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> Misleading clickbait heading In fact, the headline kind of underplays the significance -- everything in that time period was deleted! Including posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies, among everything else that was dele
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> But we're a mix-match of folks here, from all different walks of life. Requiring that everyone should expand all acronyms others possibly might not understand, would just be a waste of time. Exactly! Why would I waste 5 seconds o
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I mean, I wouldn't say "a lot of people" but... "normal people" absolutely make that connection, and some moderately-sized portion of them are indeed cancelling some services. The antics of the US have been a perfec
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> No wonder it was given a "ZDI-CAN" number (whatever that is) instead of an actual CVE. ZDI = Zero Day Initiative. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/published/ I don't particularily
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Ah, so you must be AI, you used the words "extreme" and "generate" in your first comment. Other words to avoid: light, alright, democracies, swap, ecology, windows, plate, projects... What a dumb time to be alive.
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This is ridiculous. Can I to say that? Or do you have a list of allowable words.
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Any time an AI product is advertised with something like "Legal Research Agents", a shiver goes up my spine. I see the testimonials (though, I don't put much faith in "Jane Doe" and "Mike Smith" testimonia
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It's called the second-chance pool. Interesting posts that don't get a lot of attention go into the pool, and are re-injected to the (lower part of the) front page. Timestamps (of the post & the comments) get updated when this
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I would not expect anyone who says "most businesses" in a sentence to be using the definition "the minority of businesses that most people work for".
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> I don’t really understand why they’re being treated as the enemy here? The gross manipulation attempt is what did it for me. " We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better
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Interesting! I didn't realize it varied between sub-disciplines of CS, I guess. Theoretical computer science and cryptography both typically do alphabetical. Maybe because of their adjacency to pure math?
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I believe alphabetical is the norm in computer science, is it not?
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> If a company doesn't know what XDR is they are probably < 100 employees. Indeed, I do cybersec consulting primarily for small to medium-sized businesses. And I would say, especially for small businesses, somewhere over half of
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> because most companies have their backup ducks in a row That is the most optimistic thing I've read in a long time! I still consult with companies storing all of the company-owned accounts (facebook, instagram, website admin, gov
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> I've yet to meet anyone, who's met anyone, who's been harmed by not turning that setting off I've yet to meet anyone, who's met anyone, who's been harmed in an airplane accident. It still happens. (No, I&
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> People don't really care about privacy, it's as simple as that. A big reason for this is that no one really explains what happens and why people should care. Typically, it's either a hand-wave to "this should be
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> This was before AI started being useful. I wonder if it would go better now. I still find most Entra (and Azure) stuff annoying. Copilot and others just regurgitate the outdated docs.
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> The distinction between programmer and software developer in government definition To save the click on what this means specifically: "In the government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and
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This is an absolutely ridiculous take, on multiple levels.
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The original comment and the reply are talking generally, not specifically about this one case.
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> Not sure why anyone would ever leave it connected to the internet though. Most people aren't techies. They buy the thing, and use it as instructed.
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This would be more applicable to death by natural causes, not death by plane accident.
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I think it was a sewer inspection van. Having said that, reading comments like this, I sometimes think it would actually be great cover. Because you have respected people, like yourself, unequivocally stating that it couldn't possibly
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Mark Klein was not some mythical hero, but a real person who did heroic things. It's nice to be reminded of that. If anything, I find it inspiring.
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I really enjoyed that show. Such a shame it was cancelled! Despite critical acclaim (in later seasons, at least), it apparently wasn't profitable enough. I actually tried to find a legal way to rewatch it the other day, but all of my c
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This is just a rewording of the "nothing to hide" argument. And your edit seems to ignore that the analysts are humans. Police get caught abusing their access to data resources for personal gain frequently, why are NSA analysts di
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I don't agree with mass collection of data of non-guilty/non-suspected citizens for "just in case" situations in the future.
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I think we all know that. We, or I at least, don't agree with it.
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> But you trust scanlation groups? Neither will give you perfect, professional-level translations. Just because neither are perfect doesn't mean they are equally bad, though.
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> Its over for scanlation groups and those that translate lightnovels. I think it might be a tad premature to say it's over for them. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, one of the more recent lightnovels I've been readin

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