Finally, something useful on Slashdot.

If it's a religion then I suggest forming a non-governmental sovereign entity like the Nuclear Vatican. They can build and maintain all nuclear plants across the world to ensure non-proliferation is respected and waste is disposed of properly. Think of the Spacing Guild and its Navigators... you don't mess with them or they shut down your reactors.

The AWS health dashboard shows no issues -- https://health.aws.amazon.com/...

However my Cloudflare dashboard is completely in accessible and there's a lot of red going on at https://www.cloudflarestatus.c...

But with Cloudflare, that's not unusual... their core DNS and caching services seem unaffected, however.

No that was implied. There's something called "subtlety," heard of it?

I thought DisplayPort over USB-C was the new hotness, but they're just learning about HDMI? Color me amused.

Enjoy your Bixby button.

True, we need to think outside the box. Go back to in-person oral exams. If you can't explain what you know out loud, then you don't know it. I know, nobody has time to listen to all that, so... have an AI grade the transcript.

This is probably correct. Amazon's software has always been terrible... Amazon Music, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon App Store... all pieces of shit with no direction. So as an Amazon customer I'm actually looking forward to these lousy programmers getting replaced by AI. I won't say it can't get any worse, but at least it's likely to get better if only by regression to the mean...

You're right there, but the problem is that it's fantastic at allowing a bad manager to hide his incompetence. Suddenly all the shitty managers have amazing ideas on how the company should be run after a brief conversation with ChatGPT. Don't like it? Here's ten paragraphs of bullshit to distract you while I jump on another meeting,

I never let them take away my search bar, but congrats on reinventing the wheel.

What is annoying, though, is that a lot of web sites (especially developer-oriented ones) are adding keyboard shortcuts that override the usual Ctrl-K used to selecting the search bar. I have long-established muscle memory for the following sequence to open a new tab and perform a search without touching the mouse: Ctrl-T, Ctrl-K, type in my search terms, hit Enter. When that doesn't work because of a 'convenient shortcut' on the page I happen to be on, I get cranky.

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

I guess the only solution here is to have a checkbox that says "I promise I will not use this information for illegal purposes" before you can access any LLM.

Same feeling about my Oculus Quest 2... just gathering dust, but at least it was "only" $300...

In my conversations with ChatGPT, while I do find it helpful, I do worry that it is simply telling me what I want to hear. It's far too agreeable and certainly no replacement for human conversation.

Every crook regrets that they didn't do a better job of not getting caught, in hindsight.

When you have this "warning" on all major apps, it will lose meaning. I should now be able to pay directly with my credit card for all major apps, including Skip the Dishes, Uber, etc. Android already does this--you can use Google Pay, or just enter your credit card directly. In fact, you're incentivized to do so--my bank gives me a free Skip Plus membership if I don't use Google Pay and just pay with my credit card. Once enough major apps do this (and they will do this, because if you can save money they will do it) this warning will lose all meaning.