I don't think you understand how cheap these models are.

Combined with the low token usage compared to normal coding, it's a total non-issue. I'll pay for any major OSS project's token usage for project management myself if they ask, that's how little it is.

They messed up and accidentally used correct units (KWh) once in TFS.

Also, handling bug reports / patch review is far less token-intensive than coding as well. It's really hard to compete with coding when it comes to token consumption.

Unless there is a big increase in funding across the board, how do you expect "most OSS projects" will pay for the bottomless bucket of tokens necessary to have "AI" handle project management, bug reports, patch review, etc etc?

Deepseek 4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 Flash, Muse Ember, Claude 5.5 Haiku, GPT 5.6 Luna, MiMo V2.6 Flash (or even MiMo V2.6 Pro), etc.

You don't need to use, say, Fable or Astra to handle bug reports :P

... but if you don't incorporate AI into your project manage system, you're going to get swamped by it all. AI needs to also handle the first-tier of bug reports, patch submissions, and feature requests - reviewing them, evaluating them within the project goals, filtering out or improving submissions with issues, seeking and taking into account user feedback on controversial issues, etc. The limited human hours that most OSS projects have need to be insulated from the deluge, leaving them to focus on the high-level decisions, with content that they receive to consider being pre-reviewed and pre-considered for suitability to the project.

Otherwise, I don't see how most OSS projects can deal with this in the age of AI. Unless there's going to be some big increase in funding from somewhere?

Let's hope rhey know where the Hams are who have all kinds of thin wire hung up in their trees.

And they stay out of their private airspace.

> Why disgruntled though

This person participated in the bug bounty program and Microsoft refused to pay the bounties on reported bugs. Many news stories covered the situation.

The reported bugs in Defender got CVE's and emergency updates.

Now she's on a mission.

A few tens of thousands of dollars was the cost of avoiding all this.

Correct, but Huang is a also a huge proponent of democratized open source access to AI systems which directly threaten the business potential of large proprietary models.

Expect regulators to try to shut down Huggingface on "national security" grounds soon.

Anthropic thinks their prompts are worth $2T and DoW thinks Claude is good at picking civilian targets for missile strikes.

The only "evidence" against Huang right now is four anonymous Intelligence sources to NYT et. al.. Being a dirty dog doesn't take down a megacorp CEO - unfortunately it's the norm.

Under Michael Yon's model the main geopolitical competition of current day is Han vs. Zion so all this makes sense through that lens.

I'm with the decentralization of power crowd, whichever ethnicity is promoting it this week. Centralization of power always leads to Death Cults.

Interesting.

I didn't consider an inside job before knowing fifty bills were on the table.

The Twin Towers guy only got fourteen bills IIRC.

yeah, I'm sure they were doing updates on the FAA core routers during the busiest part od the travel week, pushing to prod just before the weekend, and at Market close.

C'mon.

Yeah, yeah, they don't want to scare people or admit weakness.

It would be especially odd if this Administration told the truth today for the first time.

Thankfully this turned out to be one-and-done. I totally understand the motivations but I still have stuff to do before the big one.

Somebody online said Chicago start announcing prefixes on the L3Harris net that didn't belong to them.

True? dunno. "developing..."

You log into your Chromebook wirh your .edu account and it disables search for anyone in the org.

Somebody pointed out here last time that if you append &utm=15 or something to the URL it goes back to the old Search.

So it sounds like they're making a huge lie of omission.

What's sad is they could use an LLM to teach Socratically with any search terms but they want so badly to suppress critical thinking and shove "alignment" down kids' throats that they are being belligerent.

The dont-be-evil era company would be making the best teaching Search.

It's a huge market void for someone with more time than I have right now.

What's the best search for error logs these days?

DDG is almost useless.

Google parses and looks up hex codes for you with a cursory explanation.

Its conclusions are often wrong but good enough to point me at the right spec to figure out a bluetooth proxy problem recently.

Though realistically, because 240Pu (from waste) is worse in a fission bomb than 239Pu - generally no more than ~20kT, and challenging to get more than a few kT - still enough to take out a city centre but not a metro area - you'll generally want a fusion weapon, which means deuterium and tritium supplies. And Ukraine doesn't run CANDUs, so you're not going to get tritium from the coolant. They'd need lithium targets / lithium in the coolant to breed tritium. Separation of tritium and deuterium are a mix of chemical, electrochemical, and/or physical separation, but are much easier than uranium isotopic separation (deuterium is double the mass of protium, and tritum triple the mass, so the chemical / electrochemical behavior is actually notably different in a lot of situations, unlike uranium).

For a fusion bomb they'd also want a depleted uranium tamper, but Ukraine probably has ample access to that, whether from weapons, armour, old Soviet stocks, etc. Even spent nuclear fuel is mostly 238U, if they don't mind the tamper being highly radioactive.

My personal best guess would be that Ukraine's unstated policy is to have "sprint capacity", like Japan and South Korea do. That is, to not make weapons or anything that would get them flagged as having a weapons programme, but to have everything needed that, if the word "Go" was given, that they could nuclearize very quickly.

Unlike your typical rogue state that seeks to get nuclear weapons, Ukraine has no need for mass centrifuge facilities or anything like that. They already have plutonium en masse, as they're a major nuclear power generation state with extensive waste supplies. Plutonium extraction via PUREX is merely metallurgy (it's not a simple metal to work with, but it doesn't require isotopic enrichment). You need nitric acid (bog standard, nobody will blink an eye), a reducing agent like ferrous sulfamate (not much of a red flag, it has tons of uses), and an organic solvent like tributyl phosphate (a little bit of a red flag, but it has other uses, and there are alternatives), and a bit of gallium (~1%) for alloying - not a problem. Ukraine could very readily have all of this on-hand, an underground lab ready to go, and a rolodex of people to staff it if the order is given. They'd need high explosives like PBXs or TATB, but nobody would blink an eye at Ukraine buying them. High speed switches for the detonators used to be a big red flag item, but today they increasingly overlap with power electronics for motors and power grids. You need neutron initiators, but there's a number of options for that. And running bomb physics simulations and doing small component tests is something they could easily have under the radar - if they don't outright have old Soviet design plans dusted off and ready to go.

The biggest red flag would be Ukraine inexplicably removing nuclear waste (for processing) and/or trying to defeat IAEA monitoring, so that would likely be not done unless nuclear tensions looked severe. Because if it looks like you're sprinting to a nuclear weapon, it increases the odds of a preemptive nuclear strike against you.