At virtually all banks, the bank tellers cannot help you with login problems. You will have to call the bank's tech support and somehow navigate AI-modulated phone menu hell.

Very possibly a subset of the Sea Peoples were Greek. Egyptians reported the "Ekwesh" (which might be the Egyptian word for Achaeans) and the "Denyen" (which might be the Egyptian word for Danaans) among the Sea Peoples.

In my feed, they are aggressively pushing an approximately equal mix of woke propaganda, far-right propaganda, funny memes, and discussions of literature and philosophy. It just depends on what the Meta model decided you and your friends are into.

A normal PKGBUILD should not download anything programmatically. It should rely on the package manager to download the files listed in the PKGBUILD's source array. If a PKGBUILD is running a command to download something not listed in source, that's a sign that something nefarious could be happening, and such a PKGBUILD absolutely requires careful human review.

> all models are quite vulnerable to prompt-injection type attacks

A less than 100% reliable mechanism sure beats the current situation which is "wait for users report on the forum that they have been pwn3d". May I remind that this is the third time AUR-hosted PKGBUILDs have been compromised?

Even the most primitive LLM review workflow would have caught this compromise.

Adding or modifying any invocation to a PKGBUILD that may download something from the network and execute it (whether using npm, pip, curll|bash, or whatever else) -> automatically quarantine the PR and flag for 2 human reviews required. Same for anything that looks like obfuscation. Same for anything that adds dependencies on the wrong language ecosystem (like new use of javascript ecosystem tools in a c++ based package).

I have no idea why they don't do this already.

That's a bit like asking them to choose between AI credits and a visit to the dentist. No engineer has ever hosted an intern in the hopes of improving their project's velocity; people host interns because "it's the right thing to do" for the industry, because it's psychologically satisfying for many people, and to build cred and/or experience as a mentor. And companies nudge their employees to host interns to hopefully influence potentially-valuable-in-the-future smart youngsters to come back as a year or two later as full time employees.

Consider Egyptian and Mesopotamian irrigation and flood management, Persian and Roman roads, Chinese canals...

1. demanding for this data monthly, rather than quarterly or yearly; and

2. demanding it via an annoying bespoke process rather than as an entry in the business's regular tax filing or some other pre-existing regular paperwork that small businesses are already submitting?

Please take a look at the very thorough demographic analysis of the ancient peasant class at https://acoup.blog/2025/08/08/collections-life-work-death-an...

Unfortunately, it sounds like the article's author is only on their first step of this realization.

(I am of course ignoring the scaling for fuel, maintenance, pollution, and traffic costs of personal vehicles; but my point is that most people severely underestimate just how awful the economic case for an underused full size bus is. Now, minibuses and microbuses are a different story; but US public transit systems don't use them.)

[1] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/yes-bus-more-road-da...