Comment AI can also FIX t (Score 3, Insightful) 55
Instead of fearing AI, use it to secure software and make it better.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Submission + - Slowbooks, AI coded cleanroom re-imagined Quickbooks (github.com)
Archangel Michael writes: The Story
VonHoltenCodes ran QuickBooks 2003 Pro for 14 years for side business invoicing and bookkeeping. Then the hard drive died. Intuit's activation servers have been dead since ~2017, so the software can't be reinstalled. The license paid for is worthless.
So he built his own replacement, transferred all his data from the old .QBW file using IIF export/import.
The codebase is annotated with "decompilation" comments referencing QBW32.EXE offsets, Btrieve table layouts, and MFC class names — a tribute to the software that served him well for 14 years before its maker decided it should stop working.
This is a clean-room reimplementation. No Intuit source code was available or used.
(Side Note from story submitter. This is the beginning of the end of Windows only applications)
VonHoltenCodes ran QuickBooks 2003 Pro for 14 years for side business invoicing and bookkeeping. Then the hard drive died. Intuit's activation servers have been dead since ~2017, so the software can't be reinstalled. The license paid for is worthless.
So he built his own replacement, transferred all his data from the old
The codebase is annotated with "decompilation" comments referencing QBW32.EXE offsets, Btrieve table layouts, and MFC class names — a tribute to the software that served him well for 14 years before its maker decided it should stop working.
This is a clean-room reimplementation. No Intuit source code was available or used.
(Side Note from story submitter. This is the beginning of the end of Windows only applications)
Comment dumb fucks (Score 5, Insightful) 91
"What do you mean people like the AI more than me?!!!"
Comment Re:Yawn! Never joined any of those either! (Score 1, Insightful) 188
Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.
Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.
Comment Re:Copy and paste is exhausting (Score 3, Informative) 188
It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.
Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later
One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.
Comment The real problem is disguised. (Score 4, Interesting) 188
Here is the list they are staying with
Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube
So, where did the audience go? It didn't go to the existing places from 20-8 years ago. And I doubt it went to the two new kids.
What this tells me is that their audience is aging/dying off, and the younger generations aren't there in numbers. This requires little to no political inferences to understand. It is easy to mistake one for the other.
Yes, I am a Boomer. I don't rely upon AI to tell me what to think. I am also a Libertarian and interested in Privacy and been a long time proponent of Open Source. Maybe figure out what intersections to the younger generations align and go there.
Comment pretty much nothing the US is doing successfully (Score 1) 262
Out of curiosity, What exactly is the proper modern approach to warfare?
1. Propagandize on teh intarwebs to get the useful idiots baying in the wrong direction. Including demonizing the wrong 1%.
2. Collect kompromat to control politicians. If none is available, have a program to create some. (RELEASE THE EPSTIEN FILES.)
3. Assymetric warfare, use swarms of cheap drones s while the enemy uses 1 million dollar missiles to try to stop them.
4. sabotage, particularly cyber and ecoonomic .
5. Don't be a blundering loudmouth. Diplomacy has a much greater ROI. Needing to blow things up is a failure.
0. Make sure you've got people on the inside working in your interests instead of those of their own nation.
Comment just like the last war (Score 3, Interesting) 262
Looks like the ADE 651 got a quantum upgrade.
Kind of like how in WWII the allies promoted the idea that carrots help with your night vision to obfuscate the fact that they had RADAR to explain away how their night fighters kept shooting down German planes. Even Bugs Bunny played his patriotic part for the war effort.
Kind of like how in WWII the allies promoted the idea that carrots help with your night vision to obfuscate the fact that they had RADAR to explain away how their night fighters kept shooting down German planes. Even Bugs Bunny played his patriotic part for the war effort.
Comment step 1 pay Trump for a pardon (Score 1) 83
Jim Bell has entered the chat.
Comment BULLSHIT. (Score 1) 66
"for entertainment purposes only"
That's damn well not how they're selling it!
Comment Re:But... (Score 2) 163
Frau Blucher!
Comment MAGIC BEANS! (Score 4, Insightful) 99
Finally some sanity, we can invest our retirement nest-egg 100% in Trumpcoin! WINNING!
Comment Why didn't Tesla Optimus get the job? (Score 1) 55
Hmm, they're using a task specialized robot to do real world things, not some delusional AI investor fleecing machine. I guess right tool for the job and all that.
Comment A great unifier. (Score 1) 92
HEY, a little respect for the dead here!
His work brought people together.
His work brought people together.
Comment Re:At last (Score 1) 52
Personally, I find the concept of the Cybermen more chilling than the Daleks. At least the Daleks will kill you. The Cybermen will Cyber-convert you, condemning you to a life of servitude with no free will. Unlike Borgification, there's no reversing the process.
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