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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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baggins ,
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Thing is, if it's non toxic, then it's possibly safe. Maybe not pleasant, but not poisonous. Just as bad as pineapple on pizza.

Wonder how long it'll be before we get suggestions about eating detergent capsules or drinking bleach to cure covid.

Training your AI on Reddit was never a good idea though, you just have to look at all the crap on there to realise that. Let's just hope they didn't use Facebook as well, or worse, Quora!

baggins ,
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It was a joke.

baggins ,
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Thank you.

baggins ,
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I wonder if 'basic' Alexa will stay. At home we find it genuinely useful for setting timers and alarms etc. my wife has an obsession with the weather and is always asking for weather info for our area - she doesn't drive and works in an office so it's beyond me.

We have Samsung phones so could resort to Bixby.

The only other thing we use Alexa for is playing music although my Sonos system has it's own voice control for that, although I suspect that may go in a couple of years when they stop supporting my kit, it's five years old now.

I'd rather not resort to Google.

baggins ,
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And this is why the water companies need to be taken back into public ownership.

Instead of fixing their problems, they pay dividends to shareholders. Then ask for government help and put up prices.

baggins ,
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I'm on the insider build and haven't seen any of this. If I do then I'm off. That's a red line as far as I'm concerned.

I'll load up EndeavourOS (it's already on my laptop) and they can shove it. Pity as it was genuinely getting good. So many things that worked seamlessly and effortlessly compared to some of the Linux stuff.

But I'll not have ads in my OS.

baggins ,
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Have to play devil's advocate here. I totally agree that naming your chatbot Aryan is a bit of a giveaway, but does it say that exactly anywhere? All I can see is Arya. That is a legitimate name, even more popular since Game of Thrones.
This crap is bad enough without making false claims about it. We'd be quick enough to call the other side out when they made a false claim. We shouldn't adopt their practices. We're supposed to be better than that.

baggins ,
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Thanks - and it's no doubt intended and they might has well named it Fuhrer, but we need to stay better than them.

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Skimmed through the video and will watch at a later date. Absolutely fascinating. It used to work at a Raytheon company (Cossor in HarlowvUK) on kit that had similar electronics, back in the 70s. It was like being back in the factory :-)

When I was in the Royal Artillery (80-97) we had a system called PADS (Precision Azimuth Determining System) that was used for survey of gun positions. It had some fancy gyroscopes inside.
I now know where that originated ;-)

baggins ,
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The computer used by the Artillery (the one I was trained on in the 80s) was called FACE and had a magnetic core memory of about 8k
https://nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm

baggins ,
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Yes, they had a million and one things designed to catch your head, knee, elbow, eye etc. What that diagram doesn't make clear is the bench seat running down the centre for the operators and Command Post Officer (CPO) to sit on. Underneath that were the batteries for FACE, 8 (or possibly 6) great big 12v 100ah lead acid things.
Space was at a premium. In this pic I'm sitting with my back to the teleprinter and Bob Cooper was sitting on the commanders seat - it used to drop down and become a seat for a signaller :-)
This would have been taken about 1983/4
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/2efa6209-1f32-49f8-abb2-dabda1bb9ce8.webp

baggins ,
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None. Just the one built into Samsung.

baggins ,
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Holy fuck. That's something that needs to be eradicated.

Just when you thought humans couldn't be more shitty.

baggins ,
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They can shove it where the sun don't shine.

baggins ,
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Now imagine it printing out adverts whilst you're not using it.

baggins ,
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Dressed as a German style soldier, not even SS or Gestapo, does not automatically make the images Nazi. Only one is in German uniform.

Just shows AI isn't as wonderful as some would make out, but unfortunately some people will accept that it's factually correct. That's where the danger lies.

Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google's cloud services....

baggins ,
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Been doing this for a while now.

I go back to Gmail every now and again to check if I've missed anything, it's just a cesspool of junk and spam.

Good to be away from it

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