Do any of you, living in the US, vote?

Yup, everyone does. If someone chooses not to vote, they have cast a voted for “I don’t care”. And have decided to let everyone else choose for them. They may not like any of the choices, but politics has always been “the art of the possible”. If they want perfect solutions, they need to start their own dictatorship. If they won’t or can’t do that, voting is the only bit of control they’re going to get. And that means some type of compromise with everyone else in society. It’s a terrible system, but history hasn’t provided a lot of better examples to follow. Don’t like the system, change it. And unless you have the force of arms to do it the violent way (and it’s really unlikely you do), you’re only real option is to do it via the soap box and ballot box.

Would you ever consider voting DSA/Socially democratic[?]

Sure, though not any time soon. One of the things I’d like to change about our system is the First Past the Post nature of elections. But, until that happens, the math just doesn’t work in most elections. I vote in primaries and vote for the options who most closely match my views in those. But, come the general elections (especially at the federal level), third parties are basically DOA. I’d rather vote “not Nazi” than sit on my thumbs and watch “Nazi” coast to victory because I’m stuck letting “perfect” be the enemy of “not a fucking Nazi”. Should the DSA reach a point that they aren’t an “also ran” in an election I’m voting on, sure I’d probably vote for them.

Would you ever vote for someone like Trump just to make things intentionally worse in the hopes of sparking off a revolution?

Well, it hasn’t happened with Trump. And looking at history, I really don’t think revolutions are such the clean and wonderful things people in online forums like to make them out to be. History provides lots of example of revolutions ending up with groups like the Taliban in charge and basically none ending up as egalitarian utopias.

Not sure if I will ever vote again at this point

That’s your choice, but you’ve made the choice to let other people decide your government. You can sit on the sidelines and stew in your own smugness. But, no one cares. And no one will ever care about your opinions if you’re not willing to enter the political milieu and fight for them.

Oh no!

It all depends on conditions. If there’s lightning, it’s time to get out. If the rain is riding on cold air, probably gonna get out, cold water isn’t fun. Warm rain with no lightning, who cares keep swimming. Also, windy conditions (which often accompany rain) while at the ocean can cause strong waves and riptides, that might warrant caution or getting out.

False positives out of Defender?
I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Well, not that shocked.

People need to remember that Microsoft now owns Bethesda. You need to apply the same “every other version is good” mentality to their releases. So:

• Oblivion - pretty good
• Oblivion Remastered - shite
• Whatever they decide to call the next release of Oblivion - pretty good

Of course, these days I’d just expect the to release Copilot for Oblivion and call it a day.

The same place they came from.

So they need to review every website?

I’m going to assume you’re just trolling now. I refuse to believe that someone can be this stupid, without actually doing it intentionally. Well done, you got me for a few comments. But, I’m done feeding the troll.

They’re “cutting back” because States are starting to push back by criminalizing civil arrests without a judicial warrant in courthouses.

Google processes over 5.9 trillion searches per year

That number has nothing to do with the problem. They don’t need to review every search, they need to review every advertising link they have been paid to place (not every link indexed). Presumably, they already have the infrastructure in place to track those links and verify that they comply with laws such as CSAM, copyright or other areas where they actually have some accountability in those areas. The number of paid advertisement links will be far smaller than that 5.9 trillion number.

Actually, that’s the start of a solution.

I’ve personally implemented something similar to this in the past. At one site we had an issue with people browsing porn on their office PCs. Some folks got pretty creative in getting around the blocks we had in place. However, we had full packet capture at the firewall; so, all of the evidence was there. I setup a system which pulled images above a certain size out of those packet captures and passed them through an open source image classifier which used a model based on machine learning. Anything above a certain threshold was flagged for human review, everything else was ignored. It wasn’t perfect, I looked as quite a few images of sand dunes, but it did 90% of the work. And sure, some false negatives likely got through. But, it let us run down the worst offenders.

Right now, Google seems to be ignoring the problem and has no incentive to do anything about it. Google is directly profiting from those malvertising links and so should bear some responsibility for ensuring that they are not serving malware to users. We can certainly work out the fine details around their duty of care and how they can meet it (e.g. LLM scanning with human review), but holding our collective dicks with both hands and claiming “nothing can be done” because it would cost Google money is a bad answer.

Dead men have won elections before. In 2000, the people of Missouri had an election for a US Senator. Their choices were John Ashcroft and a dead man. And the people of Missouri said “Sorry John, but the dead guy scares us less”. 1

It actually seems like a good place for an LLM. One of the security tools I work with uses an LLM to scan emails for malicious links and things like Business Email Compromise and Phishing. It’s actually pretty good. It seems like Google, et. al. could use something similar to catch some of the more obvious malvertising links. But, since they don’t have any accountability, they have no incentive. The only way to build that incentive is to start hitting them in the pocketbook. Letting them ignore the problem isn’t working.

And yet, they still serve malicious ads before the actual search results. Just ruined a user’s day over such an ad tricking them into running malicious code. You’d think their AI could figure out when an ad link is impersonating a legitimate site and not serve the malicious ad. But, since they aren’t held responsible for serving malicious links, they have a negative incentive to fix the problem.

There are worse things you could get for an “I’m not a robot” prompt.

If that “national service” includes Mangione’s service to the country, perhaps we should have that conversation.

Seems people have to relearn this lesson every few years:
If you don’t want something to be public, don’t put it on the internet. “Privacy” controls from these companies fail regularly, sometimes by design. If you put something on the internet, it will be public eventually.

Or two decades fighting an asymmetric war which President Bone Spurs personally managed to avoid.

By “de-shitify” they meant removing all the shit which isn’t owned and controlled by Microsoft.

The real miracle in the Bible is that Joseph didn’t fuck for his entire marriage and was ok with that.

According to Christian mythology Jesus has several brothers and sisters from Mary and Joseph. So no miracle there. One just has to wonder if they waited until after Jesus was born to start fucking.

He was one of the early authors of the Christian church and is the author of several books of the official Christian mythology. In the Christian Bible, the letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Thessalonians and Philippians are all believed to have been written by him. There are several other books (also letters to various congregations) which are attributed to him, but there is some debate about the actual authorship.

So, he’s kinda the OG Paul when it comes to Christian mythology.