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Well that is why it is technical English. I wouldn't use it to explain business concepts, but it is perfect for explaining logical flows and how something works.

no - but you could learn what they are truly capable of and restrict them accordingly for public release. I think that is the point on this research. Also publishing findings before uncensored models catch up and will inevitably used for criminal purposes

not equal, but probabisticly better. Best example: give the agent a tight spec and it will perform better compared with a spec that leaves room for interpretation. This is true for all models, more or less. (purely anecdotal of course)

the models have vision capability. Not sure a captcha would hold them back?

"To some clients, 'UG' reads as 'not serious.'" -> more of a sales isssue

Consulting or dev work doesn't need deep capital. we're insured for X if Y happens. A UG is fine. The "not serious" label only sticks because founders keep caving to it.

Let the client adapt to your setup, not the reverse. If their compliance department doesn't get it, that's a gap to close, evry time you stand your ground, you normalize the UG for the next founder.

At least we get to raise the next generation of IT geeks because they'll have to understand a bunch of networking basics to watch porn, and might get hooked on it. (on IT)

Well - it does make sense. If an organisation that contracts me has to chose between a) BYOD - but restrict downloads, etc, enforce export control, directly in the browser - I happily take that, vs getting a Windows laptop that is locked down and forced to work with that.

but that is a pin and can be rate limited / denied, not a cryptograhpic key that can be used to brute force and compare hash generations (?)

The ultimate way of installing windows least bloated is chosing Region "English (World)" - as usually the bloatware is country specific. Avoid US, UK, etc. That's where the Candy Crush comes with.

I fail to understand how you can measure keystroke latency coming from a KVM. Everything behind the KVM is invisible to you, assuming that it is spoofing a legitimate logitech dongle and emulating a legitimate screen edid.

The KVM uses buffering and queues the keystrokes. So the net time between them is the same as if I would type them locally.

What you could measure is the fingerprint of USB initialization and enumeration of keyboard, mouse etc when connecting and starting up.

PLM, which OP has expertise in, is usually tied to the IT infrastructure in the digital engineering in the manufacturing industry. That's not going away anywhere soon. We are still far away from a full automation / digitalization in these areas.

I run a small consulting shop in Germany, also specialising on PLM (and IoT) - I never landed a gig in the US. The problem with PLM is that more often than not you operate in high tech / defense and because of export control regulations you need residency.

For getting projects in Europe, what worked for me is cold outreach on linkedin. However not directly for the end client (that really never worked) - but there are a lot of companies in between - medium size consulting shops / service integrators. Also digital strategy consulting shops sometimes realize in the middle of a project that they should better own the implementation themselves(because some other partner has been identified as unreliable or too expensive) A big aspect is being consistent and send a few messages per day.

What also worked was applying to jobs, and after making the first contact breaking it to them that I actually run my own company but that I could solve the issue that they were trying to fix by hiring me.

At last but not least - send me your CV to daniel a teide d tech - if you have experience with PTC's Windchill PLM there is a chance that I have work for you in the future. But also if not, it's always good to extend the network. I have worked in the past with freelancers from India, usually setting up legal/contractual aspects through deel.com

Good luck!