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@cstross @glynmoody and we all know UK fair dealing fairly broken too. There's a line somewhere between "I stole your book" and "I learned to write reading your book". It's incredibly murky even in law for humans and is going to need some case-law and other stuff to untangle at all let alone sanely.
Other bits are really bad LLM design that need fixing. An LLM shouldn't regurgitate half a book to answer a question it should tell you what book to read because it knows it's using a lot of material

@glynmoody Most of whom don't seem to have figured out you can run it locally even and all seem to belong to governments and security agencies.

I'll wait for some actual expert opinion in a month or so I think 8)

More #Enshittification .

https://www.notebookcheck.net/EcoFlow-to-introduce-paywall-for-premium-features-on-power-solutions.953068.0.html

#Ecoflow

So another brand to avoid in future.
@pluralistic

@glynmoody Yes but the problem isn't upgrading the protocol or transmitter it's changing all the receivers. Radio Teleswitch in the UK case it's also conveniently life expired so the problem is being dumped on smartmeters which are encrypted. It's still been a big project to try and get them all replaced, and there are lots of people who still don't know their E7 or E10 heatig is going to break this summer.

@glynmoody There's no encryption on ours either (Radio teleswitch) although it gets turned off middle of the year with the long wave stuff.
1970s' design 1980s product. Different world, different risk model.

@glynmoody We've been doing this for a very very long time indeed. Very old technology. The exciting bit is what happens when your regenerative braking is generating vast amounts of power and you briefly lose contact with the wires.

Some bits of the underground also have gravity based braking from before even this - there is a rise into station platforms and a fall the other end so that some of the kinetic energy is captured in the rise in height and then turned back the other way as you leave

@jwildeboer They need something to use all that gas they are going to dig out of the ground and their 70 new gas plants.
Good stuff - means EU has even more leverage with ASML 8)

@glynmoody Some of the consequences of this are proving hilarious as Americans find out what Chinese people pay for fresh food stuffs and healthcare and about stuff like the idea of ensuring nobody ever starves. Meanwhile Chinese side folks discover Americans all have 2 days off a week. It's a fascinating impromptu social science experiment that I hope some research group somewhere is studying hands on.

@sjvn Did that at a gig. Fortunately I don't think anyone in the band or audience knew it was a lamp on fire not a nice stage effect.

@sjvn You get 5 flushes a week on the free tier...

Achievement unlocked

#Fuzix now runs on the classic 6800 CPU using the rcbus-6808 CPU card.

Took a few small compiler fixes and some other bits and pieces being finished off but with zu2's work on the 6800 code generator all now appears good. Startrek anyway

#rcbus #rc2014 #retrocomputing #8bit #6800

@leah V7 has wait() only not waitpid(). The dozen other wait() with extras before waitpid() are all later things

@leah Unix V7 seems to sleep.

Bizzare Unix semantics question. Given the parent of init is init (getppid(() of pid 1 is 1) is init the child of init, and if only init is running what is the correct return from wait(NULL);

Believe it or not I actually found a case it matters in my Fuzix init today and having read various docs I'm really not sure what the answer is. ECHILD or blocking ?

#unix #fuzix #retrocomputing

@pluralistic That's just FUD ;)

@cstross @graydon We've got an enormous list of computation problems that we don't have the resources to compute properly. What we don't have is the ways to build the software systems to do those computations because of their complexity.
And any chemist can find a reasonable, grant supported manner to use an arbitrary amount of compute 8)

@fishidwardrobe @cstross @graydon We are hitting lots of limits - on silicon sizes, on power, on validation (hardware and software), on correctness, on data sets and many more.
A human brain weighs about 1.5Kg, outperforms an LLM and doesn't require a large power plant so there are clearly better ways of doing some kinds of computation (although humans of course suck at many kinds of computation too so it's an iffy generalisation).

@fishidwardrobe @cstross @graydon If the law of requisite variety is indeed correct, we may well never truly be able to know how we think because it would require something with more state than us to distinguish all the state we have and understand the relationships.

@jwz Sadly he's still doing better than a lot of data centres who haven't managed even this level of joined up thinking.

@glynmoody the brexit lot even had some seats in the assembly for a while - and spent most of their time fighting one another and spiralling into oblivion, so it's even more sad.