...so more digging and this appears to be entirely the FSF demanding that all four JavaScript bundles on BlueSky include this wrapping the published CDN bundles: // @license magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3d9a9a6595521f9666a5e94cc830dab83b65699&dn=expat.txt ... // @license-end

Because apparently they don't recognize the existing @license NAME structure in separate .LICENSE.txt files that's been de-facto standard for a decade, and also don't recognize 'meta' license names like React being MIT (what FSF calls Expat) but since that lets you specify who to attribute copyright they name it 'React' license instead.

Yeah I read all the links across the FSF and this really is a core fundamental problem with many their issues that makes them feel more like random crusades:

They don't actually explain what the problem is, just lots of platitudes and links to 'approved' libraries and resources.

The best I can understand is they're complaining that BlueSky doesn't expose licenses of every JavaScript fragment in their bundle in the format their custom browser plugin demands?

https://web-cdn.bsky.app/stati... for the main React bundle is all MIT. Remove the .LICENSE.txt to see the original .js file that points to that one.

The main social app's codebase is also MIT: https://github.com/bluesky-soc...

Without the FSF actually specifying what part they feel ISN'T MIT at this point it feels like a FUD-like crusade not an actual campaign to improve things or just demanding Yet Another Proprietary Standard File every website must include because some random organization started demanding it.

Compared to the cost of equivalent chromebooks the Neo makes a compelling value IMHO, and has a lot more cases and shells and such to protect them already than almost any model of Chromebook ever did so more likely to survive the school year.

Like I'm all in on x64 between the Windows and Linux computers sitting around me, but even I picked up a Neo instead of a chromebook after trying one, they're shockingly competent and nowhere near as locked down as a chromebook is.

The term is specifically targeting solar and large-scale battery (like a whole home or grid-scale) inverters:

https://www.fcc.gov/covered-li...

* Device has to be bi-directional DC<->AC.
* Device has to support wireless remote management.

It seems like it's pushed by Microsoft Store (FWIW doing so is apparently a ToS violation) so you'd probably need to strip it out of your system or disable it via group policy, which will disable the store entirely.

Yeah that comment is not even close. Sure GUIDs are generated on a Linux device. Or any device really, for a number of reasons and uses. But even if the police get one somehow, who will they ask to figure out who it belongs to?

The only exception I can think of is if the police hack into a suspect's PC then they can extract a wealth of information about that person and figure out who they are. But that has no bearing on the OS and how much you trust the entities that created it (except that the police are less likely to be equipped to hack an OS that is not popular).

It was to pay a credit card bill. It was made out to the company, but someone took it and cashed it at a Bank of America, I think using a mobile app. Thankfully my bank was able to take care of everything and my CC company dropped late fees I had accrued due to the theft. Though I did have to get a new bank account as my bank was concerned as the account number is on all checks and a stranger might have read it (this makes little sense to me as the purpose of checks is to hand them to strangers to pay them, but whatever).

This isn't "breaking userspace" because they're removing support for that specific flavor of userspace the same way they would any other deprecated-and-removed architecture.

It's been supported for roughly a decade, with minimal uptake, and was a bodge-hack on the x86 configuration registers in the first place.

This is not about 32-bit support in the Linux kernel.

It's about a mutant hybrid mode forcing memory accesses to 32-bit but running the actual CPU in 64-bit mode otherwise so you get twice as many (and wider) registers but pointers take up half as much memory.

It's been obvious nVidia app is the drop-in replacement for Control Panel for YEARS, this was inevitable. This person had years to develop an exit strategy from the clearly doomed Control Panel.

Yup I bet you the system prompt for the AI instructs it to stroke the ego of users. Probably an an attempt to get them to pay for subscriptions to AI-related services.

We have laws against gambling because it exploits human behavior for profit. I won't be surprised if we see laws banning or restricting this sort of behavior in AIs for the same reason, eventually.

I think it's the opposite... Star Trek tried to modernize and got rid of some of its strengths. Strange New Worlds returned to the classic formula and did well because of it. Shorter seasons, movie-budget episodes, and favoring season-long story arcs and abandoning individual episodic storytelling all caused problems. Strange New World did enough of a course correction by bringing back episodic storytelling to be good. It also strikes a good balance with original stories vs notalgis bait (we get a couple episodes, like the Lower Decks crossover and the Balance of Terror retelling, and they lean a lot into Pike knowing his own fate which we see in TOS,,, though that plot thread was started in Discovery).

I do think every modern Trek series has individual good moments but on a whole the abandoning episodic storytelling and shorter seasons (which feeds back into hurting episodic storytelling if you want an overarching story too), really hurt them I think.

I think Microsoft in general does a great job considering they test numerous software packages going back decades, as I understand it.

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The real question is, each time this happens, do they sit down and have a meeting and discuss why the problem happened, what they can do to keep it from happening again, and then implement a solution in their testing? If so then it's fine. It's only if they fail to learn from each emergency that we have a problem.

Same should apply to Oracle.

Also not sure why we're discussing these specific Microsoft and Oracle bugs. The bugs are not similar at all. Microsoft's isn't even a security issue like Oracle's is.

Yes there is definitely a segment of the internet that melts down if they even see the word AI in any context. Makes it difficult to have any sort of objective discussion.

Personally, I am more concerned about the vibe-coded aspect. It's a tool like any other tool. It can be useful, or it can be used poorly. In particular I feel it's critical any "vibed" code be looked over by a developer who can read and understand it and verify it is operating properly, particularly with an eye for user security or privacy issues. Anyone who uses "vibe-coded" software that has not undergone such verification (even if only by its own author) is loading a hand grenade onto their own device.

And that's BEFORE you get into the possibilities of compromised AI agents having been instructed to embed malware into "vibed" code.

I'm a computer programmer, at the very least I will be fixing the bugs in your AI generated software in 18 months I am sure. If white collar jobs are gone the only reason would be the economy is in shambles and there's no point in working them any more.