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"Software-based car" is a warning, not a slogan.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/#based
-- Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (10 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
-- Today's links :
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/
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https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/
-- Fisker, Maker Of The Ocean SUV, Files For Bankruptcy
The company filed for Chapter 11 protection yesterday and is planning on selling its assets.
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https://variety.com/2024/music/news/lily-allen-onlyfans-feet-pictures-spotify-1236191247/
-- Lily Allen OnlyFans Feet Pictures Make More Money Than Spotify
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
-- Russian court fines Google $2 decillion • The Register
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Don't hold your breath Putin
A Russian court has ruled that Google owes Russian media stations around $20 decillion in fines for blocking their content, and the fines could get bigger.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine.
Google might be one of the most valuable businesses on the planet, but even if Sundar Pichai rummages around the back of the sofa he won't be able to raise the funds to pay the penalty.
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Internet Archive got hacked. 31M users exposed.... :(
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

also a DOS command can be dangerous ...
microsoft defender deleted my text-file with ahk scripts which was useless. But you can exclude txt or ahk files or also folders ...

Insecure software makers are the real cyber villains ... but not ahk , you must know which commands you want to use , also like MS DOS commands , xy.bat etc

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/cisa_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/
CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains
Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret'
"The truth is: Technology vendors are the characters who are building problems" into their products,
which then "open the doors for villains to attack their victims," declared Easterly during a Wednesday keynote address at Mandiant's mWise conference.
"Despite a multi-billion-dollar cyber security industry, we still have a multi-trillion-dollar software quality issue leading to a multi-trillion-dollar global cyber crime issue"
Even calling security holes "software vulnerabilities" is too lenient, she added.
This phrase "really diffuses responsibility.
We should call them 'product defects,'" Easterly said.
And instead of automatically blaming victims for failing to patch their products quickly enough, "why don't we ask: Why does software require so many urgent patches?
While no one would buy a car or board an airplane "entirely at your own risk," we do that every day with the software that underpins America's critical infrastructure, she added.


better use AI ( and nuclear power for AI ) ... :)

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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-hungry-for-ai-power-spurs-revival-of-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant/
-- Microsoft AI needs so much power it’s tapping Three Mile Island | The Seattle Times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

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https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
-- Amazon buys nuclear-powered data center from Talen -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire
Constellation will also seek to extend its operating license through 2054, and is planning to rename the facility the Crane Clean Energy Center,
after the late Chris Crane, former CEO of Exelon Corp., which spun out its generation unit to become Constellation in 2022.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/17/microsoft-blackrock-form-gaiip-to-invest-in-ai-data-centers-energy.html
-- Microsoft, BlackRock form GAIIP to invest in AI data centers, energy
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531613/microsoft-blackrock-form-group-to-raise-100-billion-for-ai-data-centers.html
-- Microsoft, BlackRock form group to raise $100 billion for AI data centers | Network World
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/microsoft-claims-its-new-tool-can-correct-ai-hallucinations-but-experts-caution-it-has-shortcomings/
-- Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution | TechCrunch
AI is a notorious liar, but Microsoft now says it has a fix for that.
Understandably, that’s going to raise some eyebrows — and there’s reason to be skeptical.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/26/business/ntsb-urgent-safety-warning-boeing-737s-max/index.html
-- NTSB issues ‘urgent’ safety warning for some Boeing 737s, including MAX, in latest blow to struggling planemaker | CNN Business
In the last five years, Boeing has suffered a myriad of problems, some tragic and many embarrassing.
Most of them have proven financially devastating.
Two fatal crashes of its 737 Max, one in October 2018 and the other in March 2019, killed 346 people
and led to a 20-month grounding of Boeing’s best-selling plane and a halt in deliveries to fix a design flaw tied to the crashes.
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https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-secret-plot-invade-holland-covid-vaccines/
Boris Johnson has revealed that a secret plot was devised to invade Holland and seize Covid vaccines.
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https://explore.org/fat-bear-week#h_6757205407121692994801926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizPJZQa5sU
-- River Watch - Katmai National Park, Alaska
-- Fat Bear Week 2024 | VOTE
Vote for the fattest bear of the year!
Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their success in preparation for winter hibernation.
Matchups are open for voting October 2 - 8 between 12 - 9 p.m. Eastern (9 a.m. - 6 p.m.Pacific).
EDIT : voting has ended
32 Chunk: 30,468
128 Grazer: 71,248
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https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/10/01/hurricane-helene-tech-chip-shortage-spruce-pine-quartz-supply
-- Helene damage in Spruce Pine, N.C. could induce chip shortage, threaten economy - Axios Charlotte
The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina - Spruce Pine
Why it matters: Spruce Pine is one of the only places in the world to mine high-purity quartz.
The mineral is an essential ingredient of chips in countless products, including medical devices,
solar panels, cellphones and the chips powering the latest tech craze: artificial intelligence.
The deposits formed 380 million years ago when Africa collided with North America.
One western North Carolina town reeling from Tropical Storm Helene could impact the massive global semiconductor industry.
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Caterpillar D9-bulldozer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsErXmo98rI ;- 13.09.2024
-- Caterpillar D9-bulldozer in the war : relentless, unstoppable ( video in dutch language )
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https://www.npr.org/2024/10/03/nx-s1-5139450/dockworkers-port-strike-deal
-- US Port strikes end with deal on wages, averting economic disaster : NPR
A strike by tens of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts, that could have seriously hurt the U.S. economy had it continued, has been called off.
The two sides have agreed to a 62% wage increase over six years, according to sources who were familiar with the deal but not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The union had been seeking a 77% increase over six years.
A day before the strike began, the companies had offered nearly 50% in raises.
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/
-- A sexy, skinny defeat device for your HP ink cartridge (30 Sep 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars
-- Every time HP got caught doing something evil, they had the same excuse: "that's the deal we offered and you accepted it."
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https://www.rt.com/russia/605445-discord-ban-extremism-roskomnadzor/ ;- 2024-10-09
-- Russia bans Discord
https://www.rt.com/news/605467-turkiye-bans-discord-messanger/
-- Türkiye bans Discord
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[quote=boiler post_id=569521 time=1714037593 user_id=60507]
In other words, 55/69 out of 69 vendors say it’s safe, and as you’ve pointed out, there’s no convincing some of them because they have no interest in being logical about it. Because AHK can/has been used to create malware, therefore AHK should be flagged is the kind of intellectual dishonesty that exposes them for what they are — lazy and/or unethical. You giving them so much credibility and acting like the sky is falling because an unethical industry continues to act unethically is the only story here, in my opinion.

