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Submission + - Open Source Developer Responds to AI "Holiday Roast" of Source Code (soatok.blog)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11, 2025 @01:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Early morning on Christmas, Soatok received an email informing him that an AI called "Greta" decided to "roast" one of his open source projects. It turns out, he wasn't the only open source dev to receive one of these unsolicited "roasts" from Muhu AI. So he responded by writing this.

Submission + - SingularDTV: using Ethereum for DRM on a sci-fi TV show about the Singularity (rocknerd.co.uk)

Submitted by David Gerard on Sunday August 21, 2016 @03:51PM

David Gerard writes: SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry startup. Their plan is to adapt the DRM that made $121.54 for Imogen Heap, make their own completely premined altcoin and use that to somehow sell two million views of a sci-fi TV show about the Singularity. Using CODE, which is explicitly modeled on The DAO ... which spectacularly imploded days after its launch. There's a white paper, but here's an analysis of why these schemes are a terrible idea for musicians.

Comment Re:Yeah, now try hiring for it. (Score 1) 99

by SW6 on Friday December 24, 2010 @05:57PM (#34662228) Attached to: 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl

Perl software development is a seller's market, and that job ad is rubbish and fails to pique interest. It's a bland description with no indication of benefits or salary on offer. In fact, it's even less detailed than the crap Perl job ads that pimps spam me with me on a daily basis. Lack of detail implies there is little good to say about the job. Is that the impression you want to give?

Answer this simple question: Why the bloody hell should I quit my current gig and come and work for you? Then put that answer in the job description.

Submission + - "Three strikes" to go ahead in Britain (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

David Gerard

on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @09:00AM

David Gerard writes: "Lord Peter Mandelson has carefully ignored the Gowers Report and the Carter Report, instead taking the advice of his good friend David Geffen and three strikes and you're out will become law in Britain. The Open Rights Group has, of course, hit the roof. Oh, and never mind MI5 and the police pointing out that widespread encryption will become normal, hampering their efforts to keep up with little things like impending terrorist atrocities. Still, worth it to stop a few Lily Allen tracks being shared, what?"

Submission + - Office 2003SP3: Old file formats, now unavailable! 3

Submitted by

time961

on Saturday December 29, 2007 @12:39PM

time961 writes: "In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft has disabled support for many older file formats, so if you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats are "less secure", which actually makes some sense, but only if you got the files from some untrustworthy source.

Naturally, they did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB 938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even a set of awkward "Do you really want to do this?" dialog boxes to click through. And, of course, because these are, after all, old file formats, many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives.

One of the better aspects of Office is its extensive compatibility mechanisms for old file formats. At least the support isn't completely gone—it's just really hard to use. Security is important, but there are better ways to fulfill this goal.

This was also covered by the Windows Secrets newsletter, although I can't find a story URL for it."

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