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Comment ah yes... secure software development... (Score 1) 42

It's hard enough to get actual developers to properly consider security. Not surprised at all that vibe coders don't.

Plus, of course, most of the training data is insecure to begin with.

But let them learn by fire that there's a reason actual programmers take time to ship a product, and it's not that the AI can type faster.

Comment ah, the old consciousness thing... (Score 2) 382

Problem is: We don't even know what consciousness is.

So the best we can say is if something creates the impression of having one, based on whom we attribute consciousness to, i.e. other humans. Well, big surprise that a model explicitly trained on human language and texts creates that impression. It does show just how good the models are. At pretending to be human because they have a shitload of examples on what humans would say.

For all we know, the gas clouds on Jupiter could be conscious, just in a way that is completely baffling to us. We can't rule it out because we don't know what consciousness is, so we can't test for it.

Comment Re:I'd love to trash Edge, but... (Score 1) 107

If an attacker has enough control of your machine to dump the password database, they have enough control to get it to retrieve the plaintext passwords

Not true.

An attacker may have a limited window. He might exploit some other vulnerability to do some operation with privileged access rights, but not have an admin shell.

Comment Re:Yeah, no shit. (Score 1) 54

I remember when virtualization was the new hot thing roughly 20 years back and VM ware was aquired by some big corp, instantly turned to shit and the FOSS crowd started pushing out VM solutions to counter the problem.

They got bought by EMC, which at the time was a Dell company. Then they got acquired by Dell directly. Then they got spun off as their own company, which lasted a year or two before Broadcom snapped them up. Through the whole ordeal, they were sustained mainly by a combination of legit vendor lock-in and people just drinking the Kool-Aid.

Comment Re:Gartner: Advertising Posing as Research (Score 1) 54

Actually, mainframes give you a level of reliability and other things you basically get nowhere else. But the cost is high. Even big banks only use them for critical things.

Sure, but we're talking about organizations that have already successfully deployed on VMware. If they didn't need all this massive transactional integrity and twelve-nines uptime back then, they don't now.

Comment Re:Forest for the trees (Score 2) 166

It's not trivial to get credit cards in the UK. Say you were bankrupted even a long time ago. Or, I heard, say you never borrowed money or you never once paid late fees, surcharges, etc.

On the other hand, suppose you just stole somebody's wallet. Bet you could get that $1 charge through before they canceled it, and they wouldn't notice.

Comment Re:questionable (Score 1) 112

Tell you what, you "prove" that the religion of your choice is a "real" religion

Oh, that's trivial: a) it's made-up nonsense, b) it tells people how to live their lives and c) it's been around for so long that people forgot that it's made-up nonsense.

None of that or the rest of your answer has anything to do with the point I was making: That "accepted as a religion in the USA" isn't much of an argument. If people can get Jedi accepted as a religion, it just proves how meaningless all of that is. Other countries have correctly identified Scientology as a pyramid scheme and a scam.

The fact that other religions would qualify for that as well doesn't make it any less true.

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