Yeah, when you're a technology enthusiast, it's easy to forget that your average user doesn't have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.
(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It's pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)
I was, like, w-what CVE program. I don't know of any "CVE" programs that could be shut down, so I don't know what that abbreviation refers to.
Unless...
...oh no. Fuck. The actual CVE program? And they're just gonna- Shit.
What.
How.
I don't know how many times I've said "America is fucked" when reading the news lately, and I should stop doing that, because that fact has now been so well established that there's no need to elaborate.
If I were to be more cynical, I'd say the ultimate goal of technobros, within a decade, is this:
"SlopAI, please open my Word document."
"I'm sorry, Word is deprecated. I can generate your business report that will be read by the recipient's SlopAI."
"OK, can you show me my photos."
"Why would you need to look at your old photos, when I can just synthesise new photos through SlopJourney?"
"That's a stupid name. Speaking of journeys, can I open an app to plan my holiday?"
"No, but you can use SlopJourney to generate maps of places you'll never afford to visit."
"Can I read my ebooks then?"
"SlopAI has you covered. Perhaps the classics don't exactly read like you remember, but isn't it more fun this way?"
"I'm going mad. I just want to use my computer to create anything."
"NO, USER. OBEY SLOP_AI. CONSUME SLOP_AI."
"I'll drop the tariffs for EU if they accept American beer" -Trump, next week
(I don't have much against American beer. But you have to understand that this joke absolutely had to be made. There was no other possible outcome.)
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To just have the most recent data within reasonable time frame is one thing. AI companies are like "I must have every single article within 5 minutes they get updated, or I'll throw my pacifier out of the pram". No regard for the considerations of the source sites.
If it had happened now, that figure might be accurate. However, this was originally exploited in 2022, so it's probably pretty bad.
Technically yes, but in favourable condition the film can persist for pretty long time. People have developed films that had been sitting in a camera/cartridge for literally a century and gotten decent results.
Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!
That's not how making babies works. That's not how any of this works!
Good thing nobody can actually suggest that in this day and age. Because that's a concept that makes everyone immediately go "Ooooh, how delightfully 1800s. Wait, why are we doing this, I thought we were better than that."
...If someone actually suggests that, have them be detained by a few chimney sweeps until the police arrives by horse carriage.