Our service desk were forbidden from moving over on release because new outlook can’t modify the subject of an email, so we couldn’t add ticket numbers. They’ve been using this feature since outlook was released.

I did some reading on forums and thousands of people rely on this feature and noticed it missing. Not sure if its been added yet because I still use “classic”.

I know this with the text “mess with the pope, get the no-scope”

Is it worth your reaching out to the EFF? It sounds like you may like to work with them. Granted, I dont know if they have much to do with Europe or if they’re just a US thing.

Also possible you’ve discussed this somewhere. I’m just an advocate for pooling knowledge and resources.

It was the British and they didnt burn it to the ground so I’m not sure why people think thats what happened. It was a retaliation attack for the US fighting in Canada, sure. But they weren’t Canadian troops.

They didnt burn it to the ground because the building burnt too fast for them to get the fire hot enough. The outer walls and bits inside were still standing. I believe the British even ate dinner in the house because the chef had prepared it for the president or something but I couldn’t find a source for that.

Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they’re compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.

Nuclear is the most expensive energy solution, the hardest to maintain and the worst possible outcome for human error. Solar panels can be easily installed and will generate some power most days of the year. Wind farms produce more energy altogether but run less often. Use both with batteries and you dont care if its sunny or not. Also, power grid? Energy is made somewhere and sent elsewhere. You can do this by putting solar where, on average, it is very sunny such as a desert and wind where it us windy, such as near the beach. Then you run power cables to your cities. The whole project would costs as much as like two nuclear facilities. Oh and nuclear takes like decades to build. You have to make Fukushima/Chernobyl before you can accidentally melt it down. That takes at least 5-10 years of investment. Or you could put the same money into solar and get energy within months…

Was going to say this, the cables are messed up

I mean, you want to go hard ball: our attorney general is who actually fired the prime minister and he was a CIA plant.

Recently had a similar issue with Via, the app for keyboards. Basically, there was an issue with chrome talking to the hardware…Except some lifesaver recommended plugging my keyboard directly into my machine, bypassing the docking station (the thing causing me issues) and fixing my problem. So I’ve technically still never had a driver issue, only a shitty docking station experience.

Okay fair enough, first bit made sense to me at the time but I was having a weird day. There are things you can’t prove was the point of that, doesn’t make a lot of sense rereading it.

Rest of it is saying that there is no debate worth having: they are not conscious, nor sentient, and trying to quantify what exactly they are. I’m just talking into the void and arguing against opinions ive seen. Dont mind me. I get passionate and am prone to long-winded rants.

You can’t prove all ravens are black. The discovery of even one white raven would disprove the “fact” that all ravens are black, and we can by no means be sure that we gathered all ravens to test the theory.

However, we can look around and comment that there doesn’t appear to be any white ravens anywhere…

Do you know about the ‘bobo’ and ‘kiki’ study - can’t remember the name? People made up words that don’t exist in English and asked people whether round objects are more bobo or kiki. AI can’t answer this question - not without being fed how to. Toddlers could answer it. It comes down to how it consumes information and if there’s no pattern… When asked to define words it had been rarely fed, I.e. usernames people had made up, the AIs apparent consciousness breaks down. As soon as something isn’t likely followed by another word, the machine breaks and no one would pretend it has consciousness after that.

Learning models are just pattern recognition machines. LLMs are the kind that mix and match words really well. This makes them seem intelligent, but it just means they can express language and information in a way we understand, and tend to not do so. Consciousness gets into the “what is the soul” territory, so I’m staying away from it. The best I can say of AI is its interesting that language appears to be a system constructed well enough that we can teach it to machines. Even more so we anthropomorphise models when they do it well.

AI doesn’t have memory, it can’t think for itself - it references what it has consumed - and it can’t teach itself new tricks. All of these are experimental research areas for AI. All of them lend to consciousness. Its just very good at sentence generation.

Right, a question that literal neuroscientists couldn’t answer.

I believe the technical term is “your brain is way more fucking complex”. We have like 50 (I’m not a neuroscientist, just studied AI) chemicals being transmitted around the brain, frequently. They’re used and passed on by cells which do biological and chemical things I dont understand. Ever heard of dopamine, cortisol, serotonin? AI dont got those. We have neurons that don’t connect to every other neuron - only tech Bros would think that’s an acceptable expression. Our brain forms literal pathways, along which it transmits those chemicals. No, a physical connection is not the same as a higher average weight, and the people who came up with AI maths in the 50s would back me up.

AI uses floating point maths to draw correlations and make inferences. More advanced AI does this more per second and has had more training. Their neurons are a programming abstraction used to explain a series of calculations and inputs, they’re not actually a neuron, nor an advanced piece of tech. They’re not magic.

High schoolers could study AI for a single class, then neurobiology right after and realise just how basic the AI model is when mimicking a brain. Its not even close, but I guess Sam Altman said we’re approaching general intelligence so I’m probably just a hater.

OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework.

First one does what OP wants. Second one less so, and is more hands on.

See dirbuster for automated dumb searching of web directories, gives you response codes to tell you if a page is accessible to the outside world. See nuclei which I haven’t used myself but seems to get good reviews for automated vuln scanning from the command line - has nice output and seems simple to use.

They’re both easy to use and install on something like Kali Linux.

Read up on the time Christianity started a war with itself over flat bread vs not flat bread. People love to control others and its just so fucking weird. Ive got enough social anxiety and life problems without thinking about controlling what everyone else does.

So obviously its not a foolproof plan but wouldn’t you just dump the RAM while the machine is on? Dont you just copy /tmp or something and analyse that?

I suppose I’m assuming they can get shell access now that I think about it so probably a stupid question

I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

• fill a word document with nonsense
• open word document in hex editor
• corrupt file through some means she googled
• submit the file to our submission system
• wait for teacher to open the file, get ‘corrupted’ message

She’d do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she’s in infosec.

Depends what you want to do.

On distrobox, I installed a containerised version of Ubuntu that can interact with my host, sort of like WSL on windows. Anything I put in it remains isolated so I can’t install packages that break my system - and I can use apt to install whatever in want rather than rpm.

You could develop in a VM or container like distrobox, and tbh, the host can be whatever you need it to be. You dont actually have to move off Mint.

That being said, I dont see why you couldn’t just develop on Bazzite/atomic distros of your choice using flatpaks for IDEs. I believe it has c++ installed and you’d be able to layer whatever language you needed onto your atomic distro of choice.

I really do suggest using Bazzite if you don’t want to wait for steamOS.

I previously used Mint, haven’t had to install an nvidia graphics driver or new kernel since moving to Bazzite and I’m now learning distrobox so I can make my usual bad computing decisions in a safe space. Its a very stable base, and with container tech layered on, you can have all the fuck around you want with minimal find out.

There’s the honorary kings bday in June/July (lazy and dont remember which). Then there’s the one in October, Melbourne cup I think idk? So there’s two in between. I think 3 would be nice. Thats one every couple of months. Others to many early on in the year anyway. It fucks up January to have one again that soon, having been working somewhere that doesn’t close over Christmas + new years.