michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 weeks ago:
KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x3d0, subw 0x0, time 844189822, (287,38), root:(6059,1110), state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x3d0, subw 0x0, time 844248757, (902,201), root:(6674,1273), state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 weeks ago:
That is alt, windows is super
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t a windows user be running as admin lol
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 4 weeks ago:
Their lack of manpower means delayed updates to fix zero days compared to Firefox
From their site:
LibreWolf is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability.
As soon as firefox pushes a release, for instance to fix a security vulnerability, librewolf can immediately rebuild It is literally just firefox with different setting. Delay between firefox release and librewolf release should be negligible. You can verify this by noting that 136.0 was offered on the same day.
codeberg.org/…/2b90daeb5aa5a80443f4f7655393f610fb…
www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/releasenotes/
The difference in time between firefox and librewolf security updates is less than the variance between users updating their machines.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 4 weeks ago:
Librewolf is firefox with different settings how does it not already benefit from Firefox’s security team
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
We value the gains both immediate and presumed more than the harm
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
Ok so explain particularly what this means
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
Because it makes up things that are 99% correct and in some areas the 99% + verification and expansion can be superior time wise to the 100% manual route
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
It would be more accurate to say that rather than knowing anything at all they have a model of the statistical relationship between a series of tokens and subsequent tokens which words are apt to follow other words and because the training set contains many true things the words produced in response to queries often contain true statements and almost always contain statements that LOOK like true statements.
Since it has no inherent model of the world to draw on and only such statistical relationships you should check anything important
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
Maybe people need to learn that AI hallucinates
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Most places are around 1% of value with many having caps on increases in value or other differences in taxed and actual value. This means his house is worth 1,000,000 to 1,600,000
If he was really living on 24k he wouldn’t be able to pay 12,000 in property tax. He bought when it cost almost nothing and spent most of his life paying neither rent nor mortgage unlike most of us and has a reasonable retirement.
He could at any time sell and live better than you or I even if he didn’t have a dime other than the house. Instead he uses his time to whine about his good fortune.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
If this was so it wouldn’t be half his ss in property taxes. Average ss is 1900 a month
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
It trivially is in any hot market
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Depending on area 40k property tax means a 3-4M house. Poor rich people!
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Outside of fantasy no that is just nonsense
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Nobody needs a summer and winter home tax the living shit out of rich fuckers with 2
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Its almost 2000
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Property tax funds important things like schools, emergenct services, etc.
if he was destitute otherwise would already have sold it. You are arguing in favor of a tax break for some rich prick probably worth north of 3 million not paying the taxes that pay for your kid to get a decent education because basically feels.
Its no more immoral than you giving up your income.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Comparing property taxes now in 2025 dollars to unadjusted original cost in 1950 dollars is nonsensical. The two numbers bear no relation nor should they.
The average social security check is $1,978 a month or $23,736 per annum. Half of that is $11,868. Lets suppose he lives in CA where the annual rate for owner occupied is 0.74%. His house would be worth approx 1.6 million dollars. To to be clear he is whining about paying the appropriate and legal tax on his fully owned 1.6M cash hoard. This is a great problem to have.
If its that burdensome he can cash out and even with rent payments for the rest of his life live great even if he has no other savings of any sort.
Looks like about $5800 a month gradually increasing with inflation for at least 25 years.
If he has another $400,000 which seems super likely since I don’t think he’s actually living in his 1.6M house on $12,000 a year it could be more than 7500 a month.
If we add a little realism and only include another 15 years he could probably actually withdraw about 11,000 a month.
kiplinger.com/…/average-monthly-social-security-c… www.tax-rates.org/…/property-tax-by-state
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 1 month ago:
You can’t ask it about itself because it has no internal model of self and is just basing any answer on data in its training set
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 1 month ago:
It can be prevented by people paid 400-1000 per hour spending time either writing own paperwork or paying others to actually write it.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
What is agency
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
If your choices are a function of prior events and an emergent property of complex but deterministic processes where does agency come in? We are a complex deterministic process that simulates our own self to both predict a much more complex unconscious self and write rules to influence it going forward.
We call this process being conscious even when its writing just so stories after the fact.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
Your choice of words is an analytical failure it says that the the will somehow sitting on top of all those processes rather than being a function of them.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 months ago:
Ad hominem isn’t when you insult people AND make an argument its when you insult people INSTEAD of making an argument.
User initially believes that this is only a Linux issue because its almost entirely discussed on forums frequented by technical people who often use Linux whereas forums full of Windows gamers are equally effected but ignorant of the topic.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 months ago:
It’s a much higher risk than average because games are often abandoned within one year of release and still run as long as 10-15 years later and connects to the internet and other randos on the internet. See the Call of Duty games that allow you to take over the computer of anyone who connects to your online match. It greatly degrades the security of its users.
Technically lots of things people call “malware” don’t actually do any of those things. For instance they may hijack your default search engine, pop up ads, or otherwise monetize your computer at your expense. The category that was invented by ass coverers is “possibly unwanted program” but outside of those who worry about being sued by scumbags people colloquially refer to both what you call malware AND PUPs as "malware the root of which is “bad” after all. Language being descriptive not prescriptive I think this broader definition of malware is fine.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 months ago:
Do you remember when Sony released cds that when inserted into Windows computer auto ran an installer that installed a rootkit that made it impossible for Windows to see any processes or files that started with a certain sequence of characters instantly turning any malware that named its files or processes similarly powerful rootkit. Oh and it installed a cd driver that made it impossible to copy their music.
Suggested removal was a full reinstall of windows.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 months ago:
If they change the deal they should have to offer refunds. This makes it an expensive choice after the fact.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 5 months ago:
No its common for anti-cheat on Windows to have full root permission to your entire system Windows users are just on average less intelligent, less concerned about privacy, and, more ignorant about technology. This doesn’t mean using Windows makes you stupid its just the OS of choice for the stupid and ignorant.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 months ago:
But Russians ARE responsible for the actions of their government.