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xAI is no David.

Don’t know, but religions created to reign in the masses probably don’t explain it. There were many religions before the Abrahamic ones.

I have a camera, on my phone. I just want to be able to sync my pictures and videos to my own device, not cloud storage. This is becoming especially prudent in these times of nearl…

I strongly prefer not to have my personal data stored on other people’s computers.

What truly are humanity’s energy needs, though? Do we need Facebook? Do we need Instagram? Do we need deepfakes and AI music?

This cuts to the heart of it for me. I will not install Meta or LinkedIn apps on my phone because they have been found to be very intrusive.

This is a problem I have yet to see schools tackle. A kid in junior high school has no mental context for the Russian Revolution of 1917, for instance. Having them read Animal Farm…

This and the other accounts critical of COP30 were created very recently. The one above you, 3 hours ago. Interesting.

Or perhaps anything left of fascist evil is considered controversial? We can each play this game.

It's interesting that they call out NVIDIA specifically as an enabler. MAGA going to war against NVIDIA now?

That's an odd, fundamentally disconnected mechanism that, I think, would have devastating impacts for Main St.

I assure you that the fantasy of this being a band-aid rip-off moment will turn sour when the sore becomes infected and you're living through a depression.

dei.gov redirects to waste.gov. It's a PHP site with only a password entry form.

I watched that last year. It's very interesting research and seems effective not just for Alzheimers but for treatment of addiction as well. I'm seriously counting on this treatmen…

Things like this are useless, in my mind, because hackers are always going to innovate and find ways around protection mechanisms. Today's "locked down" IoT device could easily bec…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking#Public_incidents A long-term tactic of our adversaries is to capture network traffic for later decryption. The secrets in the mass of pa…

That's correct.

At a few F500 companies now, I've sought to automate repetitive tasks, which often requires access to APIs and/or databases. When I submit requests, I'm often either rebuffed by an…

Sadly, if we call could just care about each other a little more, this country would be a true shining city on a hill.

How would one even work toward positive results with leadership doing things like this? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-white-house-...

"Alright Mom, here's what you have to do..."

Not in this case.

Encrypted data still has to be decrypted in order to be presented. These “hacks” would have gotten decrypted data regardless of whether it was encrypted at rest and in flight.