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| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” Nadella said during a conversation before a live audience with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | OK, well, that explains a lot - such as the (lack of) quality of the recent Windows 10/11 updates and the return of Recall. | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's all good news, though, because it means the workforce can be reduced by 30%. Take the human out of the chain because it's the weakest link. | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You go, girl! | May 01 05:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | May 01 05:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.cnbc.com | Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI | May 01 05:09 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt2855j0 | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So everybody sees the real Arvind and how he "sees" people in this leaked video. Illegal per Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, s-x, and national origin. It also gives employees a right to sue if they feel they've been discriminated against. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces Title VII. | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0u7vvDMypu/ | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @em+1jt2855j0 | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener. | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e3+1jt2855j0 | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Lions & tigers & bears, oh my! | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dr+1jt2855j0 | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @d8 -- radical leftist, Marxist, Communist, socialist spotted! | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I can't believe people read that rag. | May 01 05:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | May 01 05:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Not so Deep Thoughts about Deep AI — Crooked Timber" | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://crookedtimber.org/2025/04/30/not-so-deep-thoughts-about-deep-ai/ | May 01 10:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-crookedtimber.org | Not so Deep Thoughts about Deep AI — Crooked Timber | May 01 10:12 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The obvious way that Rust may seem woke is that it has the | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | trappings, and many of the attitudes and outcomes, of a modern, | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nice, FLOSS community. Rust certainly does better than toxic | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | environments like the Linux kernel, or Debian. This is reflected | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in a higher proportion of contributors from various kinds | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | of minoritised groups. But Rust is not outstanding in this | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | respect. It certainly has its problems. Many other projects | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | do as well or better." | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "diziet | Rust is indeed woke" | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19480.html | May 01 10:12 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/technology/microsoft-earnings-ai-spending.html | May 01 10:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dreamwidth.org | Captcha Check | May 01 10:12 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | Microsoft Earnings Report: AI Spending Slows as Profit Increases 18% - The New York Times | May 01 10:12 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | FOSS was defacto at universities through to the early 00s. M$ got a foot in | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the door in the late 90s and used the intervening time to maneuver politically | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | until there was a global purge of IT departments 2003 - 2008 | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The main goal was to attach the teachers next to ensure that the could not get | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the resources and services needed to teach. Those that toed the line survived. | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The ones with integrity left or were 'eased out' by the administrations which | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | obeyed the microsofter in allowing them to set the curricula indirectly at first | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | May 01 10:45 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | \ | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The other thing which is imporant but universally ignored would be the | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | details in the M$ licensing which not even law firms read, whether they | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | have an "IT department" or not. Printed out, all the relevant licenses | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and EULAs are about 2cm of A4 paper for your standard, fully stocked, | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | fully updated Windows desktop. It's worse if any m$ services or servers are | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | involved. The tldr there is that the license grants (or did whe I last | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | read through such a stack) the right for M$ to read and change files on the | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | computer remotely, not limited to system files. | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/put-stick-that-in-your-pipe-and-smoke-it | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%2Fstick%20that%20in%20your%20pipe%20and%20smoke%20it | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That then has severe repercussions for attorney-client privilege in the case | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | of law firms and courts. | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ^ subset of privacy | May 01 10:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | May 01 10:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-dictionary.cambridge.org | PUT/STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT! - Cambridge English Dictionary | May 01 10:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-PUT/STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster | May 01 10:46 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A huge and growing problem is the revisionism being spread that M$ is the norm | May 01 10:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and not a johnny-come-lately outlier | May 01 10:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That is in part enabled by people not knowing jack diddly shit about computers | May 01 10:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and when they see what is on their desk as the alpha and omega