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To get a sneak peak you could read Antiqua et nova from January last year. It focuses on the anthropology and also what sets human intelligence apart from simulated intelligence. S…

Once upon a time (early 90s) I read a very funny story on traceroute featuring parrots, one named Polly, and shotguns. But I can’t find it. It might have been in a Usenet group. I …

Anthropic works with Mozilla already. https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security

In your example the one making the food is you. You would have to introduce a cooking robot for the analogy to match agentic coding.

Yes. Ten years ago I would say there was a consensus in the ML community that if we got really powerful AI, it should be kept isolated in controlled environments (no internet, no w…

”Follow the money”. Yes, let’s decide that no bank is to have anything to do with crypto from next year. And not do business with other banks that accepts crypto. That would help s…

OTOH: First flight: 1903. Moon landing: 1969. Humanity went from ”Look, we’re 3 meters off the ground!” to “We just parked on the Moon” in barely a lifetime. 66 years.

Both are in the wrong. WP Engine are morally wrong not to pay back with developer time or money to enhance the Open Source project they are making money with. But Automattic's clai…

I looked at some statistics in my router and saw that Facebook (the mobile app) is the biggest sender of data from my network. It's more than my online backup provider uses. What d…

But Oracle, like Rocky Linux, won't get the source packages from Redhat anymore.

From my European viewpoint US seems to have a thriving civil society. Sweden used to have that. Workers movement, free churches and the temperance movement basically built the Swed…

My wife and her friends are all middle-class, doctors, lawyers etc. The have a book club and get tax money to buy theater tickets and cheese for their meetings. It's not tax money …

He looked like he was right out of bed. But it was mostly a feeling. I had recently hired a high school dropout and an immigrant who barely spoke our language. Both turned out grea…

JetBrains where silent when the war started. I was a bit worried what would happen. Then they announced the closing of the dev offices in Russia. They said that they needed to extr…

I didn't trust my instinct and hired a guy that was a pathological liar. Almost ruined the whole company. This was during the dotcom bubble and programmers where hard to come by. M…

Well, if the business owner himself engage in world politics it is relevant to follow the money trail. Musk is not any businessman. His influence goes far.

Explains a lot on the recent Musk dealings with Putin. Follow the money.

"Even the FBI/NSA has them monitoring the files on your device." Source?

Seldom heard on a deathbed: "I wish I spent less time with my kids when they were young".

I tried this with a few HP desktops I was going to use as a homelab, but I found it flaky. I used MeshCommander but I never got a stable workflow. I wanted to be able to reinstall …

I am a Ghost user and there's a lot to like about it. One omission that I find strange is the lack of support for i18n. Both the payment flow (Portal), e-mail newsletters and trans…

I'm principally for allowing side-loading, but in this era of surveillance capitalism it might be a net negative for non-tech savvy iOS users. Facebook will leave the Appstore to c…

I'm sure Wikileaks started out with a genuine idealistic vision. But I think it's hard to deny that after a while it turned into a FSB puppet."Spy Files Russia" looks more like a p…

This is such a false analogy. I heard hundreds of dissenting voices on the streets and in the media all over the world (and in the US) during the Iraqi war, the attack on Serbia, t…