Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn’t support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

Right, but the volume was the issue. The cURL team could only work through and verify them so quickly, so the deluge of bug reports just made it impractical for them to dedicate time to sort through it. The idea in getting rid of the bug bounty being that there would be less of an incentive to generate and write a bogus bug report.

If it was just a small handful of fake security reports, they wouldn’t have minded nearly as much.

It was volume that was more the issue with the bug bounty program.

They were flooded, and recognising it is all well and good, but not if there’s no good way to filter it out, not without massive collateral.

It does make it harder to find them, because the phrasing is similar, but not identical due to randomness.

Whereas before, you could probably filter a good chunk of it out by just finding the same message/keywords and filtering by that.

Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?

That’s not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it’s multimedia.

It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don’t care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.

So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

There’s also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

Specifically since RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

Whilst people really shouldn’t use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the “results” like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

It’s probably also bad for people who don’t use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

I don’t understand the point of sending the original e-mail. Okay, you want to thank the person who helped invent UTF-8, I get that much, but why would anyone feel appreciated in getting an e-mail written solely/mostly by a computer?

It’s like sending a touching birthday card to your friends, but instead of writing something, you just bought a stamp with a feel-good sentence on it, and plonked that on.