Oh that's why the US has some of the strictest laws on copyright!

Accessible to Danfoss only would be nice, a sort of VPN might help.
As we've seen several shops were affected so it looks like the hackers got access via the Danfoss site.
Maybe an air gapped system would help.

Pretty easy to understand why they are internet connected.
We're talking here about a lot of freezers in many shops, all supplied and controlled by Danfoss.
Remotely controlling this without internet access is hardly possible.

I heard of a smaller outfit that set it's own alarm when the regular -22 degC temperature would go up above -18, although the alarm came after midnight they rushed to the store and saved their produce. Larger shops usually don't have their own control, they depend on the manufacturer and they were overwhelmed by the number of problems.

It sounds like it all boils down to shops using older equipment with non-maintained software.

First of, I am not familiar with Itch.
But from the article I get an idea what it is about.
Why don't they insist a new game needs to be totally free for, say, the first month, once it has proven itself as bona fide the publisher can charge money of include advertising.

The difference is not in the way it's written but in the content.

I'm waiting for Hyper Intelligence, it might be around the corner :)

Living in the somewhat northern EU I like the change.
We've just gone back to standard time and it was nice to get some daylight back in the morning.
Sure you miss it late in the afternoon but who goes out when it's cold?
The extra ligh you get in the summer months is much nicer.
Some people complain it throws their life off twice per year but those same people will happily take their holidays in places like Portugal or Greece that are in a different timezone, they would even go shopping in London what is also an hour 'behind'.

That's how you recognize human texts vs. AI written drivel.

I know there is a European flag above the article but this is purely about France.
And I did not read EU companies would be exempted from this tax, it sure looks like the French are again shooting themselves in the foot :)
On the other hand, the French state is so deep in debt and with a population that refuses to tighten their belts, no wonder the politicians are looking for solutions.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

We're running a business here. We need real software, not toys created as a fun weekend experiment with a chatbot or burning money to run an agent and get 50% (or more likely 5%) of the way there.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

The real world is more complicated than that. For example, we still have a Windows 7 machine in my office. It has some very expensive but still very useful software locked to it that has no direct replacement available on either Linux or Windows 11. Obviously we have to be careful about security and controlling access to a legacy OS like that.

Blunt statements about "forcing an upgrade" are worthless in this kind of situation. Chances are anyone who is still using a system like that has a good reason for it, at least if it's in use professionally. We buy these assets because they solve problems. Those problems might or might not have a useful and cost-effective solution available on a different platform. If there is no modern solution available and the original still works, your statement that "the old ways are obsolete" is by definition false.

What you do need to do is rationally assess the risks and the threats you face and provide other ways of mitigating the risks and protecting against the threats if you can't rely on, for example, a legacy OS that no longer gets security updates to be secure by itself. But then ideally you shouldn't be relying on any single device or piece of software being secure as your only line of defence anyway, and assuming you already have some degree of defence in depth, accommodating unusual requirements is more a redistribution of security responsibilities than a fundamental change of approach.

Yes, it does look like we broadly agree here.

I suppose the main thing I'd have said very differently is the terminology, in that I wouldn't regard the kind of incompetent senior as a senior in the first place. But then I'm pretty old school about this: to me, a junior developer needs quite close supervision to produce useful results, a regular/mid developer can perform routine tasks with minimal supervision but might need more help with larger or more complex tasks, while a senior is someone you can give more or less any task on your project to and they'll figure it out, and senior is also the level of someone who would be capable of supervising and training a junior.

We've had a wave of people, particularly since the tech boom during COVID, who have obviously been over-promoted due to the employee's market and title inflation. They might now have titles like "senior" or even "lead" or "staff", but they don't have the skills and experience to operate successfully at those levels. I agree the acceleration of everything due to increasing AI use tends to show these people up and I agree that a good mid-level developer using AI might well outperform them. But then I suspect in reality a good mid-level developer was probably outperforming them before AI as well, it just wasn't so obvious.

That is wildly optimistic IME. Frontier models do a great job of sounding authoritative on any given subject. This is not the same as actually having expert-level knowledge and understanding, and the choices the models make when you ask them to implement something can and often do reflect that. There are several domains I've worked in over the past few years where AIs lack even basic knowledge an expert practitioner would have, probably because these fields are too specialised to have a lot of books available or papers published, so presumably there hasn't been much subject-specific content to train the models on.