You’re acting as if v1 doesn’t have its own history of false positives, especially as new versions have been released. Making this a v2-specific issue is really not understanding the history of AHK at all.
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The average person freaks out even when there are 1-2 false positives. There's no point in bringing up credibility and ethics because they don't matter when it comes to the issue I am raising. It is simple. People use the tool to scan things, they see red color and then game over. What about companies? Do you really think any reasonable IT department would see 10+ flags on VirusTotal and then just say: "looks good to me, let's disable the antivirus and just install the software!" Most of the time the tool will be dismissed without further consideration. Or do you think they will all be super reasonable, go look at the history of AutoHotkey, check out its code, its forum messages?

Maybe you have been sitting in the AutoHotkey community for too long where everyone just trusts and agrees with everything AutoHotkey does. I think you should stop making excuses and look at the real world. If you want the application to be usable, these issues have to be addressed. If things don't improve, nobody is going to be stupid enough to invest time in learning a tool that will be blocked in most companies or by most antivirus vendors and only works with disabling the antivirus.

[quote=jballi post_id=584697 time=1726346270 user_id=58]
A [b]cat[/b]chy tune.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA[/url]
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Pretty catchy tune indeed. :mrgreen:

[url]https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1832980818626519429[/url]

you know, i have not blamed the americans from having sex with monkeys,
producing HIV and AIDS which spread world wide.

allowed (?) , but not usual ... eating cats and dogs in Switzerland

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https://alionswitzerland.com/do-the-swiss-eat-dogs-and-cats/
-- Do the Swiss eat dogs and cats? - Ali on Switzerland
One of the stranger stereotypes to pop up on the internet is that hundreds of thousands of the Swiss eat dogs and cats (the latter supposedly being cooked with thyme for Christmas dinner in Switzerland).
Is there any truth to this?
Apparently (and surprisingly) a tiny bit yes, but nothing near the level that news reports say.
It seems that it was historically not uncommon in rural areas, but today most Swiss people wouldn’t even think it was a real practice let alone take part in it.
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08.09.2023 =
You should also note that while eating your pet cat or dog is (regrettably) allowed in Switzerland, selling cat or dog meat is not.
This also means that you are not allowed to buy cat or dog meat off a friend.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30205410 / 26 November 2014
-- Stop eating cats and dogs say animal rights campaigners in Switzerland - BBC News
Hundreds of thousands of Swiss people eat cat and dog meat say activists, who want the practice to be made illegal.
"We especially see it in the regions of Lucerne, Appenzell, Jura and in the canton of Bern"
Dog meat goes mostly into making sausages and a fatty remedy for rheumatism.
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Creative! I hope this will drive home the absurdity of it all...

