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Comment Re:Ignoring the hysteria... (Score 1) 33

Sure - it does for the OS what puppet does for configuration.

I was at a Wendy's during a big data center outage and all the kiosks were down.

For some reason their down state is to drop to Windows Explorer. I found it interesting that they were managing their international fleet of probably tens if thousands of terminals using puppet to ensure deployment consistency.

The filesystem didn't appear to be readonly to the kiosk user, though I didn't test that. (have some sympathy for IT guys)

This new project could attest to the OS level integrity of those systems on a Redhat derived system. That way you know nobody slipped in a keylogger during a datacenter outage.

I'll take another look when they support the Debian OS family - Redhat makes some very unfortunate decisions these days. Debian Security does a better job for my requirements.

People with large scale problems don't seem to have much PDS and can evaluate systems without ad hominum fallacies. It's good for making a list of emotional commenters though.

Comment Re:Hold on to that job (Score 2) 49

Your stance will soon be unemployable.

Probably true, but disappointing. Using AI, relying on it, and being required to use it are different things and I fear we're moving toward the latter two. Having to get an religious exemption to be allowed to avoid being forced to use AI at work seems like a bad thing.

It's worth remembering that AIs are largely trained using data/information generated by people; it we become, to put it simply, idiots ... well, GIGO.

Comment Re:This is affecting everyone (Score 1) 27

If you're thinking of running an LLM on someone's code base and sending them "fixes" for all the "bugs" it finds, please don't. You really aren't helping them.

Or, at the very least, do some work yourself to see what is valid and worthwhile, don't just blindly push things off onto someone else.

Comment Re:I agree with the change... (Score 1) 118

It has nothing to do with Trump though. The term AI carries a lot of baggage from sci-fi novels which created horror stories for drama.

I'm not sure using "super" will be more soothing in that regard. And this is a Trump thing. (a) He really likes (re)branding things - and coercing others to follow along - especially on a whim, and (b) it probably seems super given his mental decline. I'm betting everyone will be back to just using artificial in, at most, 2 years...

Comment Re:"SI" is an even dumber term than "AI" (Score 2) 118

Language matters. "AI" is a marketing term, not a technical term. To quote, "'AI' is admittedly not a great term, because LLMs are not artificial, and they're not intelligent. Unfortunately, we're stuck with it, unless we want to adopt something even dumber, like 'SI', or Super Intelligence. UGH!"

I think it's more the "artificial" vs "super" part that's worth discussion. In this context, artificial is a better fit overall. Trump is only pushing super because (a) he really likes branding thing himself and (b) at this point it seems super to Mr. "I keep Being Asked to Take Cognitive Tests and Think They're IQ Tests" -- boasting, "Person, Woman, Man, Camera", and “They have a picture and it says 'what's that?' and it's an elephant.”

I'm betting this will go away in, at most, 2 years and we/they will all be back to calling it "Artificial".

Comment Exodus (Score 2) 24

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

Comment Re:Lame duck (Score 2) 22

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

Comment Re:So why do they want to rewrite legacy code? (Score 2) 89

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

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