KingOfCoders

"harms random people who happen to live in a war criminal dictatorship."

The vast majority of Russians loved the war mostly because they made lots of money from it. Just when Ukraine started hitting oil infra people no longer liked the war. I am sorry for those 10% of Russians who didn't want the war and can't move abroad.

I'm sorry for those of the 11 percent innocent (1) that are left there, happy that many fled the dictatorship.

(1) 89% of Russians approved Putin and the 2014 Crimean invasion

The number is referring to the post I replied to:

"innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good".

Estimations for how many civilians Russians killed in Chechnya range from 45,000 to 80,000.

Innocent users who voted for killing tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine.

I guess for some definition of "innocent".

40.000 - 100.000 dead civilians.

Estimate range is big because lots of civilians died in cities that ended up occupied.

How much does Vlad pay today for such a comment? Is it worth it?

Yes, never found pre-OSX Macs compelling, had to use some Performas and Quadras. Luckily we had SGIs at work and NeXT Cubes at university, just to transition into a Mac Cube at work and then it was 20 years of OSX.

[Edit] More luckily for Steve, Woz dropped out or Apple would have gone the way of Commodore and Atari, forever stuck in one architecture, too little progress.

"my sound card."

Yes, for me today though this is usually fixed in 5min by Claude.

I moved to Linux from WSL2. It works surprisingly well today as a desktop OS (using it since ~1992 on servers, 20 years of OS Macs before Windows on desktop). And it looks to be perfect for AI - Claude did build and test a noise gate mic pipeline easily because every config is in plain text files.

"Thunderbird has been in production use for over 20 years"

Like the 10 years 0-day kernel bug?

"There are no black swans because I haven't seen one"

Falcon030 was an eye popping machine.

Had an Amiga 4000/40 back then and it was clear for some time this era went down. Wanted a Falcon030 but couldn't get one, there was a lot of hope in the DSP to turn things around against PCs (for gfx). Got a Bebox instead, with it's dual CPU (back then!) but that didn't also take off. Switched to PCs then.

It's not a bug it's a feature.

It seems the <sarcasm> tag was missing, I assume, but as shown by many companies and open source projects, agents with the right prompts are much better at finding security problems than 99% of developers (for various reasons).

Would not be a problem with me, download source, let the agent search for backdoors and security problems for some hours and it would be fine for me. I would need to do the same with thunderbird if I'd need to trust an UI frontend to my email.

Creators vs. Coders.

"it's those criticizing the leak by governments"

If this is a general trend in the EU, what people went to jail for criticizing the leaks?

"and absolutely toothless when it comes to taking on more powerful interests. "

Like Google and Apple?

"and countless examples of making it worse."

Which would those be? I would be interested to know.

If people don't go to jail, there will be no change.

I trained as a paramedic, but couldn't stand the culture and needed to get out.

I loved "I, Cringely"

And a 4gb Linux machine.

"OpenAI wouldn't be constantl monitoring these training runs "

Occams razor vs. Hanlon's razor?

I've read the report, watched all the videos and is exactly:

OpenAI: shocked pikachu how could it hack?!?

They even went to a black hat conference and somehow boasted about it.

Kleinanzeigen != eBay

The Hugging Face incident could have been avoided if the "security researchers" would have not used a bloated, insecure, misconfigured proxy for the AI to use.

Oh, I've used balsa wood for the nuclear core containment, it didn't work! Bad radiation, bad radiation!

Like in the Hugging Face hack. They deployed big surface, insecure app and gave AI access to it, then told AI do whatever it takes to fulfill this list. AI hacks insecure service, gets out, "the AI is at fault!" - no it's like running a bio lab with no protections and a virus gets out, then blame the virus for escaping.

In Germany e.g. Galaxus works fine for many things. Also eBay surprisingly works better for many things because it has more filters, e.g. if you want to buy wood or window shades etc.

No, the British Empire, the one dominating before the US, finally ended in 1956. We'll see if the Russian empire collapses before the US one.

I think there is a difference of a country governing who can say what in that country vs. a foreign company. I don't care if you call it censorship or whatever, it's foreign companies meddling in political affairs.

US companies can meddle as much as they want in US affairs, I don't care. But not in the country I'm in.