Currently the community is mostly viewed as just ‘free’ and ‘open-source’ tech standards pushed by corporates. They have inadvertently ‘polluted the well’ of what FOSS/open-source was, and reduced the unwritten ideals to just meaning ‘free’.
Yeah, “inadvertently.” Because trying to rebrand “Free Software” to “Open Source” was entirely an accident.
I have a whole schpiel I could get into about it, but I’m busy so the TL;DR is that the whole point of a computer is its programmability – its ability to solve novel, bespoke problems that are unique to a single user’s needs. That means you’re not actually “computer literate” unless you can program, or at least pipe together some console commands or figure out a novel workflow in a collection of GUI apps or whatever. It’s not about touch-typing or rote memorization of specific functions in common apps; it’s about developing general-purpose problem-solving skills. Those are valuable for everyone, not just professional software engineers.
Plus, knowing at least a little bit about how computers work is increasingly crucial in terms of understanding things like, say, the limitations of LLMs. That, I hope you can agree, is important for much the same reasons media literacy is.
The sorts of computers kids should be using are things like Raspberry Pis, and they should be using them to learn about computing itself, not just using a word processor for their homework or whatever.
The US under Trump:
I thought about writing something like “it’s ironic that Trump might inadvertently save the world by forcing everyone else to react to his attempts to destroy it,” but I don’t want to give him even that much credit.
Can I get the same bacteria from sauerkraut instead?
Gather a lot of mint, put it in your cave in a pile, and lay down on it before going to sleep for the winter.
That’s a good point: it’s not just that LLMs fail to give you an optimal password, it’s that they’re inherently designed to give you a pessimal one.
if it really was the year of the Linux, it shouldn’t be 10 hiccups from install to game.
It isn’t 10 hiccups from install to game, if you just install something normal like Ubuntu or Fedora! The problem here is that the noobs are getting seduced by useless meme distros instead.
ITT: people misunderstanding the issue being ruled on (or rather, not being ruled on by letting the lower court decision stand).
If he had applied for copyright over the image generated using “AI” as a tool, it (edit: probably2) would have been granted, with him listed as the human author. But that’s not what he wanted. He’s apparently Hell-bent on trying to get the work registered in the name of the “AI” system itself as the author, to so that he can claim that the government recognized the “AI” as a sentient being that can own property hold a copyright1 on its own behalf.
This is not the broad ruling against AI slop copyrightability that people think it is. It’s a ruling against “AI” personhood.
(1 Copyright isn’t a property right, BTW)
(2 He explicitly claimed he gave no creative contribution and that the work was created completely autonomously, and the court’s ruling included excluding that from being copyrightable. It is if he hadn’t done that – if he had claimed he had directed it via prompts or whatever – that I think they would have granted the copyright to him as the human author. It turns out that he changed his mind and did make that argument on appeal, but the court explicitly ignored and did not rule on it because it wasn’t raised in his initial complaint.)
In other words, it’s not that he as the human operating the “AI” is trying to claim copyright in his own name, it’s that he’s trying to set a precedent where the “AI” can hold copyright in its own name.
He’s trying to pretend that his glorified pile of statistics is sentient, and get it legally recognized as such. 🤡
Is this reflected in birth statistics? Are noticeably more kids born in the spring (summer + 9 months) than in other seasons?
Bambu sponsorships are a fucking plague.
I just bought 16Gb of DDR3L laptop memory for a low-power NAS I’m building, and even that cost almost 40 bucks.
He was, like, some kinda crazy person though.
Where’re ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?
I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.
I like that it’s just a temporary holder for a chisel, instead of having to buy a separate blade for it.
Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?
Stephen Miller
Also the person who doesn’t have Secret Service protection like Trump does, which I mention for no reason in particular.
This is why shaming the idiots who say things like “what’s the big deal, it’s just a field in a text file” is so important. They need to be made to understand that solidarity is required to resist the tyrants.