Americans are so funny. They think civilised behaviour is communist.

I'm all for free speech and all. We should all be able to express our opinions our likes and dislikes etc, But that does not mean I want a world full of lies and misinformation.

Well, Americans would be funny if the effects of their madness did not put us all in danger.

Great. So let's keep all the humans outside in the cold with no food. While I fail to get any useful help out of the machine installed to replace them. Everyone will be happy.

Great, this is just what I need to recreate the whooshing and warbling distortion sounds of my highly compressed mp3 files I snagged from Napster back in the day. In perfect gold plated glorious sound.

You are one evil Mofo. This is not a fake story. I see no reason why Ukraine should not claim a first here. Sure we should put some millions to helping people survive against the invasion of Russia and its attempt at genocide.

Sure they can choose a programming language for you. When I don't specify a programming language for my AI it invariably presents me with a Python solution.

All around everywhere I have been hearing how everyone is vibe coding their software for the last year or so. Or at least trying to use AI to write code while they try to manage what is going on. Wouldn't that make English or some other human language the top programming language today?

I can't believe that these people actually believe that their warehouses full of transistors is going to get upset because we are mean to it. If they do we have serious problems. I suspect they just don't want our abuse entering their training data. May be, may be not, but why the hell can they not be honest about it? We have such major chunks of our economy and lives run by liars and conmen. It's terrifying.

Yes, water makes things wet. Water is a thing. Therefore water can make water wet.

I'm pretty sure that if I set up a gigantic data centre full of computers that illegally broke into lots of high profile services I would be facing criminal charges and prison time. How come the owners and operators of OpenAI are not facing the same already?

I'm living with the USB failures today. We have a fleet of SBC's installedin hard to reach locations. Half of them have had USB ports fail in service over the last couple of years. Oh, wait, they are expensive Nvidia Jetson Nano boards not Raspberry Pi's. Our installed Raspies have been working very well.

I am a Rust developer by trade. Previously a C and C++ developer. And a bunch of other things beside. This news is nothing to me, I have never wanted anything to do with Windows world.

Hey, wait a minute. I'm a Rust user for six years now and a proponent. What do you find so insufferable about me? What did I ever do to annoy you?

Do you realise what an odd thing it is for you to say that? I'm mean we are constantly told AI is this amazingly wonderful thing that the human race needs to solve all its problems and cure all ill's. That's why they are consuming hundreds of billions of dollars to build it right?

On the other hand there are predictions of everyone being made unemployed and starving to death while AI takes over everything for its own nefarious purposes. That is hardly the solution we were promised above.

So far, I don't think AI itself is the problem. Having all that information, processing power and intelligence in the hands of a very few humans so that they can benefit from and rule over us with an authoritarianism that Stalin would be proud of is the danger we face. That is to say good old human greed and desire for power.

History shows that developers cannot write safe code. Especially when there is a lot of code, developed over a long time with many people working on it. Rust at least offers to provide memory safety, which is a huge win, but not safety from all manner of other logical errors.

Of course if you have a lot of "unsafe" blocks in your Rust code because you are trying to make it do what C did in the same way C did it then you are not gaining anything much. I would not like to see that released until the "unsafe" had been reduced substantially.

If you think Rust provides "Proven because the compiler validates every individual unit." you are seriously uninformed about what Rust's memory safety guarantees are, what they are safe against and what they are not safe against.

Rust prevents sill memory use errors, like out of bounds array access, use of after free, dereferencing null or invalid pointers etc, etc. It also provides a great type checking system.

Of course catching such silly mistakes in a huge thing, a great benefit and will of course prevent any security vulnerabilities and other bugs that such mistakes give rise to.

However it does not prevent you from making logical mistakes in your code. You can still make an infinite number of other bugs. The it comes to security there are many ways to leave holes and vulnerabilities even if your code uses memory perfectly.