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Submission + - KDE's 'Other' Distro -- KDE Linux -- Now Avaible to Download in Pre-Alpha (theregister.com)

Submitted by king*jojo
king*jojo writes: KDE Linux is an all-new desktop Linux distro being developed as a showcase for the KDE desktop project. The project is still in a pre-alpha testing stage, but recently went public on the KDE website. Versions are available to download and try out.

KDE Linux is an entirely new and experimental OS. There's lots of room for confusion here, because KDE already has a demonstration distro, KDE Neon. KDE Linux is a totally separate and far more ambitious project. In terms of its underlying design, it's intended to be a super-stable end-user distro. This is in contrast with Neon, which is an experimental showcase for the latest and greatest code. Neon isn't meant to be anyone's daily driver.

Submission + - History is best told as a story of organised crime (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: “We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today – and self-termination is most likely,” says Dr Luke Kemp at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.
History shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse, says Kemp, from the Classical Lowland Maya to the Han dynasty in China and the Western Roman empire. He also points out that for the citizens of early rapacious regimes, collapse often improved their lives because they were freed from domination and taxation and returned to farming. “After the fall of Rome, people actually got taller and healthier,” he says.
Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.

Submission + - Public ChatGPT Queries Are Getting Indexed By Google and Other Search Engines (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judging by this person’s LinkedIn, which was easy to find based on the details in the chat log, they did not get the job). Someone else is asking questions that sound like they came out of an incel forum. Another person asks the snarky, hostile AI assistant if they can microwave a metal fork (for the record: no), but they continue to ask the AI increasingly absurd and trollish questions, eventually leading it to create a guide called “How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan: A Beginner’s Guide.”

ChatGPT does not make these conversations public by default. A conversation would be appended with a “/share” URL only if the user deliberately clicks the “share” button on their own chat and then clicks a second “create link” button. The service also declares that “your name, custom instructions, and any messages you add after sharing stay private.” After clicking through to create a link, users can toggle whether or not they want that link to be discoverable. However, users may not anticipate that other search engines will index their shared ChatGPT links, potentially betraying personal information (my apologies to the person whose LinkedIn I discovered).

Submission + - Satellite internet - the cinese efforts (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by jungly
jungly writes: Alongside potential domestic civilian users, China could use its satellite Internet networks as a diplomatic tool to build on existing partnerships between the Chinese government and developing countries. This could "lead to a leapfrogging moment, where African countries opt for the Chinese Internet constellation over Western providers due to the fact that much of their infrastructure is already Chinese-built," the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think tank, wrote in a report last year.

Comment This will further curtail press freedom in India (Score 1) 32

by jungly (#64333289) Attached to: India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters
India is already languishing at the bottom in terms of press freedom. https://www.thehindu.com/news/... This news can be interpreted as further limiting the press' freedom in the country. India is rapidly descending into a dark place with very limited freedoms for its citizens. What's spectacular is that most of the Indians are loving this descend, cause they are being peddled propaganda left right and center.

Comment Re:The cloud is a trap (Score 1) 86

by jungly (#64199862) Attached to: Is Cloud the New Mainframe?
The current push by the cloud providers is provide "PostgreSQL compatible" data stores which have much higher performance numbers. They don't help or encourage engineers to optimise their PG setup. So basically, people are happy to use closed source, hosted databases. It is worse than buying Oracle licenses - at least then you ran them on prem. Now you run a closed source db on their servers.

Comment Developer laziness (Score 1) 86

by jungly (#64199858) Attached to: Is Cloud the New Mainframe?
Couldn't agree more with the article. I totally agree with the problem is that even developers can become lazy and just want to "yolo shipit" the application to the amazon/gcp/azure mainframe. The management only later cops on that devs are burning cash and then they start to burn cash by asking the developers to "optimise" to reduce the cloud bill - and that requires a redesign of the core components of the application.

Comment future internet == spam? nothing but spam? (Score 1) 132

by jungly (#63904965) Attached to: 4chan Uses Bing To Flood the Internet With Racist Images
It's possible that eventually the internet will be thought of as a source of spam, nothing but spam. People will eventually stop reading anything on their phones and websites, and will only depend on printed, edited, reviewed books and magazines. Think of a scene from blade runner street where to show that a person has "lost it", they show that person "reading" stuff off a device.

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