Joe Rogan thinks

Doubtful

I’m in the camp where I’m not gonna instantly shit on this, since whoever is making the PTA flyers is probably a volunteer and will use whatever tools at their disposal to get the job done quickly…

I especially like that several of them mixed up the middle school’s mascot with the high school across the street.

… But that’s no excuse to make an obvious mistake like that. And the fact that AI means these are so easy to make should also mean they are easy to re-make so they are correct.

There is a punishment, on paper. You can be fined for not filling it out, or fined more for willfully lying on it. But, they have no enforcement arm, so it would be up to the Justice Dept to press charges, and I doubt they would bother.

https://money.com/what-if-i-dont-do-the-census

The census is mandatory, as others have noted. It is used for determining how many House seats each state gets, so it is important that it is accurate. And the Supreme Court has interpreted it to mean that an actual count has to be gathered everywhere, and that you can’t use statistical methods to derive the actual count.

So, even if they already have the information by some other means, they still need every household to give an affirmative response to the form. And if you ignore the form, they knock on your door to ask. While they may have other questions they want you to answer, you are only obligated to tell them how many people live there, and their ages.

(Edit: I looked it up, and I was wrong. They send a longer form to some households at random, and if you get that, you are technically obligated to answer all of those questions as well. )

Visitors don’t need to be counted, but anyone with legal permission to live here does, regardless of citizenship.

The Technology Connections guy on YouTube thinks so

I think those firms justify their bill rates by results, not by a literary analysis of their filings.

You noticed that his text followed a common AI pattern. I replied, basically, with “So what? He’s responsible for it regardless”.

The legal stuff is relevant because he is a lawyer and is discussing it in the courtroom.

You’re lucky this community doesn’t explicitly list accusing humans of being AI as a reportable offense. I’ve been reported in other places for saying “beep boop”…

That’s not what I said at all. Quite the opposite. Whether a thing is generated by AI or not is irrelevant, especially in court. What matters is that everything presented in court is backed by the legal team that is presenting it. If a lawyer ever uses “The AI did that” as an excuse for an error, they should be immediately disbarred.

If he had an AI write some text and he presents it, that’s not a problem. The problem occurs when he views that as permission to not do his job correctly, because the bot did it for him.

Treat AI like an overly enthusiastic, book-smart intern. There is no ethical dilemma having that intern do research for the lead lawyer, but if the intern makes a fundamental mistake and the lead lawyer introduces it in court, the lawyer would face a reprimand, even though he didn’t make the mistake, for not checking the Intern’s work.

Look, a bot might have written that text, but as part of the legal team responsible for the case he must own what he says. As long as he vets and stands behind all the statements he makes, it shouldn’t matter whether the text comes from himself, another lawyer, an intern, or a bot.

In fact, in the US at least, only humans can be authors. Bots cannot.

The problem comes when people abdicate their responsibility to the bot. Then they let mistakes through that a human would never had done if they came up with the content themselves. For some content, an “oops” is OK. But in court, a blatant “oops” (like citing cases the AI hallucinated without checking them first) should be a career-ending mistake.

When I go it all goes with me.

Not true at all, they’re not gonna bury you with it. Your bank accounts do go through a process after you depart. In many states if you die without a will or any other instructions they go through a long processes to identify your next of kin, and if they can’t identify it then the State takes it all.

You are much better off making a small will and leaving some simple instructions. If you have no relatives you trust with the money, leave it to a charity, like your local animal shelter if that’s your thing.

The closest things we had back then was USENET (which required you to already have a connection to a provider that hosted a server) and BBS’s (which required you to dial in to connect to a local server, which proabably did not have its own USENET connection). I suppose there was also Compuserve, and QuantumLink/AOL, but they were metered dial-in providers, and when they finally connected to USENET, they ruined it.

There was no concept of a device that was always connected to the Internet in the 80s for most users. Most home computers were islands. Maybe if you were on a University campus you might have access to a computer with that permanent wired connection, but that was about it.

My kids have grown up in a world where everyone is connected, all the time. We’ll see what they do with it.

#1 thing is to make sure all accounts have beneficiaries. Accounts should have a primary beneficiary (your spouse), and if there is the ability to make a secondary beneficiary, see if they will divide it among any children you have . This is of paramount importance.

I know someone who passed away suddenly, and did not have a beneficiary on his “play money” stock account. His widow had to go through a lot of hoops to get access to it.

From there, I am a big believer in paper. I want those statements coming to the house. I file them all, and my wife knows where I put them. If I were to go poof , I’m sure she (with a lot of help from her siblings) would make sure nothing goes unpaid.

The Crypto is a different story, of course. When you can Be Your Own Bank, there are no beneficiaries or contingencies: it’s all keys. I have a bit of crypto in a HW wallet. But, years ago I moved some BTC to Coinbase, and it’s still there after all these years. I am thinking of moving the rest, just to make it easier for people to sell if I do go poof. Yeah , Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins. But it would be tragic if my crypto got lost because I bit it and nobody knew how to operate my wallet.

not necessarily, MAC is a layer 2 protocol, and your router (NAT or no NAT) operates on layer 3. Routers are supposed to overwrite the MAC address with their own when they forward a packet.

It’s always possible for the unit to put its own identfying info in the payload. But you didn’t do anything silly like register the TV, did you?

Then you can watch all the depraved porn you want to, and the Government will think it’s coming from the house with the insecure wifi

I only use the report button for obvious spam, and for some rulebreaking posts where the community has clear rules about what can be submitted, like communities that require links (no selfposts).

But most communities don’t necessarily have mods online the same time I am, so if someone is obviously spamming I block them, too.

A lot of good answers here, talking about the IP/port combinations used to identify both sides of a connection. But a key thing to understand is that the ports don’t need to be the same on both ends. On the Client side, the port number is often assigned just for that connection. (The standards call those “ephemeral” ports.) So, two independant connections from the same IP are differentiated by their client side IP ports.

It should also be noted that NAT works by translating both IP addresses and ports. So if those two connections are coming from behind the NAT and have different internal IPs but the same port, the NAT will translate that to two different ports from the public IP.

You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it’s just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that “I am Rich” app…

It was a pretty unique experiment in Decimal Time

Um ackshually, it’s Greenwich Mean Time, and back in the day it aligned with the average time in the day at which the sun was directly overhead in Greenwich at noon, after taking into account the Equation of Time. (Now it’s just UTC+0).