That is indeed troubling, casts a shadow on Project Gutenberg's judgement. Now I wonder how long until Wikipedia falls too :( Gosh, I miss being excited about new tech. Now new tech is just making things worse.
About that book, so it is more "good bad" instead of "bad bad"? Maybe I'll take a look, some light/weird reading might be better than doomscrolling (and these days there's so much doom to scroll).
I have to keep reminding myself that this is the technology that they all claim will soon do all our work, our arts, our science, everything.
Rituals can be good, but yeah, agile standup meetings are not the good kind. Luckily I don't have them daily... several times a week is already draining enough. If they were daily, I would just burn out. And the standups are IMO not even the worst part of agile...
The best solution right now may be “buy a Macbook and learn MacOS”, which is so depressing.
Depends on whether you include "my personal data is sent to the manufacturer of the computer against my wishes" in your threat model... Apple does many good things for security, and I wish PC hardware makers would take security-related things even just nearly as seriously as them. But I can't trust Apple anymore either.
(Explanation: the whole iCloud syncing stuff is such a buggy mess. I don't want it, I don't need it, so I want it off. But I guess Apple just doesn't test enough how well it works when you turn it off, maybe they can't imagine someone not wanting it. The problem is, iCloud sync settings don't stay off. Settings randomly turn themselves back on, e.g. during OS updates, and upload data before you even notice it. I'm not claiming that's intentional, I assume it's just bugs. But I've observed such bugs again and again in the past 9 years, and I've had enough. Still have a Macbook around, but I use it very rarely these days, only when I need some piece of software on MacOS that has no suitable Linux equivalent.)
While a PC+Linux setup can avoid the specific issue of "don't randomly upload my data somewhere", the setup of it all can be a mess, as you say. And then security is still limited by buggy hardware and BIOS/firmware that is frequently full of security holes. The state of computers is depressing indeed (in so many ways, security just being one of them)...
Is it too early to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the bubble?
Also, does someone know why broadcom was also hit so hard? Is it because they make various networking-related chips used in datacenter infrastructure?
And people believe this … why?
Maybe people believe that all the AI stuff is just magic [insert sparkle emoji], and that can terminate further thought...
Edit: heh, turns out there's science about that notion
screaming about “theft!” and “hacking!!”
Sounds plausible. Or maybe they will go with a don't use it, because privacy! take. Funny thing is, I actually agree people shouldn't give them their data. But they shouldn't give it to OpenAI either...
Wow, that's awesome!
I often think about the many devices I own with closed firmware in them, and the many amazing things these devices could be used for if they were more open and documented. Consider the amazing things people accomplish on old 80s/90s home computers and games consoles, often going way beyond what was thought possible with it at the time... the same could be done with so many other devices. Of course, people already do such hacking - like this example in the blog post. But the barrier for that would be so much lower if it didn't require elaborate reverse engineering (how do people find the time and energy for that....). I have a little collection of 90s synth modules, I would love to modify their firmware, if it was available.
Sometimes I wish there was a law that forced companies to open up datasheets/internal documentation/etc. for a product when they stop making it... But yeah, can't have that, of course.
I had to read “Uber for AI code data” so now you do too.
Wow, what a fractal of cursed meaning. I don't even understand what it really means, but it feels like understanding it any further would cause considerable psychic damage.
This shows the US is falling behind China, so you gotta give OpenAI more money!
Fear of a "bullshit gap", I guess.
Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.
You have my sympathy! Is the worst part that you have to review the slop or its general presence at all?
Asking because at my workplace it will be allowed soon, and some coworkers are unfortunately looking forward to it, and I'm horrified, especially by the thought of having to do code review then...