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Things came to a head when programmer and lawyer, Matthew Butterick, teamed up with the legal team at Joseph Saveri Law Firm to file a proposed class action lawsuit last November, alleging the tool relies on “software piracy on an unprecedented scale.” Butterick and his legal team later filed a second proposed class action lawsuit on the behalf of two anonymous software developers on similar grounds, which is the suit Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI want dismissed. I wonder... have ChatGPT been trained with CP content too?
Should we buy Bob some Boxing gloves?
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An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Kraftwerk welcomes the competition
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Pics songs or didn't happen
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There were a couple linked in the article. Let’s just say that I don’t think any of them will make a “Sound of the week” post.
TTFN - Kent
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I wonder what it would make out of Finnegans Wake.
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A new DevSecOps survey of enterprises says that only 28 percent of CISOs are confident that production applications are fully tested – with the biggest barrier to DevSecOps being that security teams do not trust developers, identified by 55 percent of organizations as the top issue. They started it!
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The update is rolling out in waves, beginning with PCs that have been running Windows 11 version 21H2 the longest. We heard you like rebooting your computer
And if you're like me, you had to read that headline three times to find the change.
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New pricing plan for Oracle Java SE starts at $15 per employee per month and scales downward based on number of users. In related news: searches for software to migrate code at an all-time high
"The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java. ... Oracle cited an example in which a company with a total employee count of 28,000, including full-time and part-time employees and agents, consultants, and contractors, would be charged $2.268 million per year." <-- What a deal!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java.
  Are they nuts?
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Why can't they tell in a more straightforward way that they really want to ditch Java?
I guess that I know the answer: They want to make a load of money on that ditching. "You drop Java now! If you don't, we'll let you pay blood money for it!"
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OpenAI LLC has reportedly hired about 1,000 contractors over the past six months to help hone its artificial intelligence models’ coding capabilities. How many programmers does it take to fix the code it generates?
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As long as they don't hire ex-Windows updates programmers...  
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It’s time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive. 5318008 0.7734
Apologies, the local 13 year-old posted that one.
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We at JetBrains run the Developer Ecosystem Survey yearly to capture the zeitgeist of the development world. You are here: 2022 edition
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Microsoft says this week's five-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by a router IP address change that led to packet forwarding issues between all other routers in its Wide Area Network (WAN). Which explains why it took five hours to change the setting back?
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Almost everyone wants AI to automate mundane tasks. Everyone wants a big red button to do their job (until it does their job)
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I suspect the survey mainly went out to people who would be satisfied with this simple AI:
while (goldenParachute < wayToEffinMuch) ++goldenParachute;
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Today: I want more AI
Next year: Stupid AI just got me laid off
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There are plenty of reasons you might find yourself in a big unfamiliar codebase "There was so much to grok, so little to grok from."
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Am I living life wrong way? I cannot think of one situation where I would need my oven to be remotely operated or connected to internet.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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dan!sh wrote: I cannot think of one situation where I would need my oven to be remotely operated or connected to internet.
You're just not trying hard enough. Imagine the following:
It's the night before [insert big holiday] and you're hosting your extended family - think siblings, parents, squirrelly cousins, etc... even your greasy uncle Frank. Suddenly your "significant other" calls with an emergency, you need to drive 4 hours (each way) to pick up their cat (Muffins). You grab your keys and fire up the land yacht [1994 Plymouth Voyager] but not before popping a freshly thawed 27 pound [12.247 kg] turkey into your deluxe WiFi oven. At the same time you reach Muffins [turkey practically covered in microbes and other beasties by now], the oven tries to turn on to 375F [190.556C]. You get a panicked notification from your oven app that a required update is needed. You press YES on the 14 "Are you sure?" requests and nearly miss a curve. You jerk the wheel to save the mini-van and Muffin flies across the 3rd row seat and nearly out the back window [that conveniently folds out for your ventilation pleasure]. You arrive home just in time to carve the turkey before the family arrives. Turns out a 27 pound turkey is not enough to feed everyone so you politely eat vegetables instead. 6 hours later the phone calls and texts start pouring in as your family starts heading to their local emergency rooms.
See??? The Wifi oven was your best friend today. It saved [insert big holiday], Muffins and you while convincing your family never to let you host again.
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Wouldn't it need to heat up first before you put sh*t in?
I always have to preheat the oven, or she be cranky.
Who does a Wellington from umpteem miles away and starting at room temp? How long has that meat been sitting there at room temp anyway?
No. No. People would die. You can't have an oven where people are supposed to leave chicken for two days to turn it on over the internet. No.
No?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It might kill 1/5 of the planet.
Proceed?
[X] YES
[ ] No
Aight, go ahead with chicken in them remote controlled ovens; you deserve a bit of luxury!!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My oven isn't connected to internet (unless it has a secret connection - I doubt that it has). Yet it isn't completely dumb. E.g. it insist knowing the baking time before starting. After the time has run out and the alarm has sounded, it turns off the heat. If I have fallen asleep, not hearing the alarm, I might wake up to a dark brown and rather crispy pizza, but not a coal black one, and my house has not been set on fire. That smartness I welcome.
Usually, I heat the oven before baking. I don't need any remote control for that: If I turn on the 'Fast preheat' option, it reaches its maximum temperature (300°C/572°F) in about nine minutes. It usually takes me more time to prepare what I put into the oven. (Besides, I rarely need it that hot!). I don't need it any faster.
I was working for a company making Bluetooth SoC chips that went into the craziest products. We had an exhibit of some of them in our reception hall; among them a rice cooker. We never found out how a rice cooker could make use of a Bluetooth chip. The internet ads from the company making them said something about internet access to recipes, but we never learned how the rice cooker would interpret the recipes it could retrieve.
Another product in the exhibit, we did find out how works: A Bluetooth-equipped fork. It comes with a knife, at USD 99.95 for the pair, but the knife has no BT. The fork has an accelerometer, and if the application in the chip registers that you lift the fork up to your mouth with shorter intervals than considered healthy, a report is sent (here is where Bluetooth comes in) to you smartphone, sounding a buzzer to warn you to eat more slowly.
I can manage without that kind of smartness. In fact, the great majority of the chips we sold went into things that could hardly be said to improve the world. Or save it. Unless you consider a buzzer in your pocket telling you to eat more slowly to be contribution to save the world.
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