Coxon has never had an actual job. He is a "researcher" in his mid-20s whose only two jobs have been at OpenAI and Anthropic, in both cases at the bottom rung of the totem pole.

These are the only two jobs he has ever held. He has never used these technologies in the real world.

He has never seen how incredibly limited they are at performing even the most basic of tasks due to their limitations.

He is not speaking from a position of any kind of authority or even specialized knowledge.

He is a nobody.

Not quite. The safe c library is primarily about runtime memory safety checks which are a good thing. But rust is also about compile time enforcement of memory safety. This is not something you can get from a library for an existing language like C. That's not to say you couldn't make a C dialect that had rust-like guarantees.

No, strange glitch on my end... I swear your original post used "sill working" and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what you meant. No trace of that now so I can't explain where that came from!

Considering Fedora on an LTS server is an interesting choice, to say the least.

While I think replacing coreutils with uutils is pointless and a waste of precious resources, I don't think it would influence my choice of server distros. Especially if it's 99% compatible I doubt you'd ever know if you hadn't read this slashdot article.

No I don't believe it ever did. The POSIX standard defined the behavior of > to truncate immediately decades ago, for particular reasons including proper error handling. I can find no evidence it was ever like that before on Linux. Maybe you used a shell that was not POSIX compatible.

And besides all that, it has nothing to do with coreutils or their rust equivalent. It's a shell-enforced thing.

Certainly AI is a powerful tool for the CCP to continue to control what people think and how they think. This is no doubt why the CCP is encouraging an increase in AI development under their control. It's a seductively powerful tool. For the good of the people of course. Honestly makes me wonder if some of Trump's inner circle are thinking the same thing, although their actions in the Trump Iran war suggest they might not.

Timothy Zahn wrote some very thought-provoking and disturbing words about this years ago (despite the em dashes it is not AI-generated!):

"What sort of power?"

For the first time since landing, Thrawn seemed taken aback. "The conquering of worlds, of course. The final defeat of the Rebellion. The reestablishment of the glory that was once the Empire's New Order."

C'baoth shook his head. "You don't understand power, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Conquering worlds you'll never even visit again isn't power. Neither is destroying ships and people and rebellions you haven't looked at face-to-face." He waved his hands in a sweeping gesture around him, his eyes glittering with an eerie fire. "This, Grand Admiral Thrawn, is power. This city---this planet---these people. Every human, Psa-dan, and Myneyrsh who live here are mine. Mine."

And then later:

"I told him at the very beginning that true power didn't lie in the conquering of distant worlds. Or in battles and war and the crushing of faceless rebellions."

He smiled, his eyes glittering brightly in Covell's mind. "No, General Covell," he said softly. "This---this---is true power. Holding another's life in the palm of your hand. Having the power to choose his path, and his thoughts, and his feelings. To rule his life, and decree his death."

Unfortunately auto correct sabotaged your original post. Until this post I was wondering what you meant by "sill working."

The thing here is that there isn't "Apple". There is Apple-the-parent-company, and Apple UK. From the perspective of law, Apple-the-parent is a supplier to Apple UK. Apple UK will have been ordered not to disclose information, including its suppliers. Therefore nothing restricts Apple-the-parent other than its contract as a supplier to Apple UK.

Yes I'm aware that sounds odd, but I deal with these situations fairly regularly (although am not any form of lawyer, this is absolutely not legal advice etc.). Contracts between international entities are common, and Apple US would not be in breach of US law but would be in breach of contract and would place Apple UK in breach of UK law by doing so.

Am not taking the UK government's side on this - I personally think the order is nuts and yep, I'm British. I'm just trying to show why the relationship would be more complex. Legally Apple US could disclose of course. However I'll bet you it has a supplier contract with Apple UK, a legally distinct entity, that says something like "the terms of this agreement will be bound by UK law". Hence it would be in breach of contract, and that could place Apple UK at legal risk in the UK.

Did some reading off the back of your comment and yep - I now remember the fuss when that happened. Had totally forgotten it, Slashdot even did an article at the time. I'd so associated them with Nintendo that I got it mixed up.

I've never heard of anyone extracting a key from a TPM chip, and no doubt Apple will be using a similar mechanism. This is pretty secure that way. The problem I have with it is it places verification in the hands of one company, Apple. And it requires a whole certificate infrastructure, similar to what SSL has. We'll have to have public lists of signed keys for verification, revocation lists, etc. If every camera maker adopts a similar system, will we have one big compatible system (sort of like SSL), or will it be lots of silos?

But yeah you're right about taking a picture of the screen or whatever.

I remember the very first big box game in the UK. It was Sabre Wulf, from Ultimate Play The Game. At the time, games were around £5.99 to £7.99 - Sabre Wulf was the first £9.99 game in the UK and they part justified it by having a bigger box.

Since everything at that point came on cassette, this was annoying as hell because you couldn't fit it into your cassette holders that you definitely, definitely had as an 8 bit gamer in the UK. No stranger to later price gouging, Ultimate became Rare and was bought by Nintendo. I still think Nintendo is lord of the overpricing, at least these days (in ye olden times there was the NeoGeo charging £300 for a game back in the early 1980s. I think PC Engine charged a fortune too. But absolutely nobody had these in the UK).

I'm British, and have been following this from the other side of the story. In the UK it's more fragmented - this year England is up, but Scotland and Wales are down and in some cases quite significantly. Wales seems to have taken a hell of a hit in reading for instance.

It's better news in maths and science but we're still behind where we were five-seven years ago except for science. Definitely a mixed bag, though all improvements are welcome of course.

False. You can install any Chrome extension including uBlock Origin. I have it installed right now.

I have switched to Edge for one reason - the mobile version supports Chrome extensions.

Indeed. I say bring in the Chinese EVs at a 50% tariff rate. They will still be reasonably priced, but hopefully will grant domestic[1] auto makers a chance to change their ways.

[1] by that I mean American. Here in Canada we may make cars, but all factories are owned by and work for American companies. There is no Canadian auto sector in truth.