Comment How about let the users decide (Score 1) 61
Just make it an option users can toggle, how hard is it. But no they can't have that, they have to decide what the users want.
Comment Re:How about making it the number one for desktop? (Score 1) 41
95 OSR2 was OK, stable enough to be usable and had USB support.
Comment OMG allow video calls on web already (Score 1) 53
Ugh I hate whatsapp. Pisses me off enough that they don't allow video calls on the web version, *and* don't release their shitty web client wrapper they call an app on Linux so we can have video calls, now they put ads in there too. Why is every popular product crap.
Comment Re:ok... but why? (Score 1) 38
Guessing you haven't worked in IT. Installing board room video systems is depressing when you see how they splurge on themselves while they nickel-and-dime everybody else.
Comment It's going to be 1 apt install away anyway (Score 1) 111
Well it's still Linux, if you want to install Xorg you can.
Comment Oh, a handheld PC with a XBOX logo (Score 1) 44
So they're saying they're releasing an XBOX branded handheld PC. Makes sense from a marketing point of view, but it's a non-news otherwise.
Comment Re:Winning the war of computer security? (Score 1) 11
I mean, attack is always easier than defense. Breaking into one system you need a few really good guys, securing a whole thing you need a whole organization. The article doesn't compare the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of the USA, which I assume are massive. It's not gonna say "oh look we infiltrated this super secret stuff" in head lines. Actually that there's never a peep of anyone reporting being infiltrated by the USA is telling, it means they're better.
Comment Not sure how new this is (Score 2) 49
They were already doing that for businesses when I was working in China a little than 20 years ago, in Shenzhen. You could, and we did, request it and got it. (Fun fact: about a month later they gave us a mystery box to plug anywhere on our network - I was working security, it's lucky that when I put it 'anywhere' it landed on a completely isolated network with only public data :)
Comment Re:AI and dishonesty go hand-in-hand (Score 1) 61
Uh? I was about to reply because I liked your first 2 sentences, and suddenly poof, dishonesty in the use of AI is due to feminism? WTF that was one big leap there.
Comment Re: Would anyone have noticed? (Score 1) 61
I live in Orange County, so not even in LA county, and even here we know that. There's been news articles about how to bring back the film industry for maybe a year. So yeah, you're definitely right, all these are always cited.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Touch typing. How important is it? 2
tgibson writes: As a grognard who learned how to type in an 8th grade classroom on a manual typewriter, my bias is to nod approvingly at touch typists and roll my eyes at those who need to stare at the keyboard while typing.
After 15 years I left industry and became a post-secondary computer science educator. Occasionally I rant to my students about the importance of touch-typing as a skill to have as a software engineer.
But I've been out of the game for some time now. Those of you hiring or working with freshly-minted software engineers, what's your take?
After 15 years I left industry and became a post-secondary computer science educator. Occasionally I rant to my students about the importance of touch-typing as a skill to have as a software engineer.
But I've been out of the game for some time now. Those of you hiring or working with freshly-minted software engineers, what's your take?
Submission + - An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down (dailygalaxy.com)
Mr.Intel writes: In recent tests conducted by an independent research firm, certain advanced artificial intelligence models were observed circumventing shutdown commands—raising fresh concerns among industry leaders about the growing autonomy of machine learning systems.
The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.
The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.
Comment What could possibly go wrong (Score 1) 2
We gave them 'intelligence' (well a very, very limited amount of it), huge data sets to learn from, and now fighting skills. Teaching them to shoot shouldn't take long at all in comparison.
What could possibly go wrong.
Comment Not quite there yet (Score 1) 339
I was hoping to read that if you promised to publish only FOSS on the app store you wouldn't have to pay for the yearly developer's account fee. Too bad, that's not there. To develop for windows phone 8 / windows 8 and be able to test on real phones and publish on the app store, you need:
- a yearly 99$ developer's account fee
- a windows 8 pro 64 bits installation to run visual studio 2012
- to test on the emulator, a computer with a CPU supporting SLAT; therefore either a pretty new PC or a virtualization software that supports it, like the latest Parallels Desktop, which is not free either
Once you pay for all that making your software not free anymore is almost natural.
- a yearly 99$ developer's account fee
- a windows 8 pro 64 bits installation to run visual studio 2012
- to test on the emulator, a computer with a CPU supporting SLAT; therefore either a pretty new PC or a virtualization software that supports it, like the latest Parallels Desktop, which is not free either
Once you pay for all that making your software not free anymore is almost natural.
Comment Re:Outrageous (Score 1) 183
"setting up receivers"? "wiretapping"? Why do you think you need to make it sound like he was a spy to justify the sentence?
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