Wasn't there an 80186? That literally nobody built anything with? Like, it was almost a proof of concept?

Just today I noted that GIMP 3.2.2 (an application, not an OS) has dropped support for 32-bit x86.

Yeah, Via made a clone that was similar not-quite-i586 fairly recently too.

I have an old embedded box with one that has SATA 6Gbps ports on it that I thought I would use zeroing out old hard drives.

I tried Puppy, DSL, SystemRescueCD, and a bunch of others and none would finish boot. FreeDOS is fine.

It's either eWaste or I need to dig out an Infomagic CD from the attic to get Redhat 9 pr whatever. Probably need to look up when the jump from 3 to 6 happened in SATA land.

But Linus is correct that actual distros don't supoort it. There's one project for composing embedded images that I might try before it hits a shredder. Or NetBSD maybe.

I would assume, that the fines are on top of all damage compensation these crooks will have to pay. I am also a bit unsure, whether the crooks will have the funds to both reimburse their victims and pay the fines, especially now, when they rightfully face decades of FPMITA prison. Not sure, whether raising the fines would have any effect on the actual outcome.

I am fully aware, that very few years from now we'll be laughing at the models we use today, just as we laugh at the hallucinating mess we admired so much two years ago. GPUs will improve, CPU memory bandwidth will go way up, we'll have Raspberry Pi like systems which can do quality inference. I look forward to using each and every one of them.

However: some people want to run lobsters today, and they are mostly left out to dry for now. These folks paid a few dozen dollars per month to perform mundane tasks like creating optimized grocery shopping lists or scheduling appointments, and now their operators are about to discover the true cost of these toys. Few of these operators can afford the quoted "US$ 1000-5000 daily".

Slack Huddles have also been taken out for most of the past month too. Slack in general still works, but huddles see people unable to join or continuously losing their connection. It also might be ISP specific (some users can use huddles, while the majority cannot). The general consensus amongst my Russian team members is that it's mostly about Telegram and broad blocking or filtering of AWS IP address ranges. Maybe it's something else, it's hard to say.

Given that Windows now need 16GB of RAM to work well then I see that the answer in 'NO'.

That was enough when I used one of the first Slackware versions in the early 1990s

It depends on the audience who will read the articles that s/he writes.

If it is clickbait chasing nonsense about pop singers or film stars latest affair or wardrobe 'malfunction' then the readers are unlikely to be too critical unless you do not have enough pictures of naked flesh. Your editor & publisher will be happiest if you write lots of articles and care little if it is slop.

If you are writing about something supposed to be factual, eg: science; finance; politics; ... then the articles should be well researched & checked and any uncertainties noted in the article. You will be rewarded and applauded by your readers for insight, good context & few errors. Your editor/publisher will like many articles but accept that quality takes time. This is not quite true: if your publisher has a strong political bias then you will be expected to follow that bias and invent facts support that bias - ie lie and produce fake news. So as long as AI slop has the correct bias many will just publish it. Journalists of integrity will not want to work at such a publisher ... however journalists do have mortgages & kids so some 'bend' their professionalism.

What's more, you really have to know what you're doing to coax it into re-using code, rather than rewriting the same functionality with each prompt.

I was hoping at the bottom of the article it would say that Professor Utonium accidentally added Chemical X.

The fines should be proportional to actual damage caused (ie: 100% coverage of any interest on loans, any extra spending the person needed to do in consequence, loss of compound interest, damage to credit rating along with any additional spending this resulted in, and any medical costs that can reasonably be attributed to stress/anxiety). It would be difficult to get an exact figure per person, but a rough estimate of probable actual damage would be sufficient. Add that to the total direct loss - not the money that went through any individual involved, and THEN double that total. This becomes the minimum, not the maximum. You then allow the jury to factor in emotional costs on top of that.

In such cases as this, the statutary upper limit on fines should not apply. SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that laws and the Constitution can have reasonable exceptions and this would seem to qualify.

If a person has died in the meantime, where the death certificate indicates a cause of death that is medically associated with anxiety or depression, each person invovled should also be charged with manslaughter per such case.

Qwen 3.5 is light years ahead of llama 3 and deepseek, but no comparison to Claude Opus 4.6. Sorry. Plus: the full 35B model requires either a massive GPU (in the multi thousand $ range), or at least a lot of RAM (which is currently a bit pricey). Either way: I have the strong impression, that OpenClaw will lose quite a few users over this.

Putting a MacOS-like skin over the proven UNIX-like NeXTSTEP was inevitable. There are many reasons that Copeland and Taligent/Pink failed.

Don't forget ignoring modern approaches to cancer care and dying of a mostly-curable cancer.