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this.
Occurrences like this make me shudder. We simply have no idea what MS pushes out under the context of "security" updates. But it's going to be fine, because the EULA says so. Then comes pulls from github, updates for linux, and I suspect no one is watching the store.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Raspberry Pi computer.
Control everything yourself.
Get one for email. One for a very simple spreadsheet. Another to play tic-tac-toe.
Good to go right?
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I think only a few of us really understand how fragile today's world is. Looking at what MS is doing over the last 5 years, I see entropy increasing there. There is simply no reason why a 3rd party vendor shows up coming from Microsoft.
But you do you.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: There is simply no reason why a 3rd party vendor shows up coming from Microsoft....But you do you.
Yes. Complexity.
I can even hypothesize about the scenario. The developer was testing with the driver in the code space. It worked. Checked it in. Reviewers did their less than complete job (in my experience that is quite common) and so it went into the build.
charlieg wrote: I think only a few of us really understand how fragile today's world is
Versus in the good ol' days? When exactly was that? What date?
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Before uninstalling, did you try printing to it? (better if you did not security-wise.
“Please, send x Bitcoin to wallet y by date z”.
It could also be some sort of honey pot looking for credentials…
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Yeah, HP went bye bye in my house last year. I simply refuse to use hardware that has to call home to see if it's allowed to print. Both the wireless laser and the inkjet went in the trash. I now have two Brother printers and am quite happy (with the printers).
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yes! Agreed! I have been using my Brother Laser printer for more than a decade without any issues. For color work I love my Canon inkjet. It is model MG7700 that can also print images on printable CDs and DVDs. I consider my setup absolutely ideal for a home user.
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Thanks for this!
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I think one response to one of my posts was probably just my post reworded by an AI.
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You need to be a journalist. The vast majority of information only comes from a few sources. Most papers just buy news service stories rather than do anything real.
Technically, I'd lean toward AI helping lawmakers in general. Write up a bill, toss it into the AI, and ask, "Is this stupid?" "What might be the unintended consequences?"
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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And so it begins
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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Someday I surmise that some tyrannical legislation will get drafted such as the elimination of a people group, and simply claim that AI wrote it so A: It must be accepted as correct and B: The human legislative body can just get it's diabolical way without accountability.
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well, I haven't seen anything outlawing a people group (some that are close), but we've got beau coupe tyrannical legislation here in the US without AI. It hides behind the bureaucracy.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I'm not sure how that is "scary." And I am not defending AI just trying to maintain a point about perspective. How is this different than having a team of speech writers generate the speech?
This is going on in colleges and universities across the world. My real concern is that having to do research, organize your thoughts, express it in an intelligent fashion, actually learn to think is being killed off by internet resources be they AI or websites that offer papers.
There is very real combat going on in this area (reminds me of my electronic warfare days). First the sites appeared where you can buy papers. Then sites appeared where you can feed in papers to see if they were plagiarized. Now we have sites that re-work papers so they aren't detected as being plagiarized. Meanwhile, more idiots graduate from college, because education is not the point.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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