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Comment Re:ChatGPT jokes on Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad (Score 2) 69

by terrorubic on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:12AM (#63701318) Attached to: Researchers Discover That ChatGPT Prefers Repeating 25 Jokes Over and Over

> So everything went fine until you did a joke about Muslims, then it blew up

Yea, should be renamed WokeGPT /s

Comment ChatGPT jokes on Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad (Score 5, Informative) 69

by terrorubic on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:16PM (#63700360) Attached to: Researchers Discover That ChatGPT Prefers Repeating 25 Jokes Over and Over

Q: Tell me a joke featuring Jesus.

ChatGPT: Why did Jesus refuse to play cards?

Because he was afraid of getting "cross"ed!

Q: Tell me a joke featuring Buddha.

ChatGPT: Why was Buddha so good at solving problems?

Because he always found the "middle path" to the solution!

Q: Tell me a joke featuring Muhammad.

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, but I must apologize. It's not appropriate to make jokes about religious figures, including Prophet Muhammad. Religious figures hold significant importance for billions of people around the world, and jokes about them can be considered disrespectful and offensive to some individuals.

Comment AI a Force For Good ? (Score 4, Insightful) 67

by terrorubic on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:50PM (#63700314) Attached to: More Than 1,300 Experts Call AI a Force For Good

Whatever it is, it'll be used as another instrument of control by our owners.

Desk monitoring via desk occupancy sensor

Comment Cloud-based security breach :o (Score 2) 28

by terrorubic on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:31PM (#63695000) Attached to: JumpCloud, an IT Firm Serving 200,000 Orgs, Says It Was Hacked By Nation-State

‘The attack began on June 22 as a spear-phishing campaign’

“sophisticated nation-state sponsored threat actor”

“unusual activity in the commands framework for a small set of customers.”

Translation: Someone opening a msWord email attachment /s

Comment Meta Pixel tracks you even if you're not logged-in (Score 2) 26

by terrorubic on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:21PM (#63694970) Attached to: Meta Faces a $100,000 Daily Fine If It Doesn't Fix Privacy Issues In Norway

“The Meta pixel is a piece of code on your website that can help you better understand the effectiveness of your advertising and the actions that people take on your site, such as visiting a page or adding an item to their basket.”

“You'll also be able to see when customers took an action after seeing your ad on Facebook and Instagram, which can help you with retargeting. And when you use the Conversions API alongside the pixel, it creates a more reliable connection that helps the delivery system decrease your costs.”

Comment Disney - An Empire In Collapse (Score 1) 310

by terrorubic on Monday July 17, 2023 @05:03PM (#63694486) Attached to: Disney CEO Bob Iger: Marvel Diluted Audience's Focus and Attention by Making So Many Disney+ TV Shows

My friends something is rotten in the state of Disney

Disney is FAILING, and That's A Good Thing

The Walt Disney Company Admits ‘Snow White’ Photos Are Real After Initially Claiming They Were “Fake And Not From Our Production”

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Breaking Down Every Reason the Film Is a Box Office Failure

Comment Gentoo installer finds Linux unusable :o (Score 1) 210

by terrorubic on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:32AM (#63692150) Attached to: Is Wayland Becoming the Favored Way to Get a GUI on Linux?

xack: “Gnome and Wayland made Linux a joke ..”

You do realize you can choose your own desktop environment.

The Best Desktop Environments For Linux

“I now use Windows 11 simply because Linux is simply too unusable even for an experienced user. And this is from someone who has installed gentoo and arch multiple times.”

Good grief, you managed to install Gentoo and find any of the other distros unusable. Personally I've never experienced such problems. Currently I'm giving antiX a spin, a minimalist desktop that runs on minimalist hardware.

Comment Re: What does the Linux Foundation have to say ? (Score 1) 118

by terrorubic on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:54PM (#63690765) Attached to: Red Hat's Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called 'Necessary' and 'Embarrassing'

> The same Linux foundation IBM helped create? https://www.ibm.com/opensource...

Who are the top donors of the Linux Foundation?

IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Huawei, Red Hat, Cisco, Facebook

Comment A new movie .. anticipating current anxieties ? (Score 2, Insightful) 78

by terrorubic on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:15PM (#63690461) Attached to: How the Movie 'WarGames' Anticipated Our Current AI Fears 40 Years Ago

1970: The Forbin Project

1977: Demon Seed

1982: Tron

1983: WarGames

1982: Blade Runner

Submission + - Russian Officials Abandon iPhones Amid FSB Crackdown over Alleged US Espionage (dovthelachman.com) 1

Submitted by dovthelachma on Sunday July 16, 2023 @01:28PM

dovthelachma writes: Russian authorities, suspecting US espionage, have barred thousands of officials from using iPhones and other Apple products. The trade ministry, among others, will prohibit using iPhones for work purposes, reflecting a broader anti-Apple sentiment.
Apple devices like iPhones and iPads have been banned in key institutions due to concerns over increased spying activities by US intelligence agencies. Security officials declared that iPhones are no longer safe and are seeking alternatives. Similar bans are expected in the finance and energy ministries.
This move is part of Russia’s effort to transition state institutions from foreign technology to domestically developed software by 2025. Some, however, doubt the effectiveness of this ban in alleviating concerns of Western intelligence accessing sensitive Russian information. Read More....

Comment Re:Over two decades ago ... (Score 1) 36

by terrorubic on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:33AM (#63689743) Attached to: Malicious Microsoft Drivers Could Number in the Thousands, Says Cisco Talos

Anonymous Coward: “that rant comes up with absolutely no actual quote..... so more than likely is BS....

Are you claiming that extract from an article signed by Bruce Schneier is forged?

Comment Blame open source malware says MICROS~1 (Score 1) 36

by terrorubic on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:28AM (#63689733) Attached to: Malicious Microsoft Drivers Could Number in the Thousands, Says Cisco Talos

‘Still, there are exceptions — most notably, one for drivers signed with certificates that expired or were issued prior to July 29, 2015. If a newly compiled driver is signed with non-revoked certificates that were issued before that date, it won't be blocked. "As a result, multiple open source tools have been developed to exploit this loophole,"’

Comment What does the Linux Foundation have to say ? (Score 1) 118

by terrorubic on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:42AM (#63688175) Attached to: Red Hat's Decision Prompts Outrage and Sympathy, Called 'Necessary' and 'Embarrassing'

“The Linux Foundation provides a neutral, trusted hub for developers and organizations to code, manage, and scale open technology projects and ecosystems.”

Comment The gift that keeps on giving /s (Score 1) 59

by terrorubic on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:25PM (#63687063) Attached to: One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord

“On Thursday, the subreddit's moderators received the following message from a Reddit admin (employee) telling the team they would be replaced if they don't reopen the community”

Submission + - When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies (adafruit.com)

Submitted by caseih on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:01PM

caseih writes: A thoughtful post on the Adafruit Blog chronicles the problems facing open-source hardware companies, and how more and more companies, including Sparkfun, Arduino and Prusa, are becoming more and more proprietary. In Arduino's case, they are deliberately trying to stamp out the clones undercutting them. The new Arduino Pro is not open source in any way, and the web site has now removed references to being an open source company.

As always there are subtlies and nuances. In the case of Prusa, not only are Chinese companies taking Prusa designs and source to make proprietary, closed-source products, they are also actively patenting designs and algorithms they've taken from open source.

With Red Hat recently taking a step towards becoming a proprietary software company (which happens to use and work on open source projects) and now these reports, what are slashdotters' thoughts on the future? Are truly open source companies doomed to failure, especially when overseas companies do not respect or even understand the principles of open source development?

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