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Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the core-js library used by millions of websites, says he's ready to give up open source development because so few people pay for the software upon which they depend. The 'Free' in 'Free, Open-Source Software' probably confuses some people
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I've been an open source author (SETI Driver). And yes, it can be a pain to maintain but individual users are really good at thanking you. Corporations on the other hand generally don't have the incentives to give back to the open source community.
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While Denis may want to avoid discussing the war in Ukraine, ultimately that is his core problem. Sanctions have made sending money to Russia effectively impossible for most western businesses due to compliance risks; and much more difficult for individuals (because most monetary pathways have been closed).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Approximately two seconds after Microsoft let people poke around with its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, people started finding that it responded to some questions with incorrect or nonsensical answers, such as conspiracy theories. Google had an embarrassing moment when scientists spotted a factual error in the company’s own advertisement for its chatbot Bard, which subsequently wiped $100 billion off its share price. Plenty of 'A', not so much 'I'
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This shift is sooo dangerous. From the general publics willingness to accept these things are AI which they aren't to how they could be used to further control peoples perception of reality. Much of Bigtech already uses various algorithms to bias opinions that those in charge prefer and downplay or outright censor takes they don't like. These fake AI ChatBots are basing their feedback on what they find on the net so he who controls most of what is accessible on the net will be able to control what these ChatBots tell people is true.
Personally I don't think they be allowed to refer to these things as AI and I hope we'll see a group (who has the ability in terms of money to do it) file a lawsuit forcing these entities to call these things what they are and to stop using teh term AI.
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I don't agree with the lawsuit part, but any AI that isn't open source, including whatever was used to train it, cannot be trusted with anything controversial. ChatGPT originally provided both sides of controversial topics but now refuses to provide anything but politically correct crapola on many of them. Bias has clearly been introduced, in much the same way that many social media sites censor or deplatform "unacceptable" views.
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Today, the company is announcing it’s taking that head start and building on it with multimodal search. That means it can add elements beyond text to help answer a question more precisely. Great news if you were searching for multimodal chats, I guess?
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Now you can upgrade any .NET application to the latest version of .NET inside of Visual Studio! File, New Project...
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The idea that Google has come up with is called the "Privacy Sandbox," which sounds like a good thing, but it's a new tracking system for Android and Chrome. Google spying on its users? More crazy talk.
I mean: it's got 'privacy' right there in the name. They wouldn't mislabel something like that, would they?
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The sandbox is inside-out?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The online job and social site listed the top skills in areas such as IT, as well as engineering, recruiting, sales, and marketing. So make sure to include them in your LinkedIn profile for the convenience of the recruiters
and in related news: Layoffs Hit Microsoft's LinkedIn[^], so I guess those employees will need to check the list extra fast.
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In a recent study, a German-Georgian team of researchers proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) could use black holes as quantum computers. And they also *may* be using black holes to bake bread
Sourdough, of course. Ever since the pandemic hit.
... really. Some "scientists"... 
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We're not saying it's aliens, but ...
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And they also may be using black holes to bake bread
I think 'baked' pretty much describes those scientists.
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David O'Neil wrote: I think 'half-baked' pretty much describes those scientists.
You gave them 100% too much credit. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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From my almost non-existent knowledge of drug terminology in the States, being 'baked' means completely stoned out of your mind on marijuana. Half-baked means half-stoned. Urban Dictionary: Baked
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'Half-baked' in my childhood used to mean 'crazy', which is certainly an appropriate epithet for these physicists.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Often, 'half-baked' is used over here as in the phrases 'half-baked idea,' or 'half-baked plan.' In other words, 'winging it. Interesting how meanings are different in different cultures.
Of course, young kids are changing the meanings of everything right now, so there is no guarantee for the future!
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In a livestreamed event focusing on the new Blazor United project, Microsoft's Daniel Roth noted that while it's only focused on the web, the .NET team has been talking about combining disparate tooling for web, mobile and desktop. Because everyone should enjoy trying to build stuff with HTML and CSS
I was going to say, "with angle brackets", but everyone's doing that already.
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And the version number will be 8.0, right?
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Wishful thinking again, are we?
TTFN - Kent
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It's like nostalgia, but it's not. Don't know why, but a shiver went through me.
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But the really fun footnote is towards the end, where Tewson notes that she consents to Browder using his robot lawyer to defend himself in this case, and practically dares him to do so:
For what it is worth, Petitioner does and will consent to any application Respondents make to use their "Robot Lawyer" in these proceedings. And she submits that a failure to make such an application should weigh heavily in the Court’s evaluation of whether DoNotPay actually has such a product.
I love that while accusing him of fraud she's inviting Do Not Pay's creator to hoist himself on his own petard. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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