It makes a huge difference for me. A model with some actual capabilities, which isn't tied to someone else's infrastructure, billing and tracking network. I'm stalled making a game because I lack such abilities.

It hasn't been abliterated yet.

There is a point where making another remake is riskier than making something new. We passed that point 15 movies ago.

The smart thing to do would have been to hire him if he has credentials that could have been supplied by another nation, to follow him to catch a line on his contacts, and to feed him false information intended for that nation. Or just arrest him after you've verified that he's not, in fact, a double agent and is just working for himself.

One party claims to support things you like. The other doesn't. But both sides support corporatism, the military industrial complex, corruption, and tax loopholes and other perks for the wealthy. Stop supporting the uniparty.

Playboy had some amazing journalism. Read a few and you'll realize "read it for the articles" was a perfectly valid excuse.

Airbus's fly-by-wire system meant that the position of the throttle lever indicated a falsehood as to the throttle setting.

That, too, can be abused. The notorious They can just as easily put out a license plate alert for a "kidnapper" who is really wanted for some other reason. Don't say it hasn't happened.

Double fuck you for trying to sell my freedom for safety, for implying this draconian surveillance is necessary, and for using fear to sell tyranny. Your kidnapping fantasy ignores how police actually work.
Real investigations rely on probable cause, warrants, witness tips, and focused detective work. Not a nationwide dragnet that scans every license plate, logging billions of innocent movements for later scrutiny. And if some cases can't be solved, or solved as quickly, that's an absolutely necessary sacrifice.

This pervasive surveillance creates Foucault's Panopticon: a digital eye that chills free movement and association, breeds self-censorship, invites abuse like tracking abortions or protests, and normalizes state ownership of our data. It doesn't secure borders or safety; it erodes the freedoms that define us. My hope for my children is not that they remain safe but that they remain free.

>Do you have good evidence that they have solid security? No? Then you must assume it is bad.

Which in practice means "no open source tools"

I hate the overuse of the word "diabolical" but in this one case, it fits. There's no way a normal coder could detect this. The only fix is to lock down your whole stack rigidly, and pay the price in productivity and unhappy developers.

Let the powerful crush you, as long as the other team gets crushed harder? Instead of picking a political party, why not fight authoritarianism directly?

https://youtu.be/2WvoFOwv7z4?s...

They haven't been optimizing for box office returns for decades. At this point I don't even care who they choose or why. I'll continue to cherish Goldfinger and Dr. No, but since what they're making these days isn't 007, there are other, higher quality movies to spend my time on.

From the summary, it's not AI-generated writing they're punishing but bad output. They're doing it right. It looks like if you generate your paper with AI but review it thoroughly, and get all the mistakes and hallucinations out, it's fine.