But sending this guy to jail as a scammer? Laughable. He gave people what they paid for.

The fraud charge sounds like it was defrauding the university rather than his clients. The CPS press release which all of the media reports seem to be based on doesn't break down the sentencing among the three charges of fraud by false representation, accessing a computer system without authorisation, and money laundering. The case doesn't appear to be available (yet?) at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

Was this written by AI? What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch. Academic honesty is a largely an individual decision. If you catch students, fail them. Strip their degrees in more extreme cases. But sending this guy to jail as a scammer? Laughable. He gave people what they paid for. And you totally misunderstand the post. This guy is nothing compared to what happens daily on ChatGPT and the like. I support locking up Altman. Do you?

TikTok indeed is a shithole with a lot of AI slop, way more than I ever run into on YouTube. A whole lot of uncanny valley shit, and a lot of shit past that into more believable quality, but still AI.

Ah, if only we could employ perfect programmers who follow the proper rules all the time and consistently, then we would all be safe. And if I had a pink unicorn, then I'd be rich.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome and Musk Derangement Syndrome" huh? I don't think we need to bring in the ability to believe those flim-flam artists into this discussion.

I'll say the obvious: because we all know that ChatGPT is used constantly for cheating. I'm no fan of this paid cheater, but 3 years of prison for that is stupid. Tax evasion? Sure. Scam? Fuck no. Sounds like the university be bad at Englishing.

I've never experienced TikTok; but everything I've heard leads me to believe that even before AI became so pervasive,` the platform had way, way more slop than YouTube. Presumably, a greater affinity for slop in general implies a greater incidence of AI slop.

There's nothing in Linux that demands you use SystemD. You can choose to use SysVInit if you really want to. Indeed the only kernel requirement is something called "init" is either in /, /bin, or /usr/bin

But the init scripts are really just faking what init was doing - watching processes and restarting them as necessary. The SysVInit scripts are a crude re-implementation of inittab.

What is being described is GIGO not thread safety.

strncpy() is one of those functions that looks like it was designed as a footgun from day one. The totally stupid semantics are because it was meant for copying strings into fixed-length records inside structs, things like user names and directory entries. It was never meant to be used for about 99.9% of the ways it's actually been used since then, and the C standards committee decided to perpetuate the footgun rather than replacing or supplementing it with a safe string copy. There were safe replacements introduced twenty years ago in TR 24731 but they saw virtually no adoption because it would sap and impurify C's precious bodily fluids to actually do anything to make it safer to use.

I am not salty. I just run all my Linux systems without the systemd trash. Has saved me from having to do emergency patches several times now.

Don't worry, you'll also be able to 3-D print the cartridges - along with the printer. :-)

[Like with the turtles, it'll be 3-D printing all the way down.]

in embedded use I ban strncpy and offer a strlcat version.

I thought sure he was going to work the word "billionaire" in there somehow, but the closest he got was "billion". I'm kind of disappointed!

Some cops are bad cops. Some cops are presumably not-bad, but have done a piss poor job of policing the bad cops.

"The rotten apple spoils his companion." — Poor Richard's almanack, 1736