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by bgwalter 1y ago
None of their alternatives will work or solve the problems that creatives face or the problem that people cannot think for themselves any longer (as seen by the downvoting in this submission).
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by bgwalter 1y ago
EFF is bought and paid for. Not once does this piece mention that "AI" and humans are different and that a digital combine harvester mowing down and ingesting the commons does not need the same rights as a human. It is not fair us
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If the job postings for Jupyter go down, what exactly will happen to an "AI"-first replacement when "AI" weariness is rising sharply? "AI" has achieved what seemed impossible in 2019: It makes people hate all t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The New Yorker is owned by Advance Publications, which also owns Conde Nast. "Open" "AI" has struck a deal with Conde Nast to feed SearchGPT and ChatGPT. This piece is cleverly written and might convince laypeople that &
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> If no one except djb feels this strongly about hybrid vs. pure post-quantum stuff then it's okay. That is one of the contentious issues. See the last paragraphs of: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html Sta
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Why should he leave? The IETF pretends on its sponsor page ( https://www.ietf.org/support-us/endowment/ ): The IETF is a global standards-setting organization, intentionally created without a membership structure s
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I would like to know as well. All that is public is that a couple of IETF apparatchiks want to ban him for criticizing corporate and NSA influence: https://web.archive.org/web/20250513185456/https://maila
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This should become the official error message!
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Well the essential system Python should be in /usr/sbin and read-only (insofar Python allows that with its __pycache__ spam). The fact that users have to keep up with multiple PEPs, error messages, --single-version-externally-mana
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by bgwalter 1y ago
ZeroPath for example brands itself as "AI" SAST. I agree that these tools do not find anything interesting.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If only a reason were given. This is the original: > Rust is a security nightmare. We'd need to add over 130 packages to main for sequoia, and then we'd need to rebuild them all each time one of them needs a security update. Wh
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If you mean GnuPG, that is what Snowden used. It could be better than new software that may have new bugs. Memory safety is a very small part of cryptographic safety. (New cryptographic software can also be developed by all sorts of people.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
GnuPG has protected Snowden and he speaks positively of it. Does Sequoia-PGP have similar credentials and who funds it?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Structs in C are type safe as well.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I agree with this. Fil-C is really impressive and Rust can panic, too (if panics/aborts are a concern).
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Rust developers have corporate backing and therefore feel superior even though the language is an ugly OCaml knockoff.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Misanthropic periodically need articles about sentience and introspection ("Give us more money!"). Working in this field must be absolute hell. Pages and pages with ramblings, no definitions, no formalizations. It is always "
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Second half of 2026? I would have thought earlier to preempt the bubble bursting. Perhaps they know the IPO would be a flop (like many in 2000) and want to avoid opening all circular deals and the books to the public.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Dotcom scams included "vendor financing", where telecom equipment providers invested in their customers who built infrastructure: https://time.com/archive/6931645/how-the-once-luminous-lucen... The custo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The propaganda effort to humanize these systems is strong. Google "AI" is programmed to lecture you if you insult it and draws parallels to racism. This is actual brainwashing and the "AI" should therefore not be availab
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Inundate Microsoft Support with questions how to turn off Clippy Clanker until they stop. They did remove the original Clippy after a while.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It has always been like this. The only way to get glory and money in the Python space [1] is to set up a new package manager or package repository or both. Active State, Enthought, Anaconda, now Astral. [1] Discounting pure SaaS companies t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Alternatively, give the same prompt to another model and get a completely different answer. Sometimes the opposite. Or give the same prompt to the same model after its latest fine tuning and get a completely different answer. Or warm up the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You are probably trolling, but if you cannot read Wikipedia yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia "In 1998 alone, the company had sales revenue of $20 billion, making $2.6 billion profit. By 2000, Nokia em
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They also offer Jian Yang's "AI" fridge from the Silicon Valley comedy show: https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/refrigerators/bes...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Microsoft (Elop and Ballmer) ruined Nokia's cell phone line that led to massive layoffs. Let's see if this investment leads to the final elimination of an EU tech company. Why does Finland permit this?
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Surely you mean " they are badmouthing". Enough to be expelled from the PSF. Some official report from the PSF does not invalidate decades long observations. I see increasingly that programmers rely on PDFs from foundations and o
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It was clear to me where this was going in January, but a more explicit version can be found in the beginning of June 2025: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-college-first-de... But hey, some of the same
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by bgwalter 1y ago
As long as the government keeps printing money and handing it out to unproductive sectors like the sample companies in the article the scam might work. If it collapses, maybe AirBnB will still be able to rent out (illegally in many cases) a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The tech people have never tried to cancel Bill Clinton or Ehud Barak. They were vocal about Trump when it was politically expedient during Trump's first term and from 2020-2024. They are entirely silent since January 2025.

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