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by bgwalter 1y ago
For one, I cannot examine all signatories of the Stallman cancellation petition here. Then, given the cancel and defamation happiness of the PSF, this is an excellent example for double standards.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The PSF could reject donations from Microsoft and Google. Deb Nicholson was previously at the OSI, which is widely thought to be ... industry friendly, so that is unlikely to happen. They could also have done research in 2018 before accepti
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by bgwalter 1y ago
These measures are not applied equally though. Deb Nicholson, PSF "Executive Director", won an FSF award in 2018, handed to her by Stallman himself. Note that at that time at least one of Stallman's embarrassing blog posts wa
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by bgwalter 1y ago
More or less what you said in your last paragraph: Stallman also reacted late to the web revolution, but at least he was passionate. That passion seems gone. I don't see any sense of urgency in the reported discussion or any will to fi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Sure, but remember that the Stallman situation started with a highly clumsy Minsky/Epstein mail on an MIT mailing list. The Epstein coverup was bipartisan and now all tech companies are ostensibly on Trump's side and even finance
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It looks like the FSF is going to sit this one out like the SaaS revolution, to which they reacted late with the AGPL but did not push it. They are not working on a new license and Siewicz is already low-key pushing in favor of LLMs: "
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Not even wrong.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Pyperformance is a bloated, over-engineered test suite that does not catch anything. Due to the bloat it is hard to see what is even measured. This benchmark demonstrates that global variables are not needed to find severe regressions.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
All these agent documentations seem to compete for the most complex set of flow charts imaginable without ever mentioning what the Rube Goldberg machine is supposed to accomplish. Given that the real output in open source of these contrap
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You can modify the posted script to eliminate global variables: def f(): l = [0] for i in range(100000000): l += [2] return l x = f() print(x[0]) Timings: 3.9: 8.6s 3.14:
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They have an ex-NSA chief on the board, and doing surveillance voluntarily may result in government help like getting contracts in South-Korea and Argentine that may bring in far more money than the implementation costs. Perhaps they outsou
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"Mistakes were made", but we are still awesome, keep our numerous director titles and go on a YouTube PR tour. We have the bigger bullhorn and critics had better be aware of that.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What is this new breed of interactive books that give you half baked opinions and incorrect facts in response to a prompt?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Except that "AI" steals and mostly does not do citations. EDIT: The chutzpah of downvoting this is striking. The paper says "surpasses highly optimized algorithms engineered by human experts to achieve a 5.0x speedup" an
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'm not sure if this is the exact same thing, but a load balancing paper reported a 4.2x speedup by applying a "snake pattern" in 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.02447
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'd say the 45% is on top of mistakes by Journalists themselves. "AI" takes certain newspapers as gospel, and it is easy to find omissions, hallucinations, misunderstandings etc. without even fact checking the original articl
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yes, these people have never written anything useful, so they don't know. At best an "AI" researcher writes some plagiarized version of the transformer architecture, which is the used to plagiarize other people's hard ea
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You're absolutely right and thank you for your correction! Clouds are a legitimate IT business, and it would be a factual error to dismiss them. I apologize for the error. Would you like me to print a chart of the growth of cloud busin
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Cloudflare trains users to click on that sort of thing with their wretched Turnstile NotCaptcha. Trained users may also click on: https://www.securityweek.com/clickfix-attack-exploits-fake-c...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I have never seen such a bunch of uncreative people who have never written a real application, never done anything artistic, never said anything intelligent try to ruin software development to the extent that the "AI" companies do
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It would be hilarious if all this was a devilish scheme to burn the excess money that was printed during COVID. Unfortunately, what is more likely is another bailout if the bubble bursts.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I remember the joke differently. I heard it first way before the "AI" craze from an Italian philosopher (the original program must have been recorded in the 1980s and then rebroadcast): "People who think they can be replaced
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Probably related: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders... "Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and ha
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by bgwalter 1y ago
With that interpretation Marty Haught attempted to incite a federal crime on Oct 3rd, where he tried to trick Arko into doing trial logins: https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci... &quo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Always on the side of the bureaucracy and against the individual, no matter if it is IETF vs. Bernstein or Ruby Central vs. Arko? Personally I also think the monetization proposal was silly , but that was in August and Ruby Central rejecte
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I can't comment on any authenticity. Others here apparently dispute Andre's version, who clearly says he was on call : "As this situation occurred, I was the primary on-call. My contractual, paid responsibility to Ruby Centr
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That "Executive Director" (whose salary is probably safe throughout all controversies!) does not sound very credible compared to: https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci... I&#x
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The generated picture is not impressive and the excuse in this subthread was that an svg is created directly without using an image model. I offer alternative explanations why svg creation might not be impressive OR ALTERNATIVELY why they m
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by bgwalter 1y ago
People were also raving about Gemini 2.5. Allegedly it powers Google's "AI mode", which is the worst model I have tested. EDIT: The religious downvotes are pretty useless. Does the post contain a factual error? Is Google &quo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
How do we know it's not just a mashup of existing pictures? All generated pelicans on bikes look somewhat cartoonish and use historical or artsy bikes. This is training material from 2015: https://www.behance.net/galler

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