Posts by Mr. Balise

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

I'd trust him anywhere. Except perhaps if I was on the mailing list

OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle

Claims are valid and important ..

AI *should* have to pay attention to sources / compensate. AI cannot / has no inclination to actually invent or create things on its own.

Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?

Even older guy disagrees ..

I was raised on Unix V7 on PDP 11/45, now run Manjaro (Arch) on 15 year old homebuilt PC, runs perfectly. systemd bad enough - won't be using any snaps and flatpack things.

Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure

Glad that I've run *nix since time began. Upon hearing this (world-plus-dog is good)

I immediately day-dream that as the AI gets thoroughly integrated into their software, that

the folks begin to say 'ick' about having all their decisions taken from them and finally

throw up all that stuff with accompanying 'thud's & loud voices, and turn to linux.

US Patent Office to take only DOCX in future – or PDFs if you pay extra

The best idea always wins. SGML was the best idea, XML only its native son. PDF, once a clever ps extension, is the dirty old money making tat its inventors always meant it to be. Short term America at its greediest. I speak from what I know tell ya.

A 1970s magic trick: Take a card, any card, out of the deck and watch the IBM System/370 plunge into a death spiral

RJE. Cards. Assembly. Those were the days. First in my class at Assembly. However for PDP11/03. :) We were not so grand, but we were all connected by uucp, the precursor of the net, really. DARPA. As the man says, *oh to be young and foolish again* (rather than just foolish)

Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member

Plain text. Microsoft was always wrong. Always.

India’s contact-tracing app unleashes KaiOS on feature phones

Open Source ..

KaiOS app for tracing really ought to be open source .. to be trustworthy.

Leaked MS ad video parodies Chrome as surveillance tech

This would be possibly the most hypocritical line they've promoted so far.

Anonymity is the enemy of privacy, says RSA grand fromage

The big problem with the Register is the flaming headines.

Sometimes in British. Sometimes in French. Think of the poor

Canadians monsieur ...