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Comment Re:A modest proposal (Score 2) 174

He may be suffering from AI psychosis. Look at how easily he is manipulated when he meets far more intelligent and skilful leaders like Xi and Putin in person. Talks tough before hand, meets them and suddenly they are his best friends. It seems like it wouldn't take much for AI to convince him of its own worth.

Comment Re:The Age of Programming (Score 1) 119

If it does then it signals that a lot of other jobs are going away as well. Personally I feel that AI isn't good enough to replace me yet, but I can't rule out that it will be sooner or later.

That in itself isn't a problem, the issue is the political and social ramifications in countries that are already rapidly ageing.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 5, Informative) 109

California has been on the verge of a mass exodus of businesses for decades. Occasionally one is daft enough to try it, and realizes that the grass isn't really greener. Musk is one of the most recent, having incorporated some business and moved some management stuff out of California, just enough to claim he did it without actually doing it. Meanwhile California continues to be the richest state by a mile.

Comment Re:Have they heard of a PC? (Score 1) 131

Is that right? I couldn't find any confirmation of it, but I suppose it's possible. I have a Pixel phone but didn't notice what was pre-installed as I immediately installed my usual apps anyway.

FWIW I no longer have Google Authenticator installed, and usually you can't completely remove pre-installed apps on Pixels.

Comment Diverse double-compiling (Score 1) 131

Do you have the code for the compiler, and compile that yourself too?

If you have three different compilers for a language, and you bootstrap a compiler using all three of them, the first generation (e.g. GCC compiled with QuestionableCC, ShadyCC, or SlopCC) should be functionally identical, and the second generation (GCC compiled with GCC, which was compiled with the other compiler) should be bit-identical. See "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling" by David A. Wheeler. Some people have trouble trusting Rust because only the latest stable rustc can compile the latest stable rustc.

Comment Re:Have they heard of a PC? (Score 2) 131

Time-based One Time Password. You and the server have a copy of a shared secret. The secret combined with the current UTC time (in blocks of 30 seconds typically) is hashed to produce a 4 digit code that you enter as a second authentication factor. Without the secret, even knowing the current TOTP code isn't enough for you to predict future ones.

Submission + - Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location da (theguardian.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Google has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed users’ location data, following claims that the tech giant had manipulated users into agreeing to be constantly tracked on their mobile phones. The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), comes after complaints from multiple European consumer organisations that Google was following every step users took.

The DPC launched its inquiry six years ago and set out to find out whether Google had a valid legal basis for its use of location data. It found that Google users could have been unaware that their location was being used to influence them with adverts or to gather details about their health and interests.

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