Just read the article and the conclusion was that they're using ground based systems to disrupt other countries satellites that are targeting the UK, not the one's that those countries depend on for their own internal services.

I guess the question is what does "targeting the UK" look like exactly? Flying over it? Flying over it with a camera?

They call out "tracking the movement of the UK's nuclear armed submarines or other sensitive military operations, such as those involving special forces." but that could mean they jam military satellites that are doing that, or it could mean they're jamming satellites that might be capable of doing that. What would that mean for something like a weather satellite?

And yet people were still forced to convert to electronic medical records.

It seems like the opportunity is for open source to explode thanks to AI. This week I replaced my home security camera system with open source Frigate, because I was able to use AI to take the source code, replace the object detection models that were included with the code with something that was a better fit for my machine, customize how the videos were stored and under what circumstances. There's a lot more that I can do with it that I haven't yet as well.

I couldn't do that with the proprietary system.

It seems like we'll see a lot more customized open source options or rapidly accelerated open source projects thanks to this type of thing. I'm really curious to see if something like LibreOffice stops playing catchup with Microsoft and actually passes it.

If the improvement rate of Omarchy for Linux desktop experience can be a barometer for anything, I'm extremely optimistic.

The #1 barrier for me to do 90% of the things that I've done for myself over the last 3 months for the prior 10-15 years has been time. I'm more than capable of downloading Frigate and figuring out how to customize everything, modify and compile the code to do what I want, but it would have taken me hours to days to do it. Now I can setup a couple of stacked /goal prompts overnight and get there. It's fantastic.

> This week I replaced my home security camera system with open source Frigate, because I was able to use AI to take the source code, replace the object detection models that were included with the code with something that was a better fit for my machine, customize how the videos were stored and under what circumstances. There's a lot more that I can do with it that I haven't yet as well. > > I couldn't do that with the proprietary system.

You also didn't give anything to opensource. This shows that AI can allow open source to be used in more cases and in more flexible ways, but in no way does this mean that open source (and especially the good high quality one) will explode.

If anything we saw an explosion of open source projects, most of them low quality slop, and even the ones that used to be high quality are slowly degrading.

That's valid. I didn't contribute anything back yet but I certainly could at the point that I'm convinced the refinements are polished enough.

At the same time, how different is that from much of open source today. Usage is dramatically higher than contributions. How many open source packages are included in every software project we build with. How many of those are any of us contributing back to?

This is exactly right. The gift economy that Open Source is part of is incompatible with the extraction economy AI represents.

The open source "gift economy" is a patronage system akin to the Renaissance arts, enabled by maximal extractive leverage. AI represents a democratization of the human machine interface

It shows opensource _usage_ will increase.

> You also didn't give anything to opensource.

The prevailing moral panic prevents anyone in the space from sharing in communities where open source is generally discussed. People flag and openly disparage (against community guidelines) and have histrionic reactions.

We'll just have to wait until the topic cools off before we can see how llm usage impacts open source.

That’s also a correlation of federal vs state policy. Federal leaves nowhere to run.

Wasn’t he departing from Hong Kong to Ecuador and was stuck in Russia because his passport was revoked in transit?

I thought that’s what I remembered hearing. I think all of his meetings with reporters were in Hong Kong.

Her default option was to return to her abuser and face more abuse so she went to the only shelter she could access, having no means to access any other shelter.

"Her" is Snowden.

Let's not be so sneaky in how we word things ;)

He wasn’t being abused.

I'm pretty sure one or more members of congress called for his execution.

Makes me wonder about aiming all those subscriptions at LibreOffice. How fast could it be improved to gain parity or surpass MS Office?

Maybe the new Omarchy foundation thing will take it on. DHH has pretty publicly been asking for a version of office for Linux.

With such an advancement of AI, can't parity be vibe coded?

How does the energy for the nuke itself factor into the equation though?

A 150kt nuke has like 500,000x the energy release of a mag 3.0 earthquake, but as the article mentions that energy went into the original magnitude 6.3 event.

There are many regulations over there which prevent data from leaving the country.

Sometimes those rules can have serious consequences.

Impressive. They managed to turn the hype video in a more depressing parody of Starship Troopers.

> The article doesn't address what I think are the main complaints

Over the last 20 years, I've noticed this is most of political journalism today.

Post a headline refuting the thing, ignore the primary issue from the thing you're refuting. People who don't already deeply understand the issue don't know any better.

Everything can be factually correct. It's all just framing by what you choose to leave out / ignore.