Because people don't know how things work, and treat the robots like oracles.
"But ChatGPT said..." is the new "I saw it on television, it must be true."

If you're not doing something like

< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-A-a-z-0-9 | head -c30

or some tool that does something similar, you already have problems.

My HR department emits a continuous stream of robot poop at us, it just seems equitable to return the favor.

Plain old faceplant failure.

If you want to troll, at least be entertaining.

The thing that makes this so utterly stupid is, "all resources" of what? That embedded system in the pregnancy tester that troll will never have a use for, or the huge distributed clusters they're not smart enough to know what to do with?

And I guess it also thinks operating systems should not use available resources?

Anyway, the story telling is good. History always is, but this is also useful for pointing out how contingent things like this are - if Theo hadn't mirrored early versions, or if Linus got possessive at the wrong time, something else may have ended up in the "Linux" niche.

Small actions can have major downstream effects, but you can't know in advance which ones matter. There are several different lessons in there, depending on what you want to focus on.

Robots have been clicking ads hosted in WP for decades now, it is high time content generation got some love.

We are well on our way to a human-free internet.

The UK engages in import/export, just like everyone else.

I suspect this is the beginning of the end for building your own rig for most folks.

Manufacturers prefer locked down, soldered RAM machines for obvious reasons. Microsoft would be happy with fewer, more predictable builds they could lean on people over. Businesses already mostly treat machines as "no user serviceable parts" inside.

That leaves gamers, nerds and hardware hobbyists (but I repeat myself).

Parts of the gamer segment can be peeled off in various ways. Nerds are forced to retreat to Ebay and other sources of trash hardware. Accessing anything of interest will require remote attestation support, and your machine is officially no longer your machine, you just get to pay for it. Anyone who complains gets a litany of "but you can still can have an AWS VM or Raspberry Pi, what's your problem?"

Broadcom found a great niche to run their game - virtualization is one of the harder foundational tools to move out from under. It is like they found a way to tax data center floor space.

But that only lasts until people can move. Long enough to earn Tan a really nice chunk of change, and probably also long enough to make VMWare a tiny niche player.

Eliminating jobs that can be done automatically IS "real money on the table" to company shareholders. Will AI replace these jobs? You bet your ass they will. The West is not prepared for the impact AI is having on employment, and will continue to have for decades to come. Some people are burying their heads, but it won't save them. Entire fields that used to be good paying professional work are quickly becoming something a glorified script can handle with minimal input.

Gosh, maybe somebody should have thought about the poor public house before destroying the economy and telling the rest of the world to fuck off.

It turns out if everyone hates each other and is poor, they don't hang out in bars much.

Oh well. Maybe if they turn the island into an even poorer, meaner place, the good times will come back.

Some of us are kind of doing that already by running old OS's in VirtualBox, and then running old but useful abandonware for personal tasks on those OS's. It's pretty fun and there's an ocean of useful and interesting software out there.... especially from the 90's. You just have to be careful about where you get it from to avoid the malware aspect. But there are some reliable sites. And it's pretty fascinating using software that my dad used. We're definitely in a weird time.

I wonder how this is going to interact with publicity rights/privacy rights laws in various places.

Maybe I should start running my own pet robot Zuckerberg. He'd totally not mind at all, right?

Red states are welfare queens.

Start by making them pull their own weight.

The next step is encouraging bottom-up independence. Pro-feudal Republicans want dependency. This is one of the reasons they fight universal health care - keeping insurance tied to employment suppresses business formation by keeping a lot of people tied to their job because of risk.

Eventually opinions and expectations shift.

In the mean time, keep pointing how how Republicans are ruining their grandkids' lives, leaving them poorer, less educated, and sicker.

Giving in is interpreted as choosing to become a vassal. He thinks he owns you after that, and will keep coming back for more.

Respond to a fascist with a fist or you will be owned by them. Your choice.

Corporation? Our own government the last 5 years or so took the position that every kid should learn to code, because there was no future in things like, oh, honest manual work. AI has fucked the assumptions of everyone from the halls of Congress all the way to Silicon Valley.

I mean, you're right that they chronically produce insecure code.

I just think the cause is a bit different.

They have this habit of making everything as general as possible without thinking through the implications, while trying to "extend" anything they didn't make. So you end up with a generic URL parsing library that will happily launch installers from a text file in Notepad and similar nonsensical capabilities nobody in their right mind would intentionally use. Software for Martians, borne out of naive assumptions I doubt they even notice they've made most of the time.

And there's never been benevolent dictator with taste there, so it isn't like Apple's backsliding. Microsoft has always been like this and has no financial reason to try to do better, and even if they did, they don't know what "better" looks like. Except, perhaps, when coveting someone else's monopoly.