Wow, BIND, though? Do a quick search on "history of BIND vulnerabilities." Sure, people run all these tests on it now, and in the past, and the history has been there's been a lot of causes of concern.

Yeah, that's pretty old-fashioned. In my experience, it's barely done now. Kinda like how nobody writes JavaScript like it's Pascal anymore.

"Important for our species" ... how? Trust me, our species ain't going anywhere. There's nowhere to go.

Fake news. We have such a HIGH IQ president (he has taken and aced FOUR dementia tests!) that nobody is smarter than he is, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

Please go read the definition of "enshittification". It doesn't mean "anything I don't like."

The group that designs Firefox has made some very questionable decisions over the years, but enshittification of the browser is definitely not on the list.

So while everyone seems to agree that building server-side applications with things like Node and Python is wrong, foolish, and that "there are much better options" ... does anyone care to tell me what those options are?

I mean ... aren't a lot of server-side apps basically just playing catch ("I'm tossing you a ball, now you toss me a ball back") and in between there, it interacts with a database? You really don't think you can do that with Node or Python? Does e.g. Java really give you so much more reliability, maintainability, performance, etc?

Maybe. If speech is transcribed on the fly, then there is no recording that needs consent. Somebody at some point will sue and the court will establish a precedent.

Well, it wasn't Unix. But it was inspired by Minix, a widely-taught teaching operating system that Torvalds decided to make into a thing you could use every day.

You can run something like SmolLM-135M on an Esp32. It's super slow and it's a pretty crap model, but it probably outperforms GPT2 at some tasks. But some devices (like my tv) have an order of magnitude more compute power than that. Could an ai build a worm that could seek out hosts for it to run on? I still think the answer is no, but it's not as much of a "no" as it was a couple of years ago.

Who does that? A person dishing out abuse to an app that is designed to be helpful has some serious issues that surely carry over to their interactions with humans.

I'm about as far from an LLM booster as possible, and hate to be that guy, but "you're holding it wrong".

ChatGPT shouldn't be used for real software development. It's a toy chatbot. If you're doing development you should be running a harness like Claude Code or OpenCode or whatever locally on your development machine. That gives the model and tools full access to your source, including private repositories, libraries, databases, documentation, bug tracker, logs, etc. These tools are also much, much better at seeing the connections between code and concepts and will do a better job understanding and writing stuff "end to end".

We've reached a point where the quality of the LLM harness is probably equally as important to the LLM itself at writing software, so if you're still using web-based stuff like ChatGPT and pasting single blocks of code or files into it, you're about 2 years behind where most other people are and it's not surprising you don't see any value from it.

We are nowhere near eliminating humans from development, but the current set of harnesses and models actually do a pretty good job when used properly and in the hands of someone who already understands the codebase and domain. They can still fuck up royally, but, well, so can humans.

You'd think one of the stockers or managers of the store would've noticed the freezer aisle is suddenly very hot and do something like... oh I dunno... unplug them?

The enemy of my enemy's enemy is my....?

Hm. What's the involution function rule for asshat corporations and their pet lobbyists?

Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

We have bubonic plague infections every year in the United States. Very, very few, admittedly, but it's not like it's been eradicated. So there's still benefit in studying it.