No she's been interviewed. She's a real person. That isn't controversial. Her identity was confirmed, and thats part of why she resigned, as she did not enjoy her anonymity being lost.

Enterprise software is a horror world of deeply embedded shitshow products that only exist because their claws are so deep in equally shitshow companies that somehow a random piece of software that costs half the IT budget and nobody knows what it does will tank the entire company if removed.

Theres a psychological hook with these dudes that is nefariously hard to correct for.

Theres pretty well documented evidence that peoples voting preferences correlate strongly with certain brain structures and essentially the more fearful you are, the more likely your going to vote right wing. The thing is, the people running the show with the current clown-car administration know this. They know that by constantly creating a climate of fear and uncertainty, with a constant parade of devils and outrages, the more people are going to vote for them.

This is insidious, because the simple act of doing scary shit , start wars, put robocop goons out onto the street to round up immigrants and dissidents, throw people off welfare protections, etc, the more likely they are to vote for that shit. You seen that phenomena of reliably progressive people who suddenly turn into right wing angervoters around Covid? Well yeah, thats the amygdala in action. Covid scary, disease kills. Man on internet said vaccine makes it worse...... Must be the evil immigrants and fauci and the lizard men!

And the worse the country gets, the very fact that its getting worse drives more people to vote for the worse.

Humans vote emotionally, not logically. And its killing us as a species.

Aaaaaand slashdots reader base is flashing bright red keyword flags on the feds snooper-computers lol

Weird corporate goons trying to recover the potentially billions of lost value from losing every vexatious lawsuit they've launched in 20+ years by.... doing more vexatious lawsuits.

Yeah the elephant in the corner of the room was always that SCO never even owned those rights to unix to begin with , it was licensing them from Novell and Novell where *very unhappy* with SCOs antics as the licensing text specifically forbade this sort of nonsense without Novell's go-ahead which they definitely did not give (I assume MicroFocus now have those rights since they swallowed Novell a decade ago. Actually googling it, Microfocus got swallowed by "Open Text". Who the fuck are open text?! Their wikipedia page seems to suggest they've swallowed half of silicon valley, but I havent heard of them before. I'm old :(

The only people still using it are the ones that will complain about anything they can, and will never be satisfied cause they need this one special tweak that everyone else KNOWS is stupid, but fuck it, we put a VPN in there, why not support the dumbest shit for one dude on his high rocking horse. Who immediately complains about some other stupid idea. So will give him a prompt first use ...

99% of users want things to work without having to answer a bunch of stupid questions based on some developers shit head politics and need to impress his childish view points on users.

And this is why Foxbat will always be nothing better that the replacement for IE6, it will continue to be an example of why developers and their personal politics shouldn't be allowed in the git commit history.

Add another option is usually the result of not beimg able to figure out a better starting point. Its rarely solving problems, usually adding bugs, problems and complexity.

I need a browser that isnt an irrelevant PoS that has spent its entire life with "trying to be a browser" as the last thing on its list of development priorities.

XUL, email, rrs, web page editor, VPN, all sorts of political shit, literally so many options it cant help to be a slow bloated buggy pile if donkey dung.

I live in australia in a port that used to get a lot of US ships (and marines) visiting, so I spent a fair bit of time propping up bars listening to US marines telling stories about fucked up shit in Iraq and Afghanistan. One thing that surprised me was that literally every single soldier I spoke to told me stories about being super poor and disadvantaged and that the military was their way out of the hood, serve a bunch of years, get some school done, hopefully come out of the other end into a viable career. Note: None of these where officers. I've always presumed the officer class had different career motivations.

But yeah, get out of poverty, get a degree , get a job. I dont think once did I hear one of them say "To defend america" or "To fight for freedom".

Then the same company will have to sue every kid who plays Stairway to Heaven or Blackbird on the guitar they got for Christmas, in order to maintain the same merit. It's not about the training; it's about the money. The suit only exists because Anthropic has money.

This is a magical thinking argument that assumes that a kid learning from listening to music is the same thing as an algorithm adjusting weights in a regression to try and replicate data. Its not how humans work, and its not how ML works.

It also fundamentally ignores the fact that when a kid buys a record, he's engaged in a lawful transaction to purchase the rights to listen and enjoy (and study) music he paid for with the artist understanding that kid might pick up a guitar and write a song too.

This is not whats happening here. This is illegally scraped data that HASNT been licensed for this purpose , and often obtained from torrent sites. used to create AI slop to displace artists and steal their royalties.

Comparing them is intentionally muddying up the waters and is a dishonest way to argue.

This is why a lot of chronic diseases will NEVER have cures. It's more profitable to treat than to cure.

While I get the skepticism towards big pharma , I dont see any evidence of any of them thinking this way. Cures are cashmoney right there in the pocket, and if you dont have the patent on the maintainence drug, then competition dictates that if you can beat your opponent by getting the cure, then your going to destroy your opposition and win. Capitalism prefers long term payments, but to state this is the reason why there will be no cures assumes there is only one company in the world, and thats absurd.

The reality is some conditions are hard to treat. HIV is a perfect storm of infernally difficult self reinforcing obstacles towards cure. It targets the immune system, it embeds itself in the patients DNA using reverse transcription, it hides cryptic populations in the bones to evade antivirals, and so on. Its a big bitch thats *really frigging hard* to dislodge. Cancers are often similar, DNA altering (intrinsically difficult to purge), entropy monsters that are made out of the patients own body. Whats more, there are thousands of types of cancer, each its own unique disease.

Cures for any of these would be a license to print money, but the difficulties are epic in scope.

Whats needed is government investment, and frankly it needs time, something patients often dont have on their side.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

So the study does actually address that , and found that indeed people who didnt eat the sugar in those first 3 years tended to consume less later in life.

Annecdotally (which isnt evidence!) that rings true to me. My mother was pretty strict on no sugar and minimal salt (in the 1970s the thinking on salt linked it a lot closer to heart disease than current thinking does which has de-emphasized that a little), and nowdays I pretty much never put it in my food and shy away from sweet food, and use pretty minimal salt.

With all that said, the study does mention that children exposed to less sugar in early childhood appeared to have longer telemeres and that there is likely the smoking gun on the early childhood / sugar link, as theres a pretty well established link between telemere length and cancer succeptibility in late life. Essentially the telemeres are the caps on the end the genomes, and the longer they are, the better protected the ends of the genome are from copying errors. Its also closely associated with the hayflick limit (essentially how many copies a cell can make before it shits the bed).

Not often I stumble across properly understood post-structuralism on this forum. Well done. :)

The other problem is that while its revenue is high, its expenses are higher. The more it earns, the more it loses.

Thats not a trillion dollar company, thats an economy crashing Chapter 7 bankruptcy.