It's amazing to me that with access to the world's knowledge people will just write shit, then, when corrected, insist on it, without bothering to check. Anonymity is a powerful thing I guess.

Here, I copied the link to the Artemis program outline for you:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in...

I don't disagree about the sensationalist aspect.

As to displaced animals, could be quite a few. We had a similar clearing near us maybe a mile away - even bigger, and we ended up with a lot of wildlife, squirrels, deer, various birds, and black bears. (note, I live in a forested village) I'm probably in a minority, but I enjoy watching bear and deer walking down our streets in the morning.

Yeah, another AI BAD! story. If they are clear cutting and turning large areas into mud, they might need to do a little better protecting the environment.

Sometimes you get it, sometimes not. A former neighbor bought the house next to me, He's an engineer and his father was in construction - a Master carpenter. I liked both of them. They did have a bit of a "We know better" thing going on.

So they set about remodeling the house. It was good work, but they didn't get any permits. Things were going okay until they installed a new electrical drop and got caught after they disconnected power, and reattached it. They replaced the drop attached to the house with a proper conduit ingress. Kinda pissed off the electrical company, and the attention then caused the township to get involved. Took something like 8 months to get everything settled.

The crazy part is that the permitting process is not that difficult, and the electrical utilities are pretty prompt. The neighbors work was very good. But a lot of people who skirt the rules are doing poor work, so their work was gone over with a fine tooth comb.

But that's a different subject. Where was the Finnish Government with permits, environmental impact statements, inspections for compliance?

And contractors will do things on the cheap, down and dirty if allowed. That's why even if you Are building a house, you make certain all the permits have been filed, and you visit the site at various times to make certain it is being done correctly.

Whatever Google is or isn't, the Finnish government is complicit.

Finland is a modern nation, and modern nations have processes and permits required, especially for environmental impact. If Finland has no permitting process, and if any multinational company can come in and clearcut their forests just by showing up and clearcutting with no oversight, maybe it is time to consider implementing a permitting process.

Here in the USA you have to comply with permitting and inspection even if you own the property. And were not supposed to be civilized.

That is a really good point - here in the USA, where we don't do anything right according to Slashdotters, construction has a lot of environmental impact to be done. If you want to see them get really serious, have a high quality stream (HQW) run through your property. There are very few allowances for clear cutting large areas, smaller areas like for pad construction must have a lot of protections enabled, and be completed in short order to avoid runoff. Want a real treat? The process of replacing a bridge over HQW. Even non-HQW waters have a lot of protection. And well past the permits, with compliance inspections.

If Google and its contractors caused a problem, the Finns weren't keeping proper track with permits and inspections. Which is strange, because I would think in a far north area and its fragile ecosystems, extra effort would be taken to ensure they were protected.

HAR!, I see what you did there.

Probably for the guard towers, machine guns and barbed wire.

Ah yes - accounting. You are correct that the accountants will whine. In irony, much of the expense is directly attributable to accounting demands. At the place I retired from, after accounting went from 3 people to the largest division, I joked that soon, we'd be hiring a 6 figure accountant to keep close tracking of the 5 thousand dollars we spent on number 2 pencils. And then...

And all of that intense accounting requires the IT to do that.

I can't say for PHP itself, but I've been worried about PHP security for years. A BBS I installed using PHP wanted it installed as root. Total f*ck no. I've seen other apps running with elevated priveledges when they weren't needed. So many red flags I didn't use PHP because of the language itself, but because people that used it had zero worries about security.

Yeah, like that matters.

I currently use qwen 3.8 27b on a system with a couple of RTX 3060s that I bought on ebay for personal coding projects. I've been a firmware engineer professionally for a couple of decades, and I recently wanted to branch into mobile app development. Last year, I bought a book on React to learn cross-platform app dev. But, last month I built this pieced-together system for local AI and have come to the conclusion that I will never need to learn a new programming language again. This lil' bastard does everthing!

And, professionally, my employer pays for a top-tier subscription that's able to code, run command line tools, build and install firmware, and even connect to a logic analyzer and debug data lines.

Yes, "AI bots" can write most of your code, if you're able to clearly explain what's needed in your planning and action prompts. And, beyond that, AI can examine an existing code base, very clearly explain its function, and provide recommendations for refactors and other improvements.

At this point, it hasn't replaced me as an engineer, but it's definitely augmented my abilities it in a way that "paired programming" and other stupid Agile-touchy-feely methodologies never could.

ChatGPT says all of this is completely possible.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6add...

How likely is it that Flock is not already using its network this way?

Why would they bother?

Why bother using NASA a civilian, largely open space agency when they could use y'know, the actual, specific, designed-for-task military space agencies that were designed, structured, and staffed PRECISELY for secretive military projects? Like DARPA, the Space Force, or the Dept of Defense programs.

I'm not saying the US doesn't have secret space launches, OBVIOUSLY they do.
What I'm mocking is the absolutely ridiculous assertion that the Chinese program is "open" to any degree, except very-calculated revelations...you know, like a military based program. From the bottom to the top. The ENTIRE Chinese program is purely secret, except for the shit they're trying to manipulate you with.

I get it, the concept of a major government program that's not secretive has to be incomprehensible to Chinese.

These days it's more economical to sacrifice incels.