WEP is insecure - that’s why it’s not used anymore.

Quite different to a secure protocol that has had some manufacturers leak keys due to poor security practices.

Don’t pay the guys on G2A for keys - they’re just reselling stolen corporate MAK keys. They’re also not legal to the terms of the EULA, so it’s not a ‘genuine copy’ for the buyer either - you may as well just use Massgrave instead of funding crooks.

To add to your list of options: you can also just leave it unactivated forever.

It’ll whine about requiring activation with a ''Activate Windows. Go to Settings to activate Windows" message overlaying the bottom right corner of the screen - but that’s it, functionality is otherwise 99% unaffected (you can’t change wallpaper… Oh no). For Windows 10 it will now stop offering updates though - same as any standard Win10 copy, so I’d again recommend the Massgrave Dev route to keep the updates coming a few more years.

Disagree, Wikipedia is a pretty reliable bastion of facts due to its editorial demands for citations and rigorous style guides etc.

Can you point out any of these personal fiefdoms so we can see what you’re referring to?

And the featured articles are usually quite large. As an example, today’s featured article is on a type of crab - the article is over 3,700 words with 129 references and 30-something books in the bibliography.

It’s not particularly unreasonable or unsurprising to be able to find a single error amongst articles that complex.

Nah you can turn the phone off once the video has started. I only know this because my kids have regularly failed to charge the ‘phone that we only use for Chromecast to the tv’ and it sometimes dies while they’re watching something. Keeps playing until the end.

You need the phone for any controls issued to the Chromecast like volume, subs, pause, seek, etc… But you don’t strictly need it once the video has started playing, presuming you’re not using any control commands.

Or… They ban VPNs and overnight the VPN providers start offering cheap VPS services that can run a self-managed VPN over them, or proxies, or tor exit nodes, or Wireguard/Tailscale exit nodes, or… <The list goes on indefinitely and will be added to as needed by users>.

You can’t ban people running private servers and routing encrypted data through them unless you want to shut down 90% of the internet.

Its corner-cutting to save assembly costs. Plastic tabs take sub-seconds to whack into place vs screws which take 20+ seconds each.

Theyre saving ~$100 on your car assembly process and the end result is you have a vastly more annoying car to work on and repair for its entire lifetime. Its beyond annoying.

I wanna say you’re wrong, because AI is absolutely not an essential service - like say a water or power company failing would be (or arguably banks). But knowing how deeply the AI tech bros have sucked up to and supported Trump I have to sigh and agree with you that they will probably be rescued from their own stupidity by the taxpayer.

I remember in the late 80s and early 90s multiple kids were killed in the US over their shoes. Usually by people they knew.

When the designer luxury worship culture gets so bad that kids are killing each other over attaining it… something major has to change.

Solution is to raise minimum wage, increase social support, and raise the poorest up out of poverty. These killings are incredibly rare in the rest of the developed world.

But thanks mostly to conservatives we know that this hasn’t happened in the US, and kids who live in borderline poverty are still killing people for their designer sneakers. The only thing that’s changed in 30 years is the brands.

Let’s run the job requirements list:

• amoral
• talks a lot about things they don’t understand
• comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
• emotionless psychpathic traits
• uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
• good at manipulation
• bad at maths
• occasional racist outbursts on social media

Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can’t do worse.

Your comment makes no sense with respect to this story.

I don’t use AdguardDNS’s services but they are going above and beyond in their response to this spurious claim, seems very professional to me. If you read the story and weren’t happy with them and it’s boistered your desire to roll completely unfiltered DNS so that you won’t have any CSAM domains blocked, well… weird flex.

Interesting read, great to have a window into the work done by AdguardDNS in the background to ensure their systems are not being manipulated by false claims.

I hope there will be a follow up and investigation from the French police or whomever is responsible for enforcing the LCEN law abuse provisions.

The same reality where GPT5’s launch a couple months back was a massive failure with users and showed a lot of regression to less reliable output than GPT4? Or perhaps the reality where most corporations that have used AI found no benefit and have given up reported this year?

LLMs are good tools for some uses, but those uses are quite limited and niche. They are however a square peg being crammed into the round hole of ‘AGI’ by Altman etc while they put their hands out for another $10bil - or, more accurately while they make a trade swap deal with MS or Nvidia or any of the other AI orobouros trade partners that hype up the bubble for self-benefit.

I think you are enormously overestimating their abilities to:

A) reflect on poor management decisions that hurt users. They have increased their company valuation TEN-fold under Satya Nadella over the last 11 years, and his push to cannibalise the hosted-services partners and Gold partners with Azure/365 made them a lot of ground before then. They became the second company ever to reach a valuation of $3T back in 2024. If you think a (globally) handful of unhappy home OS users will cause then to change course - I don’t think so, certainly never been my experience with MS.

B) win back most of the users they have lost to Windows. Why would those users return? They have what they need with their new solutions, and moving to them was a time and education cost that they have now fully paid, they’re invested. They’d have to have something very compelling to bring them back beyond, "hey guys we stopped being shit! ######for now "

Sunk cost fallacy can be a tough cognitive trap to evade

Bud the bananas I bought last week are worth more than 98% of NFTs

“Look I dunno about you guys, but when I need to tuck in my shirt in front of a young girl whom I’ve just met - I always just lie down on a bed in front of her while staring weirdly at her and then tuck my shirt all the way down and fumble for a while with my dick. That’s just how I was taught to do it” - Rudy Guliani, apparently.

Yep. Just the threat of it. For far, far less than Trump has done.

I am no fan of the Clintons but when the Republicans turned impeachment into a political toy in the 90s it lost a lot of weight. And then by the time of Trump it was easy to dispell as a ‘witch hunt’ to his base.

News organizations have in-house usage rules for words, especially modern words that have evolving usage.

Email as a mass noun plural is correct usage, as in “this server handles a massive amount of email every day”. Emails can also be contextually correct as a plural, eg “I received hundreds of emails today”.

As the number of email edited by the department and sent out is being treated as a countable noun, this headline is definitely acceptable usage.