Yeah I think if they manage to solve that then we're gonna be cruising. I want to but can't really run AsahiLinux as it stands, my workstation is Thunderbolt-based and that's non-negotiable.
k3s (lightweight k8s) is basically almost as easy as docker compose and then you have access to the full open source CNCF ecosystem in form of helm charts.
I was forced to use Windows Server for an assignment and I like to learn new languages and PowerShell seemed interesting even though it's really ugly. It's much nicer to work with than Bash since everything is an object instead of having to do complex string magic. I can really recommend people trying it at least.
Nushell is similar and probably what you would go for on linux, just played with it a bit and I liked it as well.
So if you iterate over files for example, you can get the modification date as an actual DateTime property and not some string that might contain a date in some locale that you potentially have to parse then.
Also - regarding linked article's statement "PowerShell joins MSI files as another type that cannot be run as an administrator" - I have always just started a PowerShell/Terminal app as administrator which has more or less the same effect, though of course everything in that session is run with elevated permissions.
I don't even fully understand what the article means with that regarding MSI.
Windows Installer will elevate automatically (i.e. prompt with UAC if needed) if you're administrator. Or you as you say you open a command prompt as administrator and run the MSI with msiexec.
If you apply 2nd order thinking to this story it's easy to see how dangerous AI in combination with social media is. It's worrying that so few care about this issue. How is it possible to have reliable elections or a functioning democracy if people are this easily manipulated and fooled. It was always easy to fool some people but social med powered by AI makes it ridiculously easy and cheap to do mass social engineering. One single person can affect so many potential voters.
Our democracy did actually function better before AI, social media and smartphones than it does now.
Everything was not always as bad as it is now. I know that's heresy and thoughtcrime to suggest, but it is true. Things weren't always perfect in the past, but in many ways they were better.
These aren't the problem, the systems of power and capitalism using them to exploit people are the problem.
AI is useful in niche circumstances but we could absolutely stand to get rid of 99% of its "use cases."
Social media enables people to network and communicate in ways that would drastically harm freedom of expression if it were removed, and it's so ill defined that banning or regulating it could creep into banning or regulating most communication on the web. Same with smartphones - having a communication and computing device on hand is useful, the problems aren't with the existence of the devices themselves.
The problem with an AI MAGA influencer isn't that social media exists, or that cellphones exist, or even that AI exists, it's whatever deeper cultural and social problems allow MAGA to be a thing in the first place, and AI to be influential. Just banning all the modern things is an easy solution but not necessarily the correct one. I think that we can still have a modern computing and communications infrastructure including social media and smart phones and a working democracy as well.
AI detection probably needs to be added to computer literacy curricula (maybe it is, and it is just too late for adults). Of course, it is a political strategy of Republicans (probably conservatives in general) to suppress access to education, as the Republicans enjoy a growing advantage with white non-college grads.
No, the problem is that AI takes an existing problem and makes it massively worse. Because there is basically no limit to the amount of plausible-sounding drivel that AIs can spew, they can drown out all other voices in a way that regular shills and propagandists couldn't. Even organized rings couldn't produce the same volume that AIs can.
Sure, the internet had, say 20% noise back before spam, shills, and propaganda took over. Now it has 50% noise, maybe even 80%. It's still (barely) usable. But what happens when the noise is 99% of the content? 99.9? That's not "making it slightly worse", that's a phase change that makes it completely unusable.
It never had to sound plausible. AI didn't cause MAGA to believe Haitian's were eating people's pets. AI didn't cause them to believe that schools were buying kitty litter for furries. It's a population who has been conditioned over decades to believe the most wild shit as long as it comes from one of their "trusted sources" and anything that is counter to that is the "liberal media". Fox News et al are far more damaging to our society than generative AI is.
I think their use of the word “plausible” was in reference to a comparison to content generation in the pre-LLM era, which was limited to GANs and Markov chains.
It is legal to produce beer. It is legal to operate a bar. And we have a concept of a nuisance business that can result in fines or shutdown if your business constantly attracts egregiously bad behavior.
It's different this time. It's a geopolitical safety move. You know why it happened and who is responsible for this. Never would have happened otherwise.
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