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  Scammer: I’m from Telstra, there are some strange connections coming in from Colorado. Me: Oh, yeah, I have cousins in Colorado (narrator: no, I really don’t), it’s probably them. Scammer: And also Chicago Me: well, that’s not too far, maybe they were on holiday. Scammer: Why would they be accessing your network? Me: I don’t know, maybe Minecraft? Scammer (incredulous) : How old of you? … (1/2)

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  Hopefully https://character.ai will be the first domino to fall…

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  “Using AI to hack baby monitors to remove all ads” - I am trying to work out which part of this sentence is the most ridiculous. Using AI to hack things, hacking baby monitors, both are pretty up there, but I have to come down on the side of baby monitors having ads in the first place. Like WTAF? What is wrong with people?

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  Starting to get emails that make it clear the person basically told AI “Make and app that does this, and then email anyone that might be vaguely related to this about some sort of co-venture”.

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  Starting to get emails that make it clear the person basically told AI “Make and app that does this, and then email anyone that might be vaguely related to this about some sort of co-venture”.

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  Starting to get emails that make it clear the person basically told AI “Make and app that does this, and then email anyone that might be vaguely related to this about some sort of co-venture”.

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  Starting to get emails that make it clear the person basically told AI “Make and app that does this, and then email anyone that might be vaguely related to this about some sort of co-venture”.

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  Achievement Unlocked: Watch a bird fly overhead carrying a coat hanger.

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  @jamesthomson@mastodon.social how’s that "I'll try to be less snarky" coming along? ;-)

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  OK, so moving from 1Password to Passwords, one issue I have - “discovery”, ie, say I want to go to my web site for "Wonder Company", but their URL is something.com. In 1Password, I use the Browser Extension, unlock it, search for “Wonder” and Open & Fill. Is there an equivalent for Passwords?

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  Congratulations on TidBITS 36th year of continuous publication. Wow!

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  The new Netflix AppleTV video player is so bad it has me considering canceling Netflix for the first time. Well, technically, adding Netflix to my rotation with all the other video subscription services - keeping a few of them active at any time and rotating the others out. To date I've never been inclined to cancel Netflix, it's combination of vast range and reasonable quality have kept me subscribed. But the new player? Terrible!

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  Good to see Keyboard Maestro working hard for me! It is nice that for once Apple’s security system is actually helping to market my program to my customers! ;-)

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  So just so we're clear, my iPhone running last years iOS and I get to choose: Upgrade to Ugly Glass or risk exposing basically everything on the phone including passwords to any web site. Wow, that's really an impressive new low for Apple.