It's always OK to reach out and explain what you're doing and that you want to contribute (back). If the project has a mailing list/channel/whatever for discussing things, get on it and introduce yourself!

Most projects don't have enough developers so if you can work well with others, have a good grasp of the technical details, and aren't making huge architectural changes, then more than likely they will welcome your contributions. Just be polite and explain what you want to contribute. Start a conversation and see where it goes from there...

AI slop in this case is bug reports entirely written by (and given the timing between reports from the same user) submitted by an AI tool/agent. Often the reports rely on test configurations that don’t or can’t exist in the real world or on theoretical range or overflow conditions that the tool isn’t smart enough to realize can’t happen or that it doesn’t matter if they do happen.

I have no problem with reporters that use an AI tool to find a bug or write up a quick PoC that reproduces a problem. I just want a person in the loop to sanity check an issue before they report it.

There is overhead to this.

Over in OpenPrinting we are seeing about 75% of the reported security vulnerabilities falling into the "AI slop" category and around 40% of the regular bug reports. It takes a LOT of time to sift through the slop, to the point that I'm spending half of each day just triaging bugs and not getting new development work done. Definitely reaching the point at which I may just stop working on OpenPrinting projects entirely...

On top of that, assuming we have a valid security vulnerability we have a hard time getting CVEs issued because the CNAs are overwhelmed with the volume. So we changed the criteria for getting a CVE issued (CVSS score of 7 or more) and everything else is treated as a regular bug.

Seriously, what could make you feel more "connected" to your CEO than an AI bot? Would you even be able to tell the difference?

This points to a leader that doesn't want to deal with the people under him and really doesn't care what those people think.

This is certainly not the case in New York State. The pension my 85-year-old mom gets is an order of magnitude less than her at-retirement salary (at 55), which was still less than my starting salary at my first comp sci gig (which was 6 years before she retired). When I lived in California, the “running joke” with some teacher friends of mine was that you’d get a pink slip at the end of the school year and find out if you still had a job a few weeks before the next school year started.

About 70% of the food in a US grocery store, and pretty much all food at restaurants, has added sugar (even *salt* has added sugar these days as an "anti-caking" agent...) Stop adding sugar to everything...

So Apple's services income for the last quarter was $26.6B. For FY2024 they brought in basically $100B for services alone, which would be enough to put them in the top 40 US companies - not struggling and certainly past trying to "make money" from services. Overall Apple (hardware + services) is #3 behind Walmart and Amazon with $383.4B in revenue for FY2024...

I would be all for this except that I regularly get web apps that either only work with Chrome (for no good reason) or perform very badly on alternative browsers. Chrome is the new Internet Explorer and we don't want people writing web apps for Chrome, we want them writing web apps to standards that all of the browsers support.

These days you can develop a web site that renders correctly on dozens of different web browsers and you can write complex web applications that run on those same browsers. Let's not prop Google up as the "savior of the Internet"...

The Slashdot story only says 240W and 96Gbps, and the title says nothing. I didn’t bother reading TFA because honestly I could care less about 8k.

Thunderbolt 5 is already shipping, supports 120Gbps (more than 96), and supports 8k video...

... so I was just providing info from Apple, not making a (ridiculous) statement that a single M4 Max will out-perform this new supercomputer.

That said, even if we use a back-of-the-envelope "net" estimate of 75Gflops/W for the M4 Max (and that's just the GPU - the CPU and NPU cores would also contribute to the total), the 58.89Gflops/W efficiency of this new supercomputer can very likely be improved upon significantly.

Not sure about M4/M4 Pro, but M4 Max's GPU is rated for 18.4Tflops at 62W, or just shy of 300Gflops per watt...

No, it has two uses: to support old CUPS servers (1.3 and earlier) for newer CUPS clients, and to auto-add AirPrint/IPP Everywhere/Mopria printers for applications that refuse to use the CUPS APIs that were introduced in CUPS 1.1... As long as you add the printers you want to use, you won't need it running.

Sigh This isn’t CUPS, this is an optional add-on called cups-browsed that you don’t need anymore

Having grown up as a child of two teachers, my parents didn't get paid shit, their pensions are pitiful, and my mom got shafted by the first school she worked for because they refused to report her work as a full-time teaching position even though it was... So I don't know where teachers are getting "gold plated benefits", but in the US (at least) I haven't seen any evidence of it. Hell, when I lived in California the teachers would get pink slips at the end of the school year and then would be "invited back" in August if they had enough money to pay for them to come back for the fall.

I also know that a lot of kids need "in person" instruction and support. If the pandemic demonstrated anything, it showed that e-learning doesn't work for every kid. Schools need a lot more money and a lot more teachers/staff to support kids at every level of ability/need.