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> Very important for business offices but not outside of that niche.

you miss at least several other niches

All laptops vs 4 (presumably most impactful) data centers?

I would expect that "all laptops dematerialize" would be worse.

more than one party may be at fault at the same time

> Instead of pointing the finger at supermarkets we should point it at ourselves. Why the hell is anything computer related still so difficult?

I actively worked to make some specific pieces of software better.

I am not going to take responsibility over software that I am not designing and not maintaining a not paying for.

> Even in this thread I see varying advice like airgap, VLAN, or VPN. Well which is it?!

one problem may have more than one solution and this is normal

> We keep blaming store owners for not being IT wizards.

no, for ignoring security

> that the EU could close at the snap of the finger if it actually cared about stopping it, and Russia would not be able to weaponize any longer.

The part I referred to is in fact almost entirely solved, especially compared to the peak.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border_... is one of them more symbolic part, though that is only one piece of puzzle.

It was built by Poland in very non-EU fashion (see below, "shall not apply to the investment. In particular, the following are not required"), but EU at least has not sabotaged it and in fact silently ignored some topics.

https://www.sejm.gov.pl/Sejm9.nsf/PrzebiegProc.xsp?nr=1657 Art. 6. 1. - English translation below:

> Separate regulations—including the Construction Law, the Water Law, environmental protection laws, regulations on the disclosure of environmental information, the Geodesy and Cartography Law, regulations on spatial planning and land development, regulations on the protection of agricultural and forest land, railway transport regulations, and regulations concerning special procedures for the preparation and implementation of public road investments—shall not apply to the investment. In particular, the following are not required:

>1) a building permit or a formal notification;

>2) a decision determining the location of an investment of public purpose;

>3) the preparation of a construction design;

>4) the obtaining of any other decisions, permits, opinions, or clearances, or the submission of any notifications.

> LLM can define backup job, write scripts and configs.

I still consider necessary to test and understand my backup system, so it will take nonzero time.

I am not trusting LLM to let them handle backups and my critical infrastructure.

And I am not letting LLM to send contents of my private files to LLM providers.

I would need to reinstall OS on my laptop and deal with all time-consuming migration stuff for everything that changed and to configure Debian where it is doing weird things

> What is Ubuntu offering that Debian doesn't provide?

I have it right now at zero additional effort

> Except that everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies.

at risk of being autistic: no, not everything

plenty of shitty things is happening for reasons utterly unrelated to that

Some (or even all) EU policies being dumb does not make impossible to have problems caused by something else.

For example Russia was directly involved in making migrant crisis worse.

As a reminder: Russia gave Ukraine tutorial level war from 2014 to 2022, allowing them to fix many problems in armed forces. Resulting in 2022 being far less lopsided than it would be with Russia attempting the same in 2014 or 2015 or 2016 or 2017 or 2018 or 2019 or 2020 or 2021.

Why you would assume that Russian strategy is optimal?

Noone claimed "Every bad thing that happens is the Russians".

For start several bad things are happening for very clear reasons not involving Russian state at all.

Though "sabotage in Europe has decent chance to be run by Russia" is in my opinion true statement, especially as some cases were linked.

But overdoing "omnipotent Russia is doing everything" in itself may be Russia-run campaign.

I claimed that at time when LLM were producing only and solely garbage code.

I am not doing it anymore.

> to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society

it is distinct from question whether it is productive to defend from evil people

evil people + protecting from them is obviously net negative!

but it is not changing that of evil people are present then reasonable level of protection from them is needed, and setting it up is productive

Unfortunately scrappers are problematic enough that for more and more organizations alternative is to stop serving traffic.

For example OpenStreetMap is using nowadays this or equivalents to prevent downtime and/or runaway costs.

Gerrymandle shows popup asking me to "Create profiles for personalised advertising" at 116 vendors, so I am completely fine with them being cloned.

Market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.

Also, if I lose my money I am not in position to get bailout.

Also, shorting requires managing to not only predict drop in price but also when it will happen.

Also, I do not have large amount of money investable into risky instruments.

not sure whether I am good developer but for me it is half of

> The easy (lazy?) answer is that they love writing code, or they’re worried about their jobs.

and half of using proprietary SaaS being something I deeply dislike.

> Accountants are liable for crimes like embezzlement

and even then, if they already lost all money you may be unable to recover it

- their data will be partially leaked in general, including my financial info

- someone who hates me personally will get access to it (see case where someone put their ex-spouse on no-fly-list etc)

- leak my private info via new version of LLM was trained on it

- sell it to everyone interested (maybe sold after their bankruptcy)

- give it to NSA and whoever else

from obvious ones

At least in Poland it is not viable. Friend's business lost noticeable amount of money because accountant has not filed taxes and lied that they filed and lied that they checked it.

And there was no real path to recovering funds, except small part, after long court case.

At least they were able to fire them without severance pay.

I tried and failed to get working account.

Sharing all my financial info with LLM companies is not something that I like.

EDIT: good point that paying accountant does not ensure avoiding it

wonderful, you made a good point that make me dislike situation even more

> Someone still needs to take liability for mistakes.

I am not aware of setups available to me that would transfer liability onto accountant.

So in either case I am taking liability.

(also, I am pretty sure that if corporation loses 10 millions over accountant making bad decisions, they are not going to recover that funds either)

for me it would depend on a situation (I definitely would not want to be in a situation where this would be needed)

I am well aware that being more evil can be profitable.

Being evil for no gain whatsoever is quite extreme absurdity, though it also happens to some.

I assume the problem was that prominence of certain German use makes finding other meaning of this phrase tricky.

I am betting that accurate one in USA is lower than 10% monthly.

From my understanding, they are legally obligated to in this case.

>We have patterns that utilize users to keep using the app by exploiting their cognitive weaknesses

I hope you are aware that you are outright evil. I also hope that you will manage to stop justifying it as acceptable.

> What do you consider hyperinflation objectively?

I remember definitions of monthly inflation rate exceeding 10%. Wikipedia has monthly inflation rate exceeding 50%.

Either way, far higher than USA currently has.