Certainly true, but no one is dying because payroll is down.
Really? Maybe this is news to you then, I rarely get to educate ppl on here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
Readit Newsoctocop commented on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) therecord.media/denmark-d... · Posted by u/robtherobber
octocop commented on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) therecord.media/denmark-d... · Posted by u/robtherobber
That's great, but it's always just one agency, or one very local bit of government. If we (Europeans) really mean it - and we should - the top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die.
According to the CLOUD act, the US government can demand access to data from US companies, regardless of where that data is stored. That must be unacceptable to any sovereign government. I genuinely do not understand why other countries put up with this.
A lot of hospitals run Microsoft. So it would be literal death you are talking about.
Dumb question, why is the water in the Rhine warm?
octocop commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I'm excited about getting access to the whole WB catalogue?
Well, for sure the price will go up too.
octocop commented on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional apnews.com/article/kenya-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
For some context on why the original law was introduced:
When you're making a seed that you want to make the best crop possible, the way to do that is to take two great lines of maize that share relatively little genetics, cross them at the last step, and enjoy the hybrid vigour that results. This is one of the most important practical advancements we have for getting good yields from crops: the yields are dramatically better for this seed then if you plant the seed kernels that are made by the hybrid. When you plant saved seed (which many poor people are forced to do through not being able to afford hybrid seeds) you get dramatically worse yields and often even doing things like using fertilizer doesn't make economic sense (https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/low-quality-low-ret... is frequently cited.)
However, to the naked eye, there's basically no distinction between a hybrid seed and stored seed. A lot of seed companies sell seeds that are coated to help protect the seeds from pests/blights, but seed counterfitters have learned how to copy this. To distinguish them, you either need to run genetic testing or plant them and wait a season. If you get scammed, the result can be devestating for a smallholder farmer's family.
I don't necessarily think community seed banks should be banned, but I think it's important context to know. There are people for whom they really need any seed, crops which are not served commercially well, and a whole bunch of other use cases I immediately understand for a community seed bank. But seed counterfitting is a real problem that is hurting some of the world's poorest people. (I'll also just say I'm not up to date on this law, the court case, or how it's been applied in the country.)
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of Apollo Agriculture and still serve on the board, which operates in Kenya and a few other countries trying to help smallholders get access to better agtech (which includes hybrid seeds and fertilizer and other high roi agricultural tools.)
> But seed counterfitting is a real problem that is hurting some of the world's poorest
I'm guessing these hybrid seeds you are talking about are probably the reason for the counterfitting to begin with. I don't imagine them being sold at a reasonable price, but with this law maybe you have less competition?
All while Waymo is expanding to more and more cities, including Detroit where it will deal with snow and ice. Waymo is years ahead of Tesla in the self-driving race. It's possible Tesla never succeeds in launching a truly self-driving car.
They are in completely different leagues, the Tesla robotaxi vehicle is probably cost 10x less, at least.
octocop commented on Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools mastodon.social/@bagder/1... · Posted by u/robhlam
Here are 55 closed PRs in the curl repo which credit "sarif data" - I think those are the ones Daniel is talking about here https://github.com/curl/curl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+sarif+is%3Aclos...
This is notable given Daniel Stenberg's reports of being bombarded by total slop AI-generated false security issues in the past: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl...
Concerning HackerOne: "We now ban every reporter INSTANTLY who submits reports we deem AI slop. A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time"
Also this from January 2024: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...
The models used have improved quite well since then, I guess his change of opinion shows that.
This video doesn't explain what the project does and how it does it. Also it's deliberately misleading the viewer, for example it purposefully incorrectly states that C++ is an interpreted language.
Also the music is way is too loud and sudden.
The video is a compliment to the Github repository, the presenter even shows code and brings up the repo in the video. I guess you didn't watch that part and unfortunately you didn't get the joke either.
but wait, what about my Nvidia stocks bro? Can we keep the AI hype going bro. Pls bro just make another AI assistant editor bro.
I don't think it's strange because it feels like Meta is trying to do what OpenAI originally set out to do with making AI accessible to everyone.