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@ZanaGB@lgbtqia.space @arstechnica@mastodon.social
You're misrepresenting Torvalds' position. He's pretty clearly using it as an additional tool to catch bugs in pull requests that the maintainer would otherwise miss, and not as a replacement for the maintainer's review.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I approve of Torvalds' position here. I don't. Even in cases where LLMs are a useful tool, I object to them on moral, environmental, economic, class, and political grounds. Please stop histrionically bothering the choir.
@bryan@dusty.ninja @arstechnica@mastodon.social
Wow, that's shockingly awful. It almost feels like a parody of a Cory Dotorow novel, but real. "Doctorowesque"?...
Still not clear on the mechanism for how they're pulling off this bullshit. Someone one reddit says someone else on reddit says it's firmware level, talking with Windows over ACPI. Of course, as is usual for reddit, I can't find the original comment. I don't see how the driver was ruled out as a potential culprit.
It sounds like Linux is unaffected.
RE: @GarretSidzaka@mastodon.social
My thoughts exactly.
"Their transparency report says they reject all such requests implying they receive some. No number is given."
That's kind of the point. That implication is deliberately misleading. Kash Patel aside, the FBI aren't utter morons. They're not "barred" from making direct requests; they're just not stupid enough to do so. They're smart enough to send everything through the MLAT, like they're supposed to, and get everything they want with zero pushback.
"No number is given." Yeah. Think about that for a moment. If Proton could truthfully say, "We denied 5000 requests from the FBI last year," wouldn't that be great marketing? Wouldn't they have every incentive to publish that number? Or even 500? Or even 50? Or, really, any number greater than, well... zero?
So it turns out that Facebook is behind the push for state laws requiring operating systems to implement age verification.
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Seeing a bunch of news stories to the effect that "Google Stopped Criminal Hackers Who Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw." But none of them include even the slightest factual details. Does anyone know the basis for the "hackers used AI" claim?
Ug.
As much as I'd like to just wash my hands of it, I'm going to be doing tech support for family members who won't leave Chrome pretty much indefinitely.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of "chrome:flags" to disable Chrome's AI crap?
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