Suddenly I need that to be a real fanfic.

“In the Future, people won’t have to deal with numbers, for the mighty computers will do all the numbers crunching for them”

The mighty computers:

People who make fun of LLMs most often do get LLMs and try to point out how they tend to spew out factually incorrect information, which is a good thing since many many people out there do not, in fact, “get” LLMs (most are not even acquainted with the acronym, referring to the catch-all term “AI” instead) and there is no better way to make a precaution about the inaccuracy of output produced by LLMs –however realistic it might sound– than to point it out with examples with ridiculously wrong answers to simple questions.

Edit: minor rewording to clarify

This needs to be a real command.

Not surprising in the least, what else would they use their base on Cyprus for? Surely not for any good.

Cyprus is in a convenient geographical position in the region and it is safe to assume it has been widely used to monitor the situation and collect intelligence on the Gazan conflict.

Well, nothing too bad with that, actually. It works, doesn’t it?

I assume newer aircrafts will get an update and use a more modern medium though.

{} + 0
>> 0

0 + {}
>> "0[object Object]"

I’m going home.

What happened?

Took me a while to get it

Totally agree with that. Also good to note that in general it it easier to create a backdoor for FOSS because of the general code availability. For a proprietary product, you’d have to somehow gain access to the closed source, which is harder. Also, many FOSS projects have few maintainers doing a great amount of job for free, so with a bit of social engineering you can pressurise them into accepting code they don’t entirely understand.

On the other hand, many FOSS projects have more than one maintainer, so more eyes watching the code. Also, you have to find a way to conceal the backdoor, so that it can’t be easily identified.

All in all, open-source is certainly better, because you don’t have to blindly trust some company, but there are many factors which come to play in both camps. Ultimately, trust is not the only thing that matters since even a trusted repository can be compromised/hacked. Then you can only rely on fast mitigation of consequences, that is hope that the compromised code hasn’t been there for long.

The rise of politically right parties worldwide is quite worrying. The election of Milei was a big but not totally unexpected shock. It is amazing how masterly these parties use media (mass- and social-) and campaigns to make their opponents seem feeble and powerless while trying to present themselves as the only solution, even promise miracles (a lot of people want to believe in easy solutions). Milei did all of those: openly accusing the opposition and promising the amelioration of Argentinian economy in a very very short time.

It’s important to note that ruling parties the influence on the media can be much more immense, so that sometimes the only thing the government has to be effective in is communication with the electoral base, no matter how incompetent it is (e.g. Greece). That is, Milei might only has to persuade and reassure the people that voted for him that the government is effective in order to get re-elected. That seems hard to achieve now, but remember how Milei suddenly got tremendously more popular just before the elections. Political parties’ communication departments can often work miracles in producing believable propaganda, much more so when it can harp on the worries of the people in hard times. Let’s hope the strike is a sign that Milei won’t stay for too long.