Same genetic background. I trust them as far as I can spit a rat.

Anyway, there are free and paid for solutions, with and without support that fit the bill at least as well as this one. Nothing stands out about the offer.

I agree. Ads which cover 80% of content, popup, popunder, music, impossible to close, super repetitive, super repetitive, super repetitive, purposely distractive, should be blown to heck.

Sometimes, I turn off my ad blockers. The interweb is unusable. Just crap. Half the websites I'd never, ever use at all if I didn't have an ad-blocker.

I don't have any problem with content producers getting paid for their work through ad revenue. I have a problem with them festooning their content with so many fucking ads that I can't get TO the content. - I can't agree more.

And homophobia!
And misogyny!
And ageism!
And regligous bigotry!
And partisanal bias!
And, if all else fails, a deep distrust of everything different from oneself!

So, practically all copy were corrupt then. And now.

1 - People with those skills might actually say "Go to Hell" if posted with morally grey, or downright illegal task.
2 - Managers like "yes" men/women/other
3 - It hurts profit to think. Just DOOOOO.
4 - Never mind the quality, feel the width

Because the Intel Mac, was, I think, the last of 27inch 4k screens. And it is beautiful to look at and use.

During Corona WFH I would use this beast to Remote Desktop in to my work laptop. Because it was so much nicer. Then, after a break for dinner and some excercise, I could spend a couple of hours studying my Masters using the same machine.

Now, I haven't need process heavy tasks, a little transcoding aside. I could have done it CPU bound or accept the compromise and use the Video Toolbox, which produces beautiful (if larger) files.

Although Apple might be dropping support for the Intel Mac, I'd hope for one last bug fix release of Tahoe before it goes in to the long twighlight beyond.

money is not necessarily the answer. It may however, compensate the victim.

However, it does not punish the perpetrator. Knowingly or not, somone has had their liberty stolen from them. I wold propose that from the cop issuing the citation, up the chain of command, they all be forced to the same prison/lockup/facility that the innocent was subjected to, for the same amount of time.

Person in the slammer for 20 years on a false conviction, facked evidence, etc? Thats about 7300 days for Office Joe, Seargent Schmuck, Luftenant Loser, Captain Jack of no-spades and Comissioner Looney-Bin.

Double, if it was malicious. That will make a few sit up and take notice. It would be very effective. "To serve and protect" ... my arse. "To server and protect ... the officers".

...a lot of people online were saying there was an upcoming event called The Halvening that would change everything.

I guess this is it?

Seems to me 'dead' for a taxi isn't 'dead' for a static power bank. If I'm running a taxi I've got hard limits on how large my battery can be and how heavy, and I want to maximise the mileage I get between charges, because while my taxi is charging it's not out on the road earning money. When that battery is keeping only maybe 80% of its original design charge, and now I have to schedule one recharge too many per working day? Bang goes my business plan, so I'm replacing it.

If I'm storing energy for the grid I'm a lot less worried about that. It only stores 80% of what it did when new? Better than nothing, and the taxi firm is selling them off cheap. I'll stack them up!

Perhaps not, but if you pick your moment right then permanently stopping the work of some of the most talented researchers there could very well make a difference. A spectacular incident that makes the headlines might also deter others - bright graduates might decide it's far safer to take up a different line of work, subcontractors and suppliers might decide doing business with AI firms isn't worth the danger, investors might figure the increased risk of loss of premises and equipment into their projections, that kind of thing.

If people genuinely believed AI takeover was a real, present and imminent threat, then they wouldn't just be publishing essays online, they'd be forming direct action groups, along the full spectrum of campaigning: all the way from awareness raising publicity campaigns, through picketing, blockades and sit-ins, up through Black Bloc type actions, right up to menacing intimidation campaigns and terrifying physical force operations. But I don't see any Butlerian Jihad getting started. Which tells me they don't actually believe this at all; they're just bigging up their own importance. 'Oh yes, our technology is so incredibly powerful, if it were done wrong then imagine what could happen! Keep the money coming to make sure it's done right instead! Then all that power can be ours instead!... I mean, uh, yours, Mr Investor sir.'

AI stock valuations don't make a bit of sense unless the technology turns out to be every bit as powerful as that. If they don't keep that thought alive, then the bubble bursts right now. That's what all this hot air is about, and that's why nobody really pulls a Miles Dyson at the AI research lab.

The interesting thing about the Terminator movies is that when AI researcher Miles Dyson became convinced that his work had a high probability of resulting in an artificial general intelligence attempting to replace humanity, he did not go and post a ten thousand word essay on LessWrong about how he had updated his timeline and p(doom) estimates and discussing the full Bayesian analysis of the situation. He went to the lab that very night with some heavily armed companions and he blew the place up.

I keep hearing that one AI researcher or another claims that they believe as Dyson came to believe. Until one of them takes similar action, I simply do not believe that they actually think their research carries such a risk.

You have access to the lab where the work is being done? You regularly meet in person with leading researchers and talents driving the project forward? You are an American and you have the Second Amendment? And the entire future light cone is at stake? Quintillions of hypothetical future lives riding on the outcome of this project here and now?

What's the most effective, altruistic thing you could do for them?

Yeah, exactly. I've never heard of anyone shooting up their AI lab. Which tells me they don't believe their AI is at all likely to wipe us all out.

... and then to secure Ukraine into the European economic and defence structure as firmly as possible. At this point they're far ahead of NATO on how to use drones and robots in war, and they're clearly getting very, very good at building them too. European military and aerospace people both will have a lot to gain from cooperation with Ukraine after the war is over.

As cadets were so memorably told a generation ago: remember always, your duty is clear - to build and maintain those robots!

Agreed.

They have planted a certificate in their software. Expiration date +- 10 years. Why not 20? 50? 100? I don't believe they are using a CRL for that certificate. Otherwise, it would be too easy to kill the cert. They knew it was time limited. But they sold it as perpetual.

That's clearly misreprsentation too me. Fraud.

The fixes are easy. (1) an update can simply for another 10 years, or (2) remove the need for the activation server. Heck, the 2nd is simply a a GOTO statement to bypass the affected code.

Sounds good - DDG is pretty bad lately, it typically just returns a list of AI generated SEO slop pages, so I've been switching back to Google in a private tab for a lot of things. Might be worth trying this one now!

If they leave them there, the next administration might be able to switch them back on and start gathering woke climate science data again.

Long ago, the UK courts ordered all the major consumer ISPs to block The Pirate Bay along with various other popular services. Ever since, we've had to keep up to date on what the latest proxy address might be.

Of course, thanks to the new censorship laws introduced more recently, we're all on VPNs now, so as to avoid having to hand our ID to the wallet inspector for every last website we ever use. And once that was set up, it was nice to discover that the original is still in play!