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> This suggests that people are drawn to AI that unquestioningly validate, even as that validation risks eroding their judgment The obvious counterpoint is the large number of comp…

Especially in environments where manglement mandate something like Qualys, leading to demands that systems must be patched to address the critical vulnerabilities that it's reporte…

In beta? Why didn't they just tell Claude to finish it, test it, and release it?

Civil Defence here in NZ is saying there's no tsunami threat (to NZ anyway): https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/

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> Yes, good spammers make sure their DMARC, DKIM and SPF are correct. Many do, but not all. One of the hats I wear at work is mail server administrator, and it's astonishing the nu…

> For a number of reasons, I feel that the only way we got here was via some kind of infinite improbability drive. Oh very much so! In my mind, it seems that someone must have figu…

To quote a famous (in certain circles) bowl of petunias, "oh no, not again!"

Can you imagine a knowledge worker from the 1950s, say a clerk or a marketer, being magically transported into our time and dropped into a meeting like a morning standup, where peo…

> I’m always a bit shocked how seriously people take concerns over the install script for a binary executable they’re already intending to trust. The issue is provenance. Where is …

Screenshots of text! Luxury! In my day, the screenshots were embedded in a Word document too. But I can't be the only one appalled at the suggestion to use an LLM to parse the text…

> with a corn tab that A corn tab you say? I'm all ears!

> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive …

> I don't understand believing that trans people (or whatever other belief) are a major threat, but I understand getting heavily involved in policies around trans people if one wer…

From the article, about mid-way through: > But some detractors consider the project misleading. University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr. pointed out to Li…