I guess technically that makes them "not in Ukraine", but it is the same war in the end. At least for me that's the important part, not where exactly on the front line they are.

Well, NK and Russia have a defense treaty which obliges NK to sent military assistance to Kursk. So if they aren't, they're breaking their obligations.

Yes, almost like they have intentionally waited until Trump's election.

I guess it's simply the framing: It was a not very actively maintained open source project. So they've decided to turn it over to a new maintainer. Calling that 'donation' is a bit pushing it

I'm confused - why is Microsoft trying to - or expected to, by the article authors - patch a vulnerability in GRUB?

On the one hand, doas is simpler. Less code means less bugs, and lower chance someone manages to hack it and gain admin rights. On the other hand, sudo is more popular, and so has a lot more people double-checking its security. Ultimately, I don't think it matters - when someone unauthorized gains admin rights, usually it's not due to bug in sudo or doas, but other problems.

AI that can auto generate all those command line arguments I keep forgetting? Sure.

Closed source terminal that requires account? No way.

Well, Columbus himself didn't conquer much. He established a few settlement, but the real conquering was done by others.

More accurate comparison would be:

Describe Hernan Cortez in one word.

(GPT-4) Conquistador

I don't know why you would expect a pattern-recognition engine to generate pseudo-random seeds, but the reason OpenAI disliked the prompt is that it caused GPT to start repeating itself, and this might cause it to start printing training data verbatim.

competition too intense

dangerous technology should not be open source

So, the actionable suggestions from this article are: reduce competition and ban open source.

I guess what it is really about, is using fear to make sure AI remains in the hands of a few...

I don't see how blockchain (in this case) adds any value over a federation like Matrix.

To me, the smaller userbase is actually a real problem. I'm willing to stick it out and hope it grows. But for over half of the subreddits I subscribe to, the corresponding lemmy communities have 0 posts this last week.

Yes, I don't need 10k comments on my posts. But memes or mainstream news was never the big value of reddit for me - I can get these anywhere. Instead it is about the niche communities with a few thousand subscribers. And for now, I still have to use reddit for them.