Once upon a time (early 90s) I read a very funny story on traceroute featuring parrots, one named Polly, and shotguns. But I can’t find it. It might have been in a Usenet group. I would love to find it again.

This one? https://www.gumbynet.com/traceroute/trt-parrots.html

Anthropic works with Mozilla already. https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security

In your example the one making the food is you. You would have to introduce a cooking robot for the analogy to match agentic coding.

Actually I would say it should be a cooking machine like. I am not too familiar with these machines however.

Yes. Ten years ago I would say there was a consensus in the ML community that if we got really powerful AI, it should be kept isolated in controlled environments (no internet, no way to execute code) until it could be trusted/verified. Fast forward: openclaw. People don’t seem to care, why should the labs?

”Follow the money”. Yes, let’s decide that no bank is to have anything to do with crypto from next year. And not do business with other banks that accepts crypto. That would help stop fraud much more effective than Chat Control.

For the vast majority of crypto currencies tracing the transactions is trivial. And even currencies like XMR are hardly as anonymous as people think.

The challenging regulations around technically anonymous crypto currencies require you to actively make trackable arrangements with your financial service providers. VERY few people will ever do this, and therefore if anything suspicious were to occur, all you've achieved is putting yourself on the suspect list preemptively.

OTOH: First flight: 1903. Moon landing: 1969. Humanity went from ”Look, we’re 3 meters off the ground!” to “We just parked on the Moon” in barely a lifetime. 66 years.

And how much further have we gotten past the moon since then?

This isn't an OTOH, it's just another example of looking at the exponential part of the S-curve.

And has gone no further in almost 60 years

Both are in the wrong. WP Engine are morally wrong not to pay back with developer time or money to enhance the Open Source project they are making money with. But Automattic's claim that "Managed WordPress" and in extension "WordPress Plugin" and "WordPress Agency" should be covered by their trademark is crazy.

The problem is that they call it "wordpress" but it is actually "fork of wordpress". It was already made clear that if they used an unmodified wordpress they could continue to use the mark. Thats literally what half the blog post said.

But Oracle, like Rocky Linux, won't get the source packages from Redhat anymore.

From my European viewpoint US seems to have a thriving civil society.

Sweden used to have that. Workers movement, free churches and the temperance movement basically built the Swedish democracy. A large percent of the population were contributing members in them. They are almost extinct now.

The welfare state took their place. If something is not commercially viable in Sweden, it has to be funded by tax payers. And then you get all the issues of what should be funded and what shouldn't.

We no longer have strong, self-supporting associations. And we don't have the philanthropic tradition where rich people fund things.

I would trade you in a heartbeat.

My wife and her friends are all middle-class, doctors, lawyers etc. The have a book club and get tax money to buy theater tickets and cheese for their meetings. It's not tax money well spent in my book. They would have had the book club anyway. And all of them can easily pay for cheese themselves.

There are endless examples of fraud too. You just write down a meeting schedule and put in names of people and get money.

Another problem is the Islamistic "studieförbund" Ibn Rush who is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. They get a lot of tax money to promote their worldview.