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Do I use Microsoft Edge?
No.
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Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I actually use FireFox & Brave and I'm almost as completely agnostic to browsers these days.
I discovered this when i was running on a work win10 VM which requires us to use MS Edge.
I'm basically agnostic to OSes too, since I run Ubuntu 22.04 desktop to connect to work VMs (win10) and I KVM switch to my MacOS Mac Mini M1. 
modified 21-Feb-23 17:23pm.
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I think most of use whatever we got used to, I have used Brave (on my Debian system) and sometimes Vivaldi. I lied somewhat, I have to use Edge when I connect (VPN) to the client;s systems, that is what they have. Herself uses Safari on her MBP. Not aware that it is a browser, it is gmail.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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For some reason I have to, to view MS documentation on my desktop - the site doesn't work in Chrome (but it works fine on my Surface). Probably a config issue, but gawd knows where ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I remember reading that 123456 is the most common password found in pwned databases. So I suspect that passwords.txt is the top 30,000 in order at the time it was created!
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oh no, passwords has mine: geekboy 😥
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I saw geekboy in the passwords file too. 
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What is scary is that these are plain text files. Not even a simple attempt to obfuscate them. If my PC is confiscated and the Police search it for naughty words, they will find them in that directory.
What is a relief is that none of my passwords are in the list.
Sadly, I'm more common than I thought. Both my forenames are in the top 100 male names and my surname just misses out of its top 100 list.
How soon will it be before these name lists are used as the dictionaries for a bad version of Wordle?
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Thanks for posting that. I was curious about where it came from. 
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Nothing particularly secret there. Just one google search away: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
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I only use Edge on one website. For some reason I can't sign into the website without using Edge, both Vivaldi and Firefox don't work on that particular site.
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sasadler wrote: I only use Edge on one website.
I have a healthcare site that will not work on FireFox.
When I attempt to login, it tells me that the ID doesn't exist.
But that isn't true, of course. It's very odd that it tells me a totally incorrect error and doesn't just fail some other way.
I use Brave (chrome-based) and then the site works perfectly fine.
Edge is chrome-based also.
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Vivaldi is based on chrome too but it doesn't work.
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sasadler wrote: Vivaldi is based on chrome too but it doesn't work
Interesting. I wonder what it is on these browser that fails.
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Are they using those to warn user when they picked a common password which is among those 30k? The real question is, why aren't those common password saved in a condition which is sorted alphabetically? What a waste of computing resource.
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I think one of the issues with AI is that it has difficulty deciding where problems and solutions start and end. As it's knowledge base is exhausted on a particular line of questions, it gets more desperate and retrieves more obscure and unreliable information.
The world GO champion retired a few years ago after being beaten repeatedly by AI. It was encouraging to see that an amateur has now found a flaw and can beat all the GO AI using an "encircling" strategy. The AI is too preoccupied with its "inner game" to see the big picture (probabilities versus possibilities)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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How frequently does the AI knock the table over?
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Emotions aren't programmed into the system; we see only emotion because it is repeating our answers with the most weight.
Also, some parts are definitely Eliza-like responses. It is a search engine to look into past replies that might be appropriate, but not AI as in "thinking".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: As it's knowledge base is exhausted on a particular line of questions, it gets more desperate and retrieves more obscure and unreliable information.
It is merely repeating. Intelligence implies creativity. It cannot even cope with follow up questions decently in the public version. It's a search-engine and it scrapes sites, combined with a chatbot. Sounds intelligent, but is as intelligent as your average politician.
Chat OpenAI wrote: I ask: who is Gerry Schmitz?I'm sorry, but I don't have enough information to identify a specific person named Gerry Schmitz. Could you please provide more context or details about who this person is or what they are known for? That way, I may be able to provide a more accurate answer.I ask: from CodeProject?Gerry Schmitz appears to be a member of the CodeProject community, which is a community of developers who share their knowledge and expertise on software development and related topics. According to his profile on CodeProject, Gerry Schmitz is a software engineer and consultant with extensive experience in various aspects of software development, including programming languages, software design, databases, and more. He has also contributed numerous articles and tutorials on software development to the CodeProject website over the years.I ask: who is Eddy Vluggen?Eddy Vluggen is a software developer, blogger, and community member of various software development websites and forums. He has contributed to websites such as CodeProject and Stack Overflow, where he has shared his knowledge and expertise on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and software design. Eddy Vluggen has also written several articles and tutorials on software development and related topics, and he is known for his passion for coding and his dedication to helping others in the software development community.
My "contributions" to SO are limited to a few remarks, yet still the system thinks I'm a major contributor. I should change my CP Profile to include the honorary "Conqueror of the Moon, and First God of Mars", as the AI would simply accept it at face value.
And yes, you read that right; you appear to be a member. We're still debating that one. So, it is unsure about your member status, but quite sure that I contributed a lot on SO!
In what country does that constitute as "intelligence"? It takes you 5 minutes on Google to verify whether you're a member and what I did on SO. AI eh?
There is absolutely no proof of any intelligent life at all anywhere in the entire observable universe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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This is the sort of thing I was alluding to in a discussion on the topic last week, summarizing it as little more than a parlor trick that BS artists get away with (given a sufficiently gullible audience) - once you know how it works, you realize it's rather dumb.
Whoever downvoted me for it...well, you know who you are.
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dandy72 wrote: summarizing it as little more than a parlor trick that BS artists get away with
Well, yeah. That's what it is.
And it is all over the news, AI will change "everything"! Technological singularity in a few years!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Well, yeah. That's what it is.
And I was raked over the coals for calling it just that, a parlor trick. I'm glad someone agrees.
It might seem rather good as putting sentences together, and even making claims sound plausible. But there's no hint of any sort of comprehension on its part whatsoever.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And it is all over the news, AI will change "everything"! Technological singularity in a few years!
In comparison of course how many self driving cars do you see parked on your street right now?
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Additionally, an AI isn't likely to [create a new play in the style of Shakespeare] (for instance) unless someone asks it to. It's not spontaneous or innovative.
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