It's possible TFS is over-simplifying the design of the new system, but - why no ssh and no package manager? Why not make the underlying OS signed and immutable, but still allow stuff to be added / saved / deleted in userland? I'd think that would make for a significantly more user-friendly system with arguably only small security tradeoffs.

Sort of a cross between SELinux and macOS' security model, I suppose (and really Leonnart's ideas always seem to be riffs off macOS anyway).

Correction: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danya_Ruttenberg Ruttenberg is no longer affiliated with the Conservative movement, and it seems she does not have a specific movement she is connected to right now.

Danya Ruttenberg, a prominent Conservative Rabbi wrote a detailed piece arguing that Jews should ask for exemptions from using AI https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-case-for-ai-work-exemptions/. I found both the halachic (Jewish law) reasoning and elements of how American secular law handles such exemptions to be unconvincing. (I've sent Rabbi Ruttenberg's piece to a bunch of people as one of the better arguments for a moral problem with using AI in general, even as I find it unconvincing.) But it is notable there's a trend here. It will be interesting to see if any Christian clergy try to make a similar argument.

"To a programmer, not a user. And the firmware in such devices is rarely user upgradable."

Perhaps you look up to anyone who can press a pushbutton or flip a switch to be a "programmer", but I don't.

I recall our software used in industrial equipment having to be configured for such a situation.

So, it wouldn't have to be replaced, as you claimed.

"The real problem with blankets is how, in the middle of the night, they somehow magically move completely over to the woman's side of the bed without her being responsible for it at all."

Wait for menopause, then they move in the opposite direction.

>Since the 1980s, and possibly earlier, our electronic clocks have been building DST changes into the hardware. Generations of electronics needs to be replaced first.

If that were true (and it isn't), anything made before 2007 would already be obsolete. That's when the most recent change to DST start/end dates was made. I have a couple of clocks which accommodate DST, but it's just a simple on/off switch.

Do you think they sell electronic clocks made specifically for Arizona, or other areas which don't use DST?

Super Intelligence II Turbo Pro Max (Apple Edition)

I agree with you. Unfortunately, the same can be said for the current government of my own United States.

For example: everyone is always in favor of saving Hitler's Brain. But put it in a Great White Shark? Oh, SUDDENLY you have gone TOO FAR...

- Professor Farnsworth

Hey, you can still use the term "SI"... just have it represent "Slop Intelligence".

You had your own socks? Boy, you were lucky. I had to share a single pair of socks with my nine brothers and sisters.

It also depends what AI is used for.

AI can be used for so many aspects but not all of it would warrant disclosure. Maybe it was used to generate an outline for a story, which was then fleshed out by a human writer to produce the story and plot.

Or maybe it was used to create a game prototype to see if some concept was "fun". Maybe some new game mechanic or something to see if it integrates well in the world. If they prove successful then the code was re-written by programmers to integrate into the final game.

Or used to develop test textures used to create initial maps to test them out, then artists designed the final textures.

For those, AI was used, but it was just used to test concepts and storylines and other things to see if it would work, and likely those are AI uses most people wouldn't mind.

But if AI was used in place of artists, writers, creatives or programmers in producing the final product you purchase, then that kind of disclosure would be warranted.

It's like people using AI on the Linux kernel. Most people wouldn't have an issue with AI being used for the code reviews of patches. It gets a lot muddier when it's used to create those patches though.

In the PC era with 80 column screens, a full 80x24 screen (PC screens were 80x25 but the last line was almost always a status line and unusable) is just under 4000 bytes (3920 to be exact - 80x25 is 4000). It's why you needed 8K for full screen text 80x25 for characters and 80x25 for attributes (color - 4 bits, blink, underline, etc).

The biggest problem with ANSI art though was corruption - some line noise or an overflowing UART would instantly corrupt it especially at the fancier levels when people had 14.4kbps or faster modems. Nothing worse than having a burst of line noise or something corrupt some multi-screen login art. Especially because it 3was sent without error correction.

Relax; he was merely making an observation.

Computers did not, steam engine did not, cars did not.

I don't think you are right about that. They've all caused absolutely massive changes. Steam engines drove the industrial revolution.