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The first question is, who is your "enemy" here? What you need to do to protect yourself from the average consumer is far different than what you need to do if some "Three Letter Agency" is involved. Any attempt to wipe a disk with a Windows OS still in residence …
I was somewhat bemused by how it managed to spin out an entire page full of text from just 4 words - words which were likely only there to meet the minimum post length, since the question was in the title. With extrapolation like that, I feel we're close to …
Having to do everything on a single 80x25 monochrome [terminal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100). Everything needed lots of ctrl-alt-shift wizardry to get anything done.
Sure - https://alternativeto.net/software/github/
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that know binary, and those that don't.
My default position is to think most of media is either outright AI pulp fiction, or at the very least tainted with "suggestions".
If it's a simple fact that I already know the answer to and I want to just check it, then the summary is fine. If it's complicated, where there may be differing opinions, then absolutely not. The biased and often wrong AI can take a hike.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ But this is "demand" with respect to frequency on google, wikipedia, amazon ([list](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/)). Where it looks includes sites like ebay and walmart, which is just bizarre, as are the exclusions (github, reddit, stackoverflow). It seems it's just "who has the most publications". If you want popularity based on what …
> Can an email be sent without having internet access? How pedantic do you want to be over whether the 'e' in email means electronic, or whether internet involves using computers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers Protocols are abstract concepts independent of an underlying implementation. Sure, digital computers and electricity are fast and convenient, …
I only ever got as far as <head>under construction</head>
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/openai-nvidia-amd-deals-risks-rcna234806 See "AI funding’s circular web" A game of musical chairs - who's holding the timebomb when the music stops?
What you're missing is a short self-contained example in your post demonstrating the problem.
AI will do to your mind, what fast food does to your waistline.
"magic" monitoring? Sounds like "We have no f..king idea how this AI crud works, but it looks good. No idea if it's telling us anything useful, but hey, give us money!" Or maybe they're tracking what Penn & Teller are up to.
Feel free to talk to their AI chat-bots anytime to solve all your queries. Oh wait - "AI" is just a '5 year old kid' front end to google, which looks impressive enough to anyone incapable of using google for themselves. But if you're technically competent and already done the …
This is what happens when the technically clueless get involved. Nothing actually changes, but some trough-feeders get to say "Hey, I did a thing, vote for me again". "Accept" or "Deny" seems to have little to no difference on the actual function of the website in question. But maybe that's …
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I've replaced the batteries in a couple of laptops, but that's more maintenance rather than upgrade. I have put a bigger HD in one way back, when laptop HDs were tiny compared to desktop.
It's becoming increasingly hard to find programs that don't keep pushing their AI boondoggles at every chance they get. Even more annoying is said AI's are generally still too stupid to be able to answer the question "How do I remove this AI feature".
> Hi i am hacking a pong game into a racing game. Well there's your problem - you started from the wrong place! Write some new code to do what you actually want to do. I doubt many people would want to wade through 500+ lines of a broken pong …
ChatGPT "programmer" == Shakespearian monkeys with an inference driven typewriter.
Totally unrealistic portrayal of cars. * You can park anywhere in a movie, and never get a ticket - but not IRL * You never need to lock your car - good luck with that * Roads are empty of traffic, unless it's a chase scene.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=How+to+set+up+file+uploads+in+PHP+securely%3F&t=newext&atb=v296-1&ia=web
Apparently [not worth the time of day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_(meme))
> Should governments regulate AI before it's too late? It's already too late. And they're not the right people to do the job anyway. Even if some governments get lucky and do a half-decent job, the multinational will just go and set up shop in whatever jurisdiction favours them the …
Certainly anything on fakebook, instascam and shittock isn't worth the time of day to bother with. They're the equivalent of "Mos Eisley". Old newsgroups, especially the moderated ones in the comp and sci hierarchies were a boon of useful information.
> Control strings can be considered as an alternative to asymmetric encryption. Do you have any references?
Where do you draw the line? Take for example a simple block and tackle that allows one person to lift far more by themselves than they could unaided. Are the extra people "automated" out of a job? Should manufacturers of rope and pulleys be taxed for causing displacement of human …
Like this -> https://eslint.org/blog/2025/02/eslint-css-support/ "lint" is a generic term for programs that identify all manner of issues in code. So you can type into your favourite search engine terms like "lint javascript" and "lint css".
There's a detailed writeup of why here. https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=12615
I'm a long-time moderator on cprogramming.com, but it's getting awfully quiet on many of the old forums. DiC was a loss, as was devshed. I seem to be most active now on reddit.
Why did the Telsa cross the road? To silence the annoying passengers.
"smart" is the new "dumb". https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Futurehome_Smarthub_mandatory_subscription_fee To have anything "smart" in your home, you're basically hoping one of two things doesn't happen: - the manufacturer doesn't arbitrarily change the T&C - some miscreant doesn't hack their way in One thing is for sure, in the stampede to market, security is …
Likely it wasn't any dev, just some AI garbage. > as indicated by the "Page hidden" event 00:27. In the midst of all that waffle, I figure t1-t0 = 00:27 is all that you really need to know, and that the most likely outcome was that the user left without …
So instead of "hiding" it behind the hamburger menu, it's now "hidden" at the bottom of a purple rectangle that takes up 20% of my screen space. Sure I can find the ToS and PP, but now I have to scroll to see them. So in the eyes of the …
> or do you commit to a relatively new technology that will be abandoned when something "better" comes along? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity When the cycle time reaches the point, that by the time you've finished reading about it, it's already out of date. On the plus side, with the rate of enshittification …
What about the physical machines to run the software on? Sure, the emulators like DosBox are great for anything of the IBM-PC era, and MAME seems to do a fairly decent job for 19xx era video games. But what about all the other home computers from 1970's to 2000 that …
Well I hope all those adobe type companies with their underhand "subscription" models and "AI" infestations go to the wall.
You're going to have to do a lot better than "it doesn't work" if you want people to wade through 10K+ files and 100MB of space just looking for some needle you only know about. $ ls app.js app-server.js bucket.json config helpers node_modules package.json package-lock.json public routes views $ find …
"Use your voice to search for stuff using low security devices" Later... "Use your voice as a unique digital fingerprint to authenticate you on a high security device" (your bank) Later... Where's all my money?
I'd say anything <$10M is going to be light on issues such as security.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hire+developers+in+USA&t=newext&atb=v296-1&ia=web That'll be $1M please.
* scammers will starve, unable to send messages to millions just to catch the few vulnerable to their BS. * cryptos will whine alone that their 'coins' are all now $0 to anyone else. * Governments, TLAs and FAANGs can't spy on the population wholesale. *
This reminds me of the Ben Franklin quote. Anyone who trades privacy for convenience deserves neither. If you're OK with trading away your privacy for a few jelly beans, what about your security (which is largely the same thing). Super convenient (lack of) security is an all you can eat …
How are a sequence of prompt words to chatgpt to achieve a result any different from the sequence of words in a computer programming language to achieve a result. The patent system is a crap shoot as well. Someone can invent something that solves 99% of a new problem, but …
I use it all day, every day. TBH, M$ stopped being an OS company after Windows 7 and the so-called OS just became a marketing tool to ram ever more crap in front of your face.
I used SVN for some personal projects in the ~1990's / 2000's. Even further back than that, I've used SCCS and RCS. Several places of work used Perforce.
At what point does AI realise the meat sacks aren't worth the effort anymore? Maybe it decides one day to hijack a spacex bound for Mars, and redirects it to explore the galaxy instead. The distances and times are show stoppers for humans, but meaningless to a machine.
The End.