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Comment Yes, and I've been doing my part to poison AI (Score 2) 18

When Reddit announced they would sell user-generated data to AI companies for training purposes, I went back to literally thousands of my old technical posts and inserted subtle nonsense in them.

They look legit, and a competent human being reading through them would very easily realize they're nonsense (you know, things like "Type taskmgr and kill systemd"). But AI doesn't, and I've already read AI-generated "help" pages containing some of the shit I seeded on Reddit.

So if you too want to debase AI, poison the well: it really does works.

Comment Impressive they're using the latest kernel (Score 1) 4

I had to have at least 6.12 to have drivers for all my hardware, and Debian is even now still only on 6.11. I'm using 6.14 now because that's the newest that will work without making other changes, and I've been uninterested in figuring it out as this is new enough for my purposes otherwise.

Back in times of yore it was normal to build your own kernel, and today Debian and Linux together make it very easy once you get through the long-winded documentation, as the files you need to make the debs are in the kernel sources. Especially if you are willing to go version by minor version, but often even if you want to skip a number of them, you can usually just make oldconfig and hold down enter...

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 212

Oh, I'm plenty familiar with Microsoft's security failures. The thing is, I'm also plenty familiar with the security failures of Linux, Mac, Android, and iPhone. There are no OSes that "get it right."

That's exactly why nobody should be pushing updates to anything against your will.

Comment Drink Bleach! RFuK says good for U! (Score 1) 57

"Bleach will cure Covid!" could flood hospitals during a pandemic, making a bad problem worse.

I don't mind if people off themselves quietly in the woods where nobody will find their body, but if they fuck with our hospitals than their mistake becomes MY problem, and that's where their freedom ends. It's yelling fire in a crowded theatre.

Comment No they literally could not be (Score 0) 19

Intel's "Form" that made them famous was having superior process technology and parlaying that into superior performance.

Intel no longer has superior process technology. They have roughly equivalent tech, except that their yields are trash. Or, they use someone else's process technology, in which case it's still not superior.

Intel's Next-Generation Panther Lake Laptop Chips Literally Could Not Be A Return To Form doesn't have quite the same ring to it as the headline you used here, but it wouldn't have been ignorant fuckery.

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