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If Deepseek’s code is truly open source, then it can be examined by anyone with the time and the technical skills to understand what it’s doing. And if there’s bias or filtering, the filters can be revised to comply with standards of free countries or open source communities. But at the end of the day, this LLM has upended the industry, making it obvious that there are fast, efficient and low-cost ways to build, train and deploy LLMs. This residue is not lost on open source developers.

I would caution anyone curious about Deepseek not to use their apps. But that means hosting your own version, which would still have bias and censorship baked in.

-- rc primak

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ibe98765, Slowpoke47

My concern is with posting in a publicly viewable forum your email address. This has a lot of security and privacy implications. The use of an email address for communication immediately removes the discussion from the public forum just as much as the use of a PM.

-- rc primak

The CISA Phishing-resistant MFA  link was fascinating and relevant reading. The table in that paper really puts various security measures into perspective.

-- rc primak

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windbg, Cybertooth

Build your own and business class networking have never been strong selling points for Mac. Apple prefers you just take the configurations they offer right out of the box. Networking, especially with Windows and Linux machines, is not easy, when it works at all.

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Will Fastie, Cybertooth

Crossover is the commercial version of WINE for Linux, maybe also for Mac. Quicken is said to be reasonably compatible with this arrangement.

Faststone Capture is said to have worked in the past under WINE, but not so much recently.  Never said to have worked on Mac.

Synctoy does not appear to be planning to offer a Mac version.

-- rc primak

Thanks for the article showing all the screenshot options built into Windows.

Windows 11, 23H2 — I generally leave the Snipping Tool for Win 11 in all of its defaults. If I want to do something with a capture in Word, I might have to extract the text, but otherwise, I find it’s safer just to save the capture to my Desktop, import it into Word or LibreOffice writer, and work from there.  (LibreOffice also has a module called Draw.)

If I want to do more serious image editing, I use whatever app is available in my Windows setup. Paint is a nice default, but sometimes the added power of The GIMP or a Windows-specific image editing program is needed.

(As a mostly Linux user, I have different drawing, editing and screenshot options when using Linux.)

-- rc primak

The existing GP settings will remain in effect, unless you release control. Releasing control would reverse those settings. Taking control with inControl won’t change anything which is not in conflict with the settings the program would add. InControl doesn’t change any settings other than the ones it is specifically concerned with.

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Cybertooth

All you do is download the inControl program and run it as instructed here and at the GRC website. It’s very simple, usually a single mouse-click. The program takes care of all the rest. Works in Pro and Home Editions. If you have previously set all or some of the Group Policies and Registry Keys, in Control won’t undo your settings unless you release control. Then everything would be undone.

-- rc primak

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Cybertooth, opti1

My doubt about accuracy relates to information provided 3 years ago and whether those same requirements are needed today.

InControl only changes its settings when Microsoft changes the relevant Registry Keys and/or Group Policies.

Microsoft has not changed these keys in the past three years, AFAIK.

-- rc primak

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rick41, Cybertooth

@ Richard Newman: Private Messaging is available at AskWoody without posting your email address in the Forums. It’s safer to use the Private Messaging feature.

-- rc primak

As Susan noted, there are known networking issues with 24H2.

-- rc primak

This version of the possible events makes more sense.

-- rc primak

So much to discover in PowerToys! Thanks for the new info.

-- rc primak

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Norio, Mary Branscombe

Disclosure: I myself have an account with one of the three financial institutions the CFPB is suing. But I never felt enough confidence in Zelle to even try it by signing up. By comparison, I’ve sent money electronically using PayPal for years, and I’ve never had any problems. For one thing, when I send a payment using PayPal, a crooked recipient who somehow tried to overcharge me could take no more than the balance in my PayPal account, which I deliberately keep to a bare minimum.)

I have had similar experiences. Never a problem with PayPal. My Bank wants customers to use Zelle. I wouldn’t touch Zelle with a ten-foot polecat.

My Apartment Community uses Bilt Rewards, also backed by Wells Fargo, for rent payments. Getting to the Property Ledger through Bilt is a nightmare, but it is still there. No other problems after over a year.

I’ve also used XpressPay with a medical services provider, because they insisted on it.

At least they issued a receipt when I asked them for it. Better than a certain mostly-online optical shop when I showed up in person because their web site did not accept my Medicare Advantage Flex Card for payment. No receipt there — wait for the email with a non-itemized receipt.

An aside: It should be factually noted that the incoming American Administration has vowed to gut or eliminate CFPB.

— rc primak

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wavy

I find that these tools work best on name-brand SSDs. The issues I’ve seen with incomplete data or data in  formats not human-readable have come mostly from off-brand or no-name SSDs, often OEM components of PCs like my Intel NUCs. These tools also won ‘t work properly on SSDs in external enclosures.

-- rc primak