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These include gems like:

* Vulnerability code changes are disclosed on the Internet
* Buffer overflow in Strcpy (which didn't get reproduced)
* Vulnerabilities that exist, but the code identified as the cause didn't appear in the codebase
* Local file accessed using file://
* And the latest: Cookies leaking from 127.0.0.1 to 127.000.000.001

"If you do not do anything for me, why should I give you money?"

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, âoeit is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."

"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"

"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."

"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very busy, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."

"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"

"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.

I will support economic fairness rather than handouts

Economic fairness may refer to: Equal opportunity, Economic equity, or Economic justice. In all three of these, it most likely requires taxing those that prevent them, and giving handouts to where it's needed.

But regardless, you'll quickly hit a road block. Because you have affinity to "If you do not do anything for me, why should I give you money", it will be used by any rich person that hoards as much money as possible, including those that caused inflation at the grocery store level. With the added bonus of them not even wanting to pay those who gave them stuff (e.g. Donald Trump stiffing worker's wages.)

As such, you should answer your own question before applying it as a purity test for just one side.

both sides are stupid

ENLIGHTENED CENTRISM

So... you think that just because someone feeds a prompt to an "AI" thing, and has it generate a video, that causes an increase in the amount of electricity that rack of computers 'someplace' uses?

CPUs and GPUs can be idle. While they're idle, they consume less electricity, generate less heat, which causes the cooling system to likewise use less electricity.

Additionally, a server farm that doesn't need all servers running can have some of the servers power down, thus saving more electricity than simply being idle.

@Sigma 7

This is not discord, nor whatever social media you're thinking about. Additionally, you don't need to use tagging when doing a direct reply on Slashdot or other normal forums, because the user is going to be aware of the reply.

I don't understand why anyone opposes this.

There's the environmental impact - autogenerated AI stuff tends to require expensive server farms that just churn CPU power endlessly. Similar to Cryptocurrency - endless CPU churning just to keep a trustless database secure.

There's the quality impact. AI Generated content would be less likely to come up with works similar to some of the D&D films where actors are coreographed to make their attacks every 6 seconds, and possibly bland or sterile as the generator chases after the most probable result.

There's the economic impact, it pulls money away from those who are skilled, and into the hands of those who are unskilled - or perhaps elite tech bros that can endlessly spin the slot machine in hopes of getting something that's accidently viral.

There's the bandwagon impact, everyone does the make-money-fast trick, and thus collapses that method of income.

There's the archival impact. Even though the number of potential books is infinite, libraries do a good job at keeping a large chunk of what's been published. Now, there's infinite content generated at the press of the button.

There's the copyright impact. If you use AI content, you don't know where's it's taken from, and authors that were trained on said AI aren't receiving anything for their work. Additionally, the AI companies take works from others, but prefer withholding their own data.

There's the bubble impact. AI companies are currently inflating themselves due to investor or stock market hype, and have a good chance to collapse.

And finally, the long-term skill impact. People are allegedly becoming dumber due to AI, likely because they take ChatGPT at their word without verifying it, and people aren't being educated in a way that lets them reproduce what's needed in the future.

It sounds like a great way for minimally skilled people to bypass being a wage slave and market in-demand product (videos) direct to consumers, thus screwing over "the man".

UBI is easier to implement. Kills wage slavery, and if corps want workers they can start paying properly rather than constantly ramming things down to minimum wage.

Extra engine power is only worth it when going above the speed limit, the real benefit is making sure the seats are warm.

If not, it's a scam to pay 7.99/month on-top of the extra engine speed.

no Steam does not delete games that you have bought and installed

Steam previously removed Order of War: Challenge from libraries.

They might not auto-delete already downloaded content, but it still means the user has to be careful not to lose their only copy.

A degree is not required if everything goes smoothly, which is not always the case.

Also, solo operations are much more susceptible to disruptions, including tasks that could otherwise generate income. Maybe one could eventually delegate everything that would take up time, but that results in another business owner that profits off the work of others.

And now there'll be a glut of workers in trade, who now have to find work, etc.

Yes, trade work is guaranteed to exist, but it also doesn't support the entire population trying to enter that field, in the same way everyone shouldn't become a doctor or some other field that could collapse due to too many workers.

Make $80,000 by age 20.

This requires either full time work, and jobs will dry up, or making one's own business which requires paperwork and keeping track of money. This paperwork is handled by a "worthless" degree.

And since someone by age 20 is either college or fresh out of high school and unlikely to own their own house, it has a similar effect to them picking a fast food job. In both cases, it's either disposable income, or simply churning paychecks.

