Dude. Give it up. The money was stolen and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it (FSLIC anyone?). Stop whining and start stealing. Everyone else is.

I used to believe like you do and I still behave that way; however, is 'ethics' really a thing anymore? All day, every day, I see unethical actions that nobody addresses. Look at how Bin Laden was captured. Nary a peep out of anyone. Look at how Supreme Court justices are somehow fortunate enough to be able to have 'friends' who gift them things a common person could only dream of. I will not even mention 'he who should not be named'. Congress is a mess of unethical actions that they can not even be investigated for anymore. ABSCAM anyone? What about the straight up looting of the Social Security fund. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is all safe in government bonds... and yet somehow or another, even just 10 years after the law passed that allowed it, there were cries about how the Social Security fund would be insolvent. When that law was passed, the Social Security fund had 300 billion dollars in excess funds. Once that money became part of the General Fund (through Bonds), it all evaporated.

No, there is nothing ethical about this world. I feel like a sucker for trying to be ethical within it.

What does 'awake' mean in relation to a thermostat? It is clear what it means in relation to a human or animal, not so clear with plants or microorganisms, but an inanimate object?

Heh, back when I was a wee college freshman in the before times, one of my first jobs was helping a delivery company implement a new trial computer logging system for their trucks. Cadec. It had a steel computer terminal mounted on the dash with an LED display and numeric keypad and a slot for a large steel cartridge that contained the memory for the log. The truckers took the cartridges in the morning and handed them back in at night. I then downloaded the data to the, ONE, PC the delivery company had for logging and printing the nightly reports. That lasted just under 10 months when 80% of the systems broke the speedometers/tachometers in the trucks. Because they had spliced in the analog sensors to the cables... by design.

Only if he does not pay enough money to the right people. He is stupid, so he may make that mistake; however, it is perfectly clear that if you give the right amount of money to the right amount of people, you can do whatever you want without concern.

Good point. We have absolutely no history of having sailors constantly painting those steel structures to keep them protected from the harsh environment. No sir. All of those steel structures are protected once and then forgotten about. No need for constant maintenance.

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Ah interesting, never seen that before! I've just turned it on to see how annoying it is.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'auth' here, but on my PCs (Windows 10):

It does require auth for passkeys, I think every time, but not for regular saved passwords in the browser. I have Windows Hello set up for a couple passkeys and I have to auth via Hello when I use them.

But I have regular saved passwords for almost every other website I use routinely and am not prompted to auth via Hello for that. My understanding is that for these, the auth/unlock is done once at user login and then the session has access to the unencrypted passwords.

(I posted elsewhere in this thread about Chrome using DPAPI as of 2024 - this was news to me so it's possible I'm just way out of date).

Been trying to figure out how Chrome does this because my recollection was that Chrome had the exact same problem - I remember making a similar point to you in forum threads a couple years back with people complaining about it then.

It looks like in 2024, Chrome added support for something called the Data Protection API (DPAPI), which provides some mitigation against arbitrary memory reads:

It's not clear from my quick read if this defends against this class of "attack" in all cases but it reads like it might provide at least some protection?

If that is the case, it of course raises the question why Microsoft - who created DPAPI in the first place - wouldn't use that same service in the same way. (i.e. maybe it just sucks and they know it's a waste of time :)

Is there a reason why Don Ho doesn't like the port?

I can understand him being upset at the misappropriation of his Trademarks, and I think he should protect them. It's all good.

However, is there something wrong with the port? Wouldn't a more 'progressive' option to be to accept the pull request and start advertising MacOS compatibility as part of the main project?

Is it just junk code? Is it too divergent? Does he specifically NOT want ports to other OSes?

(Or maybe it was never offered and Letov won't allow the collaboration. But, in that cause couldn't Ho fork Letov and consume it anyway?)

I am not entirely certain that this claim is true. It is clearly true in the case that you are looking for content that you are not familiar with by 'people' that you are not familiar with, and yet, somehow or another, I do not see any AI content on YouTube. Occasionally, I will see suggestions on the sidebar that are pretty clearly AI generated, but again, I do not watch them. It took clicking on only 1 to recognize all of them. Humans and human generated content have a uniqueness to them that AI content can not imitate.

Oh, there is one AI generated video that I watch from time to time. It is based on the song War Pigs by Black Sabbath. I think it was created by someone named Gabrielle Marie. Fantastic visualizations. Really moody and artistic.

Words and consciousness have no relationship. Words are 2 dimensional while consciousness is 3 dimensional. Ever woke up from a dream and try to explain to someone else what happened in your dream? As you try to explain it, the dream recedes and your explanation becomes nonsensical. That is because words are 2 dimensional while the dream is your full consciousness expressing itself.

Long story short, Hinton had nothing useful to say to back up your claim.

"It's totally different in a place like the US. We have more land than we could reasonably populate and plenty of natural resources. We could absorb enormous numbers of people and we would be better off for it."

We're running out of water. No where in the West (except maybe PNW) has enough water for the people they have already. Any growth will just exacerbate that. Lotsa land. No water.

The problem is games distributed on physical media is a thing of the past and newer consoles have no disc drives at all. Nintendo has physical media with memory cards still but many of their newer cards are just empty cards with download codes for the digital copy (and you still need the card in the unit to play the game!).

It'd be one thing if you could download the title and be done with it but now they increasingly want you to stay connected to the mothership and re-authenticate your purchase.

I'm trying to figure out why they're requiring a "check in" every 30 days to retain your digital software that you PURCHASED.

Is this some sort of piracy prevention so users can't copy the games out to other consoles? That kind of piracy can't be any worse than the physical game copying or yore so what kind of money could they possibly be saving by screwing over their customers like this?