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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:48AM (#50148480)
Jimmy Carr in 2008:

> Of course you get a lot of right-wing people saying "oh these Poles; they come over here taking our jobs". I think if a guy from Poland arrives and he doesn’t speak the language, he doesn’t have any money and he doesn’t know anyone, and he takes your job on the first day – you’re shit, fuck off."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ICmOYP8gs

Somehow I think "taking our jobs" concerns are going to be a lot more palatable.

Re:Websites are closing their doors to AI agents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:10AM (#50141762)
This is opportunity.
> just go to lookup the video piracy streaming sites that's almost completely powered by ads

They are often down, slow, or congested.

Impressive for their low revenue, but I'm not sure how relevant to cloud customers that want better quality than that.

And yes, I know cloud services are often down, slow, or unavailable, but it's a matter of degrees.

Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:04PM (#50125361)
To be clear, this is in no way close to a cryptographic attack.
FYI https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ in case you weren't aware of it.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:47PM (#50111922)
It did feel very odd to read that.
Libreboot is not a fork of Coreboot.

It's a distribution. That is, they build and distribute firmware images. Coreboot just ships source.

Coreboot's docs lists the variety of distributions: https://doc.coreboot.org/distributions.html