Stumbled upon this golden joke that says volumes:
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI.
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mastodon 4.7.3My name is Ivan. I'm from Kazakhstan. I am: Christian, Russian, translator, in that particular order, probably.
I'm very enthusiastic about open-source and BSD/Linux systems in particular.
I spend my days on my keyboard and in my books.
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Another day, another slop.
Security researcher found that Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords in RAM in cleartext.
https://x.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730
Here's his Github repo to test it for yourself: https://github.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper
That's Microsoft at its best, I guess. =)
This is so Microsoft on so many levels.
Imagine buying Microsoft Office 2019 for your Mac. Perpetual licence. Just a good ol' software in a box (except without a box, I guess, times are digital).
"It's so great to own a real software and not a subscription", you think to yourself.
Now Microsoft basically says: "I'll do ya one better, pal. Now your Office 2019 will work in read-only mode. Hope you wrote everything you needed. Get a subscription already".
I didn't know you can do that. Sell a software and then just brick it with a proper announcement like it's the most natural thing to do.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/28/microsoft-is-killing-office-2019-for-mac-and-iphone-and-you-cant-do-much-about-it
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@jameshowell@fediscience.org I can absolutely understand it can do amazing and potentially groundbreaking things in some scientific fields if used right. Things we sometimes aren't capable of.
But I never understood why we need more code. We already have so much code no one probably ever read. And they want even more.
And then I remember they just want more money, and for them more money means more code... But when that money is spent what the hell are we gonna do with so much code no one will ever read?
RE: @Khrys@mamot.fr
Countless open source projects in dire need of talented contributors, and this educated and quite competent guy comes and gracefully does the most atrocious thing possible instead. What a story. =)
This is so funny: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI
So, Linux drops support for many old network drivers from ISA and PCMCIA era, and the reason is AI.
Andrew Lunn says:
"These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users."
Basically, maintainers are tired of a flood of annoying mails about vulnerabilities in old drivers (who knows how many of them are false positives), so it's easier to just drop support altogether.
AI was supposed to make everyone's life easier, right? =)
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@jk We need to wrap it in a more flashy terminology for Gen-Z.
We need to give this a name... like SelfGPT?
"Did you know there's a hidden subsystem in your own mind that can work like ChatGPT, but entirely eco-friendly and FREE? Here's a secret method for unleashing a true potential of your SelfGPT..."
Then a hundred more TikToks about this secret technique, and we can call it a day.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Dunno, it doesn't sound safe to me. We should rewrite it in Rust.
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@r1w1s1 I was too small to operate them myself, but my first exposure to floppy disks was via 5.25-inch. It was on an ES-1840 machine. That's basically a Soviet clone of Intel 8086. No hard drive, so you had to use first floppy drive to boot DOS (AlphaDOS) and the second one to boot the program you need.
I played the very first Prince of Persia on it.
I still own some of those floppy disks. Can't verify if they work, though.
I'm not a programmer by trade, but seeing how every (it seems) open source project founded and managed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts turns to vibecoding makes me wonder:
Why do you people hate programming so much as to make someone (something?) else code instead of you?
I mean, it is clear that vibecoding in enthusiast OSS projects is a way to NOT code. Why bother then?
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@EndeavourOS Honestly, announcements like these actually earn my trust more than anything.
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@kkarhan Really. I see no difference between MS, Google and Proton ecosystems. They're the same thing with different marketing campaigns.
Exquisite.tube is a very strange place indeed!
Мой сонный разум породил подходящий рекламный слоган для #GitHub в последнее время:
«Я часть той силы, что вечно обещает SLA, но вечно производит баги».
What the hell, another day, another browser.
Turns out, Google Chrome silently installs 4GB Google Nano LLM model on every device for its AI features. Without permission. By default.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
I couldn't care less for carbon footprint, but 4GB of bandwidth is the thing I will most certainly notice, because with my ISP it would take an hour or two on good days to download.
And they drop it on every single device using Chrome. Unless you explicitly disable it in chrome://flags
This is crazy. I mean, we didn't expect less from Google.
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@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe I will never understand why would anyone do that.
I can imagine some hypothetical dire situation when you desperately need some tool or piece of code and you have absolutely no way to acquire it and you don't really know any programming language. You probably can vibecode it in the most dirty way possible to do the job for yourself and throw it away.
But sharing it with the whole world in the most obtrusive manner...
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@passthejoe@ruby.social People keep using wrong tools for wrong problems and complaining that square doesn't fit into triangle slot.
@hi Well, yeah, but that's how we did it back in the days, right?
I had Nokia 3310 and a huge CD player in its own bag stuffed with like a dozen CDs. This bag had a whole system of straps, so you couldn't just TAKE the player, you had to EQUIP it. Only later I bought a tiny mp3 player that had crazy 256 MB of memory.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Your points are totally fair, I think.
But I'd like to point out that you're "infinitely more" sovereign than any usual person or entity that relies on SaaS products.
Because while you rely on other people's work, that work had already been done. And if perchance Internet disappeared, your systems air-gapped or else, you'd still be able to exist quite fine. You don't need a huge staff of your ISP, Cloudflare, Amazon, Microsoft and so on to support you. Given the need you can even develop the software you use further all by yourself or in a small group of enthusiasts.
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@p3ter@mastodon.social Well, to be fair, we'd probably use one of the BSDs.
I'm not 100% sure BSD would be the same thing Linux became now, though.
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@Lemonid Мне кажется, это самые космические снимки космоса, что у нас были за много, много, много лет. Даже наша Земля кажется немножко не нашей.
Аж холодит от таких-то видов.
Fun fact: if you're dualbooting with Windows 11, it silently changes default boot order in UEFI to ensure it always boots first. I think there's no way to change that behavior.
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@jwcph@helvede.net Well, I'm not an AI enjoyer, but Gemini passes the test with flying colors.
I wouldn't believe these "tests" on the Internet. Too much is dependent on the model and its actual settings.
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@jwcph@helvede.net Absolutely. There's of course no "the one who understands" in LLM. That being said we have no idea what "understanding" means in humans - all we have is more or less convincing ideas and notions.
At the same time it does not mean that LLM could be in any shape or form equaled to human just because we don't really know how humans work either. At least LLM is not capable to "self-check" its conclusions and retrace its own steps in the same way human can - it just generates new text output.
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@dajb@social.coop This is a single worst idea for a logo. Evidently, person who designed it is just too young to know Internet lore.