Well, I am still on fvwm and I have been for the last 30 years. I see not need to go to any other desktop as it works perfectly well and is customized to exactly hat I want. There are tons of other good and sane window-managers out there.
KDE? Gnome? I could not care less. This is not Windows, where you can be forced to use a specific broken desktop.
That thing is a partially built wreck that cannot compete with X11 on possibilities.
It is called "sane and solid engineering" and "not falling for any mindless hype". I guess you lack experience with both of these.
There are a number of problems with LLM-type AI being rushed in this fast. It can take jobs where the occasional massive screw-up does not matter much. Callcenters are probably one of those. The second one is that there are still not enough real applications that would generate profit and the number of failures is rising, while the number of successes is not. Hence this thing has gotten way too large and basically must collapse and the only question is when. Also, many are in denial and think they have a success, when really, they have a failure.
This could, for example, lead to a scenario where a lot of the workforce gets replaced (10% would be a lot) and then LLMs go away or become massively more expensive because the flood of investor money has run dry. Another one is LLMs finally find enough useful use-cases to justify the expenses of running and maintaining them, but the mistakes they make eliminate all profits by expensive lawsuits being won. And some more like that.
Yep, that is part of the money-laundering. The only reason ransomware payments went up dramatically is that with crapto you could finally launder large amounts of money. Before they were laughably low, like the $200 demand a person I know got. On that you cannot grow a larger criminal enterprise.
More like "dark times"...
Why would I have a prediction? Stupid actions have the most random effects. That is one reason they are stupid.
I think that the problem is that quite many try to use AI for work where AI is extremely bad at. E.g. I would not use AI to write production code, because it is much harder to validate and fix code than write it yourself, but I could use AI to write prototype code, because you can validate it well enough just by running it.
I currently have a student thesis running on that question. Results so far are that AI does not find issues above toy level reliably and not basically not at all on CVE level. Fine for a non-network connected prototype, a disaster for production code. At the same time, AI provides a ton of help for attackers that they did not have before.
Who would have thought...
This has been going on since crapto became big enough and its likely a main reason crapto is still around? Crime-support in the from of tax evasion, crime financing and money-laundering was always a major application scenario for crapto. Obviously, it also serves as a scam vessel by "value" manipulation (see Musk and Trump, for examples doing that).
They don't really know what caused the glitch.
The cosmic ray hypothesis is just a conjecture.
So, they're rolling back to the previous version until they can figure it out.
This is called "being careful". They could just have done what Boeing does and risked a few 100 dead but avoided that costly "recall". Instead they determined the possible causes and eliminated the most likely ones, and those include an unknown software fault. They currently are not finding that fault and hence they think it may have been a rare but possible event like a bit flip.
Nice! Also pretty accurate. Well, build houses of cards on sand and this happens. What I do not get is that these people do not see it. It is neither difficult to understand not is it without precedent. In fact, there is a very large body of examples from when other engineering disciplines struggled to get to maturity. And it is even in the mainstream media (for example the Titanic, Tchernobyl and Fukushima).
These people must be determinedly dumb, uneducated and incompetent.
Indeed. The problem of IT security has always been asymmetric, but AI makes this massively worse. The small advantages AI offers on the defenders gets annihilated and then steamrollered over by the advantages to the attackers.
Without the influx of tons of Windows people (that do not get it) into the Linux space, systemd would never have been a thing. That same problem could or could not happen with the xBSDs, but it should at the very least be far away. Meanwhile, all my Devuan installations and the few remaining non-systemd Debian installations continue to run perfectly fine and with no gross security problems.
I am currently beginning to think that Rust may actually improve software security. Not because of its features, but because of that steep learning curve. We have too many incompetents writing software. Rust may be too hard for them. If so, good.
But please, get the Rust spec done. A "secure" programming language without a spec is simply embarrassing.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up"
