That’s fair. For A/V on Windows, Defender is a good choice for most home users. Even for a lot of small businesses, Defender is probably enough A/V. Once you start moving beyond that through, it’s probably time to start looking into the larger players for endpoint protection.

That’s amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!

Seriously though, this level of incompetence should be illegal.

But may be good for enterprise or Linux running in windows VM, or environments where AV may be more necessary

No, not really. It’s still Microsoft Defender. I mean, it’s ok as A/V goes. But then it’s tied to everything else Defender, which is a steaming pile of crap.

For older games, where source code may not exist anymore and modding and preservation are severely hampered by this lack of source code, I can see the use of AI to build reverse engineered source code as a useful tool. For modern or brand new games, it seems like an irresponsible use of the tool. And there will be all kinds of legal issues surrounding the posting of the reverse engineered code online.

I can also see this as having some utility for checking if closed source applications are borrowing code from open source projects without proper attribution and/or following of the open source license. I would think that commercial projects would see this as an especially scary prospect as they begin to incorporate AI into their development pipelines. Could GPL’d or Copy Left source code work its way into the closed source project and end up opening the company up to liability? If so, this sort of reverse engineering may be the only way that is discovered. Which, may mean that this sort of analysis has a very useful purpose. Though again, posting the resultant code online seems kinda sketchy.

As another tangent, I’ve personally used AI reverse engineering for examining malware. I’ve run across samples in my work which I could deobfuscate and reverse engineer by hand. But that will take considerable time (hours at minimum, days on the outside). During a security investigation, time is often a luxury we don’t have. Being able to use an AI agent with access to REMNux and the REMNux MCP can cut hours to days off the initial analysis. Sure, there are always issues with hallucinations and the agent just failing at its analysis (I’ve already seen both). But, it can give a first pass at something very fast. That may mean IoCs and TTPs we can hunt on quickly to validate scope and containment.

AI is a tool, it’s going to be used for things both good and bad. And it’s going to take us a while to sort out the details and safeguards around it as we go.

If you’d bother to read the article, that’s what the college did. They covered the cameras in trash bags. Someone showed up and removed the bags.

That has been tried before, in the US. It ended somewhat poorly for the unions, though long term it did drive change. Ultimately, unless your goal is a violent insurrection, being armed really only helps to protect you from other violent militias. That can be important when the government can’t or won’t prevent their activities (see the KKK and Pinkertons) but if they have full government backing, or the government just outright uses the military, you’re now in the thick of an armed rebellion. More often than not, those are a bad plan.,

Assuming it’s free. I’d take the Tesla, as it’s likely to have a better resale value than the unknown brand. Take the Tesla, sell it and use the money to buy a decent car.

The Pentagon stated that it currently has no evidence that the stolen data has been used for criminal purposes. Those affected are being offered identity protection and credit monitoring services.

On the upshot, this was probably just China updating the SF-86 database they took from OPM back in 2015; so, they aren’t likely to use it to issue credit cards. The downside is that organizations are still treating identity protection and credit monitoring services as anything other than complete and utter bullshit. We really need to overhaul the SSN system to something more modern to be able to deal with the fact that everyone’s SSN has long since been leaked. Especially when we have the idiots like the DOGE employees dumping this sort of thing on publicly accessible servers.

So, classic “do more with less”. But with a side of “let’s enshitify our products”.

Move fast and break things.
And by “things” they usually mean “security”. And may the AI gods help you if you ask them about documentation. It’s all just random containers, spun up by devs. Nothing was written down, everything is still at defaults and no one has ever patched anything. Also, every user has passwordless root access, because figuring out required permissions was too slow. And there’s only one service account, which is shared across 100 different systems and also used when devs need to log into something interactively and they don’t have their own account enabled on that system. But all of this is critical infrastructure and MUST NOT FAIL!

I just find it abit ironic this is supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread even tho I’ve read multiple times Steam has bloatware and Spyware on it

Links?
Sure, it has the Steam Store on it, if that’s what you’re getting at. And it boots directly to Big Picture Mode. But that seems a bit of a stretch to call “bloatware and spyware”. There’s actually a bit of an irony in this claim, as SteamDeck suffers the same issues with Anti-Cheat software all of Linux does. Much of that stemming from an inability to stick the anti-cheat in kernel mode and keep the user out of it.
And Valve is so committed to locking you into SteamOS that they publish a helpful page with drivers and information for installing Windows. And on that point, Valve cares so much about lock-in that they are using open-source drivers. Also, Proton is open source and they keep pushing fixes back up to the parent WINE project. Indeed, these are the actions of monsters. (/s for the truly stupid)

it was created by two former Microsoft employees

Ok and? Active Microsoft employees have contributed to Linux. Hell, Microsoft has an active Linux distribution of their own, Azure Linux. And they aren’t above submitting code to the Linux kernel. It also turns out that Microsoft has a long history of hiring talented developers. Seriously, go check out Dave Plumer’s channel, the guy is wicked smart. Some stay there, some move on. Just because they worked at MS, doesn’t mean they are now irrevocably evil.

and has DRM

Yup, that’s built into Steam. We can debate the issue of “should DRM exist at all” but that’s largely mental masturbation. Part of the reason digital delivery took off was that publishers felt comfortable enough that piracy wasn’t going to eat their lunch. While I do agree with Gabe Newell that piracy is often an access and delivery issue, many publishers don’t and we’d still be buying boxed copies at physical stores without DRM backing those sales. If you hate it that much, use GoG instead. It’s a great option and it runs on the SteamDeck.

they used Linux as operating system does nobody see any irony in this ??

