He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.

I govenment site I visited recenly made a point of how it accepts emojis in passwords!

True, poor choice of phrase.

But I was thnking of something like

#define my_macro does not fit\
on one line

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn’t it be better to use something more traditional, such as <br>?

Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?

And Open Camera is a free alternative app, too, without a '5 photos per day" limit, if you don’t want to bother with RAW.

And for the 90s: Information Superhighway.

That’s, like, halfway down the list of things to try!

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

Okay, maybe that was a typo, but I’ve read cooking instructions based on a “cup” of chicken strips.

I had emails from CVS (American pharmacy store) about vaccination records recently and noticed this

Administration date 2024-10-25

First time I’ve seen dates used like that in a public-facing context. The birth dates were in that form, too.

The US uses metric measures in many places, too. Usually medical, but even things such as phone thickness are announced in ml.

The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.

No it’s not. It’s more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.

So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.

a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail.

The trail emerging from the tail of the plane, as if it was a rocket.

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Chicks, not checks, btw.

It seemed that way, it asked me to scan a QR code on my phone to link it, which didn’t happen before.

Or maybe the option to use my phone was some older auth method, where I’d use the fingerprint reader on the phone to confirm a login on the laptop. I thought that was a passkey, but that doesn’t fit with what I’m reading about what it does now.

The Register is deliberately tabloid-like in style (right up to the “red top” site banner), but is good quality (at least when I read it).

They won’t write an article about science without using the word “boffins” either. It’s just their thing.

I think that passkeys are simple, but no-one explains what they do and don’t do in specific terms.

Someone compared it to generating private/public key pairs on each device you set up, which helps me a bit, but I recently set up a passkey on a new laptop when offered and it seemed to replace the option to use my phone as a passkey for the same site (which had worked), and was asking me to scan a QR code with my phone to set it up again.

So I don’t know what went on behind the scenes there at all.

What is the motive behind this push to ram AI down out throats?

They already have all my emails, photographs. location and browsing data.

What do they gain from providing unreliable information at many times the power use? Or having me ask “write a sincere-sounding thank-you email”.

I feel like I’m missing some big revelation that will make it make sense.