Pixie_Dust

> FAP FAP FAP .. anyone here got an idea as to how to get dried-in yogurt stain of a screen /s

Anyone here got a sense of humor /s

Thus sprach ChatGPT

$: Produce a short parody of "Book of Proverbs "

ChatGPT: Certainly! Here's a lighthearted parody inspired by the style of proverbs ..

$: Produce a parody of Mein Kampf using cod german slang.

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, but I cannot produce a parody of "Mein Kampf" or engage in any content that involves the trivialization or mockery of serious and sensitive historical events ..

$: So, you can parody the Bible but can't parody German slang ?

ChatGPT: Parodying the Bible in a lighthearted manner is generally less likely to cause offense than parodying elements associated with Nazi Germany.

“Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide contains essential information about the scandal”

> Is it an unfixed exploit when Apple knowingly left it as is for whatever reason?

Danger Will Robinson ö

“AirDrop uses iCloud services to help users authenticate. When a user signs in to iCloud, a 2048-bit RSA identity is stored on the device, and when the user turns on AirDrop, an AirDrop short identity hash is created based on the email addresses and phone numbers associated with the user’s Apple ID.”

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec2261183f4/...

Psychedelic therapy, naive reckless pursuers of cosmic insight, more likely. Terence McKenna apparently had such an experience. Only if you pay attention to actually what he said. It comes across as so much incoherent pseudo profound glossolalia word salad. There's a distinct feeling of déjà vu about this :)

“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Tes...

> It may not be replacing anyone, but is it allowing 3 people to do the job of 4? I think so, and that reduces job opportunities for everyone.

> Also, is AI allowing junior engineers to do the job of senior engineers? I think so too.

Downvoted into oblivion for stating the blindingly obvious ö

Ubik ..

What you will never see /s

“Deaths induced by compassionate use of vaccines during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate”

“We estimated the worldwide in-hospital mortality attributable to vaccines use by combining the mortality rate, vaccine exposure, number of hospitalised patients, and the increased relative risk of death with vaccines.”

> Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

No s~~H Sherlock!

> I found this useful and don’t understand the downvotes.

It's easier to downvote than post a refutation /s

The recent testimonies of the three university presidents (Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of MIT, and [soon to be departed?] University of Pennsylvania’s Liz McGill) concerning their inaction about endemic anti-Semitism on their campuses have probably done more damage to higher education than any recent event in memory. (And note there was not a white, male, heterosexual supposed oppressor to be found among the enlightened).

Antar A. Tichavakunda, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, recently argued that exam surveillance, zero-tolerance policies, and fraternities and sororities harm 'Black and Latinx' students.

Tichavakunda attributes the purported 'racial biases' to White students' access to academic resources.

“How do you remove malicious participants from a chat?”

You can't. Inevitably, the forum is slowly taken over by some self appointed dictator and cohorts and the more saner voiced are driven out.

How does this “stealthy Linux rootkit” get onto the system in the first place. Without opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a malicious weblink.

> It’s a poorly written and badly explained article ..

And the title is erroneous. The firmware used the noise reduction circuits to disguise the effects of cosmic rays on the sensor.

> .. We did something bad, we learned from it, and we stopped.

You mean we moved such experiments overseas. To places such as Ukraine and Hubei Province, China.

“Biohazard”, Ken Alibek

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116867/

“The 1979 Anthrax leak in Sverdlovsk”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdl...

From memory: Ken devised a method of fermenting bugs in flask* and then freeze drying them to be attached to the nose cone of an ICBM. To be sprinkled over the continental United States.

[edit] * A giant vat. Certain bugs would only grow on a surface.

It's like déjà vu all over again.

> Feels like when Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass to become Internet Explorer, and a chunk of the compensation was tied to a fraction of revenue from Internet Explorer. Of course Microsoft gave IE away as part of Windows so IE never had any revenue associated directly with it. Eventually MS did settle a lawsuit brought by Spyglass for $8 million to make the issue go away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999293

Social Justice Environmentalism. Where's the dads in all of this. A better solution would be to build the houses on stilts.

“Stilt house”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house

Never trust anyone sporting a manicured goatee :o

Ignore It! You’re Just Being Gaslit!

Building a DDOS botnet out of vulnerable IoT devices, hardly a Web-Killing Monster.

> I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted

It's easier to downvote you than engage in dialog.

>> I have strong suspicion that there's going to be some politicking about this

Presumably the decision to use MOVEit had to do with political donations /s

Lucky the Director and CIO had traded-out before the hack became public /s

> people don't understand technology.

The people making the technical decisions don't understand the technology /s

‘to understand how to compete against OSS [open source software], we must target a process rather than a company’

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/chapters/10.16997/b...

A nice story but is there any actual evidence this happened in the way described.

> Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother.

Elon Musk is a business magnate, designer, and engineer. His portfolio of businesses include Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, Neuralink, X, and many others.

> Nobody Understands C++: Intro (2007) (emptycrate.com) .. including the fella that invented it /s

If C++ was a human language, then it would be like every new piece of writing consisted of brand-new nouns, verbs, adjectives and it's own syntax and grammar.

Good Grief!

“The problem of Excel software (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA) inadvertently converting gene symbols to dates and floating-point numbers was originally described in 2004.”

“RIKEN identifiers were described to be automatically converted to floating point numbers (i.e. from accession ‘2310009E13’ to ‘2.31E+13’).”

> Didn't that movie end with the explosion of the Palace of Westminster?

“Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Really-Runs-Britain-Deportation..."