Linux is fucking everywhere. Seriously, the only place it lags behind is on the desktop. Linux has won in the cloud. It won so decisively that Microsoft spun up Azure Linux to deal with that. Half the internet infrastructure (routers, switches, embedded devices) which allowed you to post your drivel likely runs on Linux. Linux is on everything from physical door controllers to kiosk displays. Even NASA is getting in on the Linux game. Using Linux is kinda the default choice anymore. Valve choosing Linux was fantastic, as it pushed open the gaming market away from Microsoft’s stranglehold. What they have done with Proton is nothing short of a miracle. It’s let us gamers have some hope to escape the Window ecosystem for something far better. The only “irony” here is the irony lump between your ears. I’d suggest never getting near an MRI machine.

Drop it in investments and work for another year. The extra year of work is so that I can get the investments to move to long term capital gains tax rates. With that sorted, I can now retire. Even a simple index fund often returns an average around 7%. So that’s ~$350,000/year. Pull $200,000 and leave $150,000 for growth. Exact numbers will fluctuate, but it will be close. I’m going to get taxed at something like 12.5%, or about $25,000 leaving me $175,000 to live on. This isn’t monthly vacations in Tahiti money, but it’s a pretty comfortable living, if I’m not stupid and wasteful. If I really want to stretch things out, I can always move to a lower cost of living country. Though that often carries personal risk with it, and I don’t know if I’d want that extra stress. Numbers would also change based on how that original $5mil got taxed. If it’s something like a lottery win, it would shave the numbers down a good bit by taxes.

Ya, I treat that the same way. If it really matters, I know the difference and can use the correct one as needed. It’s far more often that the difference doesn’t matter and the only reason to use Gibibyte is for the “look at me, I’m trying to sound smart” effect. Yup, marketers fucked up gigabyte/megabyte/etc. But It’s close enough for most conversations.

I’d been saying BIOS for decades before UEFI became the norm. Yes, I know it’s no longer BIOS. No, I don’t care. As far as I am concerned, anyone pedantic enough to nitpick about it is doing me a favor. They are identifying themselves as someone I don’t want to be around.

When it does matter, my pronunciation is “you-fee”

The goal of engineering isn’t adding everything possible. It’s taking everything possible away while still accomplishing the goal. This applies just as well to life.

So, this?

ClickFix attacks often prey on the fact that people don’t understand what key combinations do. The examples I’ve dealt with professionally (read: my company’s users ran into them), have directed the user to press the following keys in order:

<Win>+R
<Ctrl>+V
<Enter>

Some folks may recognize the <Ctrl>+V as paste, but many don’t and only think of <Ctrl>+<Ins> as paste. And it’s mostly tech-savvy people who would recognize <Win>+R as opening the run box. Since the code gets pre-loaded in the clipboard with JavaScript, the user never sees the code on the webpage and may not realize that their clipboard is loaded with the malicious code. Again, for tech-savvy users, this should be obvious. For everyone else, it’s just another annoying CAPTCHA they have to deal with.

The orange monkey is screaming about the midterms. Despite everything else that matters, when it comes to elections James Carville still has it nailed: “it’s the economy, stupid”. American voters care first and foremost about their pocketbook. While other issues are at least close, polling shows Americans generally care about the economy the most. And as fucked up as it may be, the GOP has long held an edge in that area. But, thanks to Trump, that has been slipping. Between oil climbing above $100 and taking gas prices with it, grocery prices climbing, and inflation staying stubbornly high, Trump’s ability to convince enough Republicans to ignore reality and keep voting for failed policies is falling apart. This latest screed is him trying to follow in Turkey’s footsteps. Back at the start of that crisis, Erdogan kept forcing the Turkey Central bank to lower interest rates while inflation was going hyper, in complete contradiction to anyone with a clue how economics worked. But, easy money got him re-elected. Then he finally listened to reason, but the damage had been done and their economy is still struggling to recover. This is what Trump is trying to do here. Get the short term political win at the expense of fucking everyone’s bank account.

Saturday, the last time I took my car out on the road. However, the point is taken, we specifically wanted one of the nicer colors for our car. The dealer was a bit unhappy with us, as we walked into the dealership and said, “we want this vehicle, at this trim level,. in this color.” Ultimately, we got the car we wanted at one trim level higher, in the color we wanted. We were already paying ~$60k for the vehicle, the extra $2k to go up a trim level was a small enough jump that we decided to take the car, rather than wait longer for special order. And, if I’m fully honest, I’m actually glad we got the higher trim level. Some of the extra features were very nice to have.

Had we wanted white, we could have driven off the lot with a vehicle the same day. But ya, fuck dull colors. Sure, I recall reading that the dull colors have better resell value, but that’s not something I worry about. We use a car as a tool, not an investment. We’ve already paid the car off and we plan to drive it into the ground. And I’d much rather have the car I want to drive, rather than min/max a couple thousand out of it at some far distant date, maybe.

Other humans.
Seriously, we are a social animal for a reason. We have always existed in packs and are actually shit at surviving alone. We can do it for short stints and even some longer periods, but the work involved in gathering food and water, preparing meals, maintaining shelter, clothes, tools and everything else is immense. And then there is the whole issue of defense. We have archeological evidence of violent death going well back into the paleolithic era. You’re going to face packs of other people who want your stuff. No matter how good you think you are, you’re going to get overrun if you are alone. Your best defense is your own tribe.

So ya, if I’m alone in the woods when a nuclear apocalypse happens, I’m going to do my level best to find and integrate into some sort of larger social structure while there are hopefully enough not terrible people around to be able to survive the attempt.