> Does that mean the scientific papers were written by (or with the help of) AI systems? And the folks writing the scientific papers didn't proof read their papers?

That seems to be exactly the implication, which is extremely disappointing.

Not surprising at all though.

Repeating it doesn’t make it any more true. Cert providers publish their root certs, you pin those root certs, zero problems.

Then the CA goes away, like Entrust. Huge problems. I speak (sadly) from experience.

They rotate those often enough.

I waited since March 13 and still nothing. They do this to many many people it seems.

Same. And the sender’s email matches this cofounder’s username.

Same exact thing happened to me. I tried out Vursor after hearing all the hype and canceled after a few weeks. Got an email asking if I wanted a refund and asking for any feedback. I replied with detailed feedback on why I canceled and accepted the refund offer, then never heard back from them.

See also the entire job of “AWS Cloud Engineer” aka “I want to spend years learning how to manage proprietary infrastructure instead of just learning Linux server management” and the companies that hire them aka “we don’t have money to hire sysadmins to run servers, that’s crazy! Instead let’s pay the same salaries for a team of cloud engineers and be locked in to a single vendor paying 10x the price for infra!” It’s honestly mind boggling to me.

Server management has gotten vastly easier over time as well, especially if you're just looking to host stuff "for fun."

Even without fancy orchestration tools, it's very easy to put together a few containers on your dev machine (something like Caddy for easy TLS and routing + hand rolled images for your projects) and just shotgun them onto the cheapest server you can find. At that point the host is just a bootloader for Podman and can be made maximally idiot-proof (see Fedora CoreOS.)

Less censored than Grok?

How many people use Grok for real work?

I do. It is absolutely astounding for coding.

I used to think that, or maybe just wished it were true, but then looking at Microsoft’s valuation I’m not so sure it is…

Windows works pretty well, regardless of how angry it makes OSS folks. Ditto for Office or really most products from MS...

So showing a full screen modal explaining the change and offering a button to disable it without fiddling with the settings app is considered “sneakily”?

I’ll never cease to be amazed that there’s an XKCD for literally everything.

I bet there’s even one related to using the word literally as hyperbole…