of the complex | May 01 10:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nertwoof services and software which they are really using day in and day out | May 01 10:50 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-22-04-after-april-2025.html">Kubuntu 22.04 updates after April 2025</a></h5> | May 01 14:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 14:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>If you use Ubuntu, then you enjoy one of its great benefits: long-term support. Five years for each LTS, ten or more if you activate the pro offering (which is free for home users). But if you use one of the community editions, like say Kubuntu, you will be told that you only get three years of updates. </p> | May 01 14:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Indeed, for the past year, Kubuntu 22.04 users would see a prompt, on every login, telling them how their version would stop receiving updates and security fixes in this or that many days. I reported about this back in my Slimbook Titan 4 article. The prompt nag couldn't really be easily disabled (from the UI). Worst of all, it simply isn't correct. Your Kubuntu will continue receiving up | May 01 14:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | dates, just like an ordinary Ubuntu. Let me show you what gives. </p> | May 01 14:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 14:19 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | Kubuntu 22.04 updates after April 2025 | May 01 14:19 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/libreboot-25-04-open-source-boot-firmware-released/">Libreboot 25.04 Open-Source Boot Firmware Released</a></h5> | May 01 14:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 14:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Keep in mind that this is a testing release, as the last stable one remains 20241206 from December 2024. The next production-ready image is set to ship as Libreboot 25.06 in June. </p> | May 01 14:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> For the uninitiated, Libreboot is a free and open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware based on Coreboot, designed to replace proprietary ones on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM-based motherboards. However, it runs only on select older laptops and desktops due to limitations in supporting modern firmware. </p> | May 01 14:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 14:26 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Libreboot 25.04 Open-Source Boot Firmware Released | May 01 14:26 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | May 01 14:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/30/leap-16-enters-beta/">openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta</a></h5> | May 01 14:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 14:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Like its predecessor Leap 15.6, the Leap 16.0 version continues the tradition of a stable, classic Linux distribution; it’s built from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and its new base, SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly ALP).</p> | May 01 14:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 14:29 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.opensuse.org | openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta - openSUSE News | May 01 14:29 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | May 01 14:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-16-beta-launches-with-wayland-and-selinux-by-default/">openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Launches with Wayland and SELinux by Default</a></h5> | May 01 14:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 14:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Powered by kernel 6.12 and built on the foundation of SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and the brand-new SUSE Linux Framework One (formerly known as ALP), the upcoming Leap continues the distribution’s “classic yet current” philosophy, with the final stable release scheduled in mid-October. </p> | May 01 14:30 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 14:30 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Launches with Wayland and SELinux by Default | May 01 14:30 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.kali.org/blog/new-kali-archive-signing-key/">A New Kali Linux Archive Signing Key | Kali Linux Blog</a></h5> | May 01 15:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 15:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Bad news for Kali Linux users! In the coming day(s), apt update is going to fail for pretty much everyone out there: </p> | May 01 15:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> [...] </p> | May 01 15:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Reason is, we had to roll a new signing key for the Kali repository. You need to download and install the new key manually, here’s the one-liner: [...] </p> | May 01 15:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 15:17 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.kali.org | A New Kali Linux Archive Signing Key | Kali Linux Blog | May 01 15:17 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://blog.josefsson.org/2025/04/30/building-debian-in-a-gitlab-pipeline/">Building Debian in a GitLab Pipeline</a></h5> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>One purpose for my effort is to be able to trust the binaries that I use on my laptop. I believe that without building binaries from source code, there is no practically feasible way to trust binaries. To trust any binary you receive, you can de-assemble the bits and audit the assembler instructions for the CPU you will execute it on. Doing that on a OS-wide level this is unpractical. A mo | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | re practical approach is to audit the source code, and then confirm that the binary is 100% bit-by-bit identical to one that you can build yourself (from the same source) on your own trusted toolchain. This is similar to a reproducible build. </p> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 15:18 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.josefsson.org | Building Debian in a GitLab Pipeline – Simon Josefsson's blog | May 01 15:18 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.gentoo.org/news/2025/04/30/osuosl.html">Urgent - OSU Open Source Lab needs your help – Gentoo Linux</a></h5> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>OSL logo Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab (OSL) has been a major supporter of Gentoo Linux and many other software projects for years. It is currently hosting several of our infrastructure servers as well as development machines for exotic architectures, and is critical for Gentoo operation. </p> | May 01 15:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | May 01 15:18 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.gentoo.org | Urgent - OSU Open Source Lab needs your help – Gentoo Linux | May 01 15:18 | |
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