Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

Rumors; didn’t read.

Anyway the last few versions of Windows already convinced it’s best to keep avoiding it.

There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.

The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.

That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.

When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.

By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.

Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.

If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.

Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.

Politely asking the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.

tis but a scratch

The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…

Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!

Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.

The Heritage Foundation and Epstein’s orange buddy’s goals include defunding science as part of Project 2025.

Don’t expect much science wherever those folks hold power.

What about Lineage OS support?

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When seeing an ad, I always think they have too much products in stock, or that the thing isn’t good enough to sell without heavy marketing.

Yes, water/sand based solutions can and should be deployed today for short/medium term heat storage, ie days, maybe weeks if volume and/or insulation is sufficient.

MOST fluids are promising as they store energy in their structure then release heat. So those shouldn’t loose heat nor require insulation when stored. If they make it practical, it should allow smaller-scale longer-term storage (months). Until then let’s keep deploying existing proven tech.