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Comment Re:The morality of Open Source. (Score 3, Interesting) 50

Any funding for Open Source Maintainers?

You mean, besides all the salaries that IBM and Red Hat pay to maintainers[*]? A lot of the maintainers are funded via salaries by large corporations (not just IBM/RH). How many maintainers' salaries do you pay for?
While its true that companies typically only fund/hire the parts of FLOSS that they benefit from, can you blame them? If you're favorite part of FLOSS isn't funded, why is it someone else's fault?

[*] disclosure - I'm one of the maintainers being 100% funded by Red Hat.

Comment Re:There it is (Score 4, Insightful) 50

Selling security patches as a subscription service instead of submitting them upstream to fix the problems for all users.

"from upstream development through production environments."
"to secure open source software at its source and across the entire supply chain."
"Share fixes upstream so that open source communities can include them in long-term maintenance."
"Upstream maintenance alongside open source community leaders;"

Please read the whole thing.

An abominable abuse of open source.

You do understand that the freedom and licenses you're defending, specifically allow others to use your work for purposes you don't agree with, right?
If you're opposed to "evil" (but legal) uses of FLOSS, you're opposed to the core values of FLOSS.

Comment Dumped Grok over this (Score -1) 72

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

Comment REGULATION: the world's worst thing ever (Score -1) 77

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

Comment Re:Claude Code is good (Score 5, Insightful) 69

In my experience... if I ask Claude to help with something that's my strong point (like my core coding), it's like training a junior programmer, and I can solve my problems faster myself. But... when I need something outside my core expertise, like helper programs, wrappers, or interfaces to other technologies I'm not familiar with, it's a very fast way to get 95% of the way there without wasting time climbing the learning curve myself for a one-time need.
Like any tool, you have to know when to use it and when not to, and what its strengths and weak points are.

Comment Re:Imagine that (Score 4, Insightful) 33

All jokes aside, this is more useful as "a button next to my bed that shuts off all the inside and outside lights, closes all the doors, activates the alarm, turns down the heat, makes sure the tv is off, and disables notifications until the morning."

I've also seen one used as "a button to hit on your way to work to shut off all the things you forgot to shut off."

A panic button next to your bed could be "turn on all the outside lights, save all the security camera footage somewhere extra, and tell me if any motion detectors outside this room go off any time in the next 10 minutes."

I imagine someone will want one that makes their cell phone make a noise, so they can find it.

Or, it's a simple way to add a second switch to a room (or hallway) with one inconveniently-placed switch.

For a young child who is afraid of the dark, a button to dim the lights to 20% after they're in bed, and automatically turn them off an hour later.

A wireless doorbell.

Etc.

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