It's just ordinary slang.

"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.

All of the chargers that I've stopped at in BC (in between cities) have been in big open areas or parks where you can walk your dog. The OnRoute stops also have green areas.

I greatly suspect that the thing you're asking for is actually not any sort of problem at all, you just haven't looked into it so you don't know. I'm not gonna do your homework for you (more than I already have) but you can actually just search for this stuff. Or, frankly, you can just set out and not worry about it, because a) your car isn't going to take 30 minutes to charge; and b) you're likely to end up near some green space anyway. Just pick up after your dog. That's what people walking their dogs in the city do when the dog doesn't wait for a park or a lawn.

Have you? We live in a society, my guy. Just because you lack planning skills doesn't mean that everyone else should have to choke on your exhaust. Electricity (even from coal plants) is cleaner and more efficient than burning petrol in an engine. It's also much cheaper than gasoline. But in all likelihood, your state has SOME mix of renewable power in there, which just makes it better.

Anyway, if you just plug your car in at home, you leave with a full charge every day. It's LESS time spent filling up.

I lived in an apartment in Montreal. I had street parking. The building had an outdoor socket. I would park near my building whenever I could because I actually drove my car so little that I needed to string a power cable to run a battery charger. I got around the sidewalk blocking by throwing it over the branch of a nearby tree, but I could've found a dozen other ways to do it.

But look, you're not wrong that it's stupid that I even had to do that much. People should have better access to charging. But frankly, the amount you need to charge an EV is surprisingly minimal. There are dozens of level 2 chargers in my city (of 30k--I moved away from Montreal) and many of them are even free; a perk of patronizing one of the businesses in town. The ones that aren't free are pretty cheap. Level 2 isn't fast, but it's enough to keep you on the road. Even a level 3 charger in the middle of nowhere (there's long stretches of nowhere in Canada, and in some of those nowheres, the government has built chargers) costs half as much per unit distance as petrol.

Cities should build more infrastructure for people that park on the street, 100%, no argument. But you really just don't need to care very much, it turns out. Small sips of power here and there will keep you going for a long time.

Listen, ding-dongs, the 'explanation' is ALSO just generated pseudo-random text. It's still just telling you what it thinks you want to hear based on some training data and network weights. It can't introspect, it can't tell you why, it has no memory of doing anything, per se. It goes back and looks at the log maybe, or more likely it just reads that you want an explanation for something and just creates it based on that little bit of text.

I bet you could go to any LLM, tell it to pretend that this whole ordeal is that chatbot's backstory, and it would spin you the same yarn.

IT'S HALLUCINATIONS ALL THE WAY DOWN.

Can these things write some pretty okay code sometimes? Sure, yeah. Can you trust any 'reasoning'? NO. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Just proof that AMERICAN government is bad.

Other governments all over the world manage to build rail systems, it's just here in North America that we're deeply useless.

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.

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