Is Helium or something like it available on iOS?

Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.

They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.

Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.

A guardian account does seem reasonable.

They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.

Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.

Bruce Willis isn’t going to act in more action movies unfortunately. Degenerative illnesses suck.

Relying on a black box or stochastic AI would probably make this harder to certify and to get public acceptance.

My guess is that, if certified, this would have very niche uses. Basically would only be used where using sprinkler is not possible.

I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.

Debian trixie has a fix https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.

And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.

So management can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.

Good. This may reduce the amount of sloppy code being created. And prevent prices from increasing for everyone.

That’s a hard pivot. And building more AI infrastructure is a bad idea. But they might make some short term money given the AI hype.

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

Rumors; didn’t read.

Anyway the last few versions of Windows already convinced it’s best to keep avoiding it.

There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.

For approval, a new treatment has to show it’s better than already approved treatments. Not better than nothing.

This appear to target difficult to treat cancer so any result is encouraging, especially in a clinical trial.