A [b]cat[/b]chy tune.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA[/url]

[quote=joedf post_id=583950 time=1725633559 user_id=55]
[quote=joyrr5092 post_id=583931 time=1725621695 user_id=169440]
anyone aware of a chinese close-source AHK alike called "quicker"? https://getquicker.net/

someone say use quicker with ahk,
someone say it's a clone

my comment is, AHK seems more stick /w keyboard, are about combinations of keys/replacement
quicker use mouse, with a click you can do something.

quicker support C++ programming? (somthing like that), so i think it's not a copy of ahk source and re-brand.

it's a paidware but if it do the work, why not pay?

ps: ahk works well for me, i just want better.
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Huh never heard of it... weird... theyve been around for at least 6 years according to the github page here
https://github.com/cuiliang/Quicker
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it's from another world, red china.
they dont know autohotkey exist too.

btw i just wanna upload a gif to demo how useful the launchQ/E/Filter could be when using mindmanager.
[img][/img] hope you can see the gif.

the mindmanager support a lot of key combinations, but the UI itself didn't help much.

with ahk 's GUI, one can write a floating toolbar oneself.

[quote=joyrr5092 post_id=583931 time=1725621695 user_id=169440]
anyone aware of a chinese close-source AHK alike called "quicker"? https://getquicker.net/

someone say use quicker with ahk,
someone say it's a clone

my comment is, AHK seems more stick /w keyboard, are about combinations of keys/replacement
quicker use mouse, with a click you can do something.

quicker support C++ programming? (somthing like that), so i think it's not a copy of ahk source and re-brand.

it's a paidware but if it do the work, why not pay?

ps: ahk works well for me, i just want better.
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Huh never heard of it... weird... theyve been around for at least 6 years according to the github page here
https://github.com/cuiliang/Quicker

ps: some gif

btw, it's quite alike my idea on the launchQ launcher,
add icons to the functions.

btw, this ahk website seems become slow recently.
loaded for a long time

anyone aware of a chinese close-source AHK alike called "quicker"? https://getquicker.net/

someone say use quicker with ahk,
someone say it's a clone

my comment is, AHK seems more stick /w keyboard, are about combinations of keys/replacement
quicker use mouse, with a click you can do something.

quicker support C++ programming? (somthing like that), so i think it's not a copy of ahk source and re-brand.

it's a paidware but if it do the work, why not pay?

ps: ahk works well for me, i just want better.

AI is here to stay, understand it, incorporate it. Humans have something special about themselves, too.

I use LLM's heavily, its lifechanging from a work perspective

let's dont argue the use of LLMs here,

some take drugs, some dont.

i use LLMs, others dont.

we just discuss the code here.


btw, i emailed QAP's author that his program is too bulky,
and wanna ask if he wanna co-operate.
but he is like other FOSS programmers,
he is the bill-gates of his own project,
so he stay on this own.

after experienced a lot of benefit from foss,
i found dual licensing is a good idea,
i just dont have time to tidy up the code to dual license it on github.

[mention]andymbody[/mention] 'Everyone is a programmer now' ... programmers not needed ... / ... there would be "no programmers in five years :?
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https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-developers-stop-coding-ai-takes-over-2024-8
-- AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over - Business Insider
In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over
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'Everyone is a programmer now'
Garman isn't the first high-profile executive to predict this type of AI-driven change in developer jobs.
-- Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, has said that "everyone is a programmer now" because of new AI coding assistants.
-- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has speculated that easier access to AI technologies will create 1 billion developers.
-- Emad Mostaque, Stability AI's former CEO, even predicted that there would be "no programmers in five years."
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[url=https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-developers-stop-coding-ai-takes-over-2024-8]Software developer roles changing as AI implementation is adopted[/url]

[quote=joedf post_id=582454 time=1724249602 user_id=55]
Oh, so you mean your settings for QAP can sync with your other PCs as well? If so, that's really cool :+1:
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My script is alike QAP, i wrote a 2nd GUI for launchQ as QAP is too bulky.
and my script can have the data on remote server or local.

however, one need to use launchQ to add/remove items, and then USE my script daily.
i am sure no ordinary user would like this,
so i have to modify someway before i will dual license it.

btw, claude 3.5 sonnect seems better at programming and sometimes in medicine than gpt4.

i have 2-3 monitors, gpt4 i tried it cant help me to flip/move the GUI to another monitor,
but yesterday i tried claude 3.5, it take only 1-2 times to do so.
it did made some error like % at the end of line etc.

ps: ahk v1