Happy to see so many women in top positions.

Just want to say that it is not fully open source, if you care about the license.

I think we are giving too much credit to LLMs. It’s not ChatGPT that is central to this, but a system called Maven from none other than Palantir. ChatGPT is part of it. But the blame should be more on Palantir. This long read, first appeared in a substack, is really an eye opener.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

I think it is just chain of trust. Many used Microslop as the trust authority (may be due to convenience? I have no idea). Debian has a nice page on Secure boot and how it works.

Aww… My dog is also named Nora.

I’m extremely conflicted about this.

On one hand I believe, ads industry is behind the age verification laws, and governments and law enforcement agencies are taking this as an opportunity to increase surveillance on citizen.

On the other hand, there are genuine risk in not regulating tech products used by kids. Especially AI chats. But I’m not convinced age verification is the solution.

When the IT proliferated in 90s and 2000s, tech companies played the standard game of arguing that the laws present at that time were inadequate for regulating them, and this resulated in the surveillance nightmare we are currently in. The former Commissioner of Federal Trade Commission of USA, Lina Khan, in an interview with Jon Stewart, pointed this out, and drew parallels on how AI comapnies are using the same playbook now.

This is a classic trick played by capitalism, where they push for “unregulated” free market. This usually results in severe harm on kids and marginalized groups in the society, because oppressor get more power and accountability is non existent. But at the same time, every attempt to bring in regulations usually results in increased surveillance by data brokers and governments, which helps these groups to either make money or get into power.

All these power hungry maniacs, and money making machines, don’t care about a common person. People are commodities for them. A resource to make money or get into power. Unless things start to have a people first approach, ironically which is what democracy claims to do, this is going to be bad for a common person like you and me. We suffer, they gain. We get oppressed, and they get more power to oppress.

Hows Adobe doing with all the AI slop being available for everyone?

I used Adobe Products for 20+ years (regarding the total amount I spent, IYKYK). Last couple of years I moved away from graphical design to system design and occasional programming. Recently I made a complete switch to Linux, and now I use only open source products.

The tooling around AI should be to improve the quality of the programmer. Not to write the code for the programmer.

For example if you ask an agent how to scale things well, and best practices in architecture, it will have a lot of resources on it. But that does not mean the code it will produce when you ask it to write a programme will consider and include the best practices it gave you in a separate question. That is the ‘intelligence’ part that LLMs cannot have. If you ask a it to do a certain way it will create it. Context tries to address this by prompting the user to give more, but that is not persistent.

This is exactly why senior devs finding LLMs works for them, because they know ‘how’ to do it, and they explicitly state it. But at the same time junior devs feel they think the code written by LLM is the ‘best’ way so solve a problem and superior in quality, even if it is not, because they don’t know any better.

Tooling should be able to help the developers improve their knowledge and skill on ‘how’ to do it. Instead it always focus on writing the code. I want to add that I’m not talking about algorithms. But every aspect of coding, in which the programmer needs to know ‘how’ to do it.

Also note that almost all of the Europian countries abstained from voting. I think we are seeing the effects of colonialism.

The resolution talks about ‘reparatory justice’ which I think these colonialists, and countries benefitted from slave trade are afraid of. I feel they see it as, if they agree to it they will have to take actions now and in future, and have to pay or compensate for the injustice.

The justification given by US is utter bullshit. Wealth of western countries mainly came from extracting resources, both human and material, from Asian and African countries. Claiming otherwise is just ignoring the past and neglecting the injustice.

May be you should read about the Partition of India happened when the country gained independence from British.

Edit: Also I have no clue what is the meaning of “owning” a river, like the ownership of a river can be transferred or something.

Amm… That means British Monarch in India had conscience, when Mahathma Gandhi was promoting non-violence and hunger strike. Which I don’t think is true.

In India it worked because British was sure that if they use force against someone promoting non-violence the retaliation will be uprising of a violent mob. Atrocities in India reached a high were majority of the people were affected by it and fed up by it. Like the modern times it was not possible to sway the public opinion through media of any kind.

Gandhi was a saint in practice‌, but more than that he was shrewd politician, who identified the weakness of British monarchy in India.

I don’t know much about American History. But I believe that America not having a conscience could be one of the reason why the non-violence will not have worked. I am not sure if that is the primary reason. Can someone with more knowledge in American History provide an elaboration on this point? I feel there will be some missing context.

For those who want to read more context about it. Interview with Monty Python’s Eric Idle

This looks like a mate in 3. I can’t find a mate in 2, unless the black makes a wrong move.

Krafton? The same publisher that fired the founders of Subnautica 2 to avoid paying bonus? Also the stupid CEO who asked ChatGPT to create a plan to orchestrate this entire drama? And lose spectacularly in court? Well…

That is not correct f6d4 will block the check, getting one more move.

Janice in Barry. I will probably go back to watching the series, but the finale kind of ruined the things.

There is a GitHub link in the post. Not hyperlinked. May be that’s why you missed. Here is the link.

https://github.com/Switch-Bros/SteamLibraryManager

The full story is much more complex, and dark. Even one of the main contributor Argo Tuulik, went bankrupt and had to do gofundme for legal expenses. The CEO of the studio ZA/UM successfully created a narrative infront of well known YouTube channels like People Make Games, (On a side note, I always felt that particular reporter was so bad at his job), that the original creators were problematic to work with. A main reason behind the comoany going down is a convicted scammer who is a friend of ZA/UM’s CEO. People who left the studio and tried to spin up successor peojects. I think there were three different projects announced as the successor. None materialized. Several other opportunists tried to exploit the people behind the original game.

The whole story can be made in to several seasons long TV Drama.

On a side note. There was Magic School Bus game like apps, which were brought to the public by none other than Microslop. What a time was that…

I’m confused. Why a licensing change is needed? In the particular example they changed to MIT. Is this considered as the first step for paid features and other stuff?

My confusion is regarding why a licensing change is done, not that whether it is valid or not, since it is LGPL it is not valid, and no doubt in that. But what is the intention behind this change is what I don’t understand. Can someone explain?