Notices by That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)

@sickburnbro @EnnaComa @Mamako @amphidamant @jimmybuffettfanaccount That's because the K-12 School Industrial Complex is a key part of the Democrat's system, from the patronage that bulks up these low performing schools (which also have an impossible mission with the restraints on allowed discipline), to the political power they return to the party. They can also be lazy, see Oakland, California discarding a system that worked but had boring hard work as is required anyway.

Reading is something worth focusing on. What happens when your ruling trash decides they don't want most of the population to learn how to read (in an era where radio and movies could supplant that as a means of communications including propaganda)?

You can't understand any of this without knowing the systematic degradation of US public school teaching quality, for which the 1930 publication of the first Dick and Jane and Their Running Dog Spot basal reader is a useful marker. This was called out very strongly in the mid-1950s and it's still being fought over.

Severe to the point of making K-12 potentially worthless thought lowering of standards also happened no later than the 1950s, Heinlein wrote a lot about this. That plus the Supreme Court outlawing basic intelligence and the like testing for jobs is one reason college became so big, it became the last resort signal (for a while, at least).

@augustus @lain We may find out even faster; if Elon (and RFK Jr.) don't get executive positions, vs. advisory, it's bullshit, and Elon will almost certainly bail since he has better things to do.

:cirno_for_reals: "If Trump attends a furry convention the next 48 hours, it could change everything." :cirno_for_reals:

https://x.com/medicdave29/status/1852759518108618987

It turns out there will be a John Wick: Chapter 6:

"'RIP My Best Friend': Outrage Ensues After Beloved Rescue Squirrel Seized By NY, Euthanized"

And another example of why early voting is a very bad idea.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rip-my-best-friend-outrage-ensues-after-beloved-rescue-squirrel-seized-ny-euthanized

https://instapundit.com/681736/

@mangeurdenuage @SuperDicq "re: Please continue to ignore all anti competitive/customer behavior"

Or maybe work on reading comprehension?? And the idea not everyone shares your obsessions??

In any case, Nvidia is my paradigmatic example of a company using proprietary software as part of a strategy that has created something very important, very useful, that would have never been done as FOSS. Note if AI is a bubble this would still be true, GPGPU computing is useful for many things, for example TSMC uses CUDA to do some nasty computational work in making masks et. al.

Not a clean example because FOSS really doesn't have a hardware equivalent, nor will it for the short term foreseeable future because of analog IP that's required for any chip to be useful (the nasty realm when you have to go off chip, even if its a digital protocol on top like DRAM). Although you could legitimately treat that as akin to black box firmware. Still, it's very expensive to design and verify high end logic stuff, see how slow RISC-V progress is on the high end.

That might change when what remains of Moore's Law ends, things get standardized and companies in addition to TSMC can do cutting edge logic (Samsung can't do that anymore, Intel is in saving throw mode after the "10 nm" botch and its inability to deal with that for years). Although for some time Apple has been the driver of semiconductor logic innovation, paying TSMC handsomely to create new nodes ASAP.

@mangeurdenuage @SuperDicq I don't think Apple and Nvidia, the world's two largest companies by capitalization, are embarrassed by asking for money for their products. Which are combinations of their own hardware plus their own proprietary software.

Not going to say Apple's is good although for me their smart phones are the least worst to have, but Nvidia is where it is due to two decades and billions of dollars of patient investing in their software. I submit you're not going to see that sort of thing in FOSS for the foreseeable future.

Nvidia's near monopoly also wasn't set in stone, it's pretty unique in being good at both hardware and software, where AMD and Intel for example are notoriously badly managed ... in general. Not just software, but AMD is notably worse at that. In both cases, a general inability to decide on one good approach and then stick to it for the time required.

FOSS counterexamples?

Obviously Linux to start with, with even more decades of investment, albeit with its own secret proprietary sauce of no fixed device driver ABI, which also makes one of its biggest pain points, routine driver rot. But that prevents others from forking just the set of drivers.

Multi-target compilers are owned by GCC and LLVM. Chromium is quasi-FOSS. Emacs is the best (programmer's) text editor, and there's also Vim for those who like the modal style. Pretty sure sound and video codecs are also largely owned by FOSS.

@sun @Suiseiseki Afraid not, except of course I wasn't only commenting on the law.

The entirety of his MIT stunt including the disguise captured on video when his academic home was Harvard with its own Internet connection helps to demonstrate mens rea AKA guilty mind. Thus making the prosecutor's job significantly easier, and should have negated a civil disobedience claim (not white line law but PR is important).

That MIT was materially harmed and should have never been dragging into (((Swartz's))) whatever is something ignored by the idiots who attack it for reporting his attack to the authorities.

And you're quibbling about plea bargaining, which is also not white line law but it is a very important part of how criminal law works today (although there are very strong arguments against it, but that's an infinitely broader issue than this one case).

