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Rio-bound Boeing 777 returns to Amsterdam over tech issue – DW – 06/23/2024 ( www.dw.com )

An unspecified technical problem forced the Rio-bound Boeing aircraft to turn back shortly after takeoff from Amsterdam. A spokesperson for Dutch air traffic control said the plane requested to land as a precaution and turned around over Belgium some 40 minutes after takeoff.

jmcs ,

In my experience Software Engineers working in ML are, for the most part, also drinking their own Cool Aid, and need pushback from the rest of the company to keep them in check. So management also needs to know which smart people to listen to.

jmcs ,

And they forgot the entire perfidy war crime: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-special-forces-posed-as-displaced-gazans-moving-into-building-where-hostage-held/

jmcs ,

The "beautiful" thing about perfidy is that it's a particularly well defined war crime and it's relatively easy to prove in the era of cameras everywhere.

jmcs ,
Spoiler

The "Look into my eyes and tell me if you see even the slightest glimmer of doubt" scene alone would ensure that.

jmcs ,

This episode was directed by Johnathan Frakes, who starred in the ENT episode, “These Are the Voyages...”

And some other minor roles.

jmcs ,

Let me rephrase the headline: "Russia is pissed off that Russian AIs are not parroting propaganda about the war".

jmcs ,

You say that like TV series producers don't have a history of casting adults to play teenagers.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study ( gizmodo.com )

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

jmcs ,

unready technology that spews dangerous misinformation in the most convincing way possible is being massively promoted

jmcs ,

Holy mother of false equivalence. Google is not supposed to be a random dude on the Internet, it's supposed to be a reference tool, and for the most part it was a good one before they started enshittifying it.

jmcs ,

The article was written by someone that doesn't know what NATO is for. For all its problems NATO has excelled at doing what it was made to do, which is keeping Russia out of its members territories. Contrary to Russian propaganda NATO is not supposed to be the be-all and end-all of Western power projection - in fact there is no such organization.

jmcs ,

Again, NATO's only purposes are to defend its member countries if any of them gets directly attacked or very exceptionally to enforce UN Security Council Resolutions. That narrow scope creates some issues but it's also a big factor in avoiding a nuclear war.

Pretending that NATO is or should be more than that is only helping Putin.

jmcs ,

What happens if Russian air defenses or jet fires on the F35? Does NATO fire back? Where to stop? Moscow? There's no way that Russia wouldn't use nukes in that scenario.

Maybe a limited operation where Russia's air defenses couldn't reach would be possible, but so close to the front is not going to happen unless Russia does something stupid like attacking NATO directly.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

jmcs ,

Only if you trust your VPN service more than your mobile Internet provider.

jmcs , (edited )

Between the 800 years and the Seven of Limes are two things showing that either Reno has paid a visit to the 24th century or the writers lost the plot.

The 800 years if rounded could line up with Seven of Nine's Enterprise G.

jmcs ,

There's no reason why 114MB of static content over 5 minutes should be an issue for a public facing website. Hell, I probably could serve that and the images with a Raspberry Pi over my home Internet and still have bandwidth to spare.

I think they are throwing stones at the wrong glass house/software stack.

jmcs ,

So a single entity is allowed to commercialize external contributions without any kind of reciprocity. Somehow it sounds worse to me than Shared Source.

If you are worried about leeches just use AGPL and call it a day.

jmcs ,

One way of making software more fair is by allowing developers to profit. Many companies today invest resources into taking an existing project and copying the ongoing work of the project creators; afterwards, creating and maintaining a hosted version using their code. In a fair circumstance, should they benefit from using the software, they could add certain features, fix bugs and support the community of users enjoying the product. In many cases they do, but fair-code ensures that this can happen by bringing businesses to the negotiation table when it comes to commercializing software.

This is bullshit when only a set of developers are allowed to profit. Every single project with a non-commercial license I know has an exception for the company that owns the repo. At that point external contributions are not open or fair anything, it's a company stealing labour.

Either licenses are symmetrical or they are inherently unfair, and calling it Fair is doublespeak.

jmcs ,

So if I want to improve their software I need to pay them. Got it.

jmcs ,

That makes it source-available (like Microsoft Windows which is available under Shared Source) not open source.

mapto , (edited ) to Ukraine
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The NYT informs Russia about foreign aid deliveries

The @nytimes has published sensitive tactical details about the US arms deliveries to which leads to very specific risks of Russia intercepting these deliveries. Is this necessary? I don't think so.

https://www.dialog.ua/war/294421_1714936204

@ukraine

jmcs ,

Harm limitation is for real journalists not for whatever NYT "reporters" do.

jmcs ,

Did I mention any of those in a positive light anywhere? The news was about the NYT and I'm not going to give them a pass just because there's worse media.

jmcs ,

It would either be that or be stuck with fax.

jmcs ,

You have never been in any actual court room have you? Or met any police officer or prosecutor for that matter.

jmcs ,

The armies of the Baltic countries are tiny for the scale of this war. The most relevant country in the region would be Poland.

jmcs ,

Adhering to fiduciary duties to shareholders also includes protecting the company's relationship with its customers and its long term sustainability. Cashing out while burning out all the bridges is the opposite of protecting the legitimate rights of the shareholders.

jmcs , (edited )

Are you comparing things that are physically limited by nature to something that is made artificially limited by a trade cartel?

jmcs ,

In a healthy workplace your peers are allowed (and should even be incentivized) to give you feedback about your work. Requesting a justification can turn an order into valid constructive feedback. Or it can be the start of an entire circus performance if there's no actual justification but it would at least try to address the issue.

jmcs ,

I think he means he's running the name server for his zone (i.e. the authority for subdomains of his domains), which of course doesn't help if the top level domain gets suspended and the NS record gets deleted.

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