Just logged into CVS and they prompted me to enroll a passkey. Super easy. 3 steps and I'm done. (For this browser, on this laptop — sync is the next hurdle.) #passwordless#authentication#passkey
Your best bet is to put it in one of the first two depending on what kind of phone you have. Then if you’re using a browser that doesn’t have your passkeys synced you can instead scan a QR code with your phone’s camera.
On #SegaSunday / #CIBSunday here’s “Shenmue II”. This is a 2001 sequel to the 1999 original and allows players to carry over their saves from the first game, keeping items and fighting moves learned. The Japanese limited edition version is pictured. #Retrogaming#Sega#Dreamcast
Shenmue II was released on the #Sega#Dreamcast in 2001 in Europe & Japan but was never released in the USA due to an exclusivity deal #Microsoft negotiated for the #Xbox version of the game.
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#GitHub#Copilot#Microsoft#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment: "OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-3 and GPT-4, Codex and Copilot AI systems, is the consensus leader in the race to create AI that may take all of our jobs and destroy the human race be the most disruptive technology since the invention of the printing press. OpenAI is also an affiliate of Microsoft, which is also the owner of GitHub, the popular online code repository. According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. According to the complaint, Microsoft’s ongoing relationship with OpenAI has led some to describe Microsoft as “the unofficial owner of OpenAI.” Complaint at 31.
The crux of the complaint is that OpenAI took code that was stored on GitHub and used it as training data to build out AI systems called Codex and Copilot. And while most of the code that was stored in the systems was likely marked “public” and was also open source, the code was subject to certain licensing and attribution requirements that were allegedly ignored when they were used in the training data to create OpenAI’s Codex and Copilot systems." https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/06/how-can-ai-models-legally-obtain-training-data-doe-1-v-github-guest-blog-post.htm
I received a sort of real response from Bing Webmaster support after sending my latest inquiry (we have to be close to 10 now). Automated, yes, but a support number and inviting me to respond to the thread if I have updates. This is good because I'm coming close to blocking Bingbot in robots.txt. Just know I'm doing all of this out of the goodness of my heart for the DuckDuckGo/Ecosia/Qwant crowd out there.
Just bought a Surgace 9 Pro for my wife’s business (i5 16GB). #Microsoft have done a good job copying #Apple packaging, documentation and initial onboarding.
BUT
By default Windows 11 Home not Pro is installed so I can’t login with M365 or add the pro to her organisation.
Installing updates, for Windows and Office is painfully slow. Like hours.
Screen is good, keyboard is squishy, track pad is good.
SO
Not a patch on my MacBook Air M1. Just feels slow and sluggish in comparison.
Hi everyone, I've made a little mini-site about why I think actually, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the best web browser going and unfairly got a bad rap in the early 2000s for ignoring outdated, not-fit-for-purpose web standards and instead, through innovative technologies like ActiveX, enabling interactive features that true Internet natives really appreciated. Have a read of this here:
„[…] one developer in India had trained GPT on all the Indian government documents, so the system filled it out for him automatically, in a different language.“
How #Microsoft's bet on #OpenAI due to transfer learning, an approach that wasn't yet commercialized, may help Microsoft leapfrog Google and corner the AI market.