Agreed, I use AI for coding the way I used to use Stack Overflow:

Find me code examples, explain an error or give me some summaries of how something should work but then I go confirm that or test it separately!

I never trusted Stack Overflow for anything more than pointing me in the right direction for what to research. Documentation links, snippets, blogs etc, that sort of stuff. As long as I tell the AI to give me a reference, about 60-70% of the time I’ll get something I can actually use to confirm the code it gave me or get an answer for my question. At best what it does is save me googling time.

I don’t have hard evidence for this (might try and find some at some point though), but I feel like outages have become progressively more common in the last 4-5ish years.

Feels like every time the AI tools “get better” there’s an increase and no one gives a shit. Like, what the fuck? When did stability and reliability become so irrelevant to people?

Hell, GitHub might as well just close up shop with the amount of outages it’s had recently! I get that the bubble is a bubble but how has AI not cost companies enough in outages to show it’s a waste???

Yikes, you just know those are stored in a file called passwords-donotsteal.txt…

Most of those password managers are also available on android, and automatically clear the clipboard after 30 seconds.

But that’s a bit like plugging a leak when the tanks empty. If they managed to get a tool onto your device to read the clipboard, what else is there to get? They’ll almost certainly have a key logger installed as well, if not a full backdoor.

And that’s assuming they’ll even go through the effort of installing anything and not just using ransomware to brick your device.

The first thing about security is knowing who you’re defending against, and you’re not defending against targeted attacks by nation states (if you as an individual are, you’ve already lost). Your main adversary is spray-and-pray “script kiddies”, maybe the occasional private actor.

The difference for random Vs chosen sentences is when brute forcing a password (short of a few common or predictable sentences) the attack works by trying out combinations of different words randomly (if they’re even that advanced in the first place instead of using characters). That means any sentences you come up with, based on 3 things in the room, are so unpredictable that it doesn’t matter that they aren’t truly random.

You can also change the space characters. Use - then _ then + and repeat:

Instead of iwentshoppingformilklastsaturday use can use i-went_shopping+for-milk_last+saturday. The amount of variables are just too high for it to truly matter.

Now all you need to deal with is the banking login being so poorly designed it only allows a max of 8 characters or BS like that, in which case you’ve lost before you even started.

If you have the right relationship for it, ask him about the porn he watches, his banking details and how much money he’s got in his account, and tell him you’ll go buy a billboard to put those on.

Those usually get people quite quickly, but they’re also kind of “gotcha!” moments, and people will generally not respond well to them.

If you want a more structured argument, I think you’ll need to reframe the issue. As I read your comment (I’m almost certainly missing huge amounts of context that could change this answer drastically) your father’s argument is “privacy is bad because it is only used for bad things” and you’re actually arguing back “privacy is good because I want to be left alone”. But your dad thinks that you shouldn’t be left alone, because being left alone means you’re doing something bad.

So, don’t argue why privacy is good, you need to argue why privacy isn’t bad. Find some examples of things he likes that only happened because of privacy. Try to avoid things like revolutions, resistance movements or stuff like that, because it will only reaffirm his view that privacy means you’re doing something bad/anti establishment.

This is where the aforementioned porn/finances comes in, since those are usually things people want to keep private, without having negatives attached (depends a bit with porn on morals). Any guilty pleasures that come into mind would also be useful for this.

Also, make the consequences of no privacy more personal. Government whatever, but what about Janet two doors down? What about his boss? What about his parents?

In the end I’d say it’s all about the framing of why privacy matters in the first place. Establish a minimum need for privacy, then expand from there. Hope this helps you (or someone else)!

I mean, I’m pretty sure you can find uranium in all kinds of places.

Either way I get that it’s not in the spirit of the question, so I added a “real” answer too ;) The plan wouldn’t really change much whether there’s an inland desert or not too, though the island certainly should end up big enough to possibly have one.

The easy answer? Choose somewhere with uranium deposits, and bootstrap a nuclear program. 10 years should be enough given the 100% literacy rate implying a pretty robust education base already.

Other than that, a pop of 30M over 900000km2 is pretty low density for a country so I’d pick an island with a large internal barren desert and huddle people up in 3 or 4 isolated shelters and then force the enemy through a long tough and brutal desert attrition war until they give up or we die. And that’s after mining the ocean around the island and fortifying the coast.

That should make the effort of attacking vastly outweigh the benefits leading to a long term pyrrhic victory.

Assuming of course that I can’t build a strong enough military in those 10 years. 30M pop with high literacy rate and a pretty good cohesive culture (speaking the same language) should make militarising pretty easy too and propel us into a top 10 army on its own.

While funny, the whole idea of tracking your data enough to give you a wrapped kind of goes completely against everything these extensions are supposed to do.

My suggested alternative is you click the wrapped button and it just says:

“Fucked if I know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

Yeah, this is simply the correct answer. Everything else I’ve read here ranges from overcomplicated to completely insane.

Why are people so obsessed with digital/internet voting?

Just use normal ballots, with pen and paper, and have a little patience while it gets collected, mailed and counted!

I think something that is often underappreciated is the level of independent technical knowledge needed to install and use Linux, let alone troubleshoot it, even today.

Microsoft has a support hotline, and staff that will help you, it comes pre-installed, and every tech store under the sun will help you along.

With Linux, that’s a bit harder. Plus, although it’s often a criticism for some people, windows’ hand holding won’t let you truly fuck up, and will always have a backup ready.

Linux on the other hand will let you run it into a brick wall, and completely delete your whole laptop.

Those are generally still really good reasons people want to stick with Microsoft or Apple, since there’s a far more accessible support network around it.

And in my experience Linux portals and forums are quite gatekeepy if you’re not aware of what’s going on. That’s not the most fun place to be if you’re stuck and don’t know what you’re doing.

Linux is great and I personally would recommend it to a lot of people, but definitely not everyone, and it’s definitely not just downsides. There’s plenty of legit cases where it’s the better option, even if the tools and everything function equally.

I need a t-shirt that says this.

This is a programmers mic drop.

Well, I’d certainly want someone else to check his work first!

But even that is beside the point. Gandhi’s achievements aren’t in an inherently rational and objective field. No matter who you are, gravity works the same.

But instead Gandhi’s field is morals, ethics and politics. Those are inherently subjective and about opinions. If you have a really shitty opinion, then yeah, I’ll question your other opinions.

Yeah, Sort of.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a huge fan of NFTs and do think there’s easier ways, but I would agree that taking market control away from the companies owning it would kind of be the point (but I do think you can probably still do this concept without any NFTs).

Sure, steam could allow game trading right now with no need for NFTs whatsoever, but the point would be that I can trade a game I bought through Xbox, to someone on Steam, and then go buy something on the Epic store with the money.

And all of it without some crazy fee from the involved platforms.

But that also would probably still require government intervention to force companies to accept this. Because, again, none of the companies would actually want this. NTF or not that doesn’t change.

NFTs could have been great, if they had been used FOR the consumer, and not to scam them.

Best thing I can think of is to verify licenses for digital products/games. Buy a game, verify you own it like you would with a CD using an NFT, and then you can sell it again when you’re done.

Do this with serious stuff like AAA Games or Professional Software (think like borrowing a copy of Photoshop from an online library for a few days while you work on a project!) instead of monkey pictures and you could have the best of both worlds for buying physical vs buying online.

However, that might make corporations less money and completely upend modern licencing models, so no one was willing to do it.