No, most cheese is just clumped milk solids. Also, American cheese isn’t dried cheese sauce, it’s cooled off cheese sauce.

My high school only had one pay phone. It had a bad connection in the hand set, so sound cut in and out constantly. People rarely ever bothered making calls on it. The coin return also had some sort of obstruction inside it. If you inserted a quarter and then hit the coin return lever, you’d hear it fall, but it didn’t actually come out. When enough quarters built up though, they would all flood out into return tray at once. Naturally, it got used as a slot machine. Drop in a quarter, pull the tiny lever, and see if you hit the jackpot.

It’s a reference to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the joke being a misunderstanding of this use of the word Trans to be short for transexual, when in this context it’s actually meant to modify Siberian, as the band’s name is a reference to the Trans-Siberian railway.

In win11 some of the control panel links now only open the equivalent page in the settings app, despite the fact that they don’t have feature parity yet. The work around is to type the panel name in the file path bar manually if you want to adjust one of the missing settings. I mention this not because I think people here will want to know it, but because it gives y’all another reason to be glad to have moved off of Windows.

Exactly. Even aside from Bitlocker’s occasional resemblance to that classic virus, they really have made many people want to cry for many reasons.

I’ve seen people replying to these stories saying it’s impossible for bitlocker to turn itself on when it hasn’t backed up the key to an M$ account, but it can somehow happen. I’ve seen it happen myself.

I was updating a small business’s computers from an old Win 10 legacy boot setup to the (relatively) new Win 11 computers we were selling them. Like many small businesses, they relied on software that was either expensive, difficult or impossible to reinstall, so I was cloning their old setup over and then upgrading from setup.exe. I’ve been doing this on a regular basis since shortly after 11 came out so this is just routine for me.

Boot to R-drive. Old disk was in good condition, so cloned directly to new NVMe disk. Mbr2gpt, boot it on the new hardware still in the USB enclosure so it can automatically load the specialty driver for the NVMe controller. Install NVMe, boot and run the update to 11. After that, a round of updates and a reboot and I should be done.

Nope, on the reboot it asks for the fucking bitlocker key! This setup has never seen an M$ account before. It was setup with a single local administrator account by one of my predecessors. OneDrive was disabled on install, they only browsed in Chrome, and their copy of Office was 2007. I even double checked later (after recloning) with some Nirsoft tools and there was no sign of M$ credentials on that install.

I recloned and redid all my work, this time checking for bitlocker and disabling it immediately on getting into 11 the first time. Yes, whatever caused it to happen, happened again and it was happily encrypting the drive again.

My first guess at the cause is it finding a key in the TPM from a previous owner, but we had done a BIOS update which should have wiped that. Further, why did it lose the key on the first reboot? Well, I guess sometimes no one really knows why their software does what it does, even the folks at Microsoft writing and maintaining it. I’ve only seen this happen a few times since then out of the however many hundreds I’ve done, so it’s a rare bug. Still, I hate that I’ve had to make checking for it part of my procedure.

Grumble grumble Microsoft bullshit…

There is no lie. It’s just tough to admit that it’s fairly accurate.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

“They’ve been saying so many bad things about him for decades, and nothing stuck. He says he’s innocent, so who should I believe, the man I trust, or the lying media and the deep state? They just have it out for him because he tells it like he sees it.” You can point out all the inconsistencies in what Trump says, but they’ve tuned out already. They already know what they need to about him, or they just aren’t detail people at all. Some are so far gone, they think, “He’s a good person, therefore whatever it was he did was a good thing.”

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.

They were asking Deepseek, an LLM model developed in China, because they were curious what limits might be baked into it by its makers. I imagine that if they were testing an American made AI, they would instead ask it about things an American company would be likely to censor.

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Pointless nitpick: I don’t think he’s wearing a bald cap, it really looks like the guy partially shaved his head for the bit. That takes some real commitment to do that just to call out the hypocrisy of someone being also shitty.

It wasn’t the user’s infrastructure, it was the LLM company’s. The selling point is that it’s all integrated together for you. You explain what you want, the LLM not only codes it, but launches it too. Yes, his screen shots of the LLM “taking responsibility” are idiotic, but so many people don’t understand that LLMs don’t actually understand anything.

“Basically their methodology was that they asked ChatGPT whether the job could be automated,” he explained. “They also asked people whether the job could be automated and then they said ChatGPT and people agreed some portion of the time.”

lol. This is such an idiotic thing to do. “Hey, you know that linguistic pattern matcher that doesn’t actually reason or introspect? Since it can talk, why don’t we just ask it what it can and can’t do?” Seeing this, published by an AI research institute no less, is what inspired the creators of the actually riggourus test the article is about. It inspired me with a desire to smack those idiots upside their empty heads.