I think there’s generally always been some hackish way around, and the hackish way frequently changes between releases of installation media.

Also, when Windows Update deploys certain things, if you have a system that did this, you may get a full screen thing telling you to set up a microsoft account roughly “for your own good”. Even when you bypass that, the start menu and notification area generally are eager to suggest hooking your system up to a microsoft account.

They decided that since Android can so aggressively push Google accounts, they should get the same scheme going, but Microsoft has this pesky pre-always-online history of being an offline capable OS.

Well auto fellating is the trademark tone of LLM output, which the email probably is.

Sadly I can’t tell if this is a joke or not because I have met so many people who seriously believe things like this work. They are the ones who eventually get the most pissed when LLM messes up on them because they got the LLM to “promise” not to do the specific thing it ends up doing.

They generally evolve their superstitious ritual to something else that will eventually fail, like changing the wording, or making the LLM specifically include a phrase indicating a promise of quality. They also believe when the LLM “apologizes” and think that indicated self reflection and learning. Very few are prepared to accept that the LLM can go off the rails at unpredictable times and unpredictable circumstances, and their utility has to be monitored like a hawk unless the outcome really doesn’t matter.

so far, really early days yet

It’s just not possible, because the DOJ will never touch him. A jury will never have a chance to say anything.

Adding to the other comments that point out opportunity to sell overseas is too tempting.

Also despite being a net exporter, some places are likely to import.

In the southeast, prices have gone up, but not as much as the West Coast. So much logistics to feed the pipelines that would be so tricky to get into ships, that is not worth doing it. So places where boats play a large role in oil logistics, well those places are subject to global market conditions more.

Team sports mentality. Trump is “their guy” and however he royally screws up “at least he’s not a Democrat”

Also, a lot of folks said point blank voting for Trump is being a sucker and a fool, and to go against Trump is to admit they got fooled.

Yesterday in an interview I heard the MAGA person was hard core that whatever the government is doing, they secretly have reasons they can’t tell us because spilling the Intel would be so dangerous. Pretty much the same crowd whining about a liberal government keeping secrets from them now celebrates secrets being managed by the conservatives.

The alternative would have been a woman of color and damned if they ever suggest that could have been a better outcome.

Additionally, the racists do still have the Hispanics getting screwed over and afraid. The people who got injured and killed were “obnoxious liberals” that are better gone anyway.

Of course this is also as close as they have seen in decades of federal policies trying to make it harder for poor people and women to vote.

There’s a lot of vile sentiment and being close to that being followed is worth having problems.

Well strictly speaking the full name field is always there, but a lot of people have the full name “”.

But less pedantic, perhaps require was the writing word, but same principle, put whatever you want in dob field, default to 1970 or something.

Yes, the key thing is it might have extracted useful info from otherwise confusing data, it might have mixed up info from the data incorrectly or it might have just made it up.

So it can be useful, if you can then validate the info provided in more traditional means, but it’s dubious as a first pass, and sometimes surprisingly bad when it’s a scenario you thought it would work well at.

Giving us the ow for now, later it’s going to give us the d.

For solutions that back on actually “verifying” the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.

As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn’t mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.

Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.

This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state “verification”.

Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.

Offtopic, but I just think the Dow is just the dumbest thing.

We judge the entire economy based on 30 hand picked companies. And that membership evolves basically to fit a positive narrative if possible. One of the companies does poorly and drags the index? Just swap in a better performing company!

Even as everyone has learned by now his words don’t mean anything “real”, there’s still something to be gleaned.

The fact that he’s even looking for an exit speaks to how far he is “committed” to this path. So sure, the “peace talks” don’t really exist, but the fact he says they do exist and keeps claiming they are going well means he wants to reverse course on the flimsiest excuse. So if the circumstances might give him an excuse, it might go away. Iran’s reactions seems they are disinclined to give him that excuse easily, so the chance isn’t huge, but his deadline extension based on nothing suggests he is open to other opportunities to let him back out while somehow saving face. He still cares about saving face enough to make the chances problematic, but at least he’s looking for an exit.

Conversely if he said that there’s no need to let up until the job is done, and his forces are going to imminently secure the strait, then that’s a lie that suggests to not expect relief anytime soon.

It’s about the direction the lie indicates he wants things to go and how that may play into outcomes.

nVidia had announced that instead of 100 billion for nothing to OpenAI that they were doing 30 billion for stake, and said they were probably not going to keep giving these ‘halo’ AI companies money after this.

I also saw a report that banks were starting to get a bit more stingy with money to the same companies.

I think that while there’s still plenty of money coming in still, it does seem like the ‘take our unlimited cash just because you have AI in your name’ phase is wearing out and they actually have to try to convince people now.

Which is a pretty big problem for them, as despite their brand recognition they aren’t really seen as the ‘leader’ in the AI space on any particular front.

Absolute gigafrood energy.

Well not really, they added a field so that they could store date of birth in the way they have a field to store “real name”.

So you can be sure my birthday is 4/20/1969 as sure as you can be that my name is Bimbo Baggins.

Note that for the California law at least, this is “good enough” and the OS never actually has to validate anything. In practice a person without admin access could have their birthdate out of control, well, until they run a patched browser that skips asking systemd and just always sends a desired bracket…

It kind of works to keep kids under 13 sending the signal with parental administration, but doesn’t do anything for more resourceful people you tend to find over 13.

I’m not saying whether or not an attack is justified or effective. Just saying that of the outcomes to expect, you can’t expect that popular opinion would turn as a result, except maybe to make any critics that may have had a voice suddenly not even be acceptable to speak.

Like whatever understanding one could have possibly have imagined from Iranians against the regime was pretty much gone when the US killed the kids in school.

How often is it that people demand reforms versus become galvanized in support of ‘their team’?

‘Rally behind the flag’ is the usual popular reaction, where any calls for reform that might have happened become completely unacceptable in popular culture.

Oh that was never in the cards.

They may not have wanted Iran attacked, but they didn’t like Iran either so they aren’t exactly wanting to defend them either.

capitalism

Think Epstein’s network crossed economic ideological boundaries. Noam Chomsky considered Epstein a good friend while simultaneously being a staunch critic of capitalism. There are signs of being connected to the USSR, China, North Korea, … If Epstein connected with fame or power, it didn’t matter what ‘system’ was in play.