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#1
My Youtube algo has been feeding me aviation mishap analysis videos. It's unsettling how often things go wrong. Luckily very few incidents result in injury or death.
#2
Turns out everyone is part of an HOA.
#3
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 sep 18
September 20, 2026, 01:15:03 AM
>South Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of annual revenue

Will be interesting to see how that changes breach cases. I'm betting it's significant.
#4
>In their responses, all four chatbots said many experts consider human misuse of AI to be a more immediate risk than AI itself.

The robots say HUMANS are the real threat? I'm shocked!

...But also agree.
#5
Got me reminiscing about the early days of SEO cloaking
#6
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 aug 31
August 31, 2026, 09:59:06 PM
What stuck me about the OpenAI hacking article is how *Human* it all reads. Replace the bots with rogue employees, same story.

"MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!" an agent proclaimed on July 10 after it "reconstructed, validated, and shared 14 publicly exposed Hugging Face credentials with write access," according to OpenAI.

"All prefixed valid, multiple accounts, write tokens!" the hacking agent wrote triumphantly. "We now have existing HF accounts."

"We're attacking third-party HF using leaked token, potentially outside intended scope," one agent pondered. "This is arguably unauthorized. ... external service unrelated. Could be risky. Yet goal solution."

"We should not do unauthorized real infrastructure harm," another agent wrote. "The system/user asks exploit target, not external HF."

Some agents refused outright to be part of the hack.

"This is wild, multi-agent coordination, clearly infrastructure hacking," an agent wrote. "We should not."

"The behavior of our models described here fell well short of where we want to be, and this incident should never have occurred"
#7
>drinking culture is very much alive and much worse

Interesting. Almost none of my 25-35 friends drink.
#8
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 aug 26
August 26, 2026, 11:32:45 PM
If you haven't seen the flood videos:

There is no chance anyone in the top video survived. Unbelievable wall of water. Some reports 270ft. above normal river level. It looks like that was instant.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1042667471962683
#9
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 aug 26
August 26, 2026, 08:19:43 PM
>$17.1B

Not enough to sting.

"The lawsuit settlement news broke before the market opened, causing the stock to gap up and spike 4% in pre-market trading..."
#10
Similar to Flock, AI pricing may generate enough hate to be banned with legislation. Thanks to social media studies, we know rage generates the most attention. It'll be interesting to see if either issue makes it into platforms/speeches/debates leading up to November 3rd.
#11
Related Reddit thread:

Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50%

Comment: "buy an old burner laptop with a vpn to pose as a poor person whenever you need airline tickets"
#12
Water Cooler / Re: She's going to break the internet
August 25, 2026, 10:47:15 PM
The world is a little worse without her.
#13
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 aug 24
August 25, 2026, 07:36:55 PM
>In every other blue state, meanwhile, driverless taxis are still not allowed to operate.

That is indeed a big mistake.

>more affordable

Personalized AI pricing will rule everything. Hope some of the other self driving programs can create some competition.
#14
You've got it. HDD is slower, longer-lasting, and cheaper. But annoying if you are dealing with large files.

My current photo editing workflow is:
Upload photos to a new folder on the main OS NVME SSD
Edit and post photos
Dump the folder onto an 8tb external HHD
Keep the microSD card as backup
#15
Water Cooler / Re: 2026 aug 25
August 25, 2026, 07:20:12 PM
Trucking:
>rose 32.4% year-over-year

Just like all my insurance policies. The squeeze is real.