It's really not the same thing. See my other post https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23961458&cid=66085502
I don't know how it will work with all the different firewalling options, etc., with Linux, but that's what makes it special for macOS (which comes with lsof, tcpdump, etc.)
It's really nice software. You don't just get a visualization of current connections, you can get popup of new notifications AND the option to set up incoming/outgoing rules. Something like "Firefox is attempting to access slashdot.org port 443:
Allow Once
Allow Firefox to connect to slashdot.org port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server, any port any time
Deny Firefox all connections
When I got my first Mac laptop, around 2004, Little Snitch was one of the first pieces of software I bought. One of the nice things about the Mac at the time (and historically through OS 7 / 8 / 9 days) was there was a very strong small developer writing shareware culture. That's disappeared a bit more recently (in large part due to the rise of open source, Linux ecosystems, and so forth), but Little Snitch is still great. Another example, Adium remains one of the best chat clients I've ever used. BBEdit is very solid text editor that goes back to 1992! Etc.
That's the part that perplexes me. I can't say I have followed the Vision Pro that closely recently, but at least in the early days, it was very locked down. There are large parts of the system (sensors) that I understand are still not accessible to 3rd party apps. I remember reading several VR developers who were trying to port software from the Quest to AVP and simply couldn't.
To me it would have made sense to open it up entirely. Porn, video games, emulators, whatever!
Are you unsure what "agentic" means? Generically, agency means, more or less, being able to do things. An agentic AI program (ChatGPT in agentic mode, OpenClaw, Claude code) can take actions without being controlled by humans. This is also sometimes called an autonomous agent, but "agentic" has become the dominant term over last year or two.
If you were to try something like Claude code, for example, you would see that it can run shell commands, grep through a source tree, edit files, run git commands, compile, execute, review output, edit code, compile again, etc.
Your post is confused as it assumes that LLMs looking for security vulnerabilities are -- in your words -- "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough. (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail."
That is false. The LLM models in an agentic system are doing more than just looking for "defective code patterns."
LLMs can perform source code level analysis, but they can also, in agentic mode, run fuzzing tools, scan for open ports, write a custom program to attempt to fuzz or exploit an open port, review the output, modify the code to try again, compile, repeat, and so forth. Multiple instances of agentic AIs can do this for many hours and more.
As I've said multiple times before Gweihir, I really don't know if you're trolling or not. You've seemed at least somewhat informed before, so I'm really surprised you didn't know what agentic means, or what has been possible with these tools. ChatGPT agent mode has been out for about a year, and Claude code for a bit longer.
VisionOS 26.4 added support for foveated streaming. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple and Steam have been working together on this.
Then again, Apple's treatment of the Vision Pro perplexes me, so who knows what Apple is doing there...
Nice to know that Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't know what's talking about--you should let him know that you've cracked that nut, since he is actively working on understanding the situation.
I would restrict that even further to "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough". (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail.) That is useful, but it is not a game-changer for the defenders.
That is not an accurate statement. The current round of discussions are centered around projects that in large part are agentic. Source code analysis is only one of the detection methods that is being used.
Disregarding the furthest extreme radicals on any side of a philosophical debate may generally be a good thing! Though, to be fair, sometimes it is the radical extremists that drive things forawrd. Kind of like the Overton Window..
Look, it's not complicated. Disregard everything that Sam Altman says. Disregard both the furthest extremes of the "AGI is here and sentient" / "LLMs are Godlike!" and the "LLMs are trash that are not useful and aren't going to improve and are a passing fad" (gweihir). All of the above are not insightful.
Everything has changed. ChatGPT-3 was released in 2022. Everything HAS changed since then, and LLM technology and models have improved dramatically in the last 4 years. Why would you not expect statements like "that used to be true, but not anymore" to be problematic? Humans couldn't fly, until they we could. We couldn't visit the moon, until we could. Changing your baseline assumptions is part of human progress.
Where exactly does supporting 3 people on $133k/year count as 'upper middle class'?
That's not what TFA said. It said "a family of three." That would, on the average, be 2 adults and a child. Two incomes, one dependent. Maybe that's what you're saying, but "supporting 3 people" makes it seem like you're talking about dependents.
Hah! It's so beautiful...
You can experience over 40 years of UI design differences in Windows still, today: UI dialog panels from 3.1 days still exist in the latest Windows builds, and everything in between.
Not doubting this, but are there really 3.1 dialogs? I can think of multiple control panels and other screens that haven't seen much change since NT4, but my memories of 3.1 dialogs are getting hazy at this point!
"Overall experience" is also nonsense - most people don't have the capability or wherewithal to switch. They use what is given to them, and have only mild preference in that they want it to work for what they're doing. Nowadays, that means "a web browser" for well over 50% of all users being the primary requirement, if not the exclusive one.
Yes! I get the feeling there are more than a few people on Slashdot (and elsewhere) that just don't get this. Over the last few years I've had multiple Gen Z coworkers for whom installing the desktop version of MS Office is _literally_ the first software they have installed outside of a mobile app store.
sounds like you're talking about the USA, which doesn't really have a left. Just center-right.
left groups across the ocean are very much alive and still anti-establishment.
This whole thing was the exact plot of Altered Carbon (the TV programme and the books)
I have a distant family connection to Santa Fe and have visited a number of times. Lovely place.
What always strikes me is the history of the city and region. Founded in 1610, it's one of the earliest European cities in the Americas.
When reading the history of American Indian sites, so many of them prospered at times for decades (or more) and then declined with ecological shifts, i.e., droughts. The greater regional area had a population in the thousands or tens of thousands at most, and that fluctuated widely. The population of Santa Fe was as low as 5,000 people at the start of the 20th century. It was a small place! But, that's probably, realistically, a lot closer to the actual carrying capacity of the land.
Desert. Too many people. Not enough water.
Something has to give!
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
