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Comment Re:How should open source serve the common person? (Score 2) 89

> What kind of magical licence will change their incentives?

Which is Peren's point: licensing took OSS only so far aloing the path toward financial stability and recognition by those who control capital formation. It't now time for contract law and all the rich, chocalatey goodness it provides

Comment I think he's right (Score 1) 224

He's describing the transition from what was a 3GL language model for coding phase zero: "unconscious" to the same programming phase, but using using 4GL tools.

As an aside, I wish I could find the reference to the "N programming phases", where phase zero is "unconscious", i.e. unaware one's actions are programming a machine (e.g. spreadsheet macros).

Tell the machine what you want, not how to do it. It's an evolution of the language model, just as Lem described in GOLEM XIV/Imaginary Magnitude.

LLM techniques provide a new way of controlling a machine. Commands that define a task; which are not the decisions necessary for its "successful" completion.
See the recent USAF experience for definitions of "success".

Comment The whole thing is fake (Score 1) 72

Who puts those documents into email? A photo of his car? A photo of his birth cert?

Look at the picture captioned
"Pictured: Yekaterina Morgacheva and Sergey Morgachev."

The shadows don't match. His face is obviously shopped. Look at the focus on her hands and on his. His hands are too blurred.

We know the DNC emails were exfiltrated, not transmitted. The NSA would know the IP addresses of all outgoing traffic from those servers: "collect it all". They found squat in terms of IP traffic. If only they'd found the USB stick that got sent to WikiLeaks, gosh darn it!

Free Julian Assange!

Comment It worked in a similar situation (Score 1) 141

I wanted to start full-bore Rust production after a year of study. Web logic just isn't there. I wound up writing to SQLite with PHP for the front-end, and Rust in the back-end to talk to Twilio and work the list.
Systemd integration in Rust is farcical. Same for PHP,
SQLite in Rust isn't threadable, and I couldn't get async working except for Twilio. Async isn't really important anyway for that sort of task, but it would've been cool to see it work.
Did dev on Debian Testing, and the async falls over on Stable.
I know, sux 2 b u.

Comment Re:Flawed Premise (Score 1) 50

I'm not sure I see your first point: Henry The K and someone else are talking about State-sponsored AI. You're talking about what, automating your local environment? AI can be as dangerous as nuclear weapons. When operated by The State, AI can be used as a weapon of mass destruction. I think some on /. see believe such weapons operate in minutes, not years.
On your second, not so well of course. /Fight Club/ describes such a world.
Please, let's not forget Henry The K is a war criminal. Every statement about him should include that reminder and accusation.

Comment Re:Maybe? (Score -1) 116

Exactly. These guys read like Soviet apparatchicks, shedding crocodile tears over the loss of Ethics in American life.

"If only The State were more involved! If only we had a ... a... Religion! Yeah, that's what we need! A State Religion that could train us to be Ethical!"

Absolving the individual of personal responsibility is to neuter that society.

I am not a religious person, and I have no use for organized religion. America doesn't teach Ethics, she(!) teaches Morals. Thanks to the English, Morality and Ethics are intertwined in organized religion, further twisted by American Separation of Church and State. The social deformation of "Living Under Heavy Manners" and the decadent Ethics described in this article produces such pearl-clutching. It's way too late to teach Americans to behave Ethically. We have no structures in place for such pedagogy.

Comment Re:not going to go well (Score 1) 66

There's a wizard behind that backdrop: the Consusus Engine. So you don't have to actually RTFF

Some people have expressed questions about "why" we aren't open-sourcing the "central intelligence" aka "global consensus" part. While we are focused on making the CrowdSec suite a suitable software for the open-source world, it means there is constant arbitration between maximum efficiency and compatibility with the larger population. And, rather often, we make our decisions based on the fact that we want the larger part of the users to be able to use CrowdSec on a daily basis without inducing unnecessary complexity. It reflects a lot of technical choices we are making, from the libraries we are choosing, to the attention we're bringing to observability or even parsers/scenarios syntax. It should as well be noted, that there is *no* dependence between CrowdSec and the central API mechanism: it is not required by CrowdSec to work, and data push & pull can be simply disabled. As true as it is when it comes to the open-source part that we are distributing to everyone, it is also true that we don't want to apply the same restrictions when it comes to the central decision making system and processes. This part is operated by us and us only, and we don't and won't compromise efficiency for simplicity. That is in part why we chose public cloud platform to build this part (AWS mostly as we speak), and we're taking a lot of tradeoffs for the sake of getting faster where we're aiming to be: a sensational reputation engine that will be able to compute and redistribute sighting to all the participants of the network. Maybe one day we'll discuss about redistributing this part, but this day is not in sight yet: we're making a lot of architectural changes on a nearly weekly/monthly basis, and attempting to open-source it will only increase the development cost while reducing our velocity, while most likely simply be a nightmare for anyone trying to operate it!

Comment Re:Reminiscent of the DEC Alpha (Score 2) 153

I assume you're talking about the AlphaStations (pizza boxes), since it would make zero sense to offer FX!32 on VMS.
The hardware architecture was pure Digital: no compatibility with other vendor's layouts. Daughter boards had to be designed for horizontal mounting, so only DEC boards could be used. The CD-ROM hardware was a disaster. I tried playing They Might Be Giants' "Apollo 18" in the manner suggested by the artists. It killed the drive. The local DEC office in Tucson was happy to help me replace it. They were the best field circus office in the US for a year.
When Microsoft killed Alpha/NT, it was the end of a career move for me. I was participating in the Oracle Rdb beta for NT at the time. It was obvious that Oracle knew much more than they were letting on, the software rusted until Microsoft took NT to the woodshed and shot it. No more Rdb/NT. "I coulda' been a kentender!" Instead we have mysql & postgres (although, in fairness, postgres is ok :)
NT/FX!32 was too slow to run Firefox, and I had to move back to Windows.
I met KO in the Tucson airport many years later. Recognizing his 6' frame as he was walking to the curb, I asked for his autograph; to which question I received the answer "why?"
This world fucking sucks.

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