...When we called them programs? Or executables? I mean, they do end in .exe for a reason...

The feature isn't targeted toward users who spend all their time in the terminal. Those users are likely already savvy enough to realize you shouldn't paste untrusted text into a terminal window. It's targeted toward non-power users who are completely unfamiliar with the Terminal, i.e. the majority of Mac users.

The corollary is you have to not have too many false positives such that the warning is just a nuisance. Consider: how often does the type of user this is intended to protect (i.e. who would paste random text from a website into a terminal window) "normally" paste text into a Terminal window? Not very often. This warning system would go completely unnoticed for the majority of users in the course of their normal use. When they *do* have occasion to paste text into a Terminal window, ideally, it would *also* not be an irritation since false positives would be held to a reasonable rate. Power users (who actually *do* frequently paste stuff into terminal windows regularly) can just toggle the feature off. Toggling the feature off doesn't represent any security degradation relative to the prior status quo.

Make it togglable and default to "on". Problem solved.

Established players have large compliance teams and are able to amortize the costs of regulation over a larger install base.

I think there's way too many people who imagine AI to be some sort of Stuxnet, and they're letting their imaginations run wild. It's all pareidolia at work. AI is just an amalgamation of training data. Think of it like hamburger...when you look at what comes out of the meat grinder, you can't say to yourself, "That morsel came from the shank, and that little bit must be the filet, and that tidbit there came from the rib." It all clearly came from somewhere, but when blended together, you can no longer distinguish its individual parts. There's nothing at all intelligent about AI, but we perceive it as such.

Can we perhaps stop trying to anthropomorphize an algorithm?

It's just absolutely sad to think about how many billions of dollars have been burned by Meta on such stupid things. Hey Zuck, how's that metaverse going for you?

Imagine...with that same amount of money, we could have created a program that would give everyone free access to a four year college education. But to hell with all the Socialists, because clearly this monstrosity will generate more economic growth than free college for all.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

I tend to whip out Baby Shark or the Baby Shark EDM remix.

Here's my reality:

1) AI is not 100% accurate.
2) AI supplanting human thinking is a process known as Cognitive Offloading, which significantly harms learning.
3) NAEP scores have been steadily decreasing since around 2010, which research has shown has been due to the integration of digital technology inside the classroom.

Fuck our corporate overlords. They want to destroy our public schools. Don't let them drive the proverbial nail into the coffin.

I use my kid's Xbox as a streaming console since it's much more capable than the built-in hardware in my several-years-old Smart TV.

If one single blog post can create so much uncertainty in these businesses that it triggers an 800 point drop in the Dow, what does that say about the fragility of the businesses themselves?

I bought myself a hybrid a few months ago. Auto start/stop on it makes perfect sense, especially when the electric motor is there to do part of the work. I have to actually concentrate hard to even notice when the engine fires up or powers down.

On the other hand, when it's a pure ICE vehicle, I'm not a big fan. Most of the time it's tolerable, but three months ago, I was driving an Expedition that shut off the engine while I was idling at a frontage road waiting to make a turn onto the street. When I began my turn and hit the accelerator, the engine turned over, fired once, then stopped, and I got an error on the dash telling me to put the car in park and power-cycle the car to restart it. I was so glad I was on a frontage road with no cars behind me, because I swear I would have panicked if I was actually on a street with a car telling me it needed a "reboot".

"Asgard is not a place, it's a people"

The last time I drank two cups of coffee in a day, I had to wake up three times at night to pee. My bladder just can't handle that much caffeine anymore. Guess I better embrace my destined dementia demise.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia.

I was in the Philippines last November attending a wedding. The groom was a member of the Philippine Coast Guard. He said the #1 problem he dealt with was illegal fishing. The #2 problem he dealt with was trafficking of women and children. He said they seize at least one boat every month with hundreds of passengers. These women (and parents of the children) actually pay brokers to transport them over to Thailand, where they are promised employment. Then, when they get to Thailand, they're smuggled through the country into Laos, Cambodia, or Burma to work in these locations managed by crime families, often managed by the Chinese mafia.

Never forget: slavery still exists today. The western world just outsourced it to poorer countries.