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Re:MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:12PM (#50283237)
Unenforceable - sure, but it's interesting and I see the logic. While LLMs are extremely useful, I find they homongenise things. Claude text is instantly identifiable and now all my co-workers presentations and docs sound like it. I'm sure that extra effort helps differentiate things (so many LLM generated sites look the same so not many people put in the effort).

A project without everyone putting the same filter between them and the work they submit might help a project evolve in interesting and different ways.

Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:07PM (#50124734)
That makes it even worse. A leak is still a leak even when you haven't notice it. Personally I use HIBP but I would still be annoyed to learn a system I installed mainly for privacy was sending private data to a third party by default.
Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:56PM (#50124558)
Toxic developers turned me off Home Assistant. The same developer is the star of this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277

Re:Where is all the new, good software? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:07AM (#50068774)
Agreed. The recent Epic Games story (mass layoffs followed by the remaining staff being forced to use AI to crunch) is more in line with reality as I see it. I've been told by management to 'use AI' when I really need to hire.
It's the narrow end of the wedge.
Prescribing medication for acne, some of which can have serious side affects like depression, is general medicine.
I'm not sure whether the people developing these spam tools simply lack the imagination or empathy to see the world through the eyes of other people or can but don't care. Or maybe the "grindset" / "maxxing" mentality demands callousness by its very nature.
Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:24AM (#49775628)
... if you can afford the ever increasing cost of hardware, a rise directly caused by the same AI companies.
Re:"The Secret Life of Circuits" is here on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:14AM (#49765117)
Just ordered. Love these kinds of books. Any others like this one people are aware of?
An "open" healthy organisation does not stack the cards during major policy discussions by forbidding major arguments against the adoption of a position its backers clearly want. The author is right to call that out. It was an extremely disappointing move for Rust to make.
Re: on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:28AM (#48555882)
There is also Seraph (prevents common attacks, remote software etc) from the team behind the KitBoga scam-baiting streamer.

"Powerful anti-scam software that proactively detects, blocks, and alerts you to online threats before they cause harm. " https://www.seraphsecure.com/

Re:GLM 5.2 Is Out on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:57PM (#48522326)
Well, one did suddenly develop the need to tell users continuously about apparent white genocide in South Africa.
Re:Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:32PM (#48466455)
Many of the UK's post-Brexit trade deals have been the previous EU one with a slight tweak. Even the much touted US beef deal was built on an EU scheme and was rather minimal at that. It's not surprising then that the EU and UK are similar. The lack of UK growth over the EU is a big indictment of Brexit from an economic perspective.
Re:Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:10PM (#48372180)
A huge thank you to the KDE team. Plasma is good (finally) on Wayland for me (AMD graphics, single hi-dpi screen). I finally switched over from GNOME and I am happy with the experience.
Re:Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:25PM (#48340768)
Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop."

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...

I'm sure the AI is not biased and has a diverse training data set accurately representing the war-torn and impoverished countries these asylum seekers are coming from.
... and also share those images with dozens of companies and potentially have those images leak online. Example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photos-robot-roomba-vacuum...
Just a reminder: "Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-i...

Re:The AI water issue is fake on Sunday May 17, 2026 @02:43PM (#48171921)
Because water access is constrained geographically. You have to pipe it in if you use it all up. The US is seeing the worst spring drought on record: https://time.com/article/2026/05/10/drought-US-farmers-crops...
Re:The AI water issue is fake on Sunday May 17, 2026 @02:41PM (#48171887)
You know this is from 2025 because of the large number of emdashes in the text and in the comment liked by the "author".
Americans are just as regulated and with even more egregious regulatory capture (see the American broadband/mobile provider cartel). At least Europeans get a little consumer protection.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:15AM (#48133822)
It's going to work for the most part. Most people know that. It's a file by file, mostly function by function, conversion from one low level language to another with a very large test suite (with lots of Rust unsafe to work around differences). I've done that for C tools and it's fine, with some obscure edge cases here and there. The challenges are going to be making the new, very ugly, alien codebase idiomatic Rust in future and adding features or debugging the complex issues. I wish the developers luck. They're in for a slog.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:55AM (#48133656)
I'm curious how much this would cost a paying customer. Can you please give us an estimate?
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:48AM (#48133593)
Has he estimated the token cost for this (if he had to pay that is)? I'm curious how much this would cost a paying customer.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:44AM (#48133558)
The benefit of using Rust is that you know exactly where the unsafe code is so you can handle it explicitly and deliberately to avoid issues by imposing carefully crafted constraints... oh.
Re:Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:51PM (#48101134)
How did you guys detect it? Do you use it internally or do you monitor popular packages?
Re:Zed Editor Theme-Builder on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:51PM (#48077253)
You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions.

https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

The US had to leave the medicine rot in warehouses. The AI chatbot said it was DEI.
> ABC4’s crew was also issued a trespassing notice.

The class system in the US has never been more on display with the datacenter build outs. A senator who attacks a journalist gets them threatened by the police. Town halls to listen to local "concerns" are charades where they look for any excuse to arrest anyone who voices opposition [1].

[1] https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-duri...

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