Or work for NASA...

I'm not sure you understand what jailbreaking means in the context of AIs. It means prompts. E.g. asking it things and trying to get it to make inappropriate responses. Trying doesn't require any special skills, just an ability to communicate. Yes, I very much DO think most parents will try and see if they can get the doll to say inappropriate things before giving it to their children, to make sure it's not going to be harmful.

(Now, if Mattel has done their job right, *succeeding* will be difficult)

Honest question: do you realize that nobody said any of this? I'm guessing no.

You're having an argument with intrusive thoughts inside your own brain.

And losing.

Next time before posting, review to see if you're doing this again, and probably discard your post.

For a carrier Skipper there are no abstractions in this matter. The ship they command is of the greatest value in the Navy and quite possibly the single most valuable and useful asset in all the military. If someone could get on the dock, gain access to the vessel, and place, even the most minimal IED, there are many who would consider that to be a great victory. A day's delay in deployment could be useful or detrimental. The only similar object our military has, similar in value and purpose, would be nuclear submarines. Submarines. And you don't get near one of those ever, unless security is broken down or you're a traitor. And they are never considered safe or secure, they are always under threatened. Therefore military speaking they might as well be in theater. Just call it what it is.

Well, one point is that your typical combat user probably doesn't know how to run a trace and work through a seg fault. More importantly, however, military software can be pretty expensive because it's not built to be fixable. It's built not to fail. Flight control systems don't generally present much in the way of error messages, they can't fail. Even common everyday stuff can give you trouble, stories of command centers on Harley Burke cruisers giving up Windows blue screens. That's pretty inexcusable but I got to tell you using Windows as a desktop has been surprisingly better for me ever. Using Linux as a desktop just challenges me to learn completely new and different ways to do things, some of which are not obvious and not intuitive. And it's going to take time for everyone to get used to the new paradigms that are going to come with it. There are little things that a lot of experienced users because they're more mentally agile than I am just blow through without a trouble at all. But then in combat, you're not thinking about your tools. As much as you're thinking about the situation. The open source advantage is that the military can in fact reach in and work through it. But there's no inherent advantage in usability because it's still just software

That may be so. But they are involved in some sort of unspeakable relationship. A few months ago, when Cloudflare was loading some garbage from a hacker site, Google published an article coming to their defense.

P.S. Slashdot's mobile site is still pretty iffy (ClownFlare errors thrown). Had to switch to desktop site to post this

Do you actually know the connection between open source software and random inexplicable and enigmatic error messages? No you don't, there isn't one. Open source software for military systems has a great deal of appeal and makes a lot of sense. You must not get out much if you think open source software has better error messages or even error handling necessarily. As with all software, it's only as good as those who develop it. If not open source, at least the military should have access to the source.

I'm familiar with some organizations that have been feeding their Slack data into a RAG for employee queries.

They're going to be quite pissed if this has been shut down by Slack.

They already do. As we know, however, there are no promises. Software support can be withdrawn in a moment. Spare parts, not in inventory. It's really not even about money I'm afraid, the military will pay. But will the vendors even honor their contracts, or just say 'but a new one'... If a new one exists.

I think I'm making this seem as complicated as it is.

What if it's in the software/firmware? Navy techs got locked out because the controller detected a hardware failure and put the oven in a "safe" mode. Now you need vendor expertise and/or special tools to reset it. Because it's a modified civilian version and they can't afford the liability of some h.s. dropout stoner "fixing" an oven at Papa Johns and burning the place down.

CVNs are a high value target. They are always in theater, even at dock.

Actually, if our military unilaterally exercised a 'right to repair' for commercially available items, soon enough they would find that no manufacturer that relied on service revenue would offer them to the military, and if they did, likely for substantially higher costs, to 'recover' that lost service revenue.

Beyond the simple 'we bought it, we own it, we need to fix it', there is the somewhat simpler imperative - in war, you succeed or fail. Failure is costly. Unable to feed your crew, do you withdraw? And what are the consequences of that withdrawal? Failure is not an option, and that is not a platitude.

It's a failure of our military that they permit such things to occur at all. Not perhaps the Navy, but other branches, and for the Navy perhaps onshore, too much has been delegated to civilian contractors. Food service is one obvious example. And a common explanation I have heard is that enlistment is so challenged that there are not enough personnel to do 'all that'. Oh, downstream of failed leadership, I think. Leadership is crucial.

If you've paid attention, you know that McDonalds has had trouble keeping ice cream machines running, being hostage to the manufacture and software. For a frikin ice cream machine. Stupid.

And if you're aware of that, you might also be aware of John Deere masking every effort to prevent farmers form repairing their equipment, which during harvest can result in hours waiting for a technician, and lost crops. Lost money. Inexcusable. And again, software.

Right To Repair is going to be essential going on, the simplest things are becoming complex. Home automation suffers from vendor lock-in, and when the support revenue stream dries up, they capriciously 'end of life' items, and that's that, you're abandoned. No promise prevents this.

Our military needs to require this and enforce such contracts. To do otherwise is to risk their troops' lives, and ours.

Correct. Now look down the timeline and conclude that I'm correct.

>And now she only has a staffer repost her most propagandistically acceptable X posts once a month or so.

Correct. And they were until the 1960s revisionism. Pick up almost any political book from Hitler's era, and it will talk about him as a leftist.

This comes from how left - right axis was determined until postmodern rehabilitation of communism. It referred to position from King's perspective in France. To the right sat the royalists, to the left progressives.

And all mainline Marxist ideologies are progressive. They wish to progress the world from monarchy toward something new.

Funniest part is that fascists don't actually care at all about race. National Socialists do.

Fascism socializes people fully. That makes race irrelevant by default. This is why majority of fascist regimes didn't prosecute Jews for racial reasons.

Italian fascists in fact despaired about this fact while Hitler was alive. "Fascism doesn't need delusion of race" was a rallying cry there when they realized where Hitler was going with his race purges.

But modern left doesn't know about this either. All they know is post-modern Marxist rehabilitated version of history.

Again, fascism, communism and postmodern far left Marxism all come from exact same place. The sole point of disagreement between them is what should be fully socialized for the marxist utopia to arrive. Fascists believe people as a whole need to be socialized. Communists believe that all property should be socialized. Modern far left believes that all inherent traits you're born with should be socialized.

This is why out of the three, the only inherently racist movement is postmodern far left. Communists and fascists fundamentally try to erase inherent differences under their model of socialization, whereas modern far left makes them the point from which socialization needs to be organized. Communists and Fascists only arrive at racism when they inevitably hit the point of the fact that we're biological animals rather than supernatural beings, and therefore perform inherently differently. For Communists you usually get things that range from "gulags for hostile ethnicities" of Stalin to Stakhanovite movement, for Fascists you get everything from Hitler's to Peron. I.e. both extremes of "extreme destruction" and "mild favoritism" as well as "nothing" are options in Communism and Fascism.

And neutrality is not an option for post modern far left, as it specifically uses inherent characteristics as sole/main determinant for purposes of establishing Marxist oppressor-oppressed axis.

And because postmodern far left knows nothing of history but revisionism of postmodern far left writers, they all believe in some variant of "real communism has never been tried". As seen above:

"Communism killed a lot of people? No it did not."