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  • AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

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  • The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.

    Aah.. So not LLMs. Makes sense.

    Also to the reporter who decided to focus on 'full time job' in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.

  • Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI

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  • Unless they developed something radically different than, transformer architecture from Google and mixture of experts from Deepseek, this is just absolute bullshit. Just like they claimed Mythos is something out of this world, but it was just another step in the progress.

  • Sloup

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  • Not really. This is not about money but about skill. Hence I said this is not 100% accurate and added a proper explanation.

    Open source is not about money. The philosophy and culture around it is centered around a set of values. It's free as in freedom.

  • Sloup

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  • I'm completely aware about that. Hence the acknowledgement and explanation in the first comment itself.

  • Sloup

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  • This is from rsync repo.

  • Sloup

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  • I remember reading an article where the author explained why telling this is free, you can fork, or send a pull request instead of complaining is a form of ableism.

    An analogy, which is not 100% accurate, which I used to explain it to ither people is, "it is not very different from a carpenter telling you, 'the wood is here, the tools also, you can do it yourself it you didn't like what I did'.

    The point is software development is a skill. Not everyone can have that skill. It takes training and practice to be good in the craft. A user of the product does not need the skill to operate it. Never think it is okay to tell people "just fork it" or "why don't you send a pull request instead of complaining?".

    At the same time, I completely acknowledge that there are some entitled assholes who don't understand or care about the open source philosophy and how it works. I just wanted to point out that asking to contribute or asking to fork is not the right way to address it.

  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • Oh. I meant before AI only. I should have clarified that.

  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • So this is some what problematic. Technology has benefits does not mean it has to be allowed. Question is what do we gain and at what cost. If the answer is we gain speed, then the followup is "does it really matter?".

    Speed of coding is the common answer. Another one is non programmers are able to make programmes. Both of it does not add much of a real value is the point. Because when the machine churn out code at a very high rate, then the humans who should review it gets under pressure. We are not addressing the real bottleneck, instead we just pump out more material which just intensify the congestion at the bottleneck. Quality goes down, we get things like AWS going down, Microsoft wiping people's machines, etc. In other words it creates problem without much meaningful gain.

    Regarding the non-programmers making programmes, it mostly just create a lot of noise. There is a lot of weekend projects, one shot attempts, or some half cooked outcomes. Only a handful of projects with meaningful impact in the world will be born out of it. We all know, even before AI, out of hundreds of thousands of GitHub repos only a small section is actually well maintained, and deliver something to the world.

    I don't have to explain at what cost. It is just literally affecting the climate and accelarting the collapse of current ecosystem. Are we doing this so that a code can be written in 1 hour, instead of one day? If you get more free time because of this, well, at least we can say the load is reduced. But we all know we just get more work to do from our employer. So I don't really think this is a net positive.

  • Is it possible to expose nextcloud securely over a vps with no vpn.

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  • I don't think anyone answered the question. It is about whether it can be exposed without a VPN, not whether it is safe to expose.

    In my limited knowledge, I think it is possible, but I'm not really sure what do you mean by "VPN". You will at least need a tunnel. If your concern is paying for VPN, just for the use case, you don't need a full fledged VPN. A wireguard tunnel will do.

    You may get a better answer if you can elaborate your question with more details. Good luck.

  • Vibe management

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  • Anyone else hate the structure and style of Axios reporting? Those bullet points like structure?

  • There is another.

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  • The sudden rapid re-release of all that sequestered carbon is as natural as the process that formed it 378M years ago.

    Let me highlight. You are telling industrial revolution, and the emmision of green house gases is as natural as, some other process happened in the nature? And humans continued doing it even after knowing the consequences of it, even when there were much better alternatives abundantly available?

    I'm struggling to see the "natural" part of it.

  • Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account

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  • 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.

  • “Good Taste” Is Just Experience

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  • 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.

  • LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern

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  • 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?

  • We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch

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  • Well then there is not even a single reason for switching from VS Code for a normal dev. When I tried it in Debian with a normal laptop, it continuously caused freezing, because it kinda throttled the integrated graphics.

    I really wish there is an editor that support vscode's devcontainer like containerisation, but open source. I really don't like doing it manually. Too much effort for something that can be autonated.

  • Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?

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  • So I haven't felt the need to go with a tiling compositors. I already use multiple munitors, and kind of have designated spots for the apps I use.

    I love stability and don't want any surprises after Windows made enough surprises. So decided to go with Debian Trixie, and KDE.

    But I use Arch in my spare laptop, btw. EndeavorOS where I experiment some stuff. Maybe down the line I will give hyprland a try on my spare first.

  • Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?

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  • Yeah.. It is the Windows that finally pushed me the fastest to install Linux. I was very comfortable with Debian servers as part of my work, but never managed to switch my daily driver. Two weeks ago that happened. Peace..

  • I wasted all my generational luck for this

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  • Please tell this is fake. I want to be ignorant about this.

  • Well well well.

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  • The problem is not when I have to rebase. I know how to handle it. But with juniors they approach us only when things are in a really bad situation, where they cluelessly applied some commands they found on internet or from an LLM. Then it is very annoying to sit down and untangle the mess they created.

    And regarding the pushing without fetching, it is usually a different branch. So they won't incorporate the new changes in the main branch into their working branch, but just push their work into a branch. Again not a big deal. Just annoying.

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    Can somebody solve this puzzle?