Comment How specifically could AI kill all humans? (Score 5, Insightful) 129
Let's be more specific about how and why this could happen? What scenarios could lead to the total destruction of mankind?
Comment Re:Pull out the screwdriver (Score 1) 123
That job is several years behind me now.
Also, the people that do give a shit sometimes can't help themselves. The wireless has become such a basic part it started becoming difficult to buy a decent sized screen without it. Sure, there are REAL monitors of a large size out there, but they tend to be several thousand more than a similarly spec'd tv with wifi.
Comment Pull out the screwdriver (Score 4, Interesting) 123
I have taken apart dozens of TVs to remove the wifi. It is usually quite trivial. Even in the unlikely event that the wifi logic board is not separate, the antennae are quite obvious and a quick snip will make them useless.
Comment Re: It's about destroying privacy and security (Score 1) 80
It has happened under both.
Comment Re: Oh goody (Score 0) 118
Free speech includes lying.
Comment Employment is voluntary and based on value (Score 0) 81
Merit should always consider strictly value.
Comment Re: Why do we care? (Score 0) 176
The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.
Comment Re:Why do we care? (Score 0) 176
Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.
Comment I've seen this before (Score 1) 37
Comment lol statism ai the cause of monopolies (Score 0) 39
Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.
Comment Re: I don't want billionaires to pay their fair sh (Score -1) 295
Statism creates billionaires.
Comment Where did this come from? (Score 1) 25
Ok so I understand that they bought up Morpheus a while back, and it does some fantastic things with current state of virtualization with all the terraform and container tools that one could want...
But where did the underlying bare metal hypervisor come from? Is it BSD based so that it can be commercialized fully? Is it a significant enhancement over ZenServer? One doesn't usually just poof a new bare metal hypervisor out of nowhere.
Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork (linuxiac.com) 57
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:
The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut's CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he objected to LLM-assisted development in Vim and Neovim. In his announcement, DeVault said he no longer wanted to use software developed with LLM assistance and introduced Vim Classic as a fork for users who want to continue using Vim without that involvement... Vim Classic follows Vim's charityware model and continues to direct users toward Bram Moolenaar's long-running support for children in Uganda. The release is distributed as a signed source tarball from SourceHut, while future important announcements are expected through the project's mailing list.
"Vim is important to me..." DeVault wrote in March. (DeVault even tattooed "hjkl" on his right arm.) "[A]lmost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I've written, emails I've sent, and more, almost all of it has passed through Vim."
But DeVault wrote that he also cares about AI's impact on air pollution, fresh water supplies, global supply chains, and the working conditions of miners in African companies: And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world's total energy production in order to eliminate jobs and replace them with a robot that lies... All this to enrich the few, centralize power, reduce competition, and underwrite an enormous bubble that, once it bursts, will ruin the lives of millions of the world's poor and marginalized classes.
I don't think it's cute that someone vibe coded "battleship" in VimScript. I think it's more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don't understand how awful all of this is. I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software... To keep my conscience clear, and continue to enjoy the relationship I have with this amazing piece of software, I have forked Vim...
Since forking from this base, I have backported a handful of patches, most of which address CVEs discovered after this release, but others which address minor bug fixes. I also penned a handful of original patches which bring the codebase from this time up to snuff for building it on newer toolchains...
I invite you to use Vim Classic, if you feel the same way as me, and to maintain it with me, contributing the patches you need to support your own use cases.
"Vim is important to me..." DeVault wrote in March. (DeVault even tattooed "hjkl" on his right arm.) "[A]lmost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I've written, emails I've sent, and more, almost all of it has passed through Vim."
But DeVault wrote that he also cares about AI's impact on air pollution, fresh water supplies, global supply chains, and the working conditions of miners in African companies: And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world's total energy production in order to eliminate jobs and replace them with a robot that lies... All this to enrich the few, centralize power, reduce competition, and underwrite an enormous bubble that, once it bursts, will ruin the lives of millions of the world's poor and marginalized classes.
I don't think it's cute that someone vibe coded "battleship" in VimScript. I think it's more important that we stop collectively pretending that we don't understand how awful all of this is. I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software... To keep my conscience clear, and continue to enjoy the relationship I have with this amazing piece of software, I have forked Vim...
Since forking from this base, I have backported a handful of patches, most of which address CVEs discovered after this release, but others which address minor bug fixes. I also penned a handful of original patches which bring the codebase from this time up to snuff for building it on newer toolchains...
I invite you to use Vim Classic, if you feel the same way as me, and to maintain it with me, contributing the patches you need to support your own use cases.
Comment New admins (Score 3, Interesting) 27
The new admins don't know how to maintain a simple file server anymore.
They can vibe code something else to use the power though.
Comment Big Picture (Score 2) 109
Sure. One machine is compromised, in the MS engineers' heads.
The trouble is now there is a standardized, repeatable location and methodology that can be used to now get ALL the passwords ever typed into edge. Suddenly the text file sitting on my desktop named nextcomputerbuild.txt is a significantly less likely to be directly targeted by bad actors.
They need to think through - yup machine is hosed. Oh well...should have had better antivirus.... and eventually get to the point of realizing ermagerd now my bank accounts and investment accounts are emptied out and being used to fund terrorism.
