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Same sort of reason that way more people use Microsoft Teams than Slack, because it's already there in something that you've paid for.
Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, only the files I actually care about protecting.
I believe users are given an option on Windows setup to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker or not. I've done an install in the last few months and seen it.
They should also be given an option of storing the keys in the cloud service tied to an account. Most would still click yes, but the fact that law enforcement can ask for those keys without your consent is an issue.
Here is a question for you though, you probably have those backup codes for services stored securely somewhere, but does everyone you know?
That's why I understand businesses requiring full disk encryption on their devices and on contractor devices, because in their case they are fine with losing data as they have many copies of it elsewhere.
One thing I disagree with the article about is that drives should not be encrypted by default. For the vast majority of people an encrypted drive is just data loss lying in wait.
I prefer to use non-encrypted drives so I have the option of popping out the disk and reading it from another system with ease, which also means that I can recover files from drives of otherwise dead systems just as easily. This is a trade off I'm willing to make over losing access to data.
I understand business uses for it, and for that they have an IT team to manage key backup and backups in general. Plus when you're using company equipment it is theirs, not yours.
To add to this, a Google search now is answering your question in an incorrect way rather than merely bringing you to a site with incorrect information on it.
They are also no longer covered by safe harbour provisions because it is them answering it, not some content they refer you to.
Very much like gambling, you can hit the jackpot, or just have continuous near (and far) misses.
In the Russian-Ukrainian war the GPS guided shells that the USA was sending to Ukraine cost about $40k a pop, where as you can get at least a dozen drones for that price.
Even the fanciest self propelled artillery is getting destroyed by these little cheap buggers.
A key point here is open in terms of being able to download and use it, not open as knowing what data and instructions were fed into it when training.
A paranoid part of me thinks that these models are all inherently biased and instructed to be pro CCP, with specific gaps in their training data related to undesirable historic events and political ideas.
They aren't going to make _this_ show, they might make another show in the future, one catering to a broader (non-core-fan) audience.
One concern I've heard about the move to ARM cores is that it is done in order to lock down the devices more so they're more like a phone rather than a computer.
I would have thought that the default 5V coming through the cable should be enough to power on the chip and negotiate power delivery though?
Or was it actually working but charging only on 5V and taking a long time to wake up?
Bare metal or bare bootloader only right?
There's definitely some form of addictive behaviour going on in a similar vein to poker/slot machines. There are studies and anecdotes that I've heard where the most thrill and reward comes not from the wins at gambling but from the near-wins, those close calls and near misses. It seems very similar to the kind of output that an LLM generates where it looks like what you want but is not quite there so you try to fix it by going again.
Isn't there a limit on the public markets where if a company has less than a certain percentage of its ownership traded publicly then it is no longer a public company and therefore de-listed?
I remember hearing about a guy trying to squeeze out short sellers of his own company but ended up effectively taking his company private because he bought out like 95% of all the shares.
I wonder how that aligns to these small releases of stock for the public.
Depends how you count profiting from it, if you only count direct monetary profit, or if you count things such as favours to be profit.
There has to be some motivation for people to do such random things, and even if not directly illegal, they do smell rather fishy and unethical.
T hen again crypto isn't known for its bastion of legality and morality, therefore I would assume there are some deals going on in the background which are probably illegal, and if not that then unethical - not that they would care about that.
That sounds quite scammy, like it could have been designed to scam applicants or people that wanted to hire that agency.
Then again maybe giving an image of a more normal "white/multicultural" Australian office might make it easier to sell services into the Australian market.
It doesn't have to be, we have the power to change it by just not using LLMs to generate code-like text sequences.
But if anyone is having their revenge it is the "idea guys", not the UML jockeys.
Because the site (or marketing agency in charge of the ads) has plausible deniability for the user opting into marketing and tracking when they show a banner, whereas if it's a browser setting automatically applied then there's no such chance.
Same sort of thing when you log into Wizzair and the check box below the password field is not "remember me" but "subscribe to our marketing emails".
1) Anyone at a company trading in bitcoin.
2) SpaceX employee or board member.
3) Anyone with a blow drier that knows which weather monitoring station is used.
4) Campaign insider that can sabotage their candidate's chances of winning.
What is your stance on loot boxes in video games then? Is that akin to a poker/slot machine or is it more like a kinder surprise?
Him placing the bets or a co-conspirator placing the bets and sharing the profit is the same thing. He is effectively betting on himself saying those words which he then goes on to say.
I'm pretty sure this is the same as match or race fixing to get the payout from bets made.
It's just opportunistic people calling old people over the phone in hopes of tricking them into handing over some money for "an emergency" by claiming they're a relative. Really low effort scams, I'm not surprised they're using generative AIs to fake voices now, same sort of low-effort operation.
There was a good Perun video on this topic which goes through the various ways in which a betting market can distort or affect a war effort (and can be applied to a larger organisation like a company)
At first I thought this would be an interesting article, but as soon as they mentioned using an LLM to do the conversion I lost all interest. It's like saying "I wanted this done so I got my underling to do it, here is my story...". Like why would I bother to read it then, as it was clearly not you doing the conversion or putting any thought into it.
This scam has existed for decades, just hasn't used "AI" before to fake the voice. My grandma was often a target of scammers calling up and pretending to be her daughters or grandsons and wanting to get money out of her. She was luckily mentally quick enough to realise what was happening and hang up.
Cookie banners exist because it is a dark pattern companies use to get you to opt into marketing cookies by making the easiest thing the worst choice.
This could all be handled by settings in the browser, only if the sites themselves listened to the users' browser preferences.
Not an egalitarian society, but their companies have a honey-badger like mentality from what I have read, where they ruthlessly reduce costs and margin down past where non-Chinese companies cannot compete.
Do you find yourself programming a solution in the second language in the style of the first? Or are they both similar enough to you that it is effectively the same style of solution?
Is it now classified as a Unicorn?
Which works when you live in normal civil times, when you live in jungle times people and robots will do whatever they want and the most powerful will get their way.