This is not about stupid people doing harm to themselves. It's about criminals using state-of-the-art AI to harm other people.

What would you prefer? A model that errs on the side of caution and occasionally refuses a legitimate request, or one that is more lax and occasionally helps a user with criminal intent? We live in an imperfect world. It's not "ridiculous" just because it wouldn't do something you asked, when you yourself recognize your request could have been malicious.

You deserve a +1 Funny :)

Windows 11 absolutely does not require 16GB to boot to desktop. And on my work machine, even with a large number of windows running, it rarely uses as much as 16GB, let alone 32GB. It's OK if you're not a fan of Microsoft, but don't post blatant exaggerations as though they are facts.

I heard one of the participants interviewed on the radio. While he's been struggling to break records in the Olympics, he sees other people winning million dollar prizes in enhanced competitions. He pointed out realistically how many years of winning it would take him to possibly earn a million dollars by more conventional competition. I'm not saying I approve of the enhanced events, but I could understand his perspective. Ultimately it's his body, his choice.

That is mind-blowing.

With MFA, it should not be a catastrophe if someone obtains your password. That's the point of it.

Canada is the home of OpenBSD, which is not only open source, but was founded largely in response to strong cryptography being classified as a "munition" is the US.

Haven't heard that term before. I like it :)

For hosted websites, is this not something the web host should be doing for their customers?

News for Nerdy Personalities

Maybe you want to to write code faster than you can? I used Claude to build an entire an entire web-based application with SQL Server backend from scratch in less than a day. Is it the *best* code that could possibly be written? Probably not. Does it work as intended? Yes.

Aesop wrote a fable about you a couple of thousand years ago.

Lobbying is big business in Washington, and somebody has done some pretty successful lobbying by the sound of this. I guess when the leader of a country is unabashedly open for bribes, it should be no surprise if lower minions can be bought as well.

Having a Microsoft account at install time goes hand-in-hand with Microsoft enabling drive encryption by default. You'll want to have a place where you can retrieve the BitLocker key that you didn't know you had.