I don’t know, it’s 30 years in the past. Maybe something as simple as lazy handoff of info to the next shift, the staff not noticing how long she’d been there or her lack of progress.

I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Well timed. Got to the end text, had a half second of “wait…”

The poor mother. Hopefully it wasn’t lengthy and just a quick reaction to being stuck. My wife failed at her first and only after 36 hours of labor did they decide to go in. Probably should have followed up with what bad decisions led to that, but we were young kids and didn’t know better then.

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that’s strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you’re home.

This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can’t work, and the creep of AI to such things, I’d rather not try it out.

Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. “Smart men don’t pay taxes or bills!”

Jesus is just a name to them. Any chance of them actually following things taught is long gone. Jesus, like Trump, is a tool they use. Nothing more.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

The caveat is that you would probably have to upgrade it enough so the books in the library don’t mildew from the weather. But if you have a million and can take on one of those free ones, I can see tackling that one room at a time.

There was an airport that found by moving certain gates around to increase the time to walk to the baggage pickup area, complaints about waiting for luggage to show up dramatically decreased. It does take a few minutes to fully unload the belly of a plane into carts then drive over and unload the carts onto a belt. Even if the crew is fast.

Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it’s a thing everywhere.

Font size and possibly face is different too. They’re given lots of hints.

That has the same energy as James Burke’s episode about the single power relay that brought down the East Coast. People aren’t aware of how many potential cascade effects we have around us just waiting for the right moment.

I don’t think Youtube’s history on false positives for things is all that stellar. Maybe if they get AI to help it will… oh, no, it will make it far worse than even Youtube can do alone.

Not quite that old, more in the 2000 range based on when I had my PC that I used it on. This was a GUI app for Windows. Wish I had an idea, that was like… too long ago.

They can, they only know two words though, both offensive.

No, I don’t see mention of it being an application but like Dogpile is a web-based collector.

I did a search myself, but (given how searching sucks now) couldn’t find anything. Lots of hits for search engines themselves, but getting past that to other methods back then is difficult.

It was much like an FTP or torrent program but you’d load up what search engines to use and your search words, and it would actively pull the info then provide a single page with all results.

Well, yeah. This side of it.