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In a recent Microsoft Edge build, Microsoft has started testing several flags that may allow the company to block browser’s capabilities when Windows 11 is not activated. Because there's no way people wouldn't just switch to alternatives
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"You can't use edge if--"
Stop trying to convince me.
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Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. Why does it just keep asking if I want to play a game?
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Microsoft already enables BitLocker by default in Windows 11 23H2, but starting with Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft is apparently implementing a new setup process that automatically activates BitLocker encryption during reinstallation You will be encrypted
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This is an outrage. That means you won't be able to access your files from a different install of an OS. And even if you can turn it off for yourself, your relatives are out of luck if their OS ever fails to boot.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I can see why one might want this for a mobile device or a laptop. I can see why enterprises would want this. Why would your average person want this on their home computer?
The biggest risk for your average user's home computer is attacks via the internet, against which encryption helps not at all. Even if one has secrets (e.g. financial data) on one's computer, this is overkill. An encrypted directory would solve the problem without compromising performance or risking complete data loss if the password is forgotten.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Given the sheer number of laptops that are lost every year, there would be a lot less data theft if those laptops had been encrypted.
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I wrote that I understand the need for encryption for mobile devices or laptops. I don't understand why desktop PCs need it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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This is my primary reason for leaving the pc support business after 30 years for good come July 1 2024 when the lease runs out at our shop. The remapping of user folders to onedrive when the users didn't know this had happened and don't know where there stuff ever was except "on my computer", now they come in with a os that is tangled up from a corruptdate and we can't get at their files because the sucker is bitlocked and I have to explain this to a user who thinks I'm crazy because they have never heard of such a thing be it onedrive or bitlocker.
Thanks mickysoft, you stupid (or just mean) f$%cs.
Long live windows 7 and windows 10 with WUAUSRV deleted. 
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Does anyone really know what they're up to or what they're end game may be? This seems like a lot of effort and pupose put into both one drive and bitlocking.
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In 2001, Triwest Insurance offices in Phoenix, AZ were broken into. The physical servers were stolen. Six months later I detected a new account on my credit report and reported it as fraudulent. Had those servers been encrypted I suspect I wouldn't have been a potential victim of identity theft. Therefore, any system you can put in the back of a pickup truck should be encrypted.
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Daniel wrote: I can see why one might want this for a mobile device or a laptop. I can see why enterprises would want this.
Stop trying to prove him wrong. Both things you have "explained" to be such important, were already covered in his message.
For the average private John Doe's PC I agree with Daniel that is an overkill and will harm more than not. Read Ron's messages, as the Techie in the family, I can totally see coming, what he is explaining.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It provides a rich user interface to view and analyze your data, show insightful column statistics and visualizations, and automatically generate Pandas code as you clean and transform the data. "Don't try to understand 'em Just rope, and throw, and brand 'em"
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Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning technologies. ArOOOO before mmsssshhhh, except after gk-gk-gk
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I can see it years from now when the headlines reads. "We've done it, we've decoded a sperm whale conversation!"
father sperm whale: "Brrrrrr pop tick tick blop"
son sperm whale: "ArOOOO -gk-gk"
father: "Whoop Whoop Whoop1"
Translation:
Father: "My fin hurts son, could you pull on it for me?"
Son: "Oh dad, that's nasty!"
Father "Har, har, har!"
Proving once again, some things are universal.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued. What happens if an irresistible force of AI-generated resume spam collides with an immovable object of AI-managed resume filters?
/shrug. Too long, too lame of an attempt at rephrasing a classic question. Try harder next time! C- (yes, I grade all my blurbs)
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Quote: What I wanted was a true spray-and-pray machine, the AK-47 of job-application bots. For that, I turned to LazyApply.
Too bad LazyApply didn't keep it simple, and just call themselves "Spray & Pray!" as he used! 
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OpenAI is getting ready to give Google and Microsoft a run for their money in search. Why search, when you can have the AI hallucinate the results?
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I hate to say it, but sometimes their hallucinations are pretty damn good. Even when they were wrong, it still took less time to confirm wrongness and continue on to the right answer than it would have been to wade through Google's ever-increasing garbage results.
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AI/LLM could be an answer to how sift through gigantic mounds of garbage data.
It may be a bit like when you solve a problem with regex though.
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The Apple Silicon M4 processor is now official, promising a "giant leap in performance" and a significant focus on AI. It can also get to you to Cardiff in no time
* Joke may or may not work only within parts of the UK
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"Hey Siri! Design me a virtual machine to decode malicious PDF files incorrectly!"
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Generative AI can improve developers’ productivity — but only when they correctly calibrate expectations. Here are six ways to get off on the wrong foot. If AI only made 6 misconceptions in your code, it might be useful
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7: "need codez now!" always works.
edit: that's an interesting auto-markdown effect!
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