michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 1 day ago:
Often even functional companies are in effect run by rank and file people paid almost nothing who know their particular aspects of the job very well. They are managed by people who as your rank rises know less and less about the actual work that makes the company run. This works fine when nothing major changes but when you ask people incapable of doing the job to make major strategic to the enterprise that they don’t understand shockingly it goes poorly.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
Windows can’t be updated in any meaningful way without being rebooted because Windows can’t overwrite a file that is in use. This makes it fairly unlikely for a machine to be up for 12 years.
Windows 7 also doesn’t “idle in the low MBs” It uses almost 1G at least at startup more if you have apps that auto start and like every OS it caches recently accessed files.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
Typically an actual key is effectively just a very long pseaudorandom binary blob and the passphrase is just used to unlock the actual key. This means you can add a new key just by encrypting the actual key with the new passphrase
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
Setting up encryption has previously been an affirmative step wherein the user opted into being unable to access their data if they lose their password. Because of this users have the opportunity to back up their recovery key you know after they even learn what one is.
Having it happen on upgrade to an existing machine is inherently confusing and its easy to see how it could lead to data loss.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
For most folks they could just write down their encryption passphrase in a secure location with the rest of their papers since 99.9% of the risk is thieves stealing their laptops. For most folks the biggest secure item they have is the one they use constantly their browser and all the passwords it stores to all their services. You know the thing they use constantly.
A compartmentalized approach makes sense when the laptop contains really vulnerable data like laptops which have been stolen with bunches of client data on it or a journalists communication with confidential sources etc etc. In that case you STILL want to encrypt the whole thing but you want to separately encrypt the really important stuff with a different key so that every time you open your laptop to watch cat videos on youtube you aren’t also unlocking all the data you will have to tell your companies users you lost.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Likewise nobody is owed good feelings by users
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
If they can’t do anything better than jellyfin which is fully free open source I don’t see why they should expect money. If Photoshop were paid for gimp they certainly wouldn’t deserve anything.
I think the bad feelings are by virtue of taking away something that WAS free. This is just basic human psych people are loss averse.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like any apocalypse is going to see lots of people try to rush to or from somewhere leading to clogged roads that make cars virtually useless until one gets way way into the boondocks.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
That is alt, windows is super
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 1 month ago:
Why wouldn’t a windows user be running as admin lol
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ok so explain particularly what this means
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
What is agency