This is a trial. Standards for testifying in trials are indeed different than shooting your mouth off on TV. They even do the whole swearing to tell the truth thing, and you can go to jail if you don't.

China spends less than 2% of their GDP on the military (~1.7% his year) and has been since it briefly hit 2% twenty five years ago. If they were in NATO US senators would be calling them deadbeats and Trump would be threatening to kick them out for it.

They're not aggressive. They're a big country, but they're not even really that big in absolute military numbers. They spend about a third what the US does, less than a quarter of NATO, they have about a quarter of the aircraft the US does, most of which are a lot older, about half the naval tonnage and a lot less firepower, about a tenth of the nukes, one overseas base versus over 800 American ones... the only thing that's even comparable is the raw number of army soldiers which is ~60% larger, for a country with more than 4x the population.

The moral of the story is that it is easier and easier for police and intelligence services to quickly get meaningful information out of hard disks, including passwords and files in a personal workflow / storage structure (or lack of structure). LLMs might piece this together and be targeted. Security analysts would be faster and ignore noise better, but what is shown here might scale to millions of citizens.

So you're pissed because they let you?

I've only met users, so the creator's thoughts are sort of irrelevant.

It's stuff like this that makes donating your time to open source the most rewarding thing in the world.

Grades are usually ranked certification systems. Grading gemstones, surface plates, instruments, whatever, aren't just a ranking system. They're a certification of belonging to a particular quality class. The ones from accredited educational institutions awarding certifications are certainly not meant to be just a blocky ordering of students in a class.

Steppers skip steps without damage.

Anyway, this software does not replace the firmware.

It's French. The French guy who created it calls it key-cad because, in French, it is indeed written that way:

https://youtu.be/V9y8H2JMRow?s...

If you're American it's not terribly surprising you've never heard it pronounced that way. You may have never heard croissant, champagne, or St. Louis pronounced or seen connaisseur spelled correctly either. The single syllable "ki" is even more subject to anglicisation, especially if even a few popularisers pronounce it that way.

KiCad seems to support both pronunciations. The creator has said he doesn't care which you use.

Everybody uses the public's tax money. You do, your employer does. That by itself isn't much of an argument.

Is there something specific you think CERN should open source that they haven't?

Fascism, command economics or capitalism... choices, choices. Apparently #3 is the anti-American one. Huh.

Tech people love to classify things, including companies, as hardware or software. The really successful companies recongize that neither works without the other, there are a lot of opportunities that come with making both, and customers value not having to chase down various suppliers when they have a problem.

RCS isn't a good standard. It was so crappy that Google essentially bought it, added the minimum necessary to turn it into an acceptable messaging platform and made their proprietary version (as opposed to the original GSM's proprietary version) their messaging platform. Er, their fourth (fifth?) messaging platform.

Why? If she's an experienced speaker I suspect the VP of strategic alliances for a multinational private equity holding company is used to talking to a very specific type of audience. We even have a phrase for that that comes from a similar type of speaker: "preaching to the choir."

The real hilarity is that someone from a humanities college thought she'd be a good pick.

That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use

The definition of AI is essentially:

"to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

So no, by definition, the stuff those humanities students do is a prime target. We used to think that the creative humanities stuff was going to be really hard, maybe the ultimate goal for AI, but it turns out it's not.

They've created nothing new, just looked around an found markets they could cannibalize.

Ah, they've added competition. Terrible.