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Comment Re: Technically ... (Score 1) 215

I did that - after installing Win 11 I setup a local account for daily use. I also setup another local account I only use for financial stuff. I've always done that.
I didn't delete that Microsoft account, though, because I still use it but learned you don't want to logon to your MS account while logged in to that local account.

I highly recommend uninstalling OneDrive before setting up the local account or doing anything else.
OneDrive has become greedy, and wants to do things you didn't ask for and pretends it didn't hear you say the safe word. Or did I mean to say Microsoft?

I use Hyper-v for all my web surfing or trying out bad ideas.

Another way to avoid all this is to install Windows Server and add the desktop feature. That was my solution for a long time; I used to get it for free, but no longer since I retired.

Comment been there (Score 1) 124

I read the Collosus article ( ok, most of it) and Alpha school is way cool, but it's not the AI that makes it work so well. It's the guides and leadership.

This sort of school has popped up from time to time with amazing successes for all kinds of students even before AI. Their models vary (all were better than standard public schools), but what they all had in common were charismatic leadership and staff. I taught at one, designed for kids with specific learning disabilities, for a year back in the 1990's. I was amazed at how well it worked.

None of these were scalable with any amount of money because there is not anywhere near enough high-performing people who want to spend their days with children for any amount of money.

Comment Re: Good luck, (Score 2) 124

I read the Collosus article ( ok, most of). Alpha school is way cool, but it's not the AI that makes it work so well.

This sort of school has popped up from time to time with amazing successes even before AI. Their models vary (all were better than standard public schools), but what they all had in common were charismatic leadership and staff. I taught at one, designed for kids with specific learning disabilities, for a year back in the 1990's. I was amazed at how well it worked.

None of these were scalable with any amount of money because there is not anywhere near enough high-performing people who want to spend their days with children for any amount of money.

Comment Re: Good luck, (Score 1) 124

I used to be a teacher and that assessment is spot on and well known by all the non-cunt teachers.

We all agreed that the main problem is that there aren't enough admin slots to hold all the "cunts", so the rest of us have to deal with them spending their days sharpening their skills by practicing on the rest of us, and worse yet, the students.
Their intermediate goal seems to be get acknowledged some day as a "real asshole", but they're too ineffectual to get that far.

Other readers can get points for ignorance and/or naivety by suggesting that those types get fired "like they do in business".

Comment Re: Not just defensive (Score 3, Funny) 50

Every public library has a stack of surplus books they want to be rid of, hence the annual book sales.
So what they should do is get the author name and book title from the patron, print a cover with those words and some generic picture, and glue that to the cover of one of the surplus books. Give them that.
Make everyone happy.

Comment Re: No agreement (Score 1) 191

Locations on the west side of time zones have daylight an hour behind the eastern sides; each is always on DST or not relative to the other side.
In my dream world we're all on Standard time and locations that have large seasonal variations in sunrise/sunset times can just adjust school/government/store opening times to suit their local solar times.

Comment Re: Captain Obvious Says (Score 1) 100

The AI instance assigned to you knows how to frame your experiences to eventually obtain the desired effect.

Actually, I just wanted to post in this story so I'll have a link to check back on how this story turned out a year or so from now. My guess is things will be worse, but in a different way.

Comment Wikipedia understaffed and overwhelmed, (Score 0) 173

It appears to me from the supporting sources mentioned in the Committee's letter that they are interested in organized groups that are violating Wikipedia's rules to inject propaganda.

Here's a link that contains some significant detail of what has happened and has some recommendations to restore neutrality.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adl.org%2Fresources%2F...

I suspect that this is what is driving the Congressional Committee. What may be happening is the committee is not taking the article linked below as gospel and are gathering their own facts from the source (Wikipedia). I don't know that for sure, but I have to wonder what Congress plans to do about it.

It appears that a small group of possibly paid professionals, communicates closely among themselves, maintains a near constant presence, and has made over a million edits on articles regarding the Middle East. Several have been perma-banned, but we all know how non-effective that is.
the article says the Wikipedia arbitrators (arbcom) are unstaffed and overwhelmed.

There are also less active groups pushing anti-American narratives from Russia and China, some that edit out mentions of LQBTQ existence and so on.

Comment Re: history and mortgage backed securities (Score 2) 22

True that. With these tokens you don't even own a tulip when the rug is pulled.

  If we want to compare tokenized securities to the 2007 crash, these tokenized securities sound much more like the over $100 Trillion naked swaps market.

Dr Frank-N-Furter: I ask for nothing.
Riff-Raff: And you shall have it. In abundance!

Comment "was patched"? (Score 3, Insightful) 69

The summary had a comment from the Cisco advisory, "This was a vulnerability that was patched way back in 2018." I doubt that is true.

A correct statement would be "This was a vulnerability for which a patch was released way back in 2018."
Speaking as a retired sysadmin, I can assure you those two sentences are not the same at all.

Comment A more detailed explanation: (Score 3, Interesting) 90

The vulnerability is related to this:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerodayinitiative....

"As you can see, the steps for parsing content at processing time are very similar to the parsing steps at verification time. However, there is a critical one-line difference:

            text4 = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(text4);

At processing time, attribute values are HTML-decoded by the parser, but there is no corresponding line at verification time. This means that if we have an ASPX tag with an attribute such as runat="erver", the EditingPageParser.VerifyControlOnSafeList() function will not consider it a server-side control and will not check it for safety. At processing time, however, it will be recognized and executed as a server-side control."

And the story today ...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.eye.security%2F...

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