Comment Good luck (Score 1) 2
I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/
Comment Re:Telephone and email work for me (Score 1) 3
In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.
Comment Help with ethical queries... (Score 3, Insightful) 160
... and you're going to ask... Christians?
Journal Journal: Signal, Whatsapp, Telegraph 3
Is it just me or are these three platforms the arena of bad decision making in startup businesses? When somebody tries to lure me off of social media into one of these three platforms, alarm bells start ringing in my mind. If you're leading your business with communications on Signal or Whatsapp, just know that I for one will not be taking your business seriously.
Comment Re: 5x86 DX/133 (Score 1) 132
That would defeat the entire purpose of keeping that machine alive.
Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 2) 132
You are welcome to continue development on support for the 486 if you need continued support for it. The kernel is open source and you can easily clone yourself a local repo and continue 486 support maintenance while merging in new features as time goes on.
Comment 5x86 DX/133 (Score 1) 132
My very first linux box, which I still have and is still running today, is still on RedHat 3.0.3 that I got on a CD in a book from the Media Play in Poughkeepsie NY in 1996. Granted it is completely useless except as a samba server sharing the 1.6GB hard disk that is still in it (and still works). But, I keep it for posterity, and because I like having a monitor with xearth on it.
I could probably put a newer distribution on it but with only 24MB of RAM, the newer stuff would choke out on it.
Submission + - Google clamps down on Android developers with mandatory verification (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Google is rolling out mandatory developer verification for Android apps, and while it says the move is about security, it also means developers will now have to verify their identity and register apps with Google before they can be easily installed on devices. Google claims sideloaded apps contain far more malware than apps from the Play Store, but critics might argue this is another step toward tighter control over the Android ecosystem. Power users can still sideload using ADB or a new “advanced flow,” but Google is clearly adding friction to anything outside its system. Is this a reasonable security measure, or is Android slowly becoming less open than it used to be?
Comment Re: What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
I was actually in college in the 1990s, but yes, a middle schooler today with python on a raspberry pi and a pretty simple GPS module could do this.
Comment Re: What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
I didn't say it wasn't abhorrent or alarming. I'm presenting the scenario that this task of "defend this three dimensional coordinate box" doesn't require AI.
Comment Re:What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
Yes, it did. The beacon signals weren't that good back then, neither were the sensors. I had the same problem in the fake robot battles I was involved in.
The answer turned out to be a solution not from Defense industries, but from Genie Garage Door Openers.
Comment Re:What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
The robot doesn't care. The robot's job isn't foreign policy. The robot's job is "here's a box defined by this coordinate cloud, defend it"
Comment Re:What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
Like I said, I programmed it for a fighting robot back in the 1990s. It ain't that complex, and with today's drone factory ships, the Navy can now output this level of AI in killbots at a rate of 10,000 a day.
Submission + - Companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs 1
An anonymous reader writes: Companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs struck down by Supreme Court, judge rules
“Companies in the U.S. that paid tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court in February are legally entitled to refunds, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.”
“Eaton was ruling specifically on a case brought by Atmus Filtration, a Nashville, Tennessee, company that makes filters and other filtration products, claiming a right to a tariff refund.”
“Companies in the U.S. that paid tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court in February are legally entitled to refunds, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.”
“Eaton was ruling specifically on a case brought by Atmus Filtration, a Nashville, Tennessee, company that makes filters and other filtration products, claiming a right to a tariff refund.”
Comment Re:What a win for xAI (Score 1) 51
Kill decisions are simple in comparison: Stay within your predefined geofence, kill anything that moves that isn't transmitting Friend beacon. We don't need AI for that, I coded a form of it in both Basic and Forth back in the 1990s.
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