Yeah but last I saw he's miserable in a US prison because he's appealing being brought to the UK and being kept separate for his own safety which is driving him crazy. Oh dear how sad.

Ok I'll bite. What?

Tldr; we shouldn't be idealistic, we should accept that LLMs stole from FOSS code, we should accept reality and instead of abandoning daddy GitHub we should ask them super nicely if they can pretty please open-source the training models trained on our stolen code.

I don't understand how the author simultaneously holds the position "we should accept reality" and "GitHub/Microsoft will open up their models if we ask them to".

I have to wonder how many windows devs are aware they're just making windows worse.

Is there any sort of cognitive dissonance happening on a national level around this? America and it's media have been touting the "land of the free", "home of democracy" slogans for decades, is there not an identity crisis happening amongst those who believe it? I understand the left vs right, democrat vs republican arguments most of the time but surely no matter which side you're on this must be a shock?

Look, I supported Scottish independence last time round, i cannot stand the UK government and it's inevitable direction towards Farage and his bullshit. I don't know how cutting off our best possible trading partner, the only one we currently and will ever share a border with, England, in favour of the EU will actually help us. I can't remember the figures but our trade is something like 90% with England, but England doesn't rely on us for anything, so they'd be immediately in a stronger position at the negotiating table. I really don't know how I'd vote now. My heart says yes to independence, my head says no.

Besides all of that, the SNP have been dangling this carrot for years, I'll believe it when I see it. We've heard this many times since the last referendum.

Honestly I think it would play into the "Trump is fighting the elites" narrative far too well, and would probably be celebrated. "America is so great we don't even need those other countries, how dare they insult our President for life?"

How's the battery life? I was considering one recently but saw some claim that the battery would only last 4-6 hours and that put me off.

I'm in a team of 4 developers and we demand automated testing. Ok that's part of a slightly bigger development team but even our QC team have automated tests that they run for integration testing.

Yeah then you start debating the merits of hate crime as a concept and I am not even slightly equipped to deal with that!

I had similar queries around "biological sex" vs gender a while ago and my understanding now is that biological sex is surprisingly hard to define. You can't go by genitalia because sometimes a person creates the "wrong" ones. You can't go by chromosomes because again, sometimes they're different. And you can't go by other physical traits (Adams apple for example) because again sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, completely unrelated to sex. You can sort of go by hormones but not really (just look at professional sport) so it's all a bit of a mess. It's way easier for me to just accept there's a spectrum and move on, because to me it's way harder to actually define where the line is than to just dismiss the line entirely.

The risk here is slightly overblown or misrepresented. Just because a fork exists doesn't mean that anyone has even read it, let alone run it on their system. For this to be a real threat they would have to publish packages with identical or similar names (ie typo-squatting) to public package repositories which this article didn't have any information on but which is a known problem long before AI. The level of obfuscation and number of repos affected is impressive but ultimately unlikely to have widespread impact to anyone besides GitHub.

Wait are you talking about macos or Linux?