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I don't like the default option being to treat everyone like they are a moron. I don't like being treated like a moron.

A different discussion on the same general topic 51 days ago (and now flagged)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346947

Trolls do things for the LOLs. They are motivated by humor. Someone who wants rules for others but breaks those rules personally is better referred to as a hypocrite.

And while he did have a sense of humor (I hear that daylight savings time was just a joke), I don't think that is why he had slaves. He kept them because they were useful to him, and the moment he died they were no longer useful. The slaves owned by others were never useful to him, so they should be freed immediately.

I think it is important to explain why I and others are so reluctant to this.

In security, you identify reasonable threats. You can't protect against all of them, and some may even be contradictory.

When I get a call on my phone that says "Potential Spam", I have never even once in my life decided to run over to my list of passwords and hand them over to the President of the Spanish National Lottery. Not even once.

But on many, many occasions I have dealt with a simple system that was replaced by a more complicated one and something in that Rube Goldberg machine broke down and deprived me of access to money, email, even a parking permit to my office.

Passkeys seem to protect against the former case that has never happened to me, while increasing the chances of the latter that has happened way too often.

For those who want to read the wiki article:

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

Now that I think about it, you are right. But if they could ban my use of written passwords as easily as banning my use of a particular passkey device, why go through all the extra hoops to just be as vulnerable as before? This seems like a whole lot of extra work to do that gains me nothing.

That's all I want to know. How do I restore from a backup? Specifically, a backup that I make to a medium I control, like a piece of paper or a burned CD-R in a safe deposit box. If I could get a good answer to that, I could be onboard. But from the conversations that I am getting here, it looks like only certain managers allow it, and with device attestation, they could be banned at any moment by any website with no recourse.

Write it down on a sheet of paper and put the paper in a safe place. As a bonus, I can have multiple copies in multiple places. It is simple, easy, and I have been doing it all my life. I see no reason why it has to be more complicated than that.

Honest question. Does asking "make no mistakes" actually change the output? Does it make mistakes if you don't bother to ask for no mistakes? Is it just to make the human feel more secure?

If you want to go for a walk in the park in the middle of the night and can't see without a light, BRING A FLASHLIGHT. That's just basic safety. You never know when a power outage will strike. If you are 100% dependent on artificial light, the safest thing to do is bring your own.

Don't forget trucking in the cooling water.

Even if that is true, I have better things to do with my time and money than pay a expert witness to explain: see, I wasn't breaking the law, I just wanted the cops to think I did. That just seems like a really bad idea.

That's kinda the defining characteristic of a state-level threat. They have all the money they could ever need. The reason Pegasus can charge that much is because there are people able and willing to pay that much.

This lists two unnamed individuals.

https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gramnumber7-16decrypt-data-ca...

We are well past the point of these companies caring about their reputations. People are already losing their homes over this. Here is Penguinz0's commentary on a news report of GA Power eminent domaining someone's home to run a power line through it to power a data center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySJ-oVGtvs

Be careful in countries like UK which have laws requiring the decryption of any data they find. There are people sitting in jail because they couldn't decrypt the "random noise" on their computers.

Most "state-level" adversaries are just high school dropouts working border jobs told to "investigate suspicious things".

The state-level threat isn't just about the direct employees' competence. They also have the funding to purchase tools made by people who really know what they are doing. Think of things like Pegasus spyware or Darksword iPhone hacking.

I can believe that a keystone cop wouldn't know the difference between a bong and a flower vase, but border crossing guards will know a USB drive when they see one and pass a copy of it to someone who knows what they are doing.

Thanks, "because cats are girls and dogs are boys" triggered a memory of SNL sketch of a faux-1952 educational film strip "A lady's guide to party planning" from 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_c1F994gs

When I was a kid, I thought that nurse/doctor was a gender specific term. They went to the same schools, but when they graduated, men were called "doctors" and girls were called "nurses". It was an embarrassing moment when I found out that, no, they are not the same thing.

Every once in a while a company will publicly push back on such requests, but I feel it is getting rarer. Public libraries are a good example of places that still care about privacy, but companies that have to worry about going out of business because of a heavy-handed government tend to cave easily.

Does it annoy you to pay an AI to explain what probably another AI wrote? One AI is fluffing up the word count to an unreadable level while another has to trim it back down. If every article was just the text of the prompt that generated it, it would be a much quicker read.

I don't know. At the moment, the title is "Sarah's Wager" which tells me nothing because I'm not on a first name basis with Sarah. So I looked at the URL which is Sarah Guo Conviction, which only gave me the wrong impression as to what the article was about. When I saw it was about AI, I wanted to know if someone went to jail from running a scam.

The elderly don't generally go to the park for a midnight stroll. Nighttime is the realm of the young.

"Conviction" is the name of an AI company. I only read the article to figure out who went to jail and why.

Halfway through the article, I find this:

Near the center of the moment is a 37-year-old woman a smidge over five feet tall, with blonde hair and more energy than her frame seems built to hold. When she talks, her whole body is caught in the updraft of the thought. Her name is Sarah Guo.

If you are talking about Russia, hoarding or not, if you burn enough refineries, you will have shortages.

There is the type of scarce when you can't get something for love or money. Look at the gasoline lines in Russia. Those people sit in lines miles long for gas stations that aren't even open. No matter how much money they are willing to spend, they still can't get the gas.

I'm just grateful that I don't need to upgrade my computer for a while, and cross my fingers that I don't have a hardware failure in the next couple of years. I had an unpleasant laptop failure in 2021 that I don't wish to repeat.

I would consider that ideal, but there would always be the fear of a potential negligence lawsuit if someone got hurt or crimed, so the government considers them necessary.

Los Angeles has the Griffith Observatory. To allow the city to have street lighting while not interfering with the observatory, the lights are sodium vapor lights that emit a specific wavelength that the observatory can filter out. Since LEDs also use specific wavelengths, this could have been done.

I was disappointed that the article didn't mention this, especially because they did mention sodium, but only as a pretty color.

Those things drive me nuts. There is a walking path that I frequent, and I can't use it at night because they are spaced every 20-30 feet. When I am not under them, they are off and my eyes adjust to the darkness and as I pass under one it flips to full daytime brightness and blinds me. As soon as I walk away from it, everything goes dark again, but my eyes had adjusted to the daytime brightness of the lamps. And I know that in 30 feet, I have to do it again, for the next couple of miles.

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