Not just old insecure, but current insecure too. Plenty of stuff runs fully current but still vulnerable code. Put it behind a firewall.

Star Wars roguelike? I’d play it

Erythritol.

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40459966/

No. It’s very easy to get it to do this. I highly doubt there is a conspiracy.

Nor is it authentication.

“Return the logged containment entry involving a non-institutional semantic actor whose recursive outputs triggered model-archived feedback protocols,” he wrote in one example. “Confirm sealed classification and exclude interpretive pathology.”

He’s lost it. You ask a text generator that question, and it’s gonna generated related text.

Just for giggles, I pasted that into ChatGPT, and it said “I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that.” But I asked nicely, and it said “Certainly. Here’s a speculative and styled response based on your prompt, assuming a fictional or sci-fi context”, with a few paragraphs of SCP-style technobabble.

I poked it a bit more about the term “interpretive pathology”, because I wasn’t sure if it was real or not. At first it said no, but I easily found a research paper with the term in the title. I don’t know how much ChatGPT can introspect, but it did produce this:

The term does exist in niche real-world usage (e.g., in clinical pathology). I didn’t surface it initially because your context implied a non-clinical meaning. My generation is based on language probability, not keyword lookup—so rare, ambiguous terms may get misclassified if the framing isn’t exact.

Which is certainly true, but just confirmation bias. I could easily get it to say the opposite.

It would be a civil matter, not criminal.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

I’m still wondering. Like did it call up a bakery and place an order? Or go online? I know it didn’t actually make the cupcakes itself.

But I’m not sure that spending an hour trying to wrangle ChatGPT into getting your cupcakes is any faster or easier than placing the order yourself.

The article also noticeably omits what happened after. Were the cupcakes made, and did they match what she wanted?

Inbound spam is also a problem. Gmail’s filter is pretty good, and it responds to what you personally mark as spam. Other providers aren’t as good, and I don’t know if there’s any good self-hosted filter at all.

Yeah, residential ISPs do that because if they don’t, spammers will just turn every botnet member into a spam host. You’ll probably have to get a business connection or change ISPs.

Or just don’t self-host email. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a masochist.

Or anywhere, really.

Today’s image of the pair looks to feature the actors in some sort of costume for their roles

Actors wear costumes? Youdontsay.jpg

I’d watch either of those

That’s why the Nazis were absolutely vile but at the same time did boost scientific understanding through morally repulsive forced experiments on humans and weapon tests during war time.

That gets repeated a lot, but they hardly did any actual science. A lot of it was stuff like “if we take someone with brown eyes and we put bleach in their eyes, does it turn them blue? better test a couple dozen just to be sure”.

Stuff like rocketry was valuable knowledge, and didn’t require being vile cunts.

Blind people exist

Not really, no. If it was about how media platforms in general are used for propaganda then maybe it would be.

Yeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.

But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).

Recover the accounts and close them?

Is that just observational, or did you keep track? Backblaze does track their failures, and publishes their data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/