"Law makers" don't have to worry about fuckerberg's commitment to any one thing or another. All "law makers" need to do is undo the damage they caused with Section 230 carve-outs for big tech, and YouFaceTubeBookTickGramAppTwitX and all the rest can then adapt to the consequences of what they are: private media companies, 100% responsible for 100% of the content they publish. The sick regime of corporate commons created by 230 is the problem, and the solution is entirely straightforward: kill it.

I used to be such a huge Google fan. My businesses spent tens of thousands a month on Google.

But now, I think I spend $19.99 a month on Google. Maybe. I need to cut that off.

I don't use gmail anymore. I haven't used google search in forever. I am using Chrome right now but need to replace it.

Who uses Google anymore? For anything?

There's also the "Detox" exercise of leaving your phone at home. and only taking it with you when it's absolutely necessary for example to work if you have to use a third factor authentication application to get into your computer)

Just switch on "airplane mode". No incoming calls, message notifications, or app push crud. (If you've got any apps, other than alarm/calendar notices for your schedule reminders which YOU set up, that poke brain-derailng messages at you, disable (or delete) them.)

Then get into the habit of not going to it for anything non-essential while in this mode.

Now you can use it for a key, or wallet, or whatever, if you must, without it constantly killing your attention span with interruptions. Yet you can always turn it back on to make a call, or in the timeslot you reserved for handling this trivia.

No incoming calls, though. (What a relief: No phone spammers!)

I had thought quantum entanglement doesn't copy information; it actually realizes the original information at an arbitrary point in space-time (I added the "time" because I believe it's not restricted to 3 dimensions).

The teleportation you describe is much more conventional: a machine scans you down to the molecular level (the mechanism, let alone the amount of data storage, needed to achieve this is left to the imagination), transmits this data to Jupiter, which is an average of 43.2 light minutes from Earth.

The receiving machine then rebuilds a copy of you, molecule by molecule. If the checksum matches, it sends a "Success" response, and the transmitting machine then disassembles the original you.

And for the record, I will never get in one of those things.

The gravity is a nice bonus... but acceleration would need to be maintained at 9.81 m/s to achieve one gee.

To get to 100,000 mph by the midpoint to reach Mars at its closest approach to Earth, per Grok, a = 0.0357 m/s
This is far less than one gee.

Unless I'm doing this wrong.

But luckily, we can have a spinning habitat to simulate gravity. For a six month journey, this would be a necessity; it wouldn't do for the astronauts to reach Mars with atrophied muscles and bones.

What happens to the kinetic energy of the astronaut who is instantly transported to another point in space? Standing on the Earth's surface, we are actually moving at a rather high velocity due to rotation and orbital motion. Just plunk someone down on Mars and they might go flying up, down, or sideways at thousands of km/hour.

You forgot the worst part of this: while this scandal has utterly destroyed the lives of the affected (sub)postmasters (including death, as some killed themselves over this travesty of justice), it has so far not had any adverse consequences for the perpetrators. None of them have been inconvenienced beyond some name calling in the media and maybe a few firings. Reckless car drivers have been convicted for murder in Europe, while these crooks don't even have a criminal record yet.

Corporate and political behavior will not change unless such a series of acts carry decade long prison sentences and salary clawbacks for the perpetrators.

One thing, which Microsoft has really been successful in the last 30 years was GUIs. Their UIs were typically slick and efficient, and for each and every Microsoft GUI strangeness I can probably show you 10 worse GTK or KDE UX defects. Yes, Microsoft has a footing in boot loaders, they were also engaged in embedded platforms for a while (is WinCE still a thing?), but that's all beside the point.

If you look at typical code produced in Visual Studio, you'd expect a GUI driven DB connected Windows application deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem. The classical "we support Windows 10 and 11 only" type application. One can easily imagine a code quality checker for such an ecosystem, which would fail miserably in a boot loader. I know, how the code checkers we use all barf up on our custom heap manager "oh noes the pointer arithmetic" "oh noes the int to pointer type cast".

If Copilot can debug WinAMP, then good. If you can aim it at uboot, then it can probably also deal with our heap manager. Well, at least once it goes beyond "oh noes, malloc(size+1)" type warnings.

PS: yes, I know from our kernel devs, that fuzzing and AI generated CVEs are a menace right now, and they typically appear right after (not before, when it would be a lot more useful) release, because this gives you higher street cred somewhere. If Copilot could condense these fuzzer and AI bug reports to extract their useful bits, then go Copilot. Haven't seen that yet, but at least I know, that Copilot has been trained on more than MS Word and WinAMP.

Their cloud offerings still don't have a need for uboot, and they analyzed it anyway. I insist, that this is one of Microsoft's clever marketing ploys to gain market share in the embedded market, something e.g. Google or Amazon seem to have ignored for now despite their much higher investment in embedded in general.

Smart move on Microsoft's side, but I sure hope, that their Copilot learns to find more intricate bugs than malloc(size+1).

When everyone is at fault, no one is at fault. That's why we design systems to dilute responsibility as perfectly as possible.

As a linux/g++ developer I can give you an explanation: because it tells me, who has no use for Visual Studio and most other products from Microsoft, that I could put this tool to proper use. If a tool can analyze an open source boot loader, then it can likely analyze my own product, too. Thereby they widen their audience quite a bit. The fact, that they analyzed grub2 and not e.g. libqt6 raises eyebrows not only of GUI application programmers, but also of embedded programmers, which is one of the larger C/C++ programmer crowds in general and specifically for linux. I don't think I would have even read the article, had they reported 5 buffer overflows in MS Word or Libreoffice. Pure genius IMHO.

One thing, which did not at all impress me was the finding actually shown in the bleepingcomputer article: malloc(size+1) can at worst produce an inadvertent malloc(0), which could lead to a heap overflow, but that's an error most decent static code checkers would also flag. It would impress me a lot more, if Copilot would have flagged something a bit more difficult.

I'd tell you your definition of both "equally" and "wrong" are highly selective and likely formed from your extreme naivety and chronic malcontent.

Not anymore.

I have merchant accounts and I absolutely can offer cash discounts today.

Trying to read up on AI things I was shocked to discover, that many books on this topic (Tensorflow, pytorch, ...) were written more than 5 years ago. The whole topic didn't get much media attention, which may explain, why media become more and more irrelevant over time, but AI was a big thing in research back then.

The way to stay relevant in my field was to fine tune and better aim that radar. Don't expect SJ Mercury News or SF Chronicle to show you the next big technical topic of interest. Take risks, some "hot topics" won't stay that way, but you still pick up interesting skills on the way.

Look, if you want an olive branch here: If you're looking for a local machine for inference of large models for under $10k instead of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars... yeah, the M3 ultra IS a good option. I do not object to this - at all.

What I object to is the nonsensical claim that it is "fast" or "efficient" compared to modern NVidia servers. It is not. At all. Unless you're making lazy, contrived scenarios, that is.