@mangeurdenuage ">proprietary software is morally justified"

If for no other reason than there's a whole bunch of fields where FOSS will never successfully tread, be it too difficult (CUDA for example, twenty years of work costing billions), too fiddly to get all the details correct, where that last 20% must be done, or the FOSS developers are just plain wedged (GIMP and YMCK last time I checked, or the user interface).

That last has too many examples to even give an idea of the scope, but a few right now:

• Mad Matt's WordPress rent seeking crusade (which will likely get solved in due course)
• RMS's dead hand crippling GCC and Emacs (half solved by LLVM)
• Team GNOME
• Team Wayland
• Lennart Poettering
• The existential threat of woke capture of FOSS

That you paint people's often free choices as worth of murder, and that you appear to have nothing of substance to actually say, tells us much more about you than the state of all this.

@Suiseiseki "Hello proprietary master lover."

Hello lover of the prince of this world, the father of lies. That you start right out with one says really all we need to about you; for example none on my big boxes aside from CPU etc. firmware, only appliances like cell phones.

Rewrite history all you want, the law doesn't care about your hallucinations. Plonk.

@mangeurdenuage What (((Aaron Swartz))) did was:

• White line illegal
• Was done at MIT via breaking into a machine room he wasn't authorized to be in instead of something at his academic home of Harvard
• His bot hammered JSTOR to the point the latter had to shut off MIT's access
• "35 years" was the prosecutor's opening gambit, not was he was really facing
• Self-admitted mentally ill people shouldn't be doing shit like this

What "AI" companies are doing, if it's plagiarization, is very much up in the air legally (fair use is a thing) as well as morally. It's certainly more akin to what human authors do every day than what Swartz did.

Disclaimer: Am MIT alum.

@deprecated_ii Maybe you should learn the concept of a heat engine??

I mean, back in my day, that's basic elementary school SCIENCE!!! available in any encyclopedia.

@sickburnbro @Shannon14850 I looked into this and the story I found was that for cookware Corning generally switched from borosilicate to soda–lime glass, but did a really good job of manufacturing it (and now having bought some more old Pyrex and looked at all of it closely I can see careful design too).

When the Pyrex brand was sold in 1998 the company that got it for the US of course dropped the careful manufacturing.

@mr64bit @shibao Yeah, five deviled eggs really makes up for the "Where's the beef?" question I have about the burger.

@sickburnbro @pyrate And there's even an argument that the world needs the liquidity of lots of Treasury bills and bonds!

@sickburnbro @pyrate Yeah, I've been wondering about that.

Who thought it would be a good idea to import ~5% of utterly benighted Haiti's population, about 500K in Biden-Harris?!!??!!!??? It was going to blow up sooner or later; now it's just in time for a presidential election.

BTW, we're borrowing "a trillion dollars every hundred days," expenditures are substantially in excess of that. We're at the point where the interest on the debt is ir soon will be the largest line item.

@idiot @sun Per https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/SpacemiT_K1 per https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-F3 it has a CPU with a proper vector extension that's been part of the RISC-V standard system since 2021, vs. the sketchy third party one that that finest example of Chinesism CPU has a catastrophic "writes to physical instead of virtual memory" error.

@idiot @sun The GOPe still hates Trump and its base with the fury a sun, and I haven't heard of anything major to stop 2020 and 2022 style cheating.

The election will have to be 1980 in form I think, WRT to votes too many states and by too big margins in some of the ones with big Blue city machines for that sort of cheating, which Team Trump should be able to pull off. Wouldn't worry too much about what's happening now, US presidential elections don't get really serious until after Labor day.

Also don't fall for the standard demoralization operation. Although it's concerning to see (((Raskin))) for example openly talking about negating a Trump win in January and civil war when they do that, or what's left of Joe Biden saying much the same.

@sun @lanodan "I don't see how you could prevent this using technical means"

Fuzzing is a thing. Generate perhaps all the inputs (there are domains where this is possible!) and see when it crashes. Cutest named one is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fuzzy_Lop_(software)

But as people have been pointing out, this is a company which in four months crashed four different operating systems, one of their selling points is doing more than Windows, they just didn't give a damn until it likely killed the company. It is after all a notoriously political company and was founded and is run by a Jew.

@nachtrabe @AmonMaritza @bobbala @sickburnbro Nah, the world's financial system runs on dollars, and will for the foreseeable future.

With the possible exception of the Euro, there simply no competition. Switzerland or Russia for that matter are too small economically for their national currencies to be major things even before we consider the sanctions regime against the latter, the PRC refuses to do what's needed and is even less trustworthy, etc.

(Note the petrodollar isn't even a thing anymore since at net the US is not importing oil.)

@Ash_Kvetchum @LovecraftEnthusiast @BowsacNoodle @monsterislandcolonizer @sickburnbro One of those last minute questionable things at the end of the (first?) Trump administration was shifting a bunch of "civil servants" into the category they really are, political types.

"Biden" of course immediately reversed that, but they could try this again, and with Vance the presumptive 2028 Republican candidate have 8-12 years to see it through.

One thing to factor in is that Trump's brush with mortality is likely to change him, we're hearing of signs it already seems to have done so.