For a few years, I have received email variations on this common spammed-attempt at extortion; and as I cheerfully delete each one, I muse to myself '...sure, yeah, you go ahead and do that - knock yourself out..."
Yet, considering the persistence of these mass-spammed messages over the years, I must assume there is some measure of success.
If I were asked for advice: ignore these messages, and understand that maintaining hyper-vigilant paranoia while using any network-connected device - whether wi-fi or More...
GOOGLE LIES ABOUT ITS A.I.
Read what I wrote in French and then Google's unnatural-language processed translation, and compare to a PROPER translation.
I understand this might read pedantic; and I have more than enough humility & agree, yet I have passions for linguistics and natural-language processing; so, have patience - I am offering you some advice to avoid humiliation resultant Google's - ahem - 'translations' (see the image at the end of this entry)... More...
THIS HAS BECOME THE MODEL FOR WRITTEN CODE (see the three images in this article).
Before inclusion into my projects, I inspect the code of others' published frameworks; even if I must decompile the assembly and run obfuscation-reversal utilities.
For what reason?
Well, take this non-sensical feast of vulnerability spaghetti, written by Microsoft GITHUB to satisfy the most undiscerning script-kiddie consumer!
Need I imagine where this embarrassment was written?
One of the salient justifications for NOT using others' "professionally written" code.
The first image is a typical example from Microsoft's GITHUB framework (with my comments as callouts).More...
For over a decade, I have opposed the propaganda about A.I. My conclusions are evident in my Facebook respose, however cursorily written, from January 31st of this year (or a date close to that):
