"the problem is not the AI, but data leaving the device."

I give you MS Recall.

"It doesn't leave the device!"

But it is available for any other process to send it off device.

if you think google isn't main-lining AI usage in Chrome, even local, you're delusional.

In Chrome, Settings->System then toggle off the Local AI option and it won't be reinstalled.

At least on Windows. I'm wondering if the file is on Android Chrome as well....

I have done none of those things and it was still on my machine.

yeah, I think I had an original Pixel, 3a, 6a and now 8pro. Won't say I run them into the ground, but long enough that a multi version upgrade is down to under 400 bucks.

and a rugged case always b/c dropsie's

heh, I did this to 'not me' once. I was trying to remember if I'd created a gmail in my normal name pattern. Finally after a few fails, I just emailed the address explaining this and just asked if there was a live person there.

They replied yes.

And silly me I believed them!

One thing the security industry utterly whiffed at was "ALL PASSWORDS MUST BE UNIQUE!" psychology.

No. They Don't. All IMPORTANT passwords need to be unique. But my /. password? is wildly similar to dozens of other website comment section passwords. There's literally no risk to me if it's discovered.

The psychology of screaming to someone a throwaway password needs to be 40 chars of random specials, means they don't follow the instructions when it IS important.

I remember back in the early *2000s* a coworker typing in their password and it was probably 20-25 seconds of pretty face paced typing. Had to have been 60+ chars. Like there was a significant noticeable pregnant pause in the small talk while they logged in.

You are correct in that figuring out the details of copyright law is like following Gandalf down with the Balrog.

The point I'm making is that being 'right' is very often utterly irrelevant to filing lawsuits.

Steamboat Willie is legally and entirely in the public domain. That doesn't stop Disney from suing anyone, bankrupting them, and then losing the suit. That's the entire strategy.

As something becomes popular, and widely known, lawyers come out of the woodwork.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I wish all RIAA lawyers were more like the Grateful Dead. Grateful and, well....

"They should be fine" unfortunately doesn't pay the lawyers bills to get to a judge making that ruling.

Bankrupting your opponent legally is a well trodden path of big business, even when you don't have a legal leg on which to stand.

not what I was referring too. The South West has multi-century wet/dry cycles and we've recently discovered the last 100-200 years has been the peak wet period. It's only getting drier for a long long time.

Record heat + severe snow deficit resulting in record low snow cover is anything but surprising.

Gonna be fun when the natural cycle is already dipping into extreme drought, such that we are now erasing the one thing that can mitigate it.

The worst states by almost every measure are GOP run. AL, MS, OK just to drop a few. Dem states are significantly better off on average.

But our problem is, you note correctly, the binary choice we have. Bad actors on both sides know that they will be handed the reins when the other side inevitably fails at something.

Support Ranked Choice Voting so we can have true 3rd party candidates with a chance to win elections.

ask yourself how much pain red state MAGA needs to feel before we see a Nixonian level shift towards Democrats...for a generation.

That's a high high bar and we aren't anywhere close to it yet.