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- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just the compute, it’s all that data.
As always, have to think where you put your money.
Be so much easier if they weren’t all just different types of bastards!
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 2 weeks ago:
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
Oh I know you can run it locally, but I don’t think you can’t create it locally because even if you had the compute, you don’t have the training material.
I don’t know how long AI companies are expecting to run at a loss. It is normal for a while for new bigtech. Though this is new scales. Hopefully this bubble with deflate rather than pop, just because the amount of money will have real world consequences.
- Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election 2 weeks ago:
No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
Well one way is I don’t depend on it already. But it’s also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It’s just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech’s big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It’s just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn’t a solution to regulatory failure, but it’s not nothing.
On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that’s not in big tech’s interest. It’s all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
Broadly, I see “AI” as part of enshitification. I think it’s brain rotting. It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
That is basically DDoSing open source project, which will not merge code without it being properly reviewed. Almost all open source projects are basically artisan code and the maintainers are the custodians of it.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
Is this a technology issue or a human one?
If you don’t understand the code your AI has written, don’t make a PR of it.
If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.
Basically, is technology the job we need here to manage the bad behavior of humans? Do we need to reach for the existing social tool to limit human behavior, law? Like we did with CopyLeft and the Tragedy Of The Commons.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nazi always were a bit camp… All a bit homoerotic, but always closeted.
Tragic really, before crimes against humanity drown out any sympathy.
- Comment on Tesla wins licence to supply electricity in Britain 3 weeks ago:
Here comes Telsa V2G.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Not all IP is self surviving. Even CopyRight isn’t always a bad thing, if you think of small artists, for example. My fear is about CopyLeft mainly as I feel it’s been incredible successful in pushing forwards openness. The megacorps hating it, tells you it is doing its job. Only of the things they love about LLM and code is it can license wash away CopyLeft.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
FPTP is the simplest and least representative. Worth reading about different systems out there.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
More often it is Conservatives, also on about a third of the vote, and that has deeply broken the country, but I take your point.
I’d like score/rank voting based mixed member.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.
We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn’t done only for the duopoly.
We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
Electoral college isn’t ideal, but the two party system is worse. It’s just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It’s false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That’s a better reflection of real politics.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don’t bother.
Frankly, I blame those who didn’t vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK’s FPTP is deeply broken, but it’s dysfunction is nothing compared with the US’s duopoly.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
It didn’t work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn’t the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 5 weeks ago:
They did since it was online. It’s closed and online, the OS “owner” are the only true admin. If it’s closed and online, your “commands” are just “suggestions” compared to theirs.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I’m disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on “it is us, or Reform” which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 weeks ago:
What’s great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.
The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn’t have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won’t fear vote splitting as much.
It’s one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 5 weeks ago:
To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn’t support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn’t do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
It’s pretty rubbish. I was under pressure from a few angles to compromise more with Google. GrapheneOS is were I am. But I want to be on a prober Linux. But it’s just not possible without competition law being enforced. It’s political problem not technical.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
HSBC business. There is no fob. You have to get a code from their app to login online. That app refused to run on LineageOS with MicroG, regardless of the boxing and lying to it I tried. It does work under GrapheneOS with boxed Google services.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 1 month ago:
Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
The fight was always going against these monopolies.
In the UK with have OpenRightGroup to some extent the Greens. In the US EFF, FSF, SFC. In the EU ESFe, Pirate Party, Greens.
There are many groups fighting the political cause. They have had victories over the years, but winning the odd battle doesn’t win a war. They all need support.
Until now, a lot of open source has tried to be nonpolitical, but that may be changing:
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 month ago:
Fair enough. Doesn’t surprise me Telsa are more hot air and bluster then Waymo.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 month ago:
You got a link for those numbers? Very damning if true. 40x the humans and still worse stats?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
We need to support political groups fighting for us, not just think in terms of technology. In the UK it is OpenRightsGroup, maybe the Greens party, in Europe there is the Pirate Party, Greens, Free Software Foundation Europe, and more. We should be trying to get politicians into this.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
I’m basically am doing exactly this. But I’m only on GrapheneOS as I had to compromise on some closed apps that refused to run on LineageOS. GrapheneOS means I can compromise on Google a bit without being completely compromised by Google. The market and geopolitical problem remains.