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		<title>LLM: AI &#8800; LLM</title>
		<link>https://drat.dannybassette.com/2025/11/llm-ai-llm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Large Language Models: AI &#8800; LLM &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Bottom line: So called &#8216;artificial intelligence&#8217; isn&#8217;t intelligent. Don&#8217;t call it that. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of &#8216;AI&#8217;. Or at least you think you have. What you&#8217;ve heard about is called &#8216;artificial intelligence&#8217;, but it&#8217;s really &#8216;large language models&#8216;. I think the &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2025/11/llm-ai-llm/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">LLM: AI &#8800; LLM</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fllm-ai-llm%2F&amp;action_name=LLM%3A+AI+%26ne%3B+LLM&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>PSA: Pictures are spoofable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public Service Announcement: Pictures are spoofable &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Long and short of it is that technology has reached the point where it&#8217;s easy enough to make &#8216;realistic&#8217; images of someone doing&#8230; anything. While there are a couple qualifiers, they aren&#8217;t big enough to be reassuring. First, it&#8217;s not trivially easy, as it does require some basic computer &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/12/psa-pictures-are-spoofable/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">PSA: Pictures are spoofable</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2022%2F12%2Fpsa-pictures-are-spoofable%2F&amp;action_name=PSA%3A+Pictures+are+spoofable&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fake Email Followups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fake Email Followups &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Recently I&#8217;ve been seeing an interesting form of spam: Fake Email Followups. The most recent message on the chain is bogus, but the rest includes valid back and forth between people. Including the recipient (ie you). &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Thus the request to follow the link and download a file seems reasonable at first glance. &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2022/03/fake-email-followups/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fake Email Followups</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2022%2F03%2Ffake-email-followups%2F&amp;action_name=Fake+Email+Followups&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>CFE: In Defense of 8ch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Commentary From Elsewhere: In Defense of 8 Chan (aka 8ch.net) &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;If someone used a chemistry book to build a bomb (and kill people), do we outlaw libraries (as they can hold chemistry books)? The situation &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;For those of you living under a rock: People kill people, with disturbing frequency. When a single person kills a &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2019/08/cfe-in-defense-of-8ch/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">CFE: In Defense of 8ch</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2019%2F08%2Fcfe-in-defense-of-8ch%2F&amp;action_name=CFE%3A+In+Defense+of+8ch&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s A Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s A Scam &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Yes, it&#8217;s a scam. Someone calls about your computer having trouble. Pop up about needing to update Flash. That nice Nigerian Prince is willing to pay you to hold his money for a bit. It&#8217;s all a scam, it&#8217;s always a scam. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As the old joke goes, how do you know a &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2019/02/its-a-scam/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">It&#8217;s A Scam</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2019%2F02%2Fits-a-scam%2F&amp;action_name=It%26%238217%3Bs+A+Scam&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I was reading Dilbert on Sunday and I realized we&#8217;ve come full circle. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Originally, computers existed for work, and only work. Even the &#8216;games&#8217; were more about experimenting and learning then anything else. The idea of something like &#8216;social networking&#8217; was beyond comprehension. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;You would run the program that would help you do the task &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2017/05/full-circle/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Full Circle</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2017%2F05%2Ffull-circle%2F&amp;action_name=Full+Circle&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>State Forgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Recently I renewed my New York State Driver License. Happens from time to time, no big deal. But I noticed an interesting thing when I received it in the mail: I had already signed the card. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Or, to put it more accurately, the state had signed my name for me. Using my hand writing. Not &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2017/03/state-forgery/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">State Forgery</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2017%2F03%2Fstate-forgery%2F&amp;action_name=State+Forgery&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prediction: Forced updates for Windows 7/8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 01:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Predictions: &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Within a year from now (2017-09), Windows 7 and 8 will have lost the ability to turn off updates. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Sometime before Windows 7 End of Support (2020-01-20), &#8216;updates&#8217; to Windows 7 and 8 will have made those systems noticeable less &#8216;useful&#8217; then they are today (2016-09-26). My reasoning for those two predictions goes as &#8230; <a href="https://drat.dannybassette.com/2016/09/prediction-forced-updates-for-windows-78/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Prediction: Forced updates for Windows 7/8</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="https://dannybassette.com/pahc/piwik.php?idsite=3&amp;rec=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2F2016%2F09%2Fprediction-forced-updates-for-windows-78%2F&amp;action_name=Prediction%3A+Forced+updates+for+Windows+7%2F8&amp;urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fdrat.dannybassette.com%2Ffeed%2F" style="border:0;width:0;height:0" width="0" height="0" alt="" />]]></description>
		
		
		
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