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And how do you expect to stay out of the quagmire of lawsuits over NDA, accusations of stolen trade secrets and simply a shitload of lawsuits. Even if the developers are acting in good faith, the lawsuits could crush you before you're done.
Organizations spend a lot of time destroying the creative ideas their employees have; burying it in red tape, crushing it in meetings.
Re:Reddit to Transition to Logged in Only on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:04PM (#50299416)
Reddit death looks exactly like this.

It's often an echo chamber, and this will kill it, the only question is the timeframe. And no, I don't mean 20 years, I mean weeks/months.

You win.

Perl 4 specifically of course though.

Pray that's what's on it.
It's almost like this is intentional. Weird.
Re:Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:44PM (#50253720)
You can hide; but it's not going to end because you cover your eyes.
Re:Game trips modem/router breaker on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:01PM (#50222572)
AFCI breaker?

Electromagnetic noise can trigger them, it could feed back from the power supply.

Please identify a non-toy language that has never had a vulnerability.
Re:Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:20AM (#50176049)
Yes
Re:Impossible to get Adsense approval for my browser game on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:22PM (#50172862)
Maybe provide some evidence to show you've found and followed some research of your own before asking the entire internet for advice? Some specific targeted advice might be warranted, but I think we'd need to know a lot more specific details first.
Re:Xkcd: Random Number on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:44PM (#50172418)
7.
Wasn't the kid in Tumbler ridge just fucking with a LLM before he decided to kill other students?

I don't care if the guy threatened a lawnmower, I do care if he started spouting off about killing kids.

Context matters, but that's what the evaluation is for, not you our I deciding that a rant with potential violence towards children is just a rant at an LLM, or a premeditated act in advance of a violent crime.

I don't know. Do you know for sure? What happens if you're wrong?

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would have a concern with this.

Seems there's a line and this is well past any reasonable line.

Re:We generate accessible color palettes for AI-built apps on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:13AM (#50117996)
Not sure why you bothered, the AI I used the other day didn't have a problem with white on white, why make things complicated by using color?!

/sarcasm

Re:Linus Torvalds: "banning AI is stupid and so are you" on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:38AM (#50114144)
A bug is a bug is a bug. But not everything reported is a bug.

I watched a significant portion of that video, it represents what I expect well. You can't bury your head in the sand because an AI reported a bug, it's, potentially, still an exploitable bug. They can however raise the standard. They can require that reporting a bug comes with a fix, even if they reject the fix provided, it gives them an opportunity to evaluate that the bug is real, that someone put some effort in resolving it for the community (even if an LLM provided the fix); it gives something to evaluate the can benefit rather than only being a determent to the community.

I've sent a half dozen patches over the year to projects, I've always provided my perceived fix for the issue, occasionally they've been implemented as-is, and sometimes they were replaced outright with an alternate solution. I never really cared about the solution, just that the issues was resolved.

The first was a commercial library that dealt with multiple modems (interrupts and daughter cards)on dos based machines. They took the fix and integrated it and provided me with an updated library. Not much of a thank you, but the library was fixed.

More recent ones was another commercial library, open source but proprietary, and they sat on it for 3 months waiting for me to fix it their way, before the accepted it as-is and released appropriately adjusted patch. (I'm not their employer or employee, their complaints were tedious undefined rules. I fixed the bug and had working code. I waited them out.)

Good responses, bad responses, none of them mattered, what did matter to me, and others, is the developers involved cared enough to eventually implement the right fix for their codebase. The bugs need to go. Set the ego aside and fix it.

Re:Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:48PM (#50111924)
Knew the country of origin before I read the article. Surprise!
Re:Linus Torvalds: "banning AI is stupid and so are you" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:36PM (#50111843)
I'm substantially less worried about the Linux kernel than almost everything else.

Honestly, seeing people go from concern trolling to what I like to call _concern farming_ has been utterly disappointing.

_concern farming_ is when people build entire crops of concerns with no intent to do anything other than fertilize them.

Your ignorance isn't reality
Re:Teaching a Door to Say No on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:20PM (#50063224)
Does the AI trigger the dtmf tone directly?

Yes -then no, you cannot trust it won't make that decision.

Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:25PM (#50059717)
The community is relying on the obscure process flows they've learned and optimized for their own purpose; replacing QGIS will probably wipe out jobs.

Couldn't happen sooner.

Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:41AM (#50058041)
Considering this application needs an entire overhaul on its UI it would simply be easier to start from scratch.
Except it's not a misconception.

Air temperature is only one contributing factor for comfort in a home. Surface temperatures take longer to achieve and the larger the gradient the longer it can take.

There are multiple factors to take into account, including the highest temperature the home gets to, that is dependant on location and weather patterns.

If you keep the temperature in the home to 28-30 degrees then later cooling to lower temperatures before bed time you can reduce costs and energy expenditures than if you let it rise to 34 degrees or more and only lowering it when you get home. Or, what you save in costs you expend in otherwise like poor sleep.

Lowering it advance, on a schedule makes more sense if you want surface temperatures to also be reduced.

The blanket disabling of air conditioning when not home is not the only solution, and often is sub-optimal.

I predict they won't.
"When everyone leaves, all the air conditioners switch off."

That's often substantially more inefficient than keeping it at the temperature desired, or adjusting the desired temperature to mitigate it somewhat.

Perhaps one forgets how long it takes to write a patent.
Re:A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:42PM (#50000656)
Those are references to "Hackers" the movie from 1995.
Wordpress does absolutely nothing to enforce this, so their position on the matter is irrelevant.

Commercial plugins are a thing, next.

If you think an AI can't reproduce this without it being a copy of the code you are sadly very very mistaken.

I've had an AI reproduce astronomical formula functions without difficulty in whatever programming language I want. Graphical algorithms aren't even a challenge.

Might be time to reconsider the business model entirely, because Pandora's box is already opened.

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