Posts by TempusFugit

Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays

Night of the living dead; managers doped up on AI

Short of a litany of expletives, AI in its current form is a horrid fetid mess:

* its bad for business that already provide crap customer support, often farmed out overseas, now they use chat agents to frustrate consumers to just hang-up.

* its bad for tech. businesses, more likely to create more work for developers to verify the correctness of code, instead of letting developers do what they do best - create.

* is bad for the environment, given AI monstrosities demand for power will negatively impact climate change further; power that would better serve the public for AC or heating as weather becomes extremely variable.

* is bad for education by creating a generation of youth incapable of critical thinking for themselves or understand how to do anything for themselves; a massive power cut and its not just mobile phones they loose, but their ability to think and deal with emergencies.

Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

Female alien pilots?

A race capable of navigating interstellar travel should be capable of avoiding hitting a _big_ rock. They would have to be already damaged otherwise, maybe some space fender bender (with space junk), or carelessness (asleep at the stick)? Again a race that advanced should have ship safety redundancies, probably contact protocols, etc. to avoid exposure to inferior nutters who throw out reason and logic on a whim.

Unix is dead. Long live Unix!

BSD lineage

Linux is styled after a System V Unix and the article talks about legality and trademarks, which is only half a story. As I recall in the early 1990's there was one or more court battles between SysV Unix from Bell Labs and the BSD Unix derivates from Berkeley concerning trademarks that swung partly in BSD's favour (one would need to dig up the court result (again)). I don't recall the entire story (there was a 25th anniversary book about Unix history that outlined it all at the time). I do remember that 4.4BSD came about and was then open sourced around 1994/95 and from that came NetBSD followed by OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

My point being that, while Linux is a SystemV clone that passes some certification and trademark licensing, the BSD family are still technically Unix too. Now the use of the name `Unix` vs `UNIX(tm)` is probably where lots of confusion lies to this day.