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uszo165

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  • GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding

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  • If it was about real AI – not stochastic parrots – I would be all for it. What happened to those developments that started in the 70s where you have automatic formal proofs that a piece of code does what it is supposed to do? That is intelligent. Producing slop more voluminous and convoluted than humans could produce or understand is not intelligent software architecture just like fixing a hole in a roof by throwing what sticks at it is not intelligent building architecture. Both may do the job for some time. But what are the long-term costs and who is capable to clean up? In my opinion, what's most desired is tools that are bug free, do what they should without annoying the user, and are radically simplified in their architecture. (For example, I would be happy with a perfectly working product that does what NFS or Samba aspire and fail to do for decades.) Apparently, AI can't deliver that. To have the billionth app that is a browser wrapper and shows me exactly one website is much more important.

  • Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

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  • I started to sell cables I don't need anymore, this year. Works great and keeps the copper in the ground.

  • Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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  • Runs on anything that runs Linux:

     
        
NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] PDF-file [text-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

       Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not speci‐
       fied,  pdftotext  converts file.pdf to file.txt.  If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.  If
       PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.

  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • Tankies whining: “B-but voting does not change anything at all. It does not matter who gets elected. All parties have the exact same policies. LBJ and DJT are the same guy, they are one person.”

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    uszo165 @futurology.today

    WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing

    www.windowslatest.com /2026/06/13/whatsapp-is-eating-1-2gb-ram-on-windows-11-even-as-microsoft-kills-web-app-slop/

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • My source was my own experience that my Windows 11 volume is encrypted and I have never been asked about key upload. So I assumed this happens automatically. I guess I am mistaken. I did not consider that my installation has no online Microsoft account. But since Windows is closed source no one knows for sure what gets uploaded.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • There is no recommendation that a user can decline. Windows uploads the keys without asking, without consent.

  • The Authoritarian Stack

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  • The root cause of everything bad, the error of errors, is to have private property of the means of production. Without it, we'd have a wealthy, technologically advanced civilization within planetary boundaries. Socialism first!

  • Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint

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  • LLMs make stuff up. How shocking!!! And Republican big brain Marsha from Tennessee figured it all out. Award to her nothing less than the Nobel physics prize. The US need more geniuses like her to speed up its decline. It is so brave of her to violate the first amendment of her nation's constitution to interfere with this nasty free speech. Truly suitable behavior for a representative of a failed state.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    uszo165 @futurology.today

    AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study

    www.theregister.com /2025/10/01/ai_isnt_taking_people_jobs/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    uszo165 @futurology.today

    Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT

    www.theregister.com /2025/10/06/ai_job_losses_us_senate_report/