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"LLMs, like the octopus, have no access to real-world, embodied referents. This makes LLMs beguiling, amoral ... They care only about rhetorical power — if a listener or reader is persuaded"

kottke.org/23/03/the-octopus-t

"the hacker targeted the Plex Media Server software to load the malware on the LastPass employee's home computer"

pcmag.com/news/lastpass-employ

@lupyuen This is clearly a good measure but until it is generalized to the whole of the EU, it is too easy to fall outside of the perimeter of its protection:
"if your vulnerability research is carried out on networks or information systems located in whole or in part outside the Belgian territory, the present reporting procedure will only protect you in Belgium and not in the other countries concerned."

Gregory Nutt talks about Apache RTOS: "Nowadays, however, the OS is dominated by large electronic firms. I consider this dangerous because I don't think the commercial development mindset or decision-making is compatible with good open source software that intends to serve the whole community."

Source: mail-archive.com/dev@nuttx.apa

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@lupyuen Thanks for sharing. I'm curious about how someone could co-found an #opensource project and eventually be laid off.
The cucumber project is new to me, though, and, having dived deep into #rustlang over the last year, I look forward to checking out the #rust implementation at github.com/cucumber-rs/cucumbe.

"the top contributors were all companies – Amazon Web Services, Intel, Red Hat, Google, and Microsoft" ()

theregister.com/2023/02/24/who

"After ten years building a company around the Cucumber open source project, I suddenly find myself out of a job"

mattwynne.net/new-beginning

"Belgium has become the first European country to adopt a national, comprehensive safe harbor framework for Ethical Hackers"

portswigger.net/daily-swig/bel

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