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Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 213

The only thing worse than updates "against your will" is...no updates.

I didn't say you shouldn't install updates. I said they shouldn't be pushed on you. I know this stuff is really hard for you to understand, but that's because you continually demonstrate that everything is. If you persist in making up shit to believe that people didn't say, you're going to be confused forever.

Comment Re:Wrong headline, it is now "War Users" (Score 1) 29

now, let me share a wild idea, this is just a random thought, a crazy what-if: what if trump was perfectly aware that this would backfire on the military complex, and is totally fine with it, because that's precisely one festering ground of his political enemies?

One thing that pretty much all politicians have in common in the USA is support of the MIC. Democrats will happily pass additional funding for the military, they have done it again and again. He would be attacking his allies as much as his enemies.

Comment Re:LLMs are not ready for production use (Score 1) 53

Oh look, you are talking stupid shit.

We all know how LLMs are being used: To create low-quality AI bullshit. Sometimes a human improves the quality of the bullshit later, and makes it useful and maintainable. Sometimes no human does that, and then it remains bullshit.

People coming to a different conclusion than you don't automatically not know what they are talking about. They might just be smarter than you. Based on your comment, I'd say the chances are very high.

Comment Re:LLMs are not ready for production use (Score 1) 53

When I bought my Commodore 64, you had to be a programmer to even use it,

Total bullshit from you yet again. Do you ever stop with this shit? Did you even own a C64? I don't believe that you did, and here's why. When I was a wee lad and before I ever owned a computer they had Commodore 64s and other computers at Sears. There was software for those computers. The instructions to load the software were typically on the disk label, but you'd rapidly learn that there were not many magical incantations required to load software, and if you tried one or two of them you could get programs without instructions to load, too. I was not even into the multiple digit ages yet, and I could "use it".

Comment Re:This is like LLM electronic warfare (Score 1) 53

This is like a broadband (white noise) EW jammer

No, it isn't even slightly like that. That's flooding the zone with meaningless signal. This is inserting a small amount of meaningful signal. The only way in which it's not actually the complete opposite of what you said is that a signal is being added. Are you a LLM? Because what you said doesn't make any sense.

Comment Re:Turn up the air conditioning, leave the door op (Score 1) 50

No, it would be better to do both things, because we need to do both things.

Unfortunately we don't seem to have the will to do the thing you suggest, which I agree we need to do, so at least this is something. Not enough, but something. Also, putting minerals into soil can improve crop yields, so there are other good reasons to do it.

Comment Impressive they're using the latest kernel (Score 2) 7

I had to have at least 6.12 to have drivers for all my hardware, and Debian is even now still only on 6.11. I'm using 6.14 now because that's the newest that will work without making other changes, and I've been uninterested in figuring it out as this is new enough for my purposes otherwise.

Back in times of yore it was normal to build your own kernel, and today Debian and Linux together make it very easy once you get through the long-winded documentation, as the files you need to make the debs are in the kernel sources. Especially if you are willing to go version by minor version, but often even if you want to skip a number of them, you can usually just make oldconfig and hold down enter...

Comment Re:Great single-point-of-failure (Score 1) 213

Oh, I'm plenty familiar with Microsoft's security failures. The thing is, I'm also plenty familiar with the security failures of Linux, Mac, Android, and iPhone. There are no OSes that "get it right."

That's exactly why nobody should be pushing updates to anything against your will.

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