They could be posting about something interesting in coding, or new security vulnerabilities, or some articles about amateur radio, or bio hacking, or any number of things. Instead we get old and recycled stuff, and we get endless articles on AI slop. Sometimes we get AI slop included in the TFS. Slashdot has become so great over the years...

I know I do.

Chips are tested after manufacture. A large number of them have tiny flaws in one or more areas, but work perfectly otherwise. The ones that are flawless go in the highest-end models, the others have the flawed area disabled and go in the lower-end models. Some are just rejected outright.

That's a great question. What typically happens, I think, is that most people answer something along what they made for their last contract. (Yeah, I'm talking 1099s here.) That means that they work themselves out of a raise and lose due to cost of living and inflation. On the other hand, prop yourself too far up and you'll never get an offer regardless of how qualified you are.

So a question to the Slashdot community to make this thread useful: How do you go about that in negotiation? How do you determine your opening offer? Of course, this assumes that you are a good candidate to begin with.

Good lord. I can see how back in the BBS days these might have fit in, but nobody is ever going to pay for this.

Exactly! Adding a middleman always lowers the price. Everyone knows that!

Do you mean like he could have added air conditioning?

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Trump knows all about Key Money, and he wants his taste. He has used the term publicly, as if it were a normal thing rather than the illegal practice that it is.

So these child-clowns want me to dump all my personal data to their AI so it can go through it and perform actions on my behalf? Maybe some day, dude, but only if"

1. I have exclusive control of it.

2.The data never leaves my possession.

3. I have total control over the decision matrix it uses to do things.

I can just see some piece of Altman-ware trying to go through my email and signing me up for everything from dates to "friendly gatherings" to business meetings to.... Just no.

International travel. You can get one of these, put a limited set of files you need on it, travel with it, and if it gets damaged, lost, or analyzed by customs, then it's no big deal. When you get home, you can wipe it and then it's ready for the next trip.

Curious what their aiming point is for game mods.

While OpenAI may have modified their contract to remove mass surveillance on US citizens, there is curiously no mention of the other reason Anthropic was dropped by the Pentagon - using AI for autonomous lethal weapons. So it looks like they're still going to do that part. What could possibly go wrong?