

Now there's this us-vs-them mentality pervading politics, even amongst elected officials. We're here for those who voted for us and fuck everyone else. They are "trolling the libs", or we have Mamdani addressing the rich in a TikTok video, knocking on the camera lens and declaring: "I'm coming for you". Fuck that, seriously. It's fine that an elected official increases taxes on a certain group, but instead of pretending that this group is evil and had it coming, how about a simple: "thank you for your additional contribution".

We need to start treating political opponents and social classes other than our own as if they too have society's best interest at heart, treat them as fellow countrymen on the same journey, or at least treat them as human fucking beings. And I say this as a European, because it is the exact same shit show over here.