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Comment Re:Although difficult to care much.... (Score 1) 90

I never really understood the fixation on banning TikTok

TikTok — for obvious reasons — is not as responsive to pressure from establishment thought police. That's it. That's what this is about.

The Powers That Be live in constant anxiety over everything that's said on social media. Nothing consumes more of their attention than what is being said about them and their policies on Facebook, TikTok, X, etc. While they can, and have, backdoor all the US based platforms and disappear wrong-thinkers, they can't fire off an e-mail from a quasi-government democracy saving pressure group address to some TikTok apparatchik and get the result they expect. So, in their minds, TikTok is evil and something must be done.

Comment Re:Boeing, but not Boeing (Score 1) 182

And that the conclusion derived from that "the US is no longer competent to build or operate airliners. " makes no sense...

You say that now. Wait till a door pops out, slices a vert stab off and puts 300 people into a smoking hole. We haven't had a major air disaster like that in the US in a long time, and when we did we weren't anywhere near the mass of dysfunctional children we are today. You are failing to appreciate the degree of collective cognitive meltdown that will erupt when this eventually happens.

Comment Re:Boeing, but not Boeing (Score 1) 182

Is this a quality issue first or a cost cutting issue first?

Even plausibly answerable questions are subsumed by endless gaslighting today. How can you expect answers to subtle questions such as these?

Soon, a couple hundred people are going to get killed in one of these cost optimized aircraft. At that point I'm thinking we should just stop this nonsense: the US is no longer competent to build or operate airliners. Mr. and Mrs. hoi polloi can just zoom or drive, and leave flying to people that can afford to do it properly. Then maybe stop the driving part too.

Comment Re:Another Cirrus (Score 2) 30

I watched this crash on YouTube last night without knowing who the pilot was. It did have a parachute. The parachute did deploy. It deployed shortly after impact. The plane was too low for a parachute to have done any good in any case. The fact that it deployed after impact is weird: unlikely that the pilot did that, because he'd likely not be alive, or at least conscious, at that point.

Looks like pilot inexperience. Banking too hard at low altitude and low speed. Inner wing stalls and in you go. Similar stalls are the cause of many light aircraft crashes.

Comment Re:Globalism had a good run (Score 1) 88

in a new developing market where labour is unregulated, paid in peanuts, and can be put to work

Where do you have in mind? A lot of the places on might consider are either a.) involved in the Russia/Ukraine war, b.) already being exploited (by China, ironically,) or too small or otherwise unworkable. It's not as if the planet has an endless supply of exploitable workforces just sitting around, waiting for the US to evacuate more of its industrial base to.

Comment Re:Academic Attack (Score 4, Insightful) 85

Since the attack requires a process running with normal user permissions, and then a lot of CPU resources...

That set of conditions is common to pretty much all attacks that exploit speculation. So that argument won't save Apple here.

Then again, Apple and its customers never hesitate to embrace a double standard, so maybe it's all good.

Comment Re:Can we start blocking mergers and acquisitions? (Score 3, Informative) 20

what's everybody's FOSS alternative

The so-called "ELK" stack. Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Logstash eats log events, Elasticsearch stores them in indexes and Kibana provides the user frontend. It does what it says on the tin, but it is — as you should anticipate — a DIY solution you pay for in labor and time. Splunk is well refined and, while not zero maintenance, is far less demanding.

Comment Re:rubbish (Score 1) 139

show us the approximate path to get there

I can't. I openly and freely admit that. You, however, cannot credibly claim a.) said path does not exist b.) your path is even necessary for "AI" to be a threat.

It's just talk. No facts. Nothing measurable. Nothing credible. Just panic, ignorance and speculation.

What we know is this: machines are advancing rapidly. All of this is still nascent muddling with machines that are, themselves, getting more powerful by the day, using algorithms that are getting more efficient by the day. What will we have in 10 years when NVidia is selling N4200X's on 13pm nodes and the descendants LLMs or what have you have seen a dozen more breakthrough level iterations?

You don't know. I don't know. Further, anyone claiming to know is making shit up and should be treated accordingly.

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