"but noted that AI models still can't process and act on new information the way executives do"

Uh huh. I'd argue that the executive role is significantly more replaceable by AI than the janitor. So, time to go get yourself a mop and learn how to clean toilets, Mr. Exec.

My understanding of these AI agents is they're not running completely autonomously and are running with prompted information from a human behind the keyboard. That is, the AI agent didn't "write a blog", but the human being used the AI agent to write a blog.

Am I misunderstanding how these tools are used? Because everything I've ever toyed with them required me to prompt the hell out of them.

Yeah, as conspiracy theorist as it might be, I'm willing to bet that Meta does indeed very easily have the capability to read the content of messages if it so desires. And that's because we don't actually know what is happening with both the E2E key exchange nor the private key generation.

I'd hope that someone inside of Meta would whistle blow on such allegations if they were true, but who knows in today's economy.

I still trust Signal above all else. And if I need something more secure than Signal, I'm dumping immediately to hardware token-backed PGP keys.

Many years ago in the state of Maryland, the state government stood up speed cameras on roadways to help protect the lives of construction workers. People were so upset by this that they were walking up with baseball bats to smash the cameras and threaten the camera operators due to the additional "surveillance" of people driving on the roadways.

Meanwhile, Tesla with its FSD tracks every mile you drive, what you're doing in your car, and sells and shares that information to other entities, in increments of "every second you drive your car", and nobody's bothered by this in any way?

To be fair, this was always going to be the reality. It's no different to when some insurance companies offered a tracker to reduce your insurance rates if you allowed them to track your driving behaviors. But this is now something offered to hopefully reduce your spend on car insurance, which is usually one of the most attractive ways to get someone to do something (hang money over their heads).

Just interesting that we think all of this surveillance is totally okay (Teslas, Ring cameras, etc.)

To be fair, brick buildings and concrete buildings (or more technically known in California as unreinforced masonry buildings) are banned because of the earthquake risk. I would imagine concrete buildings, when not properly built, have similar issues. Wood flexes with the earthquake, and is generally a better material for areas that are at earthquake risk.

This is the dumbest take, seriously.

Wifi does not have any negative impact on your body.

Because they've continued to make changes to the scheduler to the point that Windows 11 is preferable for more modern CPUs. Your 3960X Threadripper might be fine, but most consumers are picking up 9800X3D's which benefit more from the work being done in 11 than Windows 10.

Windows 10 on a 9800X3D puts your system at a performance disadvantage. (Although in raw framerate numbers when you're GPU limited it might not be as noticeable). But certainly the overall OS performance is going to be worse.

I mean, NTLMv1 is basically pushed to be eliminated across most basic security hardening of any Windows AD domain in existence. If you deploy CIS Benchmarks or STIGs, you're nuking NTLMv1 right out the gate and none of this applies.

Now, as far as NTLMv2 versus Kerberos usage, Microsoft is working to purge NTLM entirely from Windows by using things like local KDCs and such on Windows systems. I don't think this full platform is deployed yet. But that'll eliminate NTLM entirely from Windows.

As far as Kerberos goes, you should also eliminate RC4 Kerberos. Which, again, is generally much more difficult to do in boutique Linux deployments that mount CIFS shares.

Most consumers should be on Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 at this point. And to be fair, so should most enterprise customers. 24H2 is a dramatic shift in Windows 11 to the point that it should be your baseline for OS.

Out of the identified issues, the only bug that affects 24H2 or 25H2 is the Remote Desktop sign in failure bug, which would impact enterprises but shouldn't impact most consumers of the OS. So this out of band update practically doesn't apply to most gamers or home users of Windows. (Unless your company allows you to use your personal computer for Azure Virtual Desktop).

The other issue, which impacts Windows 11 23H2 (which you really should be off of), only impacts System Guard Secure Launch deployments--which at this point are so few and far in between that it's not even worth discussing. I'd wager a good 85% of deployed Windows systems either do not support nor do not have enabled Secure Launch.

For example, to even use Secure Launch on an AMD platform you need to have a "Pro" CPU. Intel's newer CPUs have these features, but AMD does not.

Considering AMD is currently the gamer's CPU choice du jour, you'd have to have a Ryzen Pro *and* Windows 11 23H2 to be impacted, *and* Secure Launch/HVCI/etc must all be enabled. And most internet websites that teach you how to "tweak" your Windows for "peak gaming" tell you to turn all of these security features off anyway.

For what it's worth, in every environment I've ever been in, the only reason NTLM still exists is to support Linux/Open-Source systems that aren't "joined to the domain" and any isolated environment that also wasn't "joined to the domain" for "cybersecurity reasons" but still needed access to an SMB share.

That's pretty much it.

Gonna correct myself here. It seems Ohio has some dumb ass rule for marking non-citizenship status on driver's licenses passed in 2023.

Voter ID is still a poll tax and illegal as fuck. Long live mail-in voting in sane states like California.

There are state IDs that are marked â€oefederal limits applyâ€. But that doesnâ€(TM)t denote citizenship. You can be a citizen and have one of those IDs. You can also be a non-citizen and have a Real ID.

No markings on any Real ID denotes citizenship because thereâ€(TM)s no verification of citizenship performed when obtaining them.

In short, if what you say is true, thatâ€(TM)s actually illegal to check that as a marker for citizenship.

In order to obtain a Real ID, the following documents work. Any ONE of these documents works. (From California DMV website)

Valid U.S. passport or passport card (Preferred)
Original or Certified copy of U.S birth certificate (issued by a city, county, or state vital statistics office). â€oeAbbreviated†or â€oeAbstract†certificates are NOT accepted.
Valid Permanent Resident Card
Foreign passport with valid U.S. Visa and approved I-94 form
Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of U.S. Citizenship
Certified copy of birth certificate from a U.S. Territory
Valid Employment Authorization Document (EAD) Card (I-766)
Valid Permanent Resident Card with Notice of Action (I-797 C) or Approval Notice (I-797)
U.S. Certificate of Birth Abroad or Consular Report of Birth Abroad of U.S. Citizen
Valid foreign passport stamped â€oeProcessed for I-551â€
Documents reflecting TPS benefit eligibility

You have never needed a passport to get a Real ID. Ever.

They absolutely desire this, but their implementation is going to be difficult. Certainly we are seeing fascists test their ideas and what works right now, and I worry for what comes well beyond the Trump Administration. To be fair, Trump's Administration is really an extension of the Bush Administration's policies. The destruction of public education for example didn't begin with Trump, nor Bush, for that matter. But began with Reagan. The process has been long and slow over the course of 40-50 years. First, make higher education significantly more difficult to obtain. Then increase tax dollars going to private institutions and reduce tax dollars going to public institutions (School Voucher Program under W), to now just absolute flat out destruction of the federal Department of Education (Trump era).

ICE didn't exist until George W Bush (Homeland Security Act of 2002), and much of its powers stem from this act.

In short, much of the power that Donald Trump derives today was directly adopted by the Republican Party after 9/11. This is why it's critical to follow these laws.

With the talk of denaturalization, and potentially modifications/reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, this only furthers these aims that were started over 2 decades ago under the guise of Republican leadership. In fact, the Republican Party has basically only accomplished two things in the last 25 years: A significant restriction of rights for everyday Americans, and massive fucking tax cuts for the wealthy.

If the 14th Amendment goes, and it looks like it's in the crosshairs, that is a significant step up that will inevitably allow Republican leadership to define citizenship however they wish to do so. And that should be scary as fuck.

In short, stop voting Republicans for any office, at any level of government.