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Their HA infrastructure is all built on open source projects. The thing they have that we don’t is teams of SREs on-call 24/7.

So they claim.

Looking through the commit history there are numerous “Manually fixed…” commits, where the LLM doesn’t do what the programmer wants after repeated prompting, so they fix it themself.

And here is the problem. It required expert supervision for the prompts to be repeatedly refined, and the code manually fixed, until the code was correct. This doesn’t save any labour, it just changes the nature of programming into code review.

If this programmer wasn’t already an expert in this problem domain then I have no doubt that this component would be full of bugs and security issues.

Meaning it’s really just running in their closet,

You think they’re lying about having their hardware in a colo?

If the researcher had spent as much time auditing the code as he did having to evaluate the merit of 100s of incorrect LLM reports then he would have found the second vulnerability himself, no doubt.

All pirates drink water. What is water doing to stop piracy?

I think you’ve misunderstood what AGI means.

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”.

Can you elaborate? I don’t get what you mean by this.

It depends on the provenance of the code and who (if anyone) is downstream.

A project that’s packaged in multiple distros is more likely to be reliable than a project that only exists on github and provides its own binary builds.

I think we can make an exception for soup and ice-cream, no?

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This article isn’t about open source, it’s about iOS and Airdrop.

The website that it’s on is way more interesting though. I hadn’t heard of Kiwix before, but it seems like a very cool project: https://kiwix.org/en/about-us/

If your work doesn’t care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.

Not a trap, it’s just that “slop” is an english word that has a relevant meaning in this context. It’s not like it’s just made up slang for describing AI stuff.

Are you a native english speaker? Just curious.

How is nobody talking about the fact that

What is this title?

Usenet is federated (which is a type of decentralization), and I think OP means peer-to-peer (fully distributed).

Good luck alt-tabbing to the one you want.

This is what workspaces are for.

Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.

Look, I know a lot of people could be using the sharing feature to share material that is in the public domain or that they own the copyright to, but let’s be honest: most of that sharing would be considered an “unlicensed public performance” by the MAFIAA.