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MPenguinGaming t1_j85posh wrote
Reply to comment by xal1124 in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
The Texas Legislature meets in Regular Session for 140 days every other year. Regular Session begins at noon on the Second Tuesday in January of even numbered years.
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That's direct copypaste
xal1124 t1_j85ombh wrote
Reply to comment by MPenguinGaming in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
The Texas Legislature meets in Regular Session for about five months every other year. Regular Sessions begin at noon on the second Tuesday in January of odd numbered years and can last no more than 140 days, ending during the last week of May or the first week of June.
That’s from your source
MPenguinGaming t1_j85ohhw wrote
Reply to comment by xal1124 in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
No it isn't
xal1124 t1_j85n8p9 wrote
Reply to comment by MPenguinGaming in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
But it’s in session in odd years
newprince t1_j85lkpw wrote
Reply to comment by andrewhy in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
There are actual protocols that attempt to do away with most passwords, such as OpenID. The problem though becomes adoption. It is very easy to rely on the classic Web 2.0 login/password implementation
VoidAndOcean t1_j85l8cp wrote
Reply to comment by jamesj in Scientists Made a Mind-Bending Discovery About How AI Actually Works | "The concept is easier to understand if you imagine it as a Matryoshka-esque computer-inside-a-computer scenario." by Tao_Dragon
I remember clearly in AI class in college computing changes using matrices and calculating a likely outcome.
jamesj t1_j85kxgv wrote
Reply to comment by VoidAndOcean in Scientists Made a Mind-Bending Discovery About How AI Actually Works | "The concept is easier to understand if you imagine it as a Matryoshka-esque computer-inside-a-computer scenario." by Tao_Dragon
There are different levels of understanding here. Computer scientists/AI researchers know everything about the low level of how it works, but are actively investigating the higher levels. It is like how a chemist can know all of the fundamental forces that can affect two molecules but still need to do experiments to see how they behave in different conditions.
newprince t1_j85ksr5 wrote
Reply to Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Although I am relatively safe, I am unsubscribing from LastPass completely. They lied.
Moving to Bitwarden
belteshazzar_der t1_j85klag wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
This is incorrect. They stole the password vaults themselves, so if they crack your master password they'll get access to all of your passwords. Doesn't matter if you have 2FA on. This is one of the main reasons why this breach was so bad.
VoidAndOcean t1_j85kdls wrote
Reply to Scientists Made a Mind-Bending Discovery About How AI Actually Works | "The concept is easier to understand if you imagine it as a Matryoshka-esque computer-inside-a-computer scenario." by Tao_Dragon
Alternate title: Computer scientists knew how AI worked before they even created it by modulating it after basic statistics and pattern recognition.
Fickle-Razzmatazz827 t1_j85kajk wrote
Reply to comment by teh_maxh in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Definitely not. It's been used way longer. No one sends plain text passwords since the late 2000s unless it's an amateur made website.
PBX1984 t1_j85k3g4 wrote
Reply to Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Yeah they for hacked over the summer idk why it's just coming back up now
MPenguinGaming t1_j85jtx3 wrote
Reply to comment by xal1124 in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
Literally house.texas.gov
MpVpRb t1_j85joi7 wrote
I really hope they concentrate on performance and reliability and not simply silly cosmetic changes to make it look "fresh"
MpVpRb t1_j85ji5s wrote
Reply to comment by BJWTech in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee
I had to troubleshoot it when I worked in IT. It sucked mightily
ShankThatSnitch t1_j85jf6u wrote
Reply to comment by BJWTech in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee
As someone who had to try and develope emails for it, fuck lotus notes in its big stupid face.
Inconceivable-2020 t1_j85in4d wrote
Reply to Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61
So Texas Republicans till embezzle the funds and when the equipment they want is invented, will charge taxpayers again.
mrDragon616 t1_j85i8aq wrote
Reply to comment by jmpalermo in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Oh ok that makes sense. Thank you!
YOurAreWr0ng t1_j85hhhi wrote
Reply to Scientists Made a Mind-Bending Discovery About How AI Actually Works | "The concept is easier to understand if you imagine it as a Matryoshka-esque computer-inside-a-computer scenario." by Tao_Dragon
They learn simple tasks on their own using data they already have. If they know of A and B then they can figure out there must then be a C on their own. Basically very infantile early learning skills all life has.
jmpalermo t1_j85g5cn wrote
Reply to comment by mrDragon616 in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Hashed passwords are only useful for verifying somebody has the password. So if you are a website, you store only a users password hash, then when they try to sign in, you hash the password they’re logging in with to verify it matches.
You can’t reverse a hash back into the original password though.
So for you to be able to retrieve your passwords from LastPass, the password must be stored, not just the hash.
BJWTech t1_j85g4y3 wrote
Reply to comment by Discoveryellow in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee
Notes gets a ton of hate, but I miss it.
mrDragon616 t1_j85fdig wrote
Reply to comment by jmpalermo in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Wouldn't that be the same as a hash password? Or wouldn't it be better if everything was hashed as opposed to it being encrypted by it's master password?
ivanoski-007 t1_j85eoax wrote
Reply to comment by teh_maxh in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
So?
cdtoad t1_j85diq2 wrote
I dumped Thunderbird years ago after it trashed my mbox file for the last time. Moved over to Gmail. And I'm on Linux
spsteve t1_j85qm3y wrote
Reply to comment by guatemaleco in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
I have heard both options from reputable sources. Normally I would trust the company statements, but given their handling of this I trust NOTHING that touched them.