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Agreed. The spam I get has gotten so bad that I'm close to adding a white list rather than trying to keep up to date with the black list.
I'm about 5 years give or take away from retirement. I clicked on a link to go look at an investment offer. I've not been able to turn off the spam since. It went from one email to a giant variety. At least there aren't any *ick pictures. 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yesterday, my current email provider, which has been cost free for 20+ years, sent me a message that they soon will start charging for the service.
My ISP provides an email address at no extra charge (and, I must say, no extra service) that I never used. When I switch to that address from July 1st, no spammers know it. If AI spam generators will make personalized advertising, it will be based on my activity using the old mail address, and spamming that address. I've kept that address for 20+ years, so I guess there is quite a lot to pick up.
For my new address, there will be nothing for that AI to make use of. I will be very restrictive in using my new email address. I'll check up the possibility of getting a series of aliases, so that if spam starts popping up, I will know who has leaked my address, and I can easily route that mail (along with that from the traitor) to my spam box.
Side remark: I saw, in a list of oxymorons, "military intelligence". It seems like the current wave of "artificial intelligence" uses the noun in a similar meaning. So maybe it deserves an entry in the same list.
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I'm also interested in knowing how fast that account starts to get spam - possibly even before you use it anywhere?
TTFN - Kent
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A group of individuals who identify themselves as “over-employed” are utilizing generative AI to undertake multiple full-time jobs simultaneously. I thought AI was going to take away our jobs, not give us more
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GitLab's research reveals software development trends: focus on security, AI in workflows, and DevSecOps adoption for improved efficiency. DevSecOps report finds that people are into development, security, and operations
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Google's internal Brain team, which was part of the Google Research division, is merging its operations with DeepMind, the UK-based company that was formed in 2010, and which Google acquired in 2014. It makes it easier to cancel if it's only one division
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I hope they are better at their job than choosing new names...   
M.D.V. 
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The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail. Is it common sense?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it common sense?
As long as the "medicine" is not worse than the disease...
Quote: It's important to note that the Hyena program shown in the paper is small in size compared to GPT-4 or even GPT-3. While GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, or weights, the largest version of Hyena has only 1.3 billion parameters. Hence, it remains to be seen how well Hyena will do in a full head-to-head comparison with GPT-3 or 4.
But, if the efficiency achieved holds across larger versions of the Hyena program, it could be a new paradigm that's as prevalent as attention has been during the past decade.
I hope this is not the step #2 towards our future robot overlords 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it common sense?
Why is it that common sense is not so common? 
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The "Never combine" taskbar option is one of those "legacy" features that did not make it to the modernized (one may say "crippled") taskbar in Windows 11. One day we might get all the old features back
And we can return to the glory days of NT4 Workstation/Weven/pick your favourite version as long as it isn't Vista or Weight.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: pick your favourite version as long as it isn't Vista or Weight.
Do not forget Millenium 
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AAaaaaaAAAaAAAA!
Sorry, I had pushed that version out of my head. Until now. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I had pushed that version out of my head. Until now.
You are welcome 😘
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I'd love the multirow taskbar like in Windows XP. When juggling between different projects and tools having the tasks visible, with a name on it and rapidly accessible is tremendously important.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ten can do the multirow taskbar. You just need to expand the bar vertically and then the overflow buttons will spill into the next row.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm currently using a third party tool that brings back this feature.
I'll never get the decision to drop this feature in the first place.
I'm sure there's a designer somewhere who's angry because all the people who don't like his design are wrong and dumb.
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Office 2013 fell out of "extended support" on April 11, 2023. That date marks the end of a 10-year product support phase, and it means that Microsoft has stopped issuing patches for the product, although the product may continue to work. Bad news for those wanting a bit of help with...uh, whatever the new features were in 2013
PDF import? Save to Cloud? Yeah, OK. It might not be missed.
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I am still using Office 2010 in my private machines 
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Let me see...
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP3 MSO
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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 That’s been Office’s main problem (and competition) for quite a while- old versions are still “good enough” for what people need.
TTFN - Kent
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According to VMware, this decrease is an indication that companies are realizing they don’t have infrastructure requirements that are unique enough to require building their own setup. They prefer the stuff that comes in its own container?
What if you never looked at it at all?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if you never looked at it at all?
I couldn't say the difference... I have never looked at it.
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The Pentagon’s chief UFO expert told Senate lawmakers Wednesday that his new office—stood up last year to track a growing number of unidentified aerial phenomena—has not yet seen irrefutable evidence of alien activity or technology. But that's just what *they* would say, isn't it?
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I don't know if there are aliens, but the best way that there is to "hide" things is in plain sight. Just make some films about it and if someone really sees one, people will take that person as nuts.
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Attackers are hacking into poorly secured and Interned-exposed Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) servers to deploy Trigona ransomware payloads and encrypt all files. sp_password @new = 'P@ssword2', @loginame = 'sa'
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