Nice handling of the euro sign by slashdot, by the way - if you are like me seeing nonsense next to numbers, that's supposed to be EUR

My 32GB DDR4 RAM kit cost ~140â in 2022 and is now 359â at retail prices. That's more than double, but it's still 200â increase. If an automaker bases a price hike on that, they can add 200â to the car price (let's ignore the fact that even now 32GB are not for an infotainment system but for a pretty good computer, those things probably carry 8GB on high end cars). Besides, I bought a 400â Pixel 9a earlier this year. Pixel 10a is at the same price point now. My car's infotainment is lower end than that, so that's the max amount for the whole infotainment system. Describing the hike as percentages of the car prices and talking about 2000â is bullshit, they are describing how *speculation* on RAM shortage might affect car prices. 2000â is still an damn good gaming computer, FFS.

this. Entertaining ourselves with the idea that this is not nonsense, that would be the most important information to include, at least to laugh about it. However the 27.5 is mentioned once, in other parts of the article it's 26 to 36 million years, some other cycles both longer and shorter are mentioned as well. However looks like the last event might have been less than 20 My ago from my very quick look at the article itself. That a journalist extrapolated something the researcher never intended to say remains high probability as usual

The EU is not a republic, is a democratic agreement between several nations, some of which are republics some are monarchies. But of course we do not align to US political parties nor understand why in a democratic republic somehow democrats should oppose republicans.

That's not how it works. Of course an expert knows stuff, but to be trustworthy they have to prove how they know it. If it comes from literature, then that's a reference. If it comes from their own research, the research workflow mandates they publish their research along with detailed info on how it was conducted to allow their peers to replicate. Once you've done that, they have a reference to use. Which also means if they made a mistake, someone else can prove their mistake and publish a counterclaim.

Because MacOS it's not a BSD. Linux in Android is still open source and still Linux. MacOS might have started from BSD code but it's not BSD licensed, it's a closed source kernel and operating system that was once based on BSD. That actually makes the point that Linux would now be relegated to a small niche if not for the GPL: as with BSD, a corporation could have produced a closed source version of it and dominated the market with it. Claiming it was originally based on Linux wouldn't give us the source code for it...

So you enter your car, set the location, then you go to sleep and the car awakes you at the destination? Because with "Full" self driving, that's the expectation. Anything less is partial self driving.

The removal from maintainers file was not based on russian nationality but on being employed by a company in a list of sanctioned companies https://lore.kernel.org/all/7e... Also this is the offending Linus post https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA.... While he did clearly side polically against Russia, but I don't see him referring to the Russians, and moving against a population is a key ingredient in racism.

Basically all models currently released in the open include the weights, exactly to allow people to run inference on them. The differences among so-called "open" models are usually 1) who can run it 2) what can they be run for 3) is modification and/or redistribution allowed

Copyright does not work that way, you are confusing it with trademarks or patents. Anything creative anyone produces is protected by copyright automatically without needing any kind of registration. Requiring registration would be worse, because then only corporations would have time and resources to get copyright protection. Of course if a copyright case goes to court you have to prove you are the owner of that work, but not by registration.

According to what he wrote in the github issue, there was no email exchange. He got the review, and went straight to pulling the extension from AMO without even trying to reach out to the reviewers. I do not know if he has an history of issues with the review process, but in the github issue he does not say anything about previous incidents. Also, he says he discontinued the Firefox version entirely, the next version will be the last.

In the EU, warranty is mandated by law to be at least 2 years.

As usual, this is clickbait. Nowhere in the original blog post it's said it was unexpected. You run some code, and it breaks because you passed a timeout? the more braindead way to fix that is by extending the timeout, of course the LLM did that. It's not like the LLM was given constraints on what it could edit.

It's unlikely they will, considering Firefox on Android does currently have extensions so they have nothing to apologise for anymore.

actually, you are breaking privacy laws just by storing content without having your users sign a privacy policy; if you are allowing read requests as well you are responsible for the content those users upload to your bucket (e.g. copyright infringment). If you publish any of that, you are again violating privacy laws and possibly copyright (if you get a copyrighted work without a license, there might be some things you are allowed to do by law; redistributing is most certainly not one of them)