The problem that should be addressed is: how do we ensure alerts go out to people who might actually be able to action them, and not to people who cannot?

The first step is to put tiers of alerts. Emergency alerts operate as normal, while amber alerts can be setup so that they don't awaken people but still display when the phone is checked.

This was demonstrated in Canada - the most frequent alert type received was an Amber Alert, and when it started, people had two amber alerts per child because the English version of the alert said that the French version is coming soon. One of the earliest Amber Alerts had three announcements as well, saying that the Amber Alert is now over. Oh, and these were during the night as well.

There was no way a normal user could go around it, everything was done at the "presidental" level rather than using the existing options.

might as well be getting air raid warnings for Kyiv for all the difference it makes.

It does feel like that. Amber alert for someone who's ~12 hours away if they drive by car... which would only work if they drive without stopping for breaks.

The rear view mirror blocks visibility of what's front and to the right. This makes the car rather unsafe, and it feels the mirror could at least be positioned so that it's slightly higher without obstructing the view.

This is in addition to cars being slightly difficult to see things that are up close.

They're LLM resistant, but not WolframAlpha resistant.

Just before LLMs, there was image recognition phone app that would scan a question, and be able to solve it perfectly. It was designed for calculus-level math, which was much less likely to have word problems.

You know you can just say your a government boot-licker and save us all time.

Or I could point out such claims is used by ones who think the government is one monolithic entity, at the federal, state and municipal levels, along with thinking that the courts will always backup the president and legislature, and also that it somehow spans multiple countries.

It's a little red, white and blue, without the stars and stripes.

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But you keep blindly trusting the government,

False, because I pay attention to what's going on.

I expect the US Federal Government to be hazardous for at least 2 years, maybe more. Basically, they claim to have some constitution, but are disregarding its words, and are doing noting to stop problems. By extension, those who caused the government to act in that way (i.e. the voters, especially third-party who dick around, or voters who skipped) are also bad judges of character.

The rest of us will keep working to try to keep our privacy and liberties intact.

To do that, you need to identify the most progressive individuals, and get them elected in a government that you declare is untrustworthy. Then next election, people listen to the "government is untrustworthy" propaganda, and elect the worst possible choice instead to have everything rolled back and made worse.

It's inevitable that you end up with one extreme or another when it comes to moderation

Sounds like one of those Enlightened Centrism complaints. Or a variant - in this case, implying there's only two options, and then guiding people towards the wrong one. Others might call it JAQing off (or "just asking questions" as a means to artifically inflate doubt.)

If something is owned by a democracy-based government, anything that is problematic can be corrected by voting in a different person or party. Likewise, it means you personally should avoid voting for problematic parties, as demonstrated by what happened in the USA.

Do we want to trade corporate surveillance for actual surveillance?

It's a stereotype that governments must do surveillance on every interaction. Even then, a government will immense amounts of data would know not to allow it to lea

But more importantly, that complaint is irrelevant. With social media, it's likely going to be viewable by anyone, which puts the difficulty of surveillance as easy as watching someone's twitter feed. In case of governments, simply tell a private social media to provide access.

Also who is going to use it?

For one, the government can, simply by making it their official social media contact point.

In case the government is using a type of Mastodon/Fediverse node, then users of Mastodon/Fediverse would also be using it as well, simply because another user would boost a statement by a government worker.

AI makes up things 100% of the time.

That's just a feature of Large Language Models.

Game-playing AI instead tries to figure out the "best" solution based on what inputs it has. If it tries making something up (e.g. attempts an illegal move in chess), the game server will catch it and simply reject the move, while other AIs will have already looked at more valid options.

A hallucination is when you don't like the answer.

No, a hallucination is the AI generating something completely false, as demonstrated by yet another lawyer using an AI text generator to invent fake cases and passing them off as real.

The issue with DOS is that the development tools basically ceased development around 1995.

DJGPP lasted until 2000, which is about one year after the source code of Quake was released. IIRC, it could compile the game without difficulty. And... it was an upgrade compared to pirated versions of Borland C++, Qbasic, etc.

but software written for newer tools is usually not compatible with tools from 1995.

Software written for newer tools won't be comparable with MS-DOS, considering that they usually rely on graphics, network, and many other features that expect a modern operating system.

If you have MS-DOS, you need specific libraries, or you do stuff manually. That is, manually call the interrupt table, make hooks, and so on. Also, hope that you used the right functions to unhook the interrupt table in case the game crashes, otherwise you also crash the system and need to reboot.