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nparafe | 1 year ago | on: OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in "a few thousand days"

Alas! For almost a century [see diagram] CEO's are spreading phony illusions about "superintelligent AI" being almost ready. This happens when your main concern is to find investors rather than actually helping humanity. https://i0.wp.com/sitn.hms.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...

nparafe | 1 year ago | on: AI Discusses Sam Altman's "The Intelligence Age" [video]

Sam Altman (CEO of "OpenAI" - company responsible for chatGPT ) just announced that " It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days". Alas! For almost a century [see diagram] CEO's are spreading phony illusions about "superintelligent AI" being almost ready. This happens when your main concern is to find investors rather than actually helping humanity. https://i0.wp.com/sitn.hms.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide

Most of the confusion would be avoided by simply changing the article to: "GNU/Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide"

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise: redhat.com webpage title

From wikipedia: Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

The Debian team announcement is on the right track. Asking freelancers and free software groups to face the same measures and fines as big tech companies is unfair competition. The E.U. of course, was never friendly to free software[1]. The bureaucratic and neoliberal extremists that are in the lobby of Brussels will always try to destroy free and independent creation.

[1]: https://totsipaki.net/ikiwiki/nparafe/posts_en/posts/Can_Eur...

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

Open source supporters were celebrating Google's use of the Linux kernel in Android, hoping that this would promote it's usage. Android is now a Frankenstein spyware monster that uses mostly proprietary software.

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

> is that Open Source has completely failed to serve the common person. For the most part, if they use us at all they do so through a proprietary software company's systems, like Apple iOS or Google Android, both of which use Open Source for infrastructure but the apps are mostly proprietary.

This most certainly wouldn't have happened if "open source realism" didn't stood against free software "utopian" idealists. I still remember the "Linux Kernel is now in most devices in the world" when Android came out. This didn't went well, didn't it?

Lastly, isn't redhat an enthusiastic supporter of open source ? The domain https://opensource.com/ is literally copyrighted and supported by redhat...

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54

All we 80s to early 90s nerds remember "Chandler's new laptop": https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=V6dQxQBHiB0 RIP!

nparafe | 2 years ago | on: Hyperbola releases final GNU/Linux-libre before transition to HyperbolaBSD

A new hope is rising!