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Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

Monday 29th January 2024 05:11 GMT Mr. Balise

I'd trust him anywhere. Except perhaps if I was on the mailing list

OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle

Thursday 31st August 2023 01:56 GMT Mr. Balise

Claims are valid and important ..

AI *should* have to pay attention to sources / compensate. AI cannot / has no inclination to actually invent or create things on its own.

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Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?

Friday 9th June 2023 21:01 GMT Mr. Balise

Even older guy disagrees ..

I was raised on Unix V7 on PDP 11/45, now run Manjaro (Arch) on 15 year old homebuilt PC, runs perfectly. systemd bad enough - won't be using any snaps and flatpack things.

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Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure

Saturday 11th March 2023 02:55 GMT Mr. Balise

Glad that I've run *nix since time began. Upon hearing this (world-plus-dog is good)

I immediately day-dream that as the AI gets thoroughly integrated into their software, that

the folks begin to say 'ick' about having all their decisions taken from them and finally

throw up all that stuff with accompanying 'thud's & loud voices, and turn to linux.

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US Patent Office to take only DOCX in future – or PDFs if you pay extra

Thursday 27th May 2021 01:01 GMT Mr. Balise

The best idea always wins. SGML was the best idea, XML only its native son. PDF, once a clever ps extension, is the dirty old money making tat its inventors always meant it to be. Short term America at its greediest. I speak from what I know tell ya.

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A 1970s magic trick: Take a card, any card, out of the deck and watch the IBM System/370 plunge into a death spiral

Monday 7th December 2020 12:14 GMT Mr. Balise

RJE. Cards. Assembly. Those were the days. First in my class at Assembly. However for PDP11/03. :) We were not so grand, but we were all connected by uucp, the precursor of the net, really. DARPA. As the man says, *oh to be young and foolish again* (rather than just